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- Classes meet two evenings per week
- Blended delivery combines classroom instruction with online delivery via Blackboard, GW's Web-based educational platform
- Earn the graduate certificate in 8 months and the master's degree in about 15 months
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The paralegal profession is among the fastest growing in America.The Bureau of Labor Statistics expects paralegal employment nationwide to increase by at least 27 percent through 2014.
The savvy use of highly educated paralegals allows lawyers to produce more work, more efficiently, with better results than they could without such paralegals. The close working relationships among attorneys and paralegals, the rising prestige of the profession, the increase in salaries, and paralegals' growing responsibilities have created a need for more and better-educated professionals.
GW has designed a new suite of paralegal studies programs that provide the elite education paralegals require to meet these challenges and exceed expectations, all in a downtown Washington, DC location easily reached from Virginia and Maryland. Students who attend these part-time, evening classes can earn a graduate certificate in eight months and a master's degree in about fifteen months.
The GW Paralegal Studies Programs prepare students to enter the increasingly competitive paralegal profession with confidence and acumen. Students engage in a rigorous, topical course of study, that includes Legal Specialties in Government Law, Intellectual Property Law, and International Law.
Courses balance high-level theoretical, philosophical, and historical study with practical applications of communication, analysis, ethics, and legal technology skills. Outstanding lawyers, judges, and professors teach courses designed in conjunction with the legal, government, business, financial, and international communities.
In an arrangement that is unique among Washington paralegal programs, CPS is presenting its program in association with the GW Law School. Among other things, paralegal students will study legal research at the Jacob Burns Law Library with GW law librarians and be invited guests to Law School special events such as seminars, lectures, and workshops. The Law School and CPS continue to explore various additional collaborative opportunities.
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