LEGAL DOCUMENT PROCESSING I
OT 228
Summer 2014
Canvas
5 Credits
INSTRUCTOR
Linda Lane
Office Number—124
Office Hour—11:30-12:20 M/T/W/Th/F
E-mail Address—linda.lane@wwcc.edu
CATALOG DESCRIPTION
Includes legal typing experience typical of any law office. Provides a legal
procedures background as well as legal terminology. Emphasizes understanding
the legal processes, developing expertise in legal typing, and understanding legal
office procedures. Introduces approximately 800 terms that are utilized within the
legal office to help students correctly spell, pronounce, and define. Students
continue improving speed and accuracy rates as well as completing speed and
accuracy diagnostic drills. Students utilize a word processing system to complete
documents.
TEXTBOOKS
Legal Studies (W/Cd) Roderick-Bolton ISBN 0-538-43722-7 Edition 5
COURSE OBJECTIVES
1. Read, write, listen, and speak analytically with openness, understanding, and
respect.
2. Demonstrate basic word processing program functions of saving and
retrieving documents.
3. Demonstrate an increase of ten (10) words per minute on speed and accuracy
on straight-copy materials to develop employable skills within a legal office.
4. Key legal documents and correspondence to acquaint students with legal
format, parlance, and vernacular.
5. Key a variety of legal documents to assist student in adapting from one type of
legal document to another.
6. Acquaint student with flexibility of formats, styles, punctuation, spelling, and
customs within the scope of the legal office.
7. Acquaint student with four major field of law—real estate, litigation, wills,
and estates, and partnerships.
8. Apply language correctly using proper grammar, structure, spelling, and
pronunciation.
CLASSROOM RULES
1. Please contact Carol Bennett in Student Services if you have a learning
disability and need additional assistance.
2. Cheating will not be tolerated and will be grounds for failing the class or
expulsion from the class.
METHODS OF INSTRUCTION
1. Canvas—All tests will be completed and submitted through Canvas. Please
see me for information on how to use the Canvas program.
METHODS OF EVALUATIONS
1. Tests—You will complete a test following two chapter. These tests will be
open book and must be completed on the date of the schedule outlined in your
Course Outline; you will be allowed 20 minutes per test.. All tests will be
completed through Canvas. These tests will be worth eighty percent (80%) of
your final grade.
2. Final Exam—You will have a final exam on Thursday, August 14. This
final exam will cover all the information that you learned in the class. This
exam will be worth twenty percent (20%) of your final class grade.
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COURSE OUTLINE
6/23
Introduction
Read instructions at the beginning of the book
Read the reference section at the end of the book
6/26
Test 1 (Chapters 1 & 2)
6/30
Test 2 (Chapters 3 & 4)
7/2
Test 3 (Chapters 5 & 6)
7/7
Test 4 (Chapters 7 & 8)
7/9
Test 5 (Chapters 9 & 10)
7/11
Test 6 (Chapters 11 & 12)
7/15
Test 7 (Chapters 13 & 14)
7/17
Test 8 (Chapters 15 & 16)
7/21
Test 9 (Chapters 17 & 18)
7/23
Test 10 (Chapters 19 & 20)
7/28
Test 11 (Chapters 21 & 22)
7/30
Test 12 (Chapters 23 & 24)
8/5
Test 13 (Chapters 25 & 26)
8/7
Test 14 (Chapters 27 & 28)
8/11
Test 15 (Chapters 29 & 30)
8/13
Test 16 :(Chapters 31 & 32)
8/14
Final Exam