Pre-Apprenticeship

Legal Empowerment Group


Description

he Legal Empowerment Group (L.E.G.), a law firm with the mission to educate individuals on the fundamentals of law that would enable individuals to navigate the world. The mission of L.E.G., since its inception in 2015, has been based around community education on the premise of the law.

Content
  • Module 1: Critical and analytical thinking
  • ILT - Unit 1 - Comparisons
  • Compare & Contrast 
  • Would You Rather?
  • Venn Diagramming
  • Distinguishing
  • Ranking & Prioritization
  • Assignments Unit 1
  • ILT - Unit 2 - Logic
  • Logic Games 
  • Inductive Reasoning
  • Deductive Reasoning
  • True-False 
  • ILT - Unit 3 - Inquiry
  • Asking Critical Questions
  • ILT - Unit 4 - Issues to Solutions
  • Scientific Method in Law
  • ILT - Unit 5 - Data Breakdown
  • Data dissection
  • Module 2: Interviewing, information gathering and investigation
  • Active Listening Part 1
  • Building Rapport & Establishing Trust 1
  • Building Rapport & Establishing Trust 2
  • Interviewing Skills
  • Customer Q&A
  • Issue Spotting
  • Issue spotting 2
  • Issue Spotting & Notetaking
  • Essentials of Intake
  • Module 3: Legal technology
  • Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
  • eFiling Legal Documents
  • Common Legal Software
  • Computer Skills
  • Module 4: Legal Ethics
  • Advice v. Information
  • Confidentiality
  • Financial Do's and Don'ts
  • Documentation
  • Privilege
  • Module 5: Communication
  • Written communication with Clients
  • Clarifying Issues
  • Communication with Professionals
  • Client Follow-Up
  • Module 6: Maintaining Orderly Legal Documents
  • Prepare affidavits or other documents (clone)
  • Maintaining Law Library sample
  • Module 7: Legal Systems and Roles
  • Module 8: Research & Writing
  • Preparing Legal Documents
  • Research relevant legal materials to aid decision making
  • Section 9 - Career Building
Completion rules
  • All units must be completed