Undergraduate Legal Informatics Certificate
Upon completion of the undergraduate Legal Informatics Certificate, students will be able to demonstrate knowledge in the following core competencies:
- Students will be prepared to find employment in law firms and legally-related agencies and organizations, such as courts, law schools, non-profit organizations, regulatory agencies, and vendors that develop and sell products for the legal industry. For example, most federal courts in the U.S. use electronic filing, docket control and document retrieval, provide legal documents and information to the public through websites, offer webinars of oral arguments and other proceedings and have sophisticated systems for courtroom presentations. State courts are moving to become what is known as “the electronic courtroom.” The International Legal Technology Association (ITLA) has a long list of job openings that would provide interesting positions for those who complete the Certificate in Legal Informatics. Moreover, Fifty Legal Careers for Non-Lawyers describes a number of career opportunities that are encompassed in the legal informatics curriculum.
- Students who are already working as law technology professionals or paralegals will have an opportunity to update their skills and to have a recognizable certificate from a high-quality institution of higher education, namely, the IU School of Informatics, IUPUI.
- Students will be prepared to bring cutting edge technology to law practices and other legally-related organizations and will not require training on these systems beyond a customary orientation program.
- Students will implement systems and technology that will impact the quality and cost of client services, ease the workload and enhance the productivity of busy attorneys and add greater efficiency to a variety of legally-related agencies and organizations.
- Students who want to focus on electronic discovery in their future careers will be able to sit for the electronic discovery certification examinations being developed by the Organization of Legal Professionals (OLP).
Last update: 02/06/2014