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Paralegal
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- Students are encouraged to join the local, state, and national professional
organizations and participate in the various activities each organization
provides. Program graduates and faculty are active in these professional
organizations and statewide paralegal activities.
- Student membership in the Legal Assistants
Division of the State Bar of Texas allows students to participate
in LAD-sponsored and State Bar-sponsored continuing legal education
seminars, and receive quarterly and monthly LAD publications, and job
bank listings.
- The Dallas Area Paralegal
Association (DAPA) (formerly known as Dallas Association of Legal
Assistants - DALA) also offers student membership to the Program's students.
Students are welcome at DAPA's general and sectional meetings. DAPA's
mentor program offers a student member the opportunity to associate
one-on-one with a working paralegal. DAPA student members also
receive the monthly DAPA newsletter, which links the student to the
news and information from the paralegal community as a whole and with
local job bank listings. A student membership in DAPA includes
student membership in the National
Federation of Paralegal Associations (NFPA). Program students
and faculty have published articles in its monthly publication.
- Scholarships are offered annually by DAPA.
- Students are encouraged to participate in various legal community
activities such as mock trials and career seminars held by the National
Institute of Trial Advocacy throughout the year, Southern Methodist
University Law School, Dallas Young Lawyers Association, and other groups
- The Legal Assistants of North Texas Association (LANTA) is the local
arm of the National Association of Legal Assistants (NALA). Students
are invited to attend the monthly meetings.
- The El Cantro College Paralegal Student Association is the college
Program's professional organization. Meetings are held each semester.
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