UC Irvine Extension Offers New Legal Technology Courses

IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 19, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- University of California, Irvine Extension launches two new four-week online courses which focus on the foundational and practical knowledge needed for navigating critical software in legal technology. Technology skills are vitally important to job readiness as they are highly valued by employers. Courses are designed for attorneys, paralegals, litigation support personnel, legal secretaries and case managers – allowing participants to meet the evolving challenges of delivering legal services in the digital age.  Registration is now open for both courses.

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"Being able to fully master software critical in the legal industry will provide participants the ability to maintain a competitive advantage in this job market," said Tom Pokladowski, Esq., director of law, finance and business programs at UC Irvine Extension.  "With course instructor, Kyre Stucklin's extensive experience in practicing and training litigation technology, course attendees will have the benefit of receiving hands-on instruction from a professional well versed in Concordance and CaseMap."

Fundamentals of Concordance, offered from March 10 through April 6, focuses on how to manage the information produced in the discovery process using Concordance to organize, review, search, and produce litigation documents that are scanned or electronic. At the end of this course, participants will be able to navigate among documents in Concordance, customize the view of document text and metadata, use Concordance Native Viewer, run keyword searches in Concordance, and create, use, and understand the use of tags in a case and storing queries.

Fundamentals of CaseMap concentrates on how to utilize CaseMap to manage all the information in a lawsuit, perform case assessment, and collaborate in teams whether team members are in the same office or throughout the world. By taking this course, participants will learn to create a new CaseMap case, administer user accounts and manage case priorities, build logical structure for case information, and customize and manage spreadsheet layout and functionality. This course will be offered from April 21 through May 18.

UC Irvine Extension is a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider. Participants are eligible to earn 10 hours of MCLE credit for each course. For more information about these new courses and how to sign up, visit http://unex.uci.edu/areas/legal/technology_forum/ or call (949) 824-5414.

About UC Irvine Extension: University of California, Irvine Extension is the continuing education arm of UC Irvine, serving nearly 40,000 students globally and offering more than 3,200 classes annually on the UC Irvine campus, online and at employer sites throughout California and worldwide. Since 1962, UC Irvine Extension has served Orange County with programs and classes to help adult learners reach their career advancement and personal enrichment goals, and remains dedicated to providing broad access to the resources of the University for the benefit of the public, both through University Extension certificate and specialized studies programs and a broad range of free and open educational resources including UC Irvine OpenCourseWare. Learn more at http://extension.uci.edu, or join us on YouTube or Facebook.

About the University of California, Irvine: Founded in 1965, UC Irvine is a top-ranked university dedicated to research, scholarship and community service. Led by Chancellor Michael Drake since 2005, UC Irvine is among the most dynamic campuses in the University of California system, with nearly 28,000 undergraduate and graduate students, 1,100 faculty and 9,000 staff. Orange County's largest employer, UC Irvine contributes an annual economic impact of $4.2 billion. For more UC Irvine news, visit today.uci.edu. 

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