03/30/2025
Yesterday we welcomed 11 new paralegals to the legal profession and we couldn’t be prouder of their hard work and dedication throughout this intensive program! Congratulations, graduates - you did it!!
UHD Paralegal Certificate Program
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Skills-based training to become a paralegal in just 9 short weeks. Since 2007.
03/30/2025
03/30/2025
What a great mock trial from our Spring 2025 paralegals! These students worked up the case of Sarah Gonzales v. Emily Venegas from “file to trial,” and yesterday our all-alumni jury rendered a verdict for the plaintiff’s team in the amount of $24,000! Congratulations to both teams on a job well done! 👩⚖️⚖️
11/09/2024
Today we welcomed 11 new paraleGALS to the legal profession. This tight-knit group of women worked incredibly hard over the past nine weeks and we are so proud of their accomplishments. In those wise words of RBG, “we are a nation made strong by people like you!”
Congratulations, ladies. It’s time to celebrate!🎉🥂
11/09/2024
Order in the court! The last mock trial verdict of 2024 is in!
In the case of Melissa Boswell v. Christina Doherty, our all-alumni jury rendered their verdict for the Plaintiff and awarded $23,118 in damages.
Congratulations to both teams for their outstanding work on this trial! 👩⚖️
09/03/2024
We're less than two weeks away from our fall session! Register now for our comprehensive and fast-paced paralegal certificate program designed to help you hit the ground running in just nine short weeks!
✅Weekend format
✅Skills-based program
✅Fully online
✅Taught by a practicing attorney
✅Since 2007
Register now at uhd.edu/paralegal
Paralegal Program The university of Houston-Downtown offers a paralegal certificate program which is offered on the weekends.
08/04/2024
What an amazing class this was! These new paralegals put in so much time, effort, and hard work this summer and we couldn’t be prouder of their accomplishments.
Congratulations the graduates of the summer 2024 UHD Paralegal Certificate Program. And welcome to the profession, paralegals! 👏🏻🎉
08/03/2024
It’s mock trial day! Today our summer class argued the case of Melanie Lewis v. Rebecca Fogarty and our all-alumni jury rendered a take-nothing verdict for the defense. Congratulations to both teams for a job well done! 👩⚖️
03/16/2024
Congratulations to the graduates of the spring 2024 paralegal program here at UHD! These students put in so much time, effort, and hard work over the past few months.
Welcome to the profession, paralegals. It’s time to celebrate! 🎉🎉
01/02/2024
Need a new career for the new year? Join us for our next FREE info session and find out how our program prepares students to hit the ground running in nine short weeks!
✅Fast-paced, intensive weekend format
✅Skills-based program
✅Fully online
✅Taught by a practicing attorney
Register now at uhd.edu/paralegal.
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Paralegal Certificate Program
by Jac Brennan
In 2006, the University of Houston Continuing Education Department asked me to teach part of its fledgling Paralegal Certificate Program. After that class graduated, UH asked me to revamp the program, find new textbooks, and write a comprehensive, skills-based curriculum so that the Paralegal Certificate Program would build its reputation in the legal community by turning out paralegals who were job-ready when they graduated. With the support of UHCE and the hard work of the paralegal students, I did that. I became the director, and sole instructor, of the program. Between 2006 and 2017, at the University of Houston Main Campus, this program had more than 1100 graduates. In 2017, UH Main closed the Continuing Education Department, so the Paralegal Certificate Program moved to UHDowntown. That same year, we added several options for Advanced Paralegal Certificate courses that can be taken after getting the Paralegal Certificate.
Through the years and the many classes (56 graduating classes, at this point), I made lots of changes in the curriculum, as well as in classroom procedures, but the basics have been consistent. I provide a challenging classroom experience that encourages students to do things, and to find places inside themselves, that they never knew existed.
An important feature of our program is how condensed it is. Students can have a new career in less than three months. Still, there are 126 classroom hours in this demanding course, and lots of homework hours to hone the skills and internalize the knowledge needed to be a successful paralegal. Condensing the class makes it more demanding, especially since it focuses on paralegal skills. We have a file-to-trial mock trial in which students do everything that a litigation paralegal might be asked to do. We have at least twenty attorney guest speakers who not only share their own passion for their area of the law, but also talk about how they utilize paralegals in their practices.
Our graduates often say that they think everybody should take this class, just because they learned so much practical information about the function and form of the different parts of federal, state, and local governments and court systems, as well as basic legal concepts that citizens should understand.
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http://www.uhd.edu/paralegal, http://www.beaparalegal.com/
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One Main Street
Houston, TX
77002