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This program is offered by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. It is available in person at the St. Louis main campus, via Live Virtual (synchronous) and via hybrid online (asynchronous and synchronous via Live Virtual).

Program Description

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the program, students will be able to:

• Utilize critical thinking strategies for legal reasoning and analysis.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the Code of Professional Responsibility to guide professional behaviors and decision-making.
• Integrate the skills and knowledge necessary for understanding legal issues working from both theoretical and practical applications.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the essential goals of legal researching, problem solving and logic as applied to legal writing.
• Evaluate legal information to be used in effective written communication for practical problems encountered in a legal environment.
• Analyze the significant role that legal assistants have in the legal world.
• Apply advanced legal knowledge and skills in legal practice.

Program Curriculum

The 39 credit hours required for the MA degree in legal studies must include the following courses:

If a substitution has been approved for a required course, the student must choose either LEGL 5850 Advanced Legal Writing, LEGL 5550 Paralegal Clinical Studies, or an additional LEGL 5490 Advanced Topics in Law course. Courses from the Legal Studies Study Abroad Program may be used as substitution as well.聽聽

Note: A paralegal is a person, qualified by education, training, or work experience who is employed or retained by a lawyer, law office, corporation, governmental agency or other entity and who performs specifically delegated substantive legal work for which a lawyer is responsible. Paralegals or legal assistants may not provide legal services directly to the public, except as permitted by law. 51小黄车's St. Louis area paralegal programs have been approved by the American Bar Association.

Special Requirement

Students must take at least nine (9) semester hours of required Legal Specialty courses through synchronous instruction.聽

Admission

See the Admission section of this catalog for general admission requirements. Students interested in applying must submit their application online at www.webster.edu/apply.聽Transcripts should be sent from your institution electronically to transcripts@webster.edu.聽If this service is not available, send transcripts to:

Office of Admission
51小黄车
470 E. Lockwood Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63119聽

Advancement to Candidacy

Students are admitted to their graduate program upon completion of all admission requirements. Students are advanced to candidacy status after successfully completing 12 credit hours with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher. In specialized programs, courses required as prerequisites to the program do not count toward the 12 credit hours required for advancement.