The Suffolk University Paralegal Program has been offering paralegal programs for 20 of its law school's 100 years. It currently offers three ABA-approved programs - a bachelor's degree, associate's degree, and nine-month certificate. The programs provide career resources, internship opportunities, access to legal research databases, and a center for continuing education. Suffolk aims to provide equal access to legal education through its scheduling flexibility and commitment to diversity.

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The Suffolk University Paralegal Program
[By Aundi Howerton]
At its Beacon Hill campus next to the government center in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, Suffolk University recently
celebrated the centennial anniversary of its law school. For the last 20 of those 100 years, the school has offered a selection
of paralegal programs within the department.
The private university currently offers three Internships are required for both the to multi-day conferences. In the past,
programs as legal employment credentials bachelor’s and associate’s programs and are these have included panels of experienced
for paralegals. Approved by the American elective for the certificate program. paralegals.
Bar Association since 1994, the school’s
options for study include a bachelor’s degree Students focusing on paralegal studies Suffolk University originated solely as a
program, an associate’s degree program, at Suffolk can expect an extensive school of law, and its department remains
and a nine-month certificate in paralegal supplementary network alongside their world-renowned. The school has also been
studies program. education including career planning and consistently featured in The Princeton
placement resources, a world-class law Review’s 350 Best Colleges. As well, Suffolk
Suffolk’s law school gestated as a public library, cooperative educational opportunities operates campuses in the cities of Madrid,
service when the founder, Gleason Archer, with students and alumni in fields such as Spain, and Dakar, Senegal, and offers one-
began offering courses to working people business or the arts, as well as access to year study-abroad opportunities to those
with the belief that people of all backgrounds the most advanced technological research pursuing bachelor’s degrees.
and classes should have equal access to facilities, like Westlaw and Lexis-Nexis,
legal study. available. On the Net
The existing paralegal program structure In addition, Suffolk promotes a Center Suffolk University
in the department is exemplary of Archer’s for Advanced Legal Studies, which offers www.suffolk.edu/college/12749.html
commitment to valuing diversity in continuing support and education to its
education and responsibility to its students. alumni. On average, the center implements Suffolk University Law School
Evening and day classes are available, and 30 institutes, symposia, conferences, www.law.suffolk.edu
registration for day, evening, or a mix of and programs for students and alumni
both tracks is open to all program students, every year. Many of these offer cutting- The Princeton Review
enabling working students or those with edge information to paralegals as well as www.princetonreview.com/home.asp
families or other complex situations more ongoing practical applications that range
scheduling options. from evening forums or one-day colloquia
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