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Newcastle College launches UK’s first ever NALP endorsed Paralegal Practice Foundation Degree

A brand new industry designed Paralegal qualification specially tailored for business will be launched at a special event at Live Theatre on Newcastle’s Quayside on at 12.30pm on 28 November.

The event will afford legal firms and businesses the opportunity to find how their staff can benefit from studying toward a Paralegal Foundation Degree developed by Newcastle College in conjunction with the National Association of Licensed Paralegals (NALP).

The new Degree will also provide students with NALP’s Level 4 Diploma in Paralegal Studies and all the knowledge and expertise required of a Paralegal working at the cutting edge of the profession.

The new qualification will be of particular benefit to anyone working within financial frameworks including, estate agents, human resources managers, conveyancers, and administrative staff from local authorities and the NHS.

Amanda Hamilton, CEO of NALP, said ’’Many organisations, not only law firms, within commerce and industry need and benefit from employees who have a broad knowledge of law and procedure, together with an expertise applicable to their particular sector.

‘This Foundation Degree is the only NALP endorsed degree in the UK and will open up opportunities for the trained Paralegals to work within many sectors, including Financial Services, Banking, the Retail Sector, Export and the Media. Changing market conditions means there is also an increase in demand for fully qualified Paralegals within debt recovery and personal injury’’.

Barbara King, Director of the School of Health & Enterprise at Newcastle College, continued, ’’We are very excited by this exclusive partnership with NALP and this new offering which is not available in any other part of the country.

‘This course will allow students to acquire top quality, industry standard training & expertise that will open up doorways into key employers and new careers, whilst at the same time befitting business across the North East and the UK’’.

For more information, and to register your place at the event, visit http://www.ncl-coll.ac.uk/paralegalne

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Newcastle College .