Class notes & materials!

ADVISEMENT & REGISTRATION STEPS & RESOURCES!!
  1. Check your City Tech email for a message identifying the first day you can register!
  2. Find out who is your faculty adviser and contact her to make an appointment!   Check CUNYfirst or adviser list (to be) posted in department office (N622).
  3. Review the “degree requirements” for our program!  Choose the “Degree Requirements” tab on this page in our College Catalog.
  4. Review your record on DegreeWorks! (Log in with your CUNYfirst credentials — shows your progress toward your degree — here’s guidance for using it!)
  5. Plan your program!  What courses do you want to take?
  6. Check the schedule of classes or ScheduleBuilder to find out what classes are available next semester & where/when/how they take place!
  7. Meet with your adviser!  Arrive on time!
  8. Check out these websites for helpful general information: City Tech’s STAR Unit! (Scheduling, Testing, Advisement & Registration) and Academic Advising!
  9. Register for classes on CUNYfirst!  Log in with your CUNYfirst credentials!
COURT SYSTEM MATERIALS!! (charts, maps, etc.)
FREE TUTORING AVAILABLE FOR LAW COURSES!
Student tutor, ZhiRe (“Andy”) Wu, is available to assist you with associate level law courses!  On Zoom, by appointment, during the following times:
Tuesdays:           10 AM – 3 PM
Wednesdays:    10 AM – 3 PM
Saturdays:            3 PM – 6 PM
Sundays:               3 PM – 6 PM
To schedule an appointment, please email Andy (Andy.wu1066@gmail.com), and copy Department Administrator Wanda DeJesus (WDeJesus@citytech.cuny.edu).
    GENERAL COURSE RESOURCES! ANSWER KEYS! Quiz #1 (paralegal roles & skills, career opportunities) Quiz #2 (career opportunities (continued), workings of a law office, ethics and professional responsibility)     DAILY CLASS NOTES & MATERIALS! Tu Aug 26 (class 1): Course introduction! Th Aug 28 (class 2): Paralegal roles and skills Tu Sept 2 (class 3): Remote activity: “Law in Culture Review” assignment. Th Sept 4 (class 4): Intro to OpenLab; paralegal roles & skills cont’d Tu Sept 9 (class 5): Career opportunities–where paralegals work Th Sept 11 (class 6): Quiz #1, how to write a resume Tu Sept 16 (class 7): Peer-review your draft resumes! Th Sept 18 (class 8): Follow-up on resumes; how to write a cover letter Tu Sept 30 (class 10): Workings of a law office! Tu Oct 7 (class 11): Timekeeping assignment! Th Oct 9 (class 12): Ethics and professional responsibility! Th Oct 16 (class 13): Quiz 2; review for midterm exam; ethics and professional responsibility! Th Oct 23 (class 14): Advisement & registration procedures! Tu Oct 28 (class 15): Court systems introduction! Th Oct 30 (class 16): Court systems continued! Tu Nov 4 (class 17): Walking tour of local courts! Th Nov 6 (class 18): Court systems continued! Guest speaker! Tu Nov 11 (class 19): Finishing court systems! Starting sources of law! Th Nov 13 (class 20): Sources of law: US Constitution! — END OF FALL 2025 SEMESTER INFO! —     THE REST OF THIS MATERIAL IS FROM LAST SEMESTER — DO NOT FOLLOW IT!! Th March 27 (class 16): Court systems continued: Walking tour of local courts!  NO NOTES. Tu April 1 (class 17): Court systems continued! Th April 3 (class 18): Finishing up court systems! Tu April 8 (class 19): Review of court systems; ethics & professional responsibility! Th April 10 (class 20): Ethics & professional responsibility continued; starting sources of law! Tu April 22 (class 21): NO MEETING! Just our class.  See assignment in “Assignments” page. Th April 24 (class 22): Sources of law continued: The US Constitution! Tu April 29 (class 23): Finishing up sources of law!  Primary/secondary, mandatory/persuasive! Th May 1 (class 24): NO MEETING! Just our class.  Complete quiz #3. Tu May 6 (class 25): Court observation assignment, legal research and analysis! Th May 8 (class 26): Court observation! Tu May 13 (class 27):  Follow up on court observation; finish legal research! Th May 15 (class 28): Legal writing! Tu May 20 (class 29): Quiz #4; review for final exam! Th May 22 (class 30): FINAL EXAM!