Legal management

Legal management (also offered as: legal studies, or paralegal studies) is an academic and professional discipline that is a hybrid between the study of law and management (i.e. business administration, public administration, etc.). It is generally considered as the best preparatory law program for those who aspire to become members of a bar.[1] Often, alumni of legal management programmes pursue a professional degree in law such as Juris Doctor (JD) or Bachelor of Laws (Ll.B.) while some profess as paralegals, law clerks, political analysts, politicians, public administrators, entrepreneurs, business executives, or pursue careers in the academe.

The degree was designed in the Philippines and was first introduced in Ateneo de Manila University in the 1980s by former Philippine Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona. It is also offered in the United States,[2] most notably, at the University of California Berkeley.[3]

Legal management student organisations across the Philippines are represented by the Alliance of Legal Management Associations of the Philippines (ALMAP) to the Securities and Exchange Commission, as a non-stock, non-profit, student-run corporation. Rhandel Colleen B. Guimbal is the national president of ALMAP for the academic year 2016-2017.

Curriculum

Legal management is currently offered in multiple degree formats depending on the offering college or university. Its variety and flexibility is a focal point among schools that have it in their roster of academic degrees. Some capitalise in the legal aspects, while others for the business aspects. Some schools may offer the degree either as a predominantly preparatory law programme, a liberal arts focused programme, or a business and management programme. Core subjects include: law, philosophy, literature and management (public and business). Depending on the school, the ratio of law courses to management courses vary between 40:60 to 90:10. Graduate degrees in the discipline are offered in multiple colleges and universities in the United States.

Variations of the discipline can be conferred either as the following undergraduate degrees:

Courses

Legal management alumni are highly trained, adept, and knowledgeable in the following gamut of disciplines:

Liberal Arts Law Business
  • Anthropology
  • Communication Arts
  • Governance and Public Administration
  • History
  • Literature
  • Philosophy
  • Psychology
  • Political Economy
  • Political Science
  • Public Policy
  • Sociology
  • Administrative Law
  • Civil Law
  • Constitutional Law
  • Criminal Law
  • Labour Law
  • Legal and Judicial Ethics
  • Legal Writing and Statutory Construction
  • Mercantile Law
  • Remedial Law
  • Taxation Law
  • Political Law
  • Public International Law
  • Accounting
  • Business Mathematics
  • Business Communication
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Economics
  • Finance
  • Marketing
  • Human Resource Management
  • Statistics
  • Organisational Behaviour
  • Operations Management
  • Public Relations
  • Strategic Management
  • Taxation
  • Total Quality Management

Alliance of Legal Management Associations of the Philippines

Founded in 2001, the Alliance of Legal Management Associations of the Philippines (ALMAP, Inc.) is the home of all Legal Management Student Organisations in the Philippines. It is responsible for the promotion of all Legal Management Degree Programs in the country, and is the sole and exclusive representative of the Legal Management Student Body in the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and it is duly registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission as a Non-Stock, Non-Profit Student Organisation.

It fosters relationships between different schools offering the Legal Management, Legal Studies, Paralegal Studies, and the like degree programs through social engineering projects, forums, academic seminars, project partnerships and nation-building initiatives.

Members

Past national presidents

Notable alumni

References

See also

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