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Institute of Advanced Technological and Commercial Studies

TP40 · Level 4

Legal Assistant

Target occupation: legal assistant in a firm or a company.

Target occupation
legal assistant in a firm or a company
Level
4 — Skilled employee and operative
Duration
9 months
Taught hours
600 h
Credits
60

Framework

Competency blocks

Each block is assessed separately and stays acquired. That is what lets you resume an interrupted path without starting over.

  1. The legal environment

    150 hours

    Sources of law, court structure, vocabulary, OHADA

  2. Managing files and legal documents

    170 hours

    Assembly, follow-up, deadlines, formalities, registry, registers

  3. Legal drafting and research

    150 hours

    Letters, simple documents, legal research, monitoring

  4. Ethics and confidentiality

    90 hours

    Professional secrecy, conflicts of interest, data protection

  5. Professional conduct and employability

    40 hours

    Rigour, client relations, job search

Questions

How is this title awarded?

Through a workplace simulation before a panel of practitioners, together with a professional portfolio recording what you actually produced. An occupation is proven by practising it, not on paper.

What employment rate do you publish?

None, and that is deliberate: no cohort has yet completed this title. The six-month employment rate is this family's own indicator, and we will publish it once a cohort has produced one — not before. An invented figure here would be the first thing an employer checks.

Legal Assistant — IHETC