Testimonials

Information about what makes our Program unique

The Paralegal Studies Program, along with CT Fair Housing Agency, run a monthly Foreclosure Prevention Clinic on the University of Hartford campus. The clinic assists homeowners who are representing themselves in the foreclosure court process. Paralegal students are trained and volunteer at the clinics. The clinic experience gives students the real life, hands on experience that employers are seeking. Here is what current students have said about the Foreclosure Clinic experience:

"I've worked at several sessions of the [foreclosure] clinic doing both client intake as well as meeting one-on-one with clients. Being able to work with a client is one paralegal skill you can't learn in a classroom."

- Virginia McCarthy (Current BS student)

"What I enjoyed most about my time at the [foreclosure] clinic was helping the homeowners. I found that I really enjoy helping others. We could take our paralegal knowledge and use it to help someone else. That is a great feeling."

- Monique Thibodeau (Current AS student)

Paralegal students prepare paralegal-level work in every class offered by the Program. Student will have a wide range of writing samples to show a prospective employer upon graduation. Students are encouraged, and in some classes required, to create a legal portfolio of their work. Here is what one recent graduate said about the value of her legal portfolio:

"After receiving my BS degree I used my legal portfolio to get my dream paralegal job working in child advocacy."

- Viola Hughes (May 2010 BS graduate)

Employers of our graduates are often the best indicators to the Program of whether or not we are adequately preparing legal students to work in real world environments. Here is what two recent paralegal graduate employers had to say about their University of Hartford Paralegal employee:

"The value is that they 'hit the ground running' without needing a great deal of 'on the job training'."

- John Montalbano, Esquire, McHugh, Chapman & Montalbano (Employer of recent paralegal graduate)

"Graduate was well qualified from day one in general legal thinking, ethical practices and issues and writing and technical skills. She has been able to use the base knowledge from her University of Hartford education to quickly get up to speed in a very specialized area. In addition her client contact skills are excellent."

- Carl Gulliver, Esquire, Coan, Lewendon, Gulliver & Miltenberger (Employer of recent paralegal graduate)