Legal Affairs and Digital Records Management — Six-month professional certificate
School: EDJ Paris | Paris College of Law and Justice. Duration: Six months. Programme code: ESPAST-C12.
Course Overview
Focused on documents and processes in legal services, learn to organize case materials, verify deadlines, manage access rights, and protect information. The course develops professional support capabilities, with teaching cases clarifying applicable legal frameworks.
Learning is built around a complete case study, progressively developing problem analysis, process documentation, and final deliverables. This course is not a compressed version of an undergraduate or Master's programme condensed into six months, but rather concentrated training in the specific competencies outlined in this curriculum.
Target Audience and Admission Requirements
Strong reading and written expression skills required; applicants with a law background may choose to deepen case studies. Applicants submit personal information, CV or learning history, and learning motivation; if the course involves creative work or technical foundations, supporting materials or project documentation may be included. Whether supplementary foundational learning is needed will be assessed by the course team based on submitted materials.
Learning Objectives
- Organize legal business documentation.
- Track documents and deadlines.
- Execute confidentiality and quality assurance procedures.
Learning Modules
| Module | Learning Tasks and Outcomes |
|---|---|
| 1. Legal Affairs and Responsibilities | Identify case issues, organize foundational concepts and applicable conditions. |
| 2. Case File Structure | Organize case materials, document sources, quality, and required supplementary information. |
| 3. Deadlines and Process Recording | Complete exercises using learned methods, retain process and revision records. |
| 4. Digital Files and Versions | Apply methods to projects, explain choices and constraints. |
| 5. Confidentiality and Access Rights | Compare or test solutions, form evidence and improvement recommendations. |
| 6. Document Review and Communication | Integrate outcomes, submit reports or deliverables and participate in review. |
Six-Month Learning Schedule
Months 1–2: Study Legal Affairs and Responsibilities and Case File Structure, identify case study and prepare materials, complete foundational exercises.
Months 3–4: Deepen Deadlines and Process Recording and Digital Files and Versions, complete staged applications, receive feedback and revise methods or solutions.
Months 5–6: Complete integrated project focused on Confidentiality and Access Rights and Document Review and Communication, organize outcomes and participate in final review.
Practical Project
Establish a simulated case file and deadline schedule, submit access arrangements and document review records. Deliverables must document individual contribution, materials used, analysis or production methods, results, and limitations. Team tasks are individually assessed; participation in group activities does not substitute for individual evaluation.
Teaching Methods
Assessment and Completion
Completion of required modules and staged assignments, submission of an integrated project, and passing the final review are required. Evaluation emphasizes organizing legal business documentation, tracking documents and deadlines, executing confidentiality and quality procedures, and the accuracy, process documentation, presentation, and professional accountability of deliverables. Specific grading, resubmission, and reassessment procedures are published before the course begins; those who do not complete assessment do not automatically receive a completion certificate.
Application After Learning
Can be applied to legal affairs, digital records, and process management support tasks. Course projects may serve as personal learning outcomes or portfolio materials; actual employment also requires evaluation based on existing education, experience, and employer requirements.
Certificate
Complete the required modules and assessed project to receive an institution-issued professional course certificate.
Tuition fees
| Study format | Full six-month course |
|---|---|
| Online | €3,500 |
| On campus | €6,500 |
The certificate fee covers the complete six-month course.
Explore legal education with French foundations and a European perspective at
EDJ Paris, a law school in Paris