Certification or Licensing
Certification for paralegals is provided by the American Alliance of Paralegals, NALA-The Paralegal Association, the National Federation of Paralegal Associations, and NALS...the association for legal professionals.
The Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists offers the certified e-discovery specialist credential to applicants who pass a multiple-choice examination that covers the following topics: information management and litigation readiness, project planning, litigation hold implementation, collection planning and implementation, data processing, data culling, review planning, document review, data production, project management, legal framework and obligation, international discovery, ethics, technology, and budgeting. Eighty-four percent of test takers said that the certification has helped them stand out as a job candidate, according to the association, which also offers a certification program in Canada. Visit https://aceds.org/ceds-certifications for information on both programs.
No licensing is required for litigation support/eDiscovery analysts.
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