Business Operations Professional Certificate

Business Operations Professional Certificate Overview 

The Business Operations Professional Certificate program can help you meet the growing demand for lawyers and legal professionals who understand the business side of running a legal service. 

Lawyers and other legal professionals alike who wish to specialize in this vital area will learn practical knowledge and skills in regulation and compliance, data security, litigation operations, and more needed to represent organizations in various business practices or gain a competitive edge in their industry. For example: Those with a paralegal degree or certificate can position themselves for career advancement with a professional certificate in business operations. 

Online Business Law Professional Certificate Courses

Complete four of the following six courses to earn your Business Operations Professional Certificate. Credits earned from these courses may be applied to the Master of Business, Law, and Technology degree program. 

Regulation and Compliance

Review the various types of regulatory compliance requirements and examine related issues such as compliance audits, document retention policies, data security, IT procedures, privacy concerns, and governance. This course, as part of this business law certificate program, will also address the analytical tools necessary to understand the complexities of compliance as part of a risk analysis and the role of compliance in shaping an entity’s strategy.

Data Security and Breach 

Examine legal requirements applicable to data security, including responses to data breaches. Topics include laws applicable to public and private entities, methods of data breach investigation, data breach notice requirements and practical considerations, and legal risks exposure arising from data breach and notice.

Litigation Operations 

Explore the challenges faced by litigants in the digital age, focusing on the growing importance (and cost) of electronic discovery with this online business law certificate. The discussion will focus on the best practices established by field practitioners who have identified methods for reducing risks and mitigating costs.

Litigation and Its Alternatives

This course explores the proceedings by which criminal and civil matters are litigated, and alternative strategies such as plea bargaining, restorative justice, negotiation, private and court-ordered commercial arbitration, private judging, mediation, negotiation, and neutral evaluation.

Law Practice Management

Courts and legal practices have moved in the direction of conducting their business electronically and remotely. This change has transformed the practice of law, whether remote or in-person. The business operations certificate offers the opportunity to gain the theoretical and practical background to understand these changes and to positively impact an employer’s responses to such change. 

Project Management 

Receive an overview of the principles of project management, addressing the core topics of the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge. Develop the skills and knowledge necessary for effective decision-making and project management, including techniques for evaluating profitability, outsourcing opportunities, and the role of technology and innovation in legal project management.

Flexible, Accessible, and Affordable 

Certificate programs are designed with working professionals in mind and can be completed in just eight months for only $600 per course. The program is 100% online, meeting the needs of your busy schedule. 

Interested in another in-demand area that intersects with the legal field? Visit our other professional certificate programs in Entrepreneurship, Emerging Law, or Technology to learn more.

Explore other learning pathways

In addition to the Business Operations Professional Certificate, The Colleges of Law offers professional certificate programs in Entrepreneurship, Emerging Law, or Technology. 

Any of these professional certificates can be applied toward a Master of Business, Law, and Technology degree.  

Professional legal courses may also be taken to expand your knowledge in high-demand subjects of emerging law such as Regulation and Compliance, Startup Law, Technology for Legal Professionals, and more. 

Licensure: Except as provided in rule 4.30 of the Admissions Rules (Legal Education in a foreign state or country), completion of a professional law degree program at this law school other than for the Juris Doctor degree does not qualify a student to take the California Bar Examination or satisfy the requirements for admission to practice law in California.