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MEMBERSHIP REQUIREMENTS
Qualification requirements for the classes of SDPA membership are as follows:
Voting: Must be currently employed full-time as a paralegal working under the supervision of a licensed attorney, who has been an active member of the California State Bar Association, and:
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completed an ABA-approved paralegal education training program;
- completed a paralegal program (or received a degree from an accredited post-secondary institution), requiring a minimum of 24 semester units in law-related classes;
- received an undergraduate degree from a four-year college and have a minimum of one-year law-related experience working under the supervision of a licensed attorney, who has been an active member of the California State Bar Association for at least the preceding three years; or
- received a high school diploma or GED and have a minimum of three years of law-related experience working under the licensed attorney, who has been an active member of the California State Bar Association for at least the preceding three years.
Associate: Must (a) be currently enrolled in a paralegal education training program, or (b) have graduated from a paralegal education training program, but not yet employed as a paralegal.
Student: Must be currently enrolled in a paralegal education-training program.
Sustaining: Any individual, corporation, law firm, or other entity interested in supporting and furthering the goals and purposes of SDPA. A sustaining member receives SDPA's monthly newsletter, invitations to monthly dinner meetings and their name will be published monthly with the sustaining member names in SDPA's newsletter. In addition, the sustaining member may choose either (a) a ten-minute presentation of their company at one dinner meeting, or (b) provide a short article describing their business for publication in one issue of SDPA's newsletter.
To fill out an application form, please click here.
If you have any general questions, please contact membership@sdparalegals.org
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