The National Federation of Paralegal Associations (NFPA®) and the Advanced Paralegal Institute (API, a.k.a. Advanced Institute for Paralegal Studies or AIPS) are pleased to offer an online review course for the Paralegal Advanced Competency Exam (PACE®).

The online review course runs for seven weeks, plus a brief pre-course orientation to familiarize students with the API website and utilizing the Moodle network.  API courses are not webinars, nor do they contain pre-recorded lectures.  The classes are taught by paralegal instructors through computer-mediated distance learning who have earned the Registered Paralegal (RP) credentials.  Students may communicate with instructors or classmates around the clock from their home or office computer.  The textbook for this course is the PACE Study Manual, 7th Edition. (Please order THREE weeks in advance of the course start date to allow for processing and shipping.)

The review course will help paralegals prepare to take PACE by covering the five domains: administration of client legal matters, development of client legal matters, factual and legal research, factual and legal writing, and office administration. Ethics questions are found in each domain. The textbook will be the PACE Study Manual and a mock PACE exam will be administered at the conclusion of the course.

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course registration

Tuition: $395.

Please note there is no refund once the course begins. The PACE Study Manual must be purchased by the student on NFPA's web site prior to the start of the class.

• Students who take the PACE Review Course are not necessarily eligible to take the PACE. Please review the PACE eligibility requirements to ensure that you qualify before registering.
  
  
• Registration for this Review Course does not automatically register you to take the PACE. You must submit a separate application to take the PACE.
  
  
• API Review materials are not hosted on the NFPA website. You will receive access instructions from an API representative.

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Start Dates:

Click a date to register

• October 6, 2025

• November 3, 2025

• January 5, 2026

• February 2, 2026

• March 2, 2026

• April 6, 2026

• May 11, 2026

• June 15, 2026

• July 13, 2026

• August 10, 2026

• September 8, 2026

• October 5, 2026

• November 2, 2026

Please note if you want to join a class already in progress, you may do so during the first week.

Additional courses may be added if sufficient interest is expressed.

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Course Overview

Unit One:

• Introduction to PACE
  • Development, eligibility requirements, structure, format, and application
  • Overview of skills tested in each domain
• Organizational skills, ethics, and legal technology such as conflict checks, calendaring, maintaining a database, and file maintenance.
• Post test

Unit Two:

• Ethics (covered in all units, but in depth in this unit)
  • Conflicts of interest
  • Attorney-client privilege
  • Confidentiality
  • Handling client funds
  • Unauthorized practice of law statutes
  • Competence
• Post test

Unit Three:

• Skills and Tools necessary in Communication and Exchange/Gather Information with:
  • Clients
  • Witnesses
  • Experts
  • Counsel, and other personnel
• Analysis of information, and organization of:
  • Legal and factual documents
  • Exhibits
  • Evidence
• Review of Federal Court and Agency Rules and Discussion of Paralegal’s role in legal proceedings.
• Post test

Unit Four:

• Administrative and Office Skills
  • Time management
  • Billing system
  • Form and other legal resource maintenance
• Working with Vendors and how to manage personnel
• Post test

Unit Five:

• Step-by-step approach to conduct legal research in law library and online.
• Post test

Unit Six:

• Acceptable letter and memo formats in legal writing, and proper method of attaching exhibits
• Review of English grammar, spelling, and punctuation
• Discussion of legal citations
• Post test

Unit Seven:

• Reviews study for PACE and methods for computerized, multiple choice exams.
• Practice PACE test with instant results
• Analysis by the instructor, based on the results of practice test to assess strengths and weaknesses by domain

PACE Review Course Registration Form (API Review materials are not hosted on the NFPA website. You will receive access instructions from an API representative.)

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If you have questions, contact Renee Sova, the Director of the Advanced Paralegal Institute by phone at 678-777-9655, via fax at 1-419-791-7802 or via e-mail at renee.sova@advancedparalegalinstitute.com.