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Paralegal Career For Dummies Scott Hatch, Lisa Hatch Apply important legal concepts and skills you need to succeed
Get educated, land a job, and start making money now!
Want a new career as a paralegal but don't know where to start? Relax! Paralegal Career For Dummies is the practical, hands-on guide to all the basics -- from getting certified to landing a job and getting ahead. Inside, you'll find all the tools you need to succeed, including a CD packed with sample memos, forms, letters, and more!
Discover how to
* Secure your ideal paralegal position
* Pick the right area of the law for you
* Prepare documents for litigation
* Conduct legal research
* Manage a typical law office
Sample resumes, letters, forms, legal documents, and links to online legal resources.
Please see the CD-ROM appendix for details and complete system requirements. |
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LITIGATION PARALEGAL 4E (West Legal Studies) James W. H. McCord The Litigation Paralegal: A Systems Approach, 4th Edition, is presented in a clear and logical outline format that helps students learn the classifications and interrelationships of concepts and principles. It provides necessary background on the litigation paralegal, ethics, the office environment, and the courts. Utilizing this information, students work through a case, from intake interviews through appeal. As students develop competencies, they collect a system folder of documents that will serve as a litigation practice manual when they move on to work as paralegals. The text provides flexibility for instructors who wish to tailor the material to fit goals and time constraints. Also, appendixes on the system folder, the law of torts and contracts, and reading medical records, provide instructors with flexibility to meet the needs of students at different stages of the academic progress. |
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Paralegal Today: The Legal Team at Work (West Legal Studies Series) Roger LeRoy Miller, Mary Meinzinger Urisko This text takes a completely different approach to teaching paralegal skills in the classroom, bridging the gap between classroom learning and on-the-job realities. The authors carefully designed the full-color text and features to give students a glimpse of the types of situations and demands that they may encounter as professional paralegals. Students will become proficient in all the fundamental areas of paralegal studies and substantive law while studying this comprehensive text. All of the basic areas of paralegal studies are covered in this book such as careers, ethics, professional responsibilities, pretrial preparation, trial procedures, criminal law, legal interviewing, investigation, legal research, computer-assisted legal research, legal analysis, and legal writing. Exercises at the end of each chapter provide students with opportunities to apply the concepts and skills discussed in a variety of different formats. The text has been fully updated to reflect changes in the law and trends in the paralegal profession. |
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Dynamic Business Law: The Essentials Nancy Kubasek, M. Neil Browne, Dan Herron, Lucien Dhooge, Linda Barkacs Dynamic Business Law: The Essentials is appropriate for the one-semester Business Law course. It contains the basics of business law but does not get bogged down in the kind of details that are more appropriate in an upper-level law class. The text provides an examination of the basic questions, concepts, and legal rules of business law. - Emphasis on the BUSINESS in business law. Dynamic Business Law: The Essentials emphasizes the tie of legal issues back to the core business curriculum. This will help both students and faculty. Faculty need to know how this is integrated as they are constantly ‘defending’ the inclusion of this course in the business curriculum. And students need to understand how the concepts tie to their future business careers.
- Emphasis on TEACHING. Many professors teaching this course are attorneys first and academics second. They do not have a lot of time to prepare or think about how to apply this information effectively for their business students. Dynamic Business Law: The Essentials contains a helpful instructor’s manual, particularly for the many adjuncts teaching this course.
- Emphasis on CRITICAL THINKING. Neil Browne, one of the co-authors of this text, has written a successful text on critical thinking. His framework is included in Dynamic Business Law: The Essentials as well – to help students learn how to frame and reframe a question/issue. Critical thinking questions are also included at the end of each case, to tie in this component even further.
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Spanish for Attorneys and Paralegals with Audio CDs (Book & Audio CD) William Harvey Spanish words, phrases, and instructive exercises are presented to help English-speaking attorneys and paralegals communicate effectively with Hispanic clients who have little or no English. Every Spanish word and expression in the book is followed by its phonetic pronunciation and easy-to-follow tips to help its readers understand colloquial spoken Spanish. Author William Harvey concentrates on words and phrases likely to be used in law offices, courtrooms and similar settings, and which pertain to contracts, wills, real estate transactions, law suits, legal rights issues, misdemeanors, and felonies. Presented in these pages and on the enclosed audio CDs are true-to-life dialogues that dramatize typical encounters. This book's approach to teaching practical Spanish bypasses grammar rules and concentrates on practical conversational situations. Vocabulary and sentences presented on the compact discs relate to the book's text and provide practice in listening comprehension. |
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Criminal Law & Procedure Daniel E. Hall In this new edition of Criminal Law and Procedure the general principles of criminality and culpability, individual crimes, their elements and related issues are fully discussed. Procedure topics explored include defenses to criminal accusations, parties to crimes, state and federal constitutional influences, the parties to the criminal justice system, the pretrial process, trial, sentencing, appeal and collateral relief, and the procedure of search and seizure. ALSO AVAILABLE INSTRUCTOR SUPPLEMENTS CALL CUSTOMER SUPPORT TO ORDER Instructor's Manual, ISBN: 0-7668-1832-2 COMING SOON West Paralegal Comprehensive CTB-2000-II, ISBN: 0-7668-1773-3 |
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Introduction to Paralegalism: Perspectives, Problems and Skills (Book Only) William P. Statsky A comprehensive introduction to the field with a real world, practical emphasis which also makes it a valuable on-the-job reference. This is the market leader and has been updated and enhanced to include a new full-color insert outlining key steps to success as a paralegal. The text is packed with real life insights and information on working as a paralegal. Each chapter contains the following helpful features: Chapter Outline, Assignments, Examples, Checklists, Chapter Summary, and Key Terms. Revisions include a new Internet appendix, updated ethical codes, and expanded supplement package. This text can be customized to fit the instructor's needs. |
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Paralegal Professional, The (3rd Edition) Thomas F. Goldman, Henry R. Cheeseman Written by an award-winning author team, The Paralegal Professional: Comprehensive Version, 3e provides a solid foundation in substantive and procedural legal knowledge and analytical skills. Using chapter opening vignettes, ethical perspectives, advice from the field, and chapter exercises, it develops real-world skills needed to be successful in a paralegal career. Substantive law chapters provide an overview of the most common individual legal areas of practice. New video case studies and Paralegals in Practice boxes bring the world of the paralegal closer to the classroom. |
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Business Organizations for Paralegals Deborah E. Bouchoux This complete overview of Business Organizations, written specifically for paralegal students, provides a basic and thorough understanding of the various types of business organizations in a format that will not overwhelm students. Comprehensive, yet accessible, Business Organizations for Paralegals, Fifth Edition, provides students with the practical knowledge they will need. Paralegal students and instructors have relied on this text for over a decade because of these attributes:
Clear presentation designed for the paralegal student, with chapters that include an introduction, a complete discussion of the topic, a section devoted to the tasks performed by paralegals, guides to both conventional and Internet resources, discussion questions, and a summary of key features
Each form of business organization discussed thoroughly, including the nature of the entity, its advantages and disadvantages, the relative ease with which it may be formed, its dissolution, and tax consequences More in-depth treatment of limited liability partnerships and limited liability companies than other texts An entire chapter devoted to securities regulation
Useful exhibits and charts that highlight important topics and sample forms that are integrated with the textual discussion throughout the book
Web resources included in each chapter, with references to websites on forming businesses, directions to various forms, and web addresses for each state s Secretary of State Key terms defined in the margins for easy reference, practice tips in each chapter that provide pragmatic information for paralegals, lists of relevant websites and of tasks commonly performed by paralegals Internet questions requiring students to access websites with which they will be expected to be familiar on the job
A complete ancillary package, including an instructor s manual with a test bank and PowerPoint slides True to form, the Fifth Edition is cutting-edge in its coverage:
Each chapter includes all new discussion questions, Internet questions, and case illustrations New topics include a discussion of the Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act in Chapter 6 and Shelf LLCs and Series LLCs
Chapter 11 discusses new trends in corporate governance, such as the move toward electing boards of directors by majority rather than plurality vote, the move toward eliminating staggered or classified boards of directors, new SEC rules and regulations, and the availability of proxy materials on the Internet
Coverage of the 2008 financial crisis |
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Interviewing and Investigating: Essential Skills for the Legal Professional, Fourth Edition Stephen P. Parsons |