Introduction to Law for Paralegals
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Introduction to Law for Paralegals by Katherine Currier
Comprehensive, intelligent overview of all the key concepts covered in a typical introduction to law course. Divided into three parts, reflecting the topics addressed in an introductory course: Part I, Paralegals and the American Legal System; Part I, Finding and Analyzing the Law and Part I, Legal Ethics and Substantive Law. A critical thinking approach is used to introduce students to the study of law, encouraging students to interact with the materials through hypotheticals, examples, and well-designed questions.Key Features of the New Edition:
- Comprehensive coverage of key legal concepts
- Hypotheticals, questions, and exercises that engage students in critical thinking
- A logical three-part organization
- Student-friendly skill development for basic statutory and case analysis
- Ethics Alerts, marginal definitions, Internet references, and legal reasoning exercises
- Appendices on writing style, legal research, citation, the U.S. Constitution, and additional Net Notes
- New edition includes many new Discussion Questions and Legal Reasoning Exercises
- Chapter Objectives and short hypotheticals to start each chapter added to this edition
- New coverage includes: the Boston Marathon bombing case, the Affordable Care Act, and trademark issues involving the Washington Redskins, e-filing and e-discovery, discussion of same-sex marriage and custody disputes over pre-embryos, and crimes of unauthorized access of computer data and warrantless searches of cell phones
Comprehensive, intelligent overview of all the key concepts covered in a typical introduction to law course. Divided into three parts, reflecting the topics addressed in an introductory course: Part I, Paralegals and the American Legal System; Part I, Finding and Analyzing the Law and Part I, Legal Ethics and Substantive Law. A critical thinking approach is used to introduce students to the study of law, encouraging students to interact with the materials through hypotheticals, examples, and well-designed questions.
Key Features of the New Edition:
- Comprehensive coverage of key legal concepts
- Hypotheticals, questions, and exercises that engage students in critical thinking
- A logical three-part organization
- Student-friendly skill development for basic statutory and case analysis
- Ethics Alerts, marginal definitions, Internet references, and legal reasoning exercises
- Appendices on writing style, legal research, citation, the U.S. Constitution, and additional Net Notes
- New edition includes many new Discussion Questions and Legal Reasoning Exercises
- Chapter Objectives and short hypotheticals to start each chapter added to this edition
- New coverage includes: the Boston Marathon bombing case, the Affordable Care Act, and trademark issues involving the Washington Redskins, e-filing and e-discovery, discussion of same-sex marriage and custody disputes over pre-embryos, and crimes of unauthorized access of computer data and warrantless searches of cell phones
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781454838760 |
| ISBN 10 | 1454838760 |
| Title | Introduction to Law for Paralegals |
| Author | Katherine Currier |
| Series | Aspen College |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | Wolters Kluwer Law And Business |
| Year published | 2014-12-19 |
| Number of pages | 896 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |