Product Benefits: - Material on employment, salaries, roles, ethics, and regulations has been updated.
- The "Helpful Websites" feature at the end of the chapters consists of special Google searches that broaden the scope of additional material that is available online.
- A chart has been added to Chapter 2 that lists the major employment settings (e.g., private law firm, corporate law department, government office) and states the likelihood that a paralegal will encounter specified working conditions in each setting.
- Chapter 5 provides further clarification of the relationship between confidentiality and the attorney-client privilege.
- A discussion of new ethical problems peculiar to the digital age has been added to Chapter 5.
- Chapter outlines allow students to anticipate what will be covered in each chapter.
- Chapter summaries and review questions help students capture the essential points of each chapter.
- The More-On-the-Net feature provides Web sites for additional information related to the main theme of each chapter.
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Table of Contents: Preface.
How to Study Law in the Classroom and on the Job.
PART I THE PARALEGAL IN THE LEGAL SYSTEM.
1. Introduction to a New Career in Law.
2. Paralegal Employment.
3. The Regulation of Paralegals.
4. Attorney Ethics and Paralegal Ethics.
5. Introduction to the Legal System.
PART II THE SKILLS OF A PARALEGAL.
6. Introduction to Legal Analysis.
7. Legal Interviewing.
8. Investigation in a Law Office.
9. An Introduction to the Use of Computers in a Law Office.
10. Introduction to Law Office Administration.
Appendix A: Paralegal Associations, Bar Associations that Allow Paralegal Membership, and Related Organizations.
Appendix B: Paralegal Definitions.
Appendix C: Bar Associations and Related.
Attorney Organizations.
Appendix D: Federal Government.
Organization Chart.
Appendix E: Starting a Freelance Paralegal Business.
Glossary.
Index. |
