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The Paralegal Professional, 2/E
Henry R. Cheeseman, University of Southern California
Thomas F. Goldman, Bucks County Community College

ISBN-10: 0131751905
ISBN-13: 9780131751903

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2008
Format: Cloth; 832 pp
Published: 12/28/2006

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For courses in Paralegal (Introduction), Legal Concepts for Paralegals, and Introduction to Law.

 

Written by an award-winning author team, The Paralegal Professional 2e builds a solid foundation in substantive and procedural legal knowledge while developing the real-world skills students will need throughout their course of study. A proven learning system incorporates chapter opening vignettes, margin definitions, notes on ethical issues, advice from the field features, and a wealth of new end of chapter exercises and case materials that will help students build critical thinking and procedural skills throughout the course.

In response to instructor feedback the 2nd edition has been reorganized into three parts.  Part 1 introduces students to the paralegal profession and includes complete chapters on ethics and on technology in the law office. Part 2 covers paralegal skills and procedures. Part 3 contains overviews of the most common areas of legal practice.  By placing the substantive law chapters at the end of text, we have made it easier to customize the text more easily to your curriculum.  New to this edition is the Paralegal Professional Video Classroom Series which includes 35 scenario-based video clips dealing with getting-a-job, ethics, and paralegal practice situations that allow you to bring the real-world into the classroom.

Hallmark Features:

 

  • Award-winning author team–Henry Cheeseman is a world-renown business law author and Tom Goldman is the head of an ABA approved paralegal program and active AAfPE member and technology consultant.
    • Provides instructors and students with superior content from authors that are experts in their field.
  • Written for traditional and non-traditional students–The authors wrote the book to appeal to both traditional and continuing students.
    • Recognizes that many paralegal students are adult students.
  • Includes full chapters on substantive law–Torts, Contracts, Property, Employment, Business Organizations, Intellectual Property, and Family Law.
    • Includes thorough coverage of these topics that other Introduction to Paralegal texts do not.
  • Brief and longer cases illustrate each area of law.
    • Gives students numerous examples to help them better understand the law and how the legal system works.
  • Companion Website (CW) offers additional study tools for students
    • Free access 24/7 provides students with links to helpful online resources, test-prep quizzes, and full versions of all the cases discussed in the text.

NEW! Paralegal Professional Classroom Video Series – 35 scenario-based videos are available to adopters on the following topics; Job-Related, Ethics-Related, and Paralegal Practices.  Bring excitement  to the classroom!  Students will learn by seeing the paralegal professional in action, not just reading about it. 

  • NEW! Organization of Table of Contents - In response to instructor feedback the 2nd edition has been reorganized into three parts.  Part 1 introduces students to the paralegal profession and includes complete chapters on ethics and on technology in the law office. Part 2 covers paralegal skills and procedures. Part 3 contains overviews of the most common areas of legal practice.  By placing the substantive law chapters at the end of text, we have made it easier to customize the text more easily to your curriculum.   

  • NEW! Expanded Coverage of Ethics Throughout the Text. - The Paralegal Professional 2e text and package is designed to build a strong foundational understanding of ethical principles for paralegals in the introductory course. Resources include expanded coverage in Chapter 2, Ethics, Regulation, and Professional Responsibility, new ethical perspectives boxes integrated throughout the textbook, and 24 Ethics-Related video segments from the new Paralegal Professional Classroom Video Series Segments Integrated and extended coverage allows for in-depth coverage in this course.  

  • NEW! Chapter 4 Technology and the Paralegal - Chapter 4, Technology and the Paralegal, introduces students to the types of application programs and their uses commonly found in law offices today.  Students become effective on-the-job, students need to become comfortable using computers and common legal office software

  • NEW! Chapter 18: Coverage of Bankruptcy Law - An overview of bankruptcy law is provided in chapter 18 along with an overview of the law of business organizations. This coverage was added in response to requests from programs that do not have a specialized course in bankruptcy Law in their curriculum, but want to provide an overview of this area of law. 

     

     

  • NEW TEXT FEATURES

     

    • New Paralegals at Work Chapter Openers- Opening scenarios offer a hypothetical fact situation that a professional paralegal could encounter on the job.
      • Students will be more interested in the materials to be covered in the chapter
    • Expanded Exercises and Assignments help Students develop critical thinking and hands-on skills throughout the course.
      • End of chapter material in this edition has been greatly expanded to focus on developing Critical thinking and hands-on skills including the following exercises and assignments:
      • Critical thinking and writing case exercises
      • Web research exercises
      • Ethics analysis and discussion questions
      • Collaborative exercises
      • Legal analysis and writing cases, cases for briefing
      • New portfolio building exercises
    • NEW Margin Definitions and Working the Web Notations – these optional exercises require students to complete an internet exercises
      • Students will benefit from learning to use the web to gather legal information
    • NEW Ethical Perspective Boxes – Found in all chapters
      • Expose students throughout the text to ethical situations that they will encounter on the job.
    • NEW Contemporary Legal Issues Boxes – Include legal relevant issues such as use of technology and new laws that affect the paralegal profession
      • Students will get a true sense of the change and excitement they can expect when entering the paralegal profession.
    • NEW VangoNotes ® for the Paralegal Professional, 2e. – Students can download chapter reviews from the text and listen to them on any mp3 player. *URL: http://www.vangonotes.com
      • This flexible study tool will benefit busy students and allow them to study in their car, at the gym, wherever!  

     

     

     

    • 1. PART 1-THE PARALEGAL PROFESSION

    Chapter 1-The Paralegal Profession

    Chapter 2- Ethics, Regulation and Professional Responsibility

    Chapter 3-The Paralegal Workplace

    Chapter 4-Technology and the Paralegal

     

    2. PART 2-PARALEGAL SKILLS AND PROCEDURE

    Chapter 5-Sources of American Law

    Chapter 6-The Court System and ADR

    Chapter 7-Civil Litigation

    Chapter 8-Administrative Law

    Chapter 9-Interviewing and Investigation Skills

    Chapter 10-Traditional, Computer, and Internet Legal Research

    Chapter 11-Legal Writing and Critical Legal Thinking

     

    3. PART 3- SUBSTANTIVE LAW

    Chapter 12-Torts

    Chapter 13-Contracts and E-Commerce

    Chapter 14-Real Property

    Chapter 15-Wills, Trusts, Estates, and Elder Law

    Chapter 16-Family Law

    Chapter 17- Employment Law

    Chapter 18-Corporations and Business Organizations

    Chapter 19-Criminal Law

    Chapter 20-Cyberlaw and Intellectual Property

     

     

     

    Henry R. Cheeseman

    Henry R. Cheeseman is an award-winning author of several business law textbooks published by Prentice Hall Publishing, including the definitive, highly-regarded Business Law.  Other textbooks published by Professor Cheeseman by Prentice Hall Publishing are Contemporary Business and Online Commerce Law, The Legal Environment of Business and Online Commerce, Essential of Business and Online Commerce, and Introduction to Law.  He has earned six degrees, including a Juris Doctor degree from the UCLA School of Law, an LLM degree from Boston University, and an MBA degree from the University of Chicago. Professor Cheeseman is a Clinical Professor of Law and the Director of Legal Studies at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. Students there voted him the best teacher of the year on many occasions, earning him the “Golden Apple” Teacher Award. Professor Cheeseman has also served at the Center for Excellence in Teaching at the University.  Professor Cheeseman recognizes the importance of the paralegal to the practice of law, and has co-authored this new and exciting edition of The Paralegal Professional.

     

    Thomas F. Golman

    Thomas F. Goldman is a Professor of Law and Management, Former Director of the Center for Legal Studies and of the Paralegal Studies Program at Bucks County Community College in Pennsylvania. An accounting and eco­nomics graduate of Boston University and of Temple University School of Law, Professor Goldman has an active international law, technology law, and litigation practice. He has worked extensively with paralegals and received the award of the Legal Support Staff Guild. He was elected the Legal Secre­taries Association Boss of the Year for his contribution to cooperative educa­tion by encouraging the use of paralegals and legal assistants in law offices. He also received the Bucks County Community College Alumni Association Professional Achievement Award. He has been an educational consultant on technology to major corporations and a frequent speaker and lecturer on educa­tional, legal, and technology issues. Appointed to the American Association for Paralegal Education Board of Directors in October 2005, and served as the Chair of the Technology Task Force initiating the Train the Trainer program.

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