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

ISBN-10: 0132390833
ISBN-13: 9780132390835

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2008
Format: Paper; 560 pp
Published: 12/28/2006

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For courses in Paralegal (Introduction), Legal Concepts for Paralegals

The Paralegal Professional Essentials, 2nd edition is a brief version of The Paralegal Professional, 2e.  The essentials version contains the first 11 chapters of the full version text.  There are nine additional chapters of substantive law in the full version.

 

 

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 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.  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.

For courses in Paralegal (Introduction), Legal Concepts for Paralegals

The Paralegal Professional Essentials, 2nd edition is a brief version of The Paralegal Professional, 2e.  The essentials version contains the first 11 chapters of the full version text.  There are nine additional chapters of substantive law in the full version.

 

 

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 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.  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.
  • Brief and full cases illustrate each area of law.
    • Gives students numerous examples to help them better understand the law and how the legal system works.
  • Campion Website offers additional study tools for students
    • Free access for students allows them to gain additional help 24/7.  Full versions of all the cases from the text can also be found on this website.

 

  • NEW Paralegal Professional Classroom Video Series — 34 scenario-based videos will be available to adopters on the following topics; Job-Related, Ethics-Related, and Paralegal Practices.
    • Students will learn by seeing the paralegal professional in action, not just reading about it.
  •  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 
  •  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!

 

PART 1: THE PARALEGAL PROFESSION

1.      The Paralegal Profession

2.      Ethics, Regulation and Professional Responsibility

3.      The Paralegal Workplace

4.      Technology and the Paralegal

 

PART 2: PARALEGAL SKILLS AND PROCEDURE

5.      Sources of American Law

6.      The Court System and ADR

7.      Civil Litigation

8.      Administrative Law

9.      Interviewing and Investigation Skills

10.   Traditional, Computer, and Internet Legal Research

11.   Legal Writing and Critical Legal Thinking

 

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. 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, he served as the Chair of the Technology Task Force initiating the Train the Trainer program, he was elected President elect of the Association in 2006.

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