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Paralegal 101

Subject : law
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1. The highest federal appellate court - consisting of nine appointed members.






2. Questions relating to what happened: who - what - when - where - and how.






3. The ethical rule prohibiting attorneys and paralegals from disclosing information regarding a client or a client's case.






4. A national organization of paralegal programs that promotes high standards for paralegal education.






5. Intangible assets - such as trade secrets - copyrights - patents - and trade or service marks.






6. The way in which a question of fact is established. Evidence can consist of witness testimony or documents and exhibits. It is the proof presented at a trial.






7. A court order requiring a person to appear to testify at a trial or deposition.






8. A court where a permanent record is kept of the testimony - lawyers' remarks - and judges' rulings.






9. The background documents created during the process of a bill becoming a statute. These documents can include alternative versions of the legislation - proceedings of committee hearings and reports - and transcripts of floor debates.






10. The principle that courts cannot decide abstract issues or render advisory opinions; rather - they are limited to deciding cases that involve litigants who are personally affected by the court's decision.






11. 'The thing speaks for itself'; the doctrine that suggest negligence can be presumed if an event happens that would not ordinarily happen unless someone was negligent.






12. The process of organizing statutes by subject matter.






13. A set charge for a specific service - such as drafting a simple will.






14. A tangible object or a right or ownership interest.






15. A nonbinding process in which attorneys for both sides present synopses of their cases to a jury - which renders an advisory opinion on the basis of these presentations.






16. A defense requiring proof that the defendant would not have committed the crime but for police trickery.






17. A summary of a court opinion that appears at the beginning of the case.






18. The result reached in a particular case.






19. When the defendant does not have sufficient money or other assets to pay the judgment.






20. The power of a court to hear a case.






21. An intentional act that creates a harmful or offensive physical contact.






22. The application of legal rules to a client's specific factual situation; also known as legal analysis.






23. An online legal databease containing court decisions and statutes from the entire country - as well as secondary authority; a competitor to Lexis.






24. An opinion that disagrees with the majority's decision and reasoning.






25. The failure to act reasonably under the circumstances.






26. A decision is reversed when an appellate court overturns or negates the decision of a lower court.






27. A constitutional protection against being tried twice for the same crime.






28. Land and objects permanently attached to land.






29. A contract that outlines the attorney's duties and the client's obligations regarding payment - on either an hourly or a contingency fee basis - as well as the client's responsibility reagarding costs and expenses.






30. A computer program that allows the user to retrieve web documents that match the key words entered by the searcher.






31. When a judge formally recognizes something as being a fact without requiring the attorneys prove it through the introduction of other evidence.






32. Also known as real estate; land and items growing on or permanently attached to that land.






33. A court order requiring a party to perform a specific act or to cease doing a specific act.






34. The publication of false statements that harm a person's reputation.






35. The delivery of a pleading or other paper in a lawsuit to the opposing party.






36. A warrant that allows the police to enter without announcing their presence in advance.






37. The tort theory that an employer can be sued for the negligent acts of its employees.






38. The failure to act reasonably under the circumstances.






39. The revocation of an attorney's license.






40. A national voluntary organization of lawyers.






41. A request that the court order a rehearing of a lawsuit because irregularities - such as errors of the court or jury misconduct - make it probable that an impartial trial do not occur.






42. A test that provides that the defendant is not guilty due to insanity if - at the time of the killing - the defendant suffered from a defect or disease of the mind and could not understand whether the act was right or wrong.

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43. An attorney's written argument presented to an appeals court - setting forth a statement of the law as it should be applied to the client's facts.






44. The ethical rule prohibiting attorneys and paralegals from working for opposing sides in a case.






45. The doctrine stating that normally once a court has decided one way on a particular issue - it and other courts in the same jurisdiction will decide the same way on that issue in future cases given similar facts unless they can be convinced of the ne






46. A statute establishing and setting out the powers of an administrative agency.






47. The process of legislative enactment of areas of the law previously governed solely by the common law.






48. Liability without having to prove fault.






49. A decision is overruled when a court in a later case changes the law that the decision in the earlier case is no longer good law.






50. A provision that purports to waive liability.







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