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Paralegal 101

Subject : law
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A provision that purports to waive liability.






2. A decision is reversed when the litigants appeal the trial court decision and the higher court disagrees with the decision of a lower court.






3. Rules and regulations created by administrative agencies.






4. Monetary compensation - including compensatory - punitive - and nominal damages.






5. An opinion in which a majority of the court joins.






6. Fairness; a court's power to do justice. Equity powers allow judges to take action when otherwise the law would limit their decisions to monetary awards. Equity powers include a judge's ability to issue an injunction and to order specific performance






7. Evidence that suggests the defendant's innocence.






8. Information about what happened procedurally to the litigation after the case cited. Include this information in a citation. There is no entry for the topic Husband and Wife.






9. Ownership by two or more persons who have equal rights in the use of the property. When a joint tenant dies - that person's share passes to the other joint tenant(s).






10. Occurs when the police restrain a person's freedom and charge the person with a crime.






11. The reference to a particular page within an opinion.






12. A motion brought before the beginning of a trial either to eliminate the necessity for a trial or to limit the information that can be heard at the trial.






13. The chronological publication of statutes at the end of a legislative session.






14. Specific questions that usually demand very short or yes-no answers.






15. A book that contains court opinion headnotes arranged by subject matter.






16. A reason for invalidating a statute where a reasonable person could not determine a statute's meaning.






17. A claim by the defendant against the plaintiff.






18. A summary of one legal point in a court opinion; written by the editors at West.






19. A body of principles and rules that are either explicitly stated in - or inferred from - the constitutions of the United States and those of the individual states.






20. When the law is applied to the client's facts and the result is not obvious - an issue is created.






21. Attorney compensation as a percentage of the amount recovered rather than a flat amount of money or an hourly fee.






22. A public or private statement that an attorney's conduct violated the code of ethics.






23. A method for measuring the relative negligence of the plaintiff and the defendant - with a commensurate sharing of the compensation for the injuries.






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






25. Simultaneously representing adverse clients.






26. Usually organized as either a partnership or a professional corporation - law clinics provide low-cost legal services on routine matters by stressing low overhead and high volume.






27. A tort committed by one who intends to do the act that creates the harm.






28. The process of using Shepard's citations to check a court citation to see whether there has been any subsequent history or treatment by other court decisions.






29. A trial conducted without a jury.






30. Private publication of court opinions-for example - the regional reporters - such as N.E.2d - published by West.






31. A lawsuit brought by a person as a representative for a group of people who have been similarly injured.






32. The party in a case who has initiated an appeal.






33. A computer search that identifies every place in which the search term appears in the actual text of the document being searched.






34. Not susceptible to a precise definition; a belief based on specific facts that a crime has been or is about to be committed; more than a reasonable suspicion.






35. A computerized database that contains key information about the content of documents - such as medical records.






36. A claim that based on the law and the facts is sufficient to support a lawsuit. If the plaintiff does not state a valid cause of action in the complaint - the court will dismiss it.






37. The law that sets the length of time from when something happens to when a lawsuit must be filed before the right to bring it is lost.






38. Disregarding a substantial and unjustifiable risk that harm will result.






39. Law that deals with harm to society as a whole.






40. The result reached in a particular case.






41. Courts that determine whether lower courts have made errors of law.






42. A constitutional fairness requirement that a defendant have at least a certain minimum level of contact with a state before the state courts can have jurisdiction over the defendant.






43. A special type of joint tenancy applicable only to married couples.






44. A notice informing the defendant of the lawsuit and requiring the defendant to respond or risk losing the suit.






45. Summary of one legal point in a court opinion; written by the editors at West.






46. An activity that requires professional judgment - or the educational ability to relate law to a specific legal problem.






47. A compilation of federal administrative regulations arranged by agency.






48. A term used to describe a case that is similar to another case.






49. In a case brief - the court's answer to the issue presented to it; the new legal principle established by a court opinion.






50. Law that regulates how the legal system operates.