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Paralegal 101
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law
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. An examination of a prospective juror to see if he or she is fit to serve as a juror on a specific case.
Specific performance
Voir dire
Legal technician
Annotated statutes
2. A token sum awarded when liability has been found but monetary damages cannot be shown.
Nominal damages
Proving a case within a case
On all fours
Request for admissions
3. The power of a court to hear a particular type of case.
Vicarious representation
Search engine
Actus rea
Subject matter jurisdiction
4. Federal and state rules that regulate how criminal proceedings are conducted.
Rules of criminal procedure
Legal writing
Freelance Paralegal
Quiet enjoyment
5. Broad questions that put few limits on the freedom of the respondent.
Legal clinic
Reverse
Open Questions
Contributory negligence
6. An intentional tort that covers a variety of situations - including disclosure - intrusion - appropriation - and false light.
U.S. district courts
Retainer agreement
Recklessness
Invasion of Privacy
7. A computer search that identifies every place in which the search term appears in the actual text of the document being searched.
Real or physical evidence
Compulsory joinder
Full-text searches
Legal technician
8. A decision is reversed when an appellate court overturns or negates the decision of a lower court.
Punitive damages
Motion
Reverse
Interrogatories
9. 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.
Assumption of the risk
Probable cause
Joint tenancy
Clearly erroneous
10. The defense's request that the court find the prosecution failed to meet its burden and that it remove the case from the jury by finding the defendant not guilty.
Restrictive covenant
Legal Reasoning
Motion to require a finding of not guilty
Statutes at large or session laws
11. When a person must be brought into a lawsuit as either a plaintiff or a defendant.
Pretrial conference
Separation of powers
Challenge for cause
Compulsory joinder
12. The ethical rule prohibiting attorneys and paralegals from disclosing information regarding a client or a client's case.
Legal malpractice
Procedural facts
Confidentiality
Statutes of limitations
13. An intentional act that creates a harmful or offensive physical contact.
Products liability
Battery
Evidence
No-knock warrant
14. A trial court error that is not sufficient to warrant reversing the decision.
Harmless error
Professional judgment
Directed verdict
Exhaustion of administrative remedies
15. In a case brief - the rule of law applied to the case's specific facts.
Cause of action
American Bar Association (ABA) www.abanet.org
Criminal law
Issue
16. Either a subcategory of relevancy or simply another word for relevancy - the requirement that the evidence be more probative than prejudicial.
Black-letter law
Materiality
Lay witness
Beyond a reasonable doubt
17. Liability without having to prove fault.
Persuasive authority
Arbitration
Annotated statutes
Strict liability
18. The requirement in a legal malpractice case that the plaintiff-client prove that but for the attorney's negligence - the client would have won.
Ethical wall or screen or cone of silence
Personal recognizance bond
Remand
Proving a case within a case
19. A rule of evidence that prevents an attorney or a paralegal from being compelled to testify about confidential client information.
Tort law
Attorney-client privilege
Analogous cases
Minor premise
20. The highest federal appellate court - consisting of nine appointed members.
Remand
Agent
Certified
U.S. Supreme Court
21. A professional entity in which the owners share in the organization's profits but are not liable for the malpractice of their partners.
Limited liability partnership (LLP)
Remand
Dissenting opinion
Removal
22. The standard of proof used in criminal trials. The evidence represented must be so conclusive and complete that all reasonable doubts regarding the facts are removed from the jurors' minds.
Motion
Beyond a reasonable doubt
Subpoena duces tecum
Intellectual Property
23. The revocation of an attorney's license.
Judicial restraint
Constructive eviction
Property
Disbarment
24. 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.
Overrule
Default judgment
Assumption of the risk
Relevancy
25. Information about what happened procedurally to the litigation after the case cited. Include this information in a citation.
Arraignment
Internet
Common law
Subsequent case history
26. The pretrial oral questioning of a witness under oath.
Deposition
Property law
per curium
Eminent Domain
27. The failure to act reasonably under the circumstances.
Negligence
Lay witness
Motion
Reverse
28. In a case brief - facts that relate to what happened procedurally in the lower courts or administrative agencies before the case reached the court issuing the opinion.
Codification
Comparative negligence
Stare decisis
Procedural facts
29. Evidence that does not add any new information but that confirms facts that already have been established.
Holding
Laws
Cumulative evidence
Arraignment
30. An introductory paragraph listing issues to be discussed in the order they are to be discussed.
Motion to suppress
Conflict of interest
Road Map paragraph
Pleading in the alternative
31. A defense whereby the defendant offers new evidence to avoid judgment.
Affirmative defense
Rule 56 motion (summary judgment motion)
Legal writing
Grand jury
32. The rule that in order to claim self-defense there must have been no possibility of retreat.
Retreat exception
Partnership
Dissenting opinion
Real property
33. Law that deals with harm to a person or a person's property.
Certificated
Headnote
Tort law
Plain meaning
34. The process of properly identifying and authenticating evidence so that it can be introduced.
Affirmative defense
Dissenting opinion
Lay a foundation
Authentication
35. Determined by whether the evidence leads one to logically conclude that an asserted fact is either more or less probable.
Relevancy
Legislative history
Cumulative evidence
12(b)(6) motion
36. A person who permits or directs another person to act on the principal's behalf.
Consideration
Res ipsa loquitur
Deponent
Principle
37. The process after arrest that includes taking the defendant's personal information - giving the defendant an opportunity to read and sign a Miranda card - and allowing the defendant the opportunity to use a telephone.
Concurring opinion
Booking
Products liability
Testimonial evidence
38. A decision is reversed when the litigants appeal the trial court decision and the higher court disagrees with the decision of a lower court.
Agent
Reverse
Fact
Battery
39. A compilation of federal or state statutes in which the statutes are organized by subject matter rather than by year of enactment.
Ejusdem generis
Code
Duress
Notice pleading
40. A privately published statutory code that includes editorial features - such as summaries of court opinions that have interpreted the statutes.
Annotated statutes
Substantive facts
Prior case history
Motion to require a finding of not guilty
41. Information that tells the reader the name of the case - where it can be located - the court that decided it - and the year it was decided. The Bluebook gives precise rules as to how case citations are to be written.
Nominal damages
Contract
Implied warranty of habitability
Case citation
42. The power of a court to force a person to appear before it.
Evidence
On all fours
Personal jurisdiction
Major premise
43. Bad intent.
Guardian
Mens rea
Property law
Codification
44. What the prosecution or plaintiff must be able to prove in order for the case to go to the jury-that is - the elements of the prosecution's case or the plaintiff's cause of action.
Structured database
Prima facie case
Assumption
Affirm
45. A book that contains court opinion headnotes arranged by subject matter.
Discovery
Digest
Citation
Minor premise
46. Information that can be presented in a court of law as proof of some fact.
Competency
Writ of execution
Summons
Evidence
47. A computerized database that contains the full text of documents - such as court opinions or depositions.
Reverse
Guardian
Joint tenancy
Full-text database
48. A statutory citation is a formalized method for referring to a statute's chapter (or title) and section numbers.
Harmless error
Leading question
Issue of first impression
Citation
49. Courts that determine the facts and apply the law to the facts.
Specific performance
Digest
Trial courts
Regulation
50. A defense requiring proof that the defendant would not have committed the crime but for police trickery.
Entrapment
Mandatory authority
Disbarment
Shepardizing