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Paralegal 101
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Motion to suppress
Legal clinic
Closed Questions
Actual cause
2. A set charge for a specific service - such as drafting a simple will.
Fixed Fee
Stare decisis
Narrow Holding
Distinguishable cases
3. 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.
Statutes of limitations
Judgment
Comparative negligence
Counterclaim
4. A request that the court order that certain information not be mentioned in the presence of the jury.
Full-text database
Motion in limine
Fixed Fee
Minor premise
5. The number of hours - or parts of an hour - that can be charged to a specific client.
Billable hours
Statutes at large or session laws
Exculpatory clause
Attorney-client privilege
6. Also known as cause in fact - this is measured by the 'but for' standard: But for the defendant's actions - the plaintiff would not have been injured.
Limited liability partnership (LLP)
Regulation
Actual cause
Legal malpractice
7. Being the victem of repeated attacks - self-defense is sometimes allowed to the victim - even when the victim is not in immediate danger.
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8. 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.
Procedural facts
Default judgment
Double jeopardy
Plain view doctrine
9. 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.
Citation
Issue of first impression
Pretrial motion
Documentary evidence
10. A decision is overruled when a court in a later case changes the law so that its prior decision is no longer good law.
Derogation of the common law
Lay a foundation
Overrule
Holding
11. 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.
U.S. district courts
Plea bargaining
Implied warranty of habitability
Overrule
12. A court's power to review statutes to decide if they conform to the federal or a state constitution.
Procedural facts
Power of judicial review
Booking
Complaint
13. Occurs when the police restrain a person's freedom and charge the person with a crime.
Separation of powers
Summons
Partnership
Arrest
14. A rule of evidence that prevents an attorney or a paralegal from being compelled to testify about confidential client information.
Attorney-client privilege
Writ of execution
Remedial statute
Model Rules of Professional Conduct
15. A method for measuring the relative negligence of the plaintiff and the defendant - with a commensurate sharing of the compensation for the injuries.
Adverse possession
Comparative negligence
Equity
National Association of Legal Assistants (NALA) www.nala.org
16. A set of standardized jury instructions.
Prior case history
Request for admissions
Successive conflict of interest
Pattern jury instructions
17. 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.
Damages
Statute of limitations
Appellate brief
Statute
18. Written questions sent by one side to the opposing side - answered under oath.
Necessity
Tenancy by the entirety
Minimum contacts
Interrogatories
19. An opinion that disagrees with the majority's decision and its reasoning.
Circumstantial evidence
Dissenting opinion
Reverse
Appellee or respondent
20. Law that deals with harm to an individual.
Motion for a new trial
Civil law
Plaintiff
Mistrial
21. In a case brief - the rule of law applied to the case's specific facts.
Legal technician
Exhaustion of administrative remedies
Issue
Procedural facts
22. An intentional tort that covers a variety of situations - including disclosure - intrusion - appropriation - and false light.
Legal technician
Persuasive authority
Invasion of Privacy
Concurrent jurisdiction
23. The process by which individuals or organizations have their names placed on an official list kept by some private organization or governmental agency.
Federal question jurisdiction
Class action suit
Registration
Disbarment
24. The educated ability to apply law to specific facts.
Retreat exception
Professional judgment
Concurrent jurisdiction
Road Map paragraph
25. A requirement that property be fit for the purpose for which it is being rented. Owners are required to repair and maintain the premises at certain minimum levels.
Implied warranty of habitability
Disbarment
Statute
Class action suit
26. The division of governmental power among the legislative - executive - and judicial branches.
Retreat exception
Separation of powers
Issue
Grand jury
27. 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.
Pleading in the alternative
Structured database
Motion to require a finding of not guilty
National Association of Legal Assistants (NALA) www.nala.org
28. Monetary compensation - including compensatory - punitive - and nominal damages.
Damages
Actual cause
Preemption
Nominal damages
29. All property that is not real property.
Double jeopardy
National Association of Legal Assistants (NALA) www.nala.org
Self-defense
Personal property
30. Broad questions that put few limits on the freedom of the respondent.
Exhaustion of administrative remedies
Open Questions
Deponent
Cause of action
31. 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.
Lexis
Tenancy in common
Doctrine of implied powers
Case citation
32. The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
Service
Fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine
Prima facie case
Bill of Rights
33. A provision that purports to waive liability.
per curium
Verdict
Exculpatory clause
Legal technician
34. The process of organizing statutes by subject matter.
Substantial capacity test
Codification
Verification
Rules of evidence
35. The standard of proof most commonly used in civil trials. The evidence presented must prove that it is more likely than not the defendant committed the wrong.
Preponderance of the evidence
Treatment
Double jeopardy
Practice of law
36. In deductive reasoning - the second proposition - which along with the major premise leads to the conclusion; in law - the minor premise consists of the client's facts.
Minor premise
Codification
Limited jurisdiction
Subsequent case history
37. The failure to act reasonably under the circumstances.
Negligence
Rule
Procedural facts
Open Questions
38. Something of value exchanged to form the basis of a contract.
Attorney-client privilege
Exclusive jurisdiction
Consideration
Ethical wall or screen or cone of silence
39. The ethical rule prohibiting attorneys and paralegals from disclosing information regarding a client or a client's case.
Confidentiality
Reverse
Verification
Unauthorized practice of law
40. When the product was not being used for its intended purpose or was being used in a dangerous manner; it is a defense to a products liability claim so long as the misuse was not foreseeable.
American Association for Paralegal Education (AAfPE) www.aafpe.org
Internet
Confidentiality
Product misuse
41. An online legal databease containing court decisions and statutes from the entire country - as well as secondary authority; a competitor to Lexis.
Comparative negligence
Full-text searches
Westlaw
Partnership
42. A system developed to shield an attorney or a paralegal from a case that otherwise would create a conflict of interest.
Statute of limitations
Ethical wall or screen or cone of silence
Judgment
Subsequent case history
43. Proof that the evidence is what it is said to be.
Writ of certiorari
Restatement of the Law of Torts - Second
Materiality
Authentication
44. A rule that states that evidence obtained in violation of an individual's constitutional rights cannot be used against that individual in a criminal trial.
Reverse
Exclusionary rule
Negligence
Grand jury
45. A court's power to hear only specialized cases.
Dissenting opinion
Clear and convincing
Concurrent jurisdiction
Limited jurisdiction
46. A statute establishing and setting out the powers of an administrative agency.
Counterclaim
Enabling act
Interrogatories
Assault
47. Courts that determine the facts and apply the law to the facts.
Trial courts
Reasonable suspicion
Duress
Evidence
48. A compilation of federal administrative regulations arranged by agency.
Substantial capacity test
Structured database
Appellant or petitioner
Code of Federal Regulations (C.F.R.)
49. In logic - an argument is considered to be valid or sound if the assumption underlying the argument are true.
Valid
Judicial review
Pretrial conference
Conflict of interest
50. Consists of the description of events that a witness testifies to under oath in a legal proceeding.
Fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine
Testimonial evidence
Statute of limitations
Deductive reasoning