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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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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. All property that is not real property.






2. The final paragraph in a written legal analysis that summarizes the writer's conclusions.






3. In a case brief - the general legal principle in existence before the case began.






4. Money or something else of value that is held by the government to ensure the defendant's appearance in court.






5. A trial court error that is not sufficient to warrant reversing the decision.






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






7. The process of finding the law.






8. A defendant's personal promise to appear in court.






9. Consists of the description of events that a witness testifies to under oath in a legal proceeding.






10. The process of signaling that you are really listening - accomplished by using verbal and nonverbal clues - paraphrasing - and reflecting the client's feelings.






11. The standard of proof used in some civil trials. The evidence presented must be greater than a preponderance of the evidence but less than beyond a reasonable doubt.






12. An assumption that something that is not real is real-for example - saying that a corporation is a person for purposes of its being able to sue and be sued.






13. A separable part of a statute that must be satisfied for the statute to apply.






14. Federal and state rules that govern the admissibility of evidence in court.






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






16. An agreement supported by consideration.






17. The authority of a court to hear a case when it is initiated - as opposed to appellate jurisdiction.






18. A person who initiates an appeal.






19. A national association of paralegal associations.






20. A law enacted by a state legislature or by Congress.






21. Evidence that is derived from an illegal search or interrogation is inadmissible.






22. The process by which individuals or organizations have their names placed on an official list kept by some private organization or governmental agency.






23. 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.






24. A business run by two or more persons as co-owners.






25. 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.






26. A request that the court order that certain information not be mentioned in the presence of the jury.






27. 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.






28. A rule of evidence that prevents an attorney or a paralegal from being compelled to testify about confidential client information.






29. A determination that an attorney may not practice law for a set period of time.






30. '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.






31. A statement of the court's decision in which the facts are either omitted or given in very general terms so that it will apply to a wider range of cases.






32. The result reached in a particular case.






33. The general jurisdiction trial courts in the federal system.






34. Law that deals with harm to a person or a person's property.






35. In logic - a belief that justifies one in arguing a conclusion.






36. A statement in a judicial opinion not necessary for the decision of the case.






37. The questioning of your own witness.






38. 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.






39. Powers not stated in the Constitution but that are necessary for Congress to carry out other - expressly granted powers.






40. A trial ended by the judge because of a major problem - such as a prejudicial statement by one of the attorneys.






41. 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.






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






43. The modern pretrial procedure by which one party gains information from the adverse party.






44. Generally someone operating within the law - representing persons before administrtive agencies that permit this practice.






45. In logic - an argument is considered to be valid or sound if the assumption underlying the argument are true.






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






47. The party in a case against whom an appeal has been filed.






48. A method adopted by the federal rules in which the plaintiff simply informs the defendant of the claim and the general basis for it.






49. A decision is affirmed when the litigants appeal the trial court decision and the higher court agrees with what the lower court has done.






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