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Paralegal 101
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A set of standardized jury instructions.
Diversity jurisdiction
Confidentiality
Secondary authority
Pattern jury instructions
2. Law that deals with harm to an individual.
Void for vagueness
Fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine
Eminent Domain
Civil law
3. A paralegal who works as an independent contractor rather than as an employee of a law firm or corporation.
Assumption
Strict liability
Personal property
Freelance Paralegal
4. In deductive reasoning - the statement of a broad proposition that forms the starting point; in law - the statement of a legal rule that you can find in a statute or court opinion.
Major premise
Verdict
Subpoena
Standing
5. Computer codes that - when clicked on with a mouse - connect the user to other web pages with related information
Principle
Harmless error
Hypertext links
Eminent Domain
6. An authoritative secondary source - written by a group of legal scholars - summarizing the existing common law - as well as suggesting what the law should be.
Restatement of the Law of Torts - Second
Treatment
Statutory element
Plaintiff
7. An opinion that agrees with the majority's result but disagrees with the reasoning.
Concurring opinion
Directed verdict
Harmless error
Concluding paragraph
8. A term used to describe a case that is similar to another case.
On point
Nominal damages
Contingency Fee
Syllabus
9. A business run by two or more persons as co-owners.
Certified
Secondary authority
Rule
Partnership
10. The process by which individuals or organizations have their names placed on an official list kept by some private organization or governmental agency.
Registration
National Association of Legal Assistants (NALA) www.nala.org
Remand
Broad holding
11. A question that suggests the answer; generally - leading questions may not be asked during direct examination of a witness.
Evidence
Appellate courts
Complaint
Leading question
12. Voluntarily and knowingly subjecting oneself to danger.
Subsequent case history
Code
Assumption of the risk
National Federation of Paralegal Associations (NFPA) www.paralegals.org
13. An activity that requires professional judgment - or the educational ability to relate law to a specific legal problem.
Practice of law
Slip laws
Remand
12(b)(6) motion
14. A judgment entered against a party who fails to complete a required step - such as answering the complaint.
Proving a case within a case
Default judgment
Strict liability
Personal property
15. A method for excusing a prospective juror based on the juror's inability to serve in an unbiased manner.
Challenge for cause
Contract
Minor premise
Preemption
16. 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.
Jurisdiction
Legal clinic
Digest
Clearly erroneous
17. When an appellate court sends a case back to the trial court for a new trial or other action.
Res ipsa loquitur
Arraignment
Retainer
Remand
18. Questions relating to the interpretation or application of the law.
Personal jurisdiction
Questions of law
Model Rules of Professional Conduct
Search engine
19. Courts that determine whether lower courts have made errors of law.
Issue
Appellate courts
Cause of action
Authentication
20. The right of the police to detain an individual for a brief period of time and to search the outside of the person's clothing if the police have a reasonable suspicion that the individual has committed or is about to commit crime.
Documentary evidence
Strict liability
Pocket part
Stop and frisk
21. The process of properly identifying and authenticating evidence so that it can be introduced.
Lay a foundation
Pocket part
Statute in derogation of the common law
Default judgment
22. A national paralegal association.
Model Rules of Professional Conduct
Appellee or respondent
National Association of Legal Assistants (NALA) www.nala.org
Specific performance
23. A token sum awarded when liability has been found but monetary damages cannot be shown.
Lay witness
Federal question jurisdiction
Nominal damages
Self-defense
24. Questions that suggest the answer.
Leading questions
Limited jurisdiction
Deductive reasoning
Procedural facts
25. Evidence that supports previous testimony but that comes in a different form.
Judicial review
Case reporters
Corroborative evidence
Warrant
26. A summary of one legal point in a court opinion; written by the editors at West.
Headnote
Majority opinion
Primary authority
Conflict of interest
27. A test that provides that the defendant is not guity due to insanity if - at the time of the killing the defendant could not control his or her actions.
Pleadings
Products liability
Irresistible impulse test
Mediation
28. The failure to act reasonably under the circumstances.
Professional judgment
Voir dire
Federal question jurisdiction
Negligence
29. A bank account used to hold money belonging to the client or to a third party.
Citing case
Codification
Client trust account
Contingency fee
30. Attorney compensation as a percentage of the amount recovered rather than a flat amount of money or an hourly fee.
Deposition
Reasonable suspicion
Void for vagueness
Contingency fee
31. A form of logical reasoning based on a major premise - a minor premise - and a conclusion.
Summons
Deductive reasoning
Code
Limited liability partnership (LLP)
32. In logic - a belief that justifies one in arguing a conclusion.
Assumption
Codification of the common law
Appellee or respondent
Leading questions
33. A repeat offender; one who continues to commit more crimes.
Lay witness
Black-letter law
Recidivist
Nolo contendere
34. A request that the court release the defendant because of the illegality of the incarceration.
Writ of habeas corpus
Lay a foundation
Case reporters
Legal services offices
35. The failure of an attorney to act reasonably.
Probable cause
Appellate brief
Narrow Holding
Legal malpractice
36. Liability without having to prove fault.
Strict liability
Certified
Consideration
Legal Reasoning
37. A special type of joint tenancy applicable only to married couples.
Annotated statutes
Holding
Tenancy by the entirety
Restrictive covenant
38. An intentional act that creates a harmful or offensive physical contact.
Battery
Self-defense
Limited jurisdiction
Double jeopardy
39. The process of finding the law.
Exculpatory clause
Treatment
Res ipsa loquitur
Legal Research
40. A canon of construction meaning 'of the same class.:
Evidence
Reverse
Ejusdem generis
Comparative negligence
41. A defendant's plea meaning that the defendant neither admits nor denies the charges.
Nolo contendere
Entrapment
Fact
Holding
42. A fee calculated as a percentage of the settlement or award in the case.
Jurisdiction
Contingency Fee
Void for vagueness
Documentary evidence
43. Written questions sent by one side to the opposing side - answered under oath.
Exculpatory clause
U.S. district courts
Restrictive covenant
Interrogatories
44. How subsequent cases have affected the case you are Shepardizing. It is sometimes indicated by a one-letter abbreviation before the Shepard's citation.
Treatment
Rules of criminal procedure
Questions of law
Ejusdem generis
45. Questions relating to what happened: who - what - when - where - and how.
Exigent circumstances
Questions of fact
Vicarious representation
Assumption
46. The judge informs the jurors of the law they need to know to make their decision.
Charging the jury
Discovery
Plain view doctrine
Challenge for cause
47. A court order requiring a person to appear to testify at a trial or deposition.
Subpoena
Charging the jury
Enabling act
Appellee or respondent
48. In writing - a technique used to help your reader move from one thought to the next and to see the connections between them.
Deductive reasoning
Transition
Original jurisdiction
Statutes at large or session laws
49. A constitutional protection against being tried twice for the same crime.
Double jeopardy
Proximate cause
Questions of fact
Corroborative evidence
50. A defense requiring proof that the defendant was forced to take an action to avoid a greater harm.
Consideration
Remand
Judgment proof
Necessity