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Paralegal 101
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1. The principle that courts cannot decide abstract issues or render advisory opinions; rather - they are limited to deciding cases that involve litigants who are personally affected by the court's decision.
Search engine
Directed verdict
Third-party claim
Standing
2. Generally accepted legal principles.
Legal technician
Cause of action
Black-letter law
Remand
3. The way in which a question of fact is established. Evidence can consist of witness testimony or documents and exhibits. It is the proof presented at a trial.
Evidence
Professional Corporation (PC)
Overbreadth
Holding
4. The process by which individuals or organizations have their names placed on an official list kept by some private organization or governmental agency.
Registration
Issue
Legal clinic
Minor premise
5. The status of having received a certificate documenting that the person has successfully completed an educational program.
Certificated
Injunction
On all fours
12(b)(6) motion
6. A method adopted by the federal rules in which the plaintiff simply informs the defendant of the claim and the general basis for it.
Citation
Remand
Notice pleading
Trial courts
7. Examples of legal writing include case briefs - law office memoranda - and documents filed with the court.
Legal writing
Minimum contacts
Procedural law
Peremptory challenge
8. Someone who has the power to act in the place of another.
Subpoena duces tecum
Intellectual Property
Agent
Expert witness
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.
Bench trial
Probable cause
Structured database
Enabling act
10. An opinion that agrees with the majority's result but disagrees with the reasoning.
Concurring opinion
Legal services offices
Reverse
Affirmative defense
11. A court order requiring a party to perform a specific act or to cease doing a specific act.
Exclusive jurisdiction
Reversible error
Injunction
Exhaustion of administrative remedies
12. A computer program that allows the user to retrieve web documents that match the key words entered by the searcher.
Assault
Exculpatory clause
Search engine
Exculpatory evidence
13. The process of legislative enactment of areas of the law previously governed solely by the common law.
Legislative intent
Personal recognizance bond
Codification of the common law
Internet
14. The power of the federal courts to hear matters of state law if the opposing parties are from different states and the amounts in controversy exceeds $75 -000.00
U.S. district courts
Holding
Diversity jurisdiction
Administrative law
15. A case listed in Shepard's that cites your case.
Cumulative evidence
Citing case
Recidivist
Judicial review
16. Law dealing with ownership.
Hypertext links
Entrapment
Property law
Statute in derogation of the common law
17. A grand jury's written accusation that a given individual has committed a crime.
Indictment
Actual cause
Administrative law
Headnote
18. Rules and regulations created by administrative agencies.
Administrative law
Federalism
International Paralegal Management Association (IPMA) www.paralegal management.org
U.S. district courts
19. Liability without a showing of fault.
Potential conflict
Road Map paragraph
Battered woman's or spouse's syndrome
Strict liability
20. The educated ability to apply law to specific facts.
Professional judgment
National Federation of Paralegal Associations (NFPA) www.paralegals.org
False imprisonment
Criminal law
21. All property that is not real property.
Strict liability
Personal property
Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
Limited jurisdiction
22. The result reached in a particular case.
Judgment notwithstanding the verdict (judgment N.O.V.)
Implied warranty of habitability
Disposition
Negligence
23. 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.
Irresistible impulse test
Case reporters
National Federation of Paralegal Associations (NFPA) www.paralegals.org
Statutory element
24. A summary of one legal point in a court opinion; written by the editors at West.
Headnote
Regulation
Stop and frisk
Expert witness
25. 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.
Clearly erroneous
Ethical wall or screen or cone of silence
Invasion of Privacy
Actual cause
26. When a judge formally recognizes something as being a fact without requiring the attorneys prove it through the introduction of other evidence.
Products liability
Judicial notice
Third-party claim
Affirm
27. A summary of a court opinion that appears at the beginning of the case.
Legal writing
Syllabus
Proving a case within a case
Remand
28. A nonlawyer who provides legal services directly to the public without being under the supervision of an attorney. Absent a statute allowing this activity - it constitutes the unauthorized practice of law.
Legal technician
Contingency fee
Retreat exception
Pretrial motion
29. 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.
Professional Corporation (PC)
Shepardizing
Stop and frisk
Warrant
30. The papers that begin a lawsuit-generally - the complaint and the answer.
Pleadings
Legal services offices
Common law
Tenancy by the entirety
31. 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.
Miranda warnings
Road Map paragraph
Negligence
Subsequent case history
32. Bad act.
Actus rea
Corroborative evidence
Property law
Codification
33. An online legal databease containing court decisions and statutes from the entire country - as well as secondary authority; a competitor to Lexis.
Westlaw
Unofficial reporter
Judgment notwithstanding the verdict (judgment N.O.V.)
Tenancy by the entirety
34. Affiliated with the federal government's Legal Services Corporation - these offices serve those who would otherwise be unable to afford legal assistance.
Entrapment
Warrant
Reverse
Legal services offices
35. The rules whereby all members of a law firm are treated as though they had represented the former client.
Appellee or respondent
Cross-examination
Vicarious representation
Equity
36. Violation of a statute as proof of negligence
Negligence per se
Deponent
Lay witness
Rules of criminal procedure
37. A transfer of real property rights that occurs after someone other than the owner has had actual - open - adverse - and exclusive use of the property for a statutorily determined number of years.
Adverse possession
Issue
Harmless error
Paralegal
38. Without the need for a warrant - the police may seize objects that are openly visible.
Rules of criminal procedure
Principle
Statutes at large or session laws
Plain view doctrine
39. The process of finding the law.
Plea bargaining
Service
Negligence per se
Legal Research
40. A document that lists statements regarding specific items for the other party to admit or deny.
Recklessness
Request for admissions
Closed Questions
Derogation of the common law
41. A token sum awarded when liability has been found but monetary damages cannot be shown.
Injunction
Nominal damages
Cross-examination
Ejusdem generis
42. A provision that purports to waive liability.
Assumption of the risk
Documentary evidence
Exculpatory clause
Cumulative evidence
43. A professional entity in which the stockholders share in the organization's profits but have their liabilities limited to the amount of their investment.
Professional Corporation (PC)
Tickler System
On point
Directed verdict
44. Proof that the evidence is what it is said to be.
Successive conflict of interest
Exculpatory evidence
Authentication
No-knock warrant
45. The judge informs the jurors of the law they need to know to make their decision.
Lay witness
Charging the jury
Cause of action
Fact
46. A bank account used to hold money belonging to the client or to a third party.
Stare decisis
Client trust account
Loislaw
Prior case history
47. A statute that changes the common law.
Vicarious representation
Motion for a new trial
Statute in derogation of the common law
Subpoena duces tecum
48. A court's power to hear only specialized cases.
Real or physical evidence
Exhaustion of administrative remedies
Limited jurisdiction
Reversible error
49. Body of law that has evolved from judicial decisions in cases that do not involve constitutional - statutory - or administrative regulation interpretation.
Common law
Constructive
Issue
Guardian
50. 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.
Restrictive covenant
Restatement of the Law of Torts - Second
Product misuse
National Association of Legal Assistants (NALA) www.nala.org