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Intro to Paralegal Studies – Questions & Answers
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Intro to Paralegal Studies – Questions & AnswersLegal research - ✔️Ans The process of finding the law.
Legal reasoning - ✔️Ans The application of legal rules to a client's
specific factual situation; also known as legal analysis.
Legal writing - ✔️Ans Examples of legal writing include case briefs, law
office memoranda, and documents filed with the court.
Paralegal - ✔️Ans A person who assists an attorney and, working under
the supervision, does tasks that, absent the paralegal, the attorney would
do. A paralegal cannot give legal advice or appear in court.
American Bar Association (ABA) - ✔️Ans A national voluntary
organization of lawyers.
Freelance paralegal - ✔️Ans A paralegal who works as an independent
contractor rather than as an employee of a law firm or corporation.
Lay advocate - ✔️Ans Generally someone operating within the law ,
representing persons before administrative agencies that permit this
practice.
Legal technician - ✔️Ans 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.
Pro se - ✔️Ans (Client) To handle a case on their own without using a
lawyer.
Independent paralegal - ✔️Ans Refers to freelance paralegals, or legal
technicians.
Law clerk - ✔️Ans A law student or a recent law school graduate who has
not yet passed the bar exam and who was hired primarily to do legal
research.
,Documents clerk - ✔️Ans Someone who organizes and files legal
documents (serves as an entry-level position for a recent paralegal
graduate).
NFPA - ✔️Ans National Federation of Paralegal Associations. Formed in
1974, a national association of paralegal associations.
NALA - ✔️Ans Association of Legal Assistants. Formed in 1975, a national
paralegal association.
AAfPE - ✔️Ans American Association for Paralegal Education. A national
organization for paralegal programs that promotes high standards for
paralegal education.
IPMA - ✔️Ans A national association of paralegal managers.
Statue of Limitation - ✔️Ans Two years within date of the accident to file.
Workers compensation - ✔️Ans Workers compensation laws protect
people who are injured on the job.
Registration - ✔️Ans The process by which individuals or organizations
have their names placed on an official list kept by some private
organization or governmental agency.
Certification/Certified - ✔️Ans The status of being formally recognized
by a nongovernmental organization for having met special criteria, such as
fulfilling educational requirements and passing an exam, established by
that organization.
Certificated - ✔️Ans The status of having received a certificate
documenting that the person has successfully completed an educational
program.
Research - ✔️Ans Almost all legal matters involve some sort of research.
This research may involve probing into the facts or finding applicable law.
, Drafting - ✔️Ans The practice of law involves voluminous exchanges of
written documents. For example, contracts, wills, and other agreements are
prepared, signed, and filed.
Partnership - ✔️Ans A business run by two or more persons as co-
owners.
Professional corporation (PC) - ✔️Ans A professional entity in which the
stockholders share in the organization's profits but have their liabilities
limited to the amount of their investment.
Limited liability partnership (LLP) - ✔️Ans A professional entity in which
the owner's share in the organization's profits but are not liable for the
malpractice of their partners.
Sole proprietorship - ✔️Ans One lawyer owns all the assets of the
business and receives all the profits of the business and receives all the
profits (or absorbs the losses).
Law office personnel - ✔️Ans Attorneys, paralegals, law clerks,
investigators, librarians, secretaries, document clerks, file clerks,
bookkeepers and business managers.
Investigators - ✔️Ans Are often former law enforcement officers who
locate an interview witnesses, take photographs of accident scenes, and
gather documentary evidence.
Clerical personnel - ✔️Ans Answer the telephone, type correspondence
and legal documents, greet visitors, set up appointments, distribute and
post mail, find and file internal office records, file docs in the courthouse,
and process billing records.
Legal clinic - ✔️Ans Usually organized as either a partnership or a
professional corporation, law clinics provide low-cost legal services on
routine matters by stressing low overheard and high volume.
Legal services offices - ✔️Ans Affiliated with the federal government's
Legal Services Corporation, these offices serve those who would otherwise
be unable to afford legal assistance.
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