Introduction to Law for Paralegals: A Critical Thinking Approach (Aspen College)

Comprehensive, intelligent overview of all the key concepts covered in a typical introduction to law course. Divided into three parts, reflecting the topics addressed in an introductory course: Part I, Paralegals and the American Legal System; Part II, Finding and Analyzing the Law and Part III, Legal Ethics and Substantive Law. A critical thinking approach is used to introduce students to the study of law, encouraging students to interact with the materials through hypotheticals, examples, and well-designed questions.

Key Features of the New Edition:

• Comprehensive coverage of key legal concepts
• Hypotheticals, questions, and exercises that engage students in critical thinking
• A logical three-part organization
• Student-friendly skill development for basic statutory and case analysis
• Ethics Alerts, marginal definitions, Internet references, and legal reasoning exercises
• Appendices on writing style , legal research, citation, the U.S. Constitution, and additional Net Notes
• New edition includes many new Discussion Questions and Legal Reasoning Exercises
• Chapter Objectives and short hypotheticals to start each chapter added to this edition
• New coverage includes: the Boston Marathon bombing case, the Affordable Care Act, and trademark issues involving the Washington Redskins , e-filing and e-discovery, discussion of same-sex marriage and custody disputes over pre-embryos, and crimes of unauthorized access of computer data and warrantless searches of cell phones