Law in Practice, Includes Video Course

Law in Practice, Includes Video Course
Author: Prentiss Cox
Publisher: West Academic Publishing
Total Pages:
Release: 2017-12-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9781640201422

The Law in Practice casebook is the primary text for a turnkey course integrating legal doctrine and lawyering skills that has proven to be successful for first and second-year law students. The course material includes multiple options for litigation and transactional simulations, including client and witness interviews, depositions, client counseling sessions, chambers conference, mediation and attorney only negotiating sessions. The casebook is accompanied by four professionally produced videos and extensive case file materials allowing for integration of legal analysis and skills training in one course. The text covers negotiating theories and concepts necessary to effectively conduct interviews and client counseling. The simulation material allows for weekly or periodic downloads of simulation documents that allow students to see the facts shift as the case unfold over time, as occurs in actual practice. Detailed faculty materials provide weekly class plans that track the simulation material and include engaging teaching exercises and multiple choice questions appropriate for "clicker" systems.

Model Rules of Professional Conduct

Model Rules of Professional Conduct
Author: American Bar Association. House of Delegates
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2007
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781590318737

The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

Teachinglaw.com

Teachinglaw.com
Author: Diana Donahoe
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780735564350

TeachingLaw.com brings the classroom to life: - engages students both inside and outside of the classroom, using multimedia, animation, annotated samples, and interactive exercises to cover research, writing, grammar, and citation - merges a sophisticated pedagogical design with content, both authored by Professor Diana Donahoe gives instructors the means to enhance traditional lectures with more interactive and collaborative teaching methods that complement their own style and expertise - provides a discoverybased, active learning environment where students can read, research, and write simultaneously and digest material more thoroughly and effectively - allows for a paperless classroom! As a classroom management system, this online coursebook allows instructors to upload projects and course materials into file folders from which students can download projects and upload finished, automatically time-stamped assignments - class-tested for two years -- and in use for the 2006-2007 academic year -- at Georgetown University

Diversity in Practice

Diversity in Practice
Author: Spencer Headworth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 455
Release: 2016-04
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107123658

Leading scholars look beyond the rhetoric of diversity to reveal the ongoing obstacles to professional success for traditionally disadvantaged groups.

The Glannon Guide to Civil Procedure

The Glannon Guide to Civil Procedure
Author: Joseph W. Glannon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Civil procedure
ISBN: 9781454827467

"A thorough review of first-year Civil Procedure, organized around the theme of multiple-choice questions"--Unedited summary from book cover.

Lawyers' Skills

Lawyers' Skills
Author: Caroline Maughan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2013-08-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0199656444

Offering invaluable guidance on the key skills required on the LPC, Lawyers' Skills also features a number of tasks, examples and reflective exercises specifically designed to support students in developing, practicing and refining the legal skills which are integral to the modern solicitors' practice.

Foundations for the LPC 2020-2021

Foundations for the LPC 2020-2021
Author: Clare Firth
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2020-07-25
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0198858434

Foundations for the LPC covers the compulsory foundation areas of the Legal Practice Course as set out in the LPC outcomes: professional conduct, tax and revenue law, and wills and administration of estates. The book also discusses human rights law, a topic now taught pervasively across the LPC course. Using worked examples and scenarios throughout to illustrate key points, this guide is essential reading for all students and a useful reference source for practitioners. To aid understanding and test comprehension of the core material, checkpoints and summaries feature in every chapter. Online Resources Online resources accompanying the text include useful web links, forms, and diagrams.

Business Law

Business Law
Author: J. Scott Slorach
Publisher: Blackstone Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Business law
ISBN: 9780199289585

This title contains detailed coverage of partnerships, company law, taxation, EC law, and insolvency, making the book ideally suited to the Legal Practice Course.

Aspen Treatise for Civil Procedure

Aspen Treatise for Civil Procedure
Author: Richard D. Freer
Publisher: Aspen Publishing
Total Pages: 1040
Release: 2021-12-09
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1543839010

Popular casebook author and bar review lecturer Richard Freer makes the complex principles of civil procedure accessible for students and practitioners in this treatise. Filled with hundreds of examples, the book integrates legal doctrine with factual analysis. The book breaks the doctrines of civil procedure into easy-to-understand components, and then brings them together to show how they form a comprehensive body of law. As stated by one procedure scholar, this book “is a key reference not only for students, but also for any lawyer or scholar looking for a starting point to their research on procedure and jurisdiction. The latest edition is always on my bookshelf.” New to the 5th Edition: The Supreme Court’s most recent decision on specific personal jurisdiction, Ford Motor Company, and how it flows from the Court’s restriction of general personal jurisdiction Detailed analysis of all recent amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Emerging law on class actions, including justiciability, ascertainability, cy pres, and issue certification Detailed treatment of remedies, including provisional remedies The Court’s 2020 recognition of “defense preclusion” Professors and students will benefit from: “Defining the Issue,” a section that opens each chapter, putting material into context and making connections to related areas of procedure and jurisdiction law Analytical frameworks to synthesize key subject areas

Learning the Law

Learning the Law
Author: Glanville Llewelyn Williams
Publisher: Universal Law Publishing Company Limited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003-12
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9788175340060

Learning the Law is unique among law books. It does not say what the laws is; rather, it aims to be a Guide, Philosopher and Friend to the reader at every stage of his legal studies.