Paralegal Today—The Legal Team at Work

This textbook introduces paralegal students to the career and the legal system. It covers the profession, career opportunities, the law office, ethics and professional responsibility, sources of American law, the court system and alternative dispute resolution, legal procedures and paralegal skills, and key elements of the law. Rewritten, revised, and updated to reflect new laws, procedures, and technological developments, this edition has more on technology in the workplace, including confidentiality issues, email policies, technology in the courtroom, the use of social media in crime detection, and enforcing delinquent court judgments. It also has a new feature on new technologies (replacing the professional paralegal feature); more on discrimination, document retention, and pretrial motions; information on restrictive covenants in employment, how firms can limit potential liability, disability discrimination, domestic abuse, nontraditional marriages, and surrogacy motherhood; and new cases and group projects. It has new data on salaries and job opportunities; material on cloud storage and security issues, securing client information, mediation, insurance, advertisements and contract law, how damages are measured in contract cases, avoiding confusion in legal writing, and paralegal registration, education, and certification; new information strategies in outsourcing legal research; a revised chapter on online legal research; strategies for interviews and investigations; and other changes. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)