BASICS OF PARALEGAL STUDIES, THE

Written as a textbook for an introductory course in paralegal assisting, this book explores the profession's duties and ethical responsibilities. Coverage includes the reading and briefing of cases, legal research, ethics and contracts, practical law (with sample pleadings), and current information on other legal issues affecting the field, including joint ownership, property laws, service of process issues and dissolutions of marriage, as well as civil law for out-of-state defendants, and in rem and quasi in rem cases. Contains replications of many court documents.