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Wonderful Resource
Great Resource for anyone interested in Legal work....full of information for all kinds of work from Legal Assistant to Paralegal to Legal Secretary. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business/Economics    3. General    4. Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy    5. Legal Profession    6. Legal Writing    7. Legal composition    8. Legal documents    9. Pleading    10. United States    11. Business & Economics / General    12. Economics, Finance, Business and Industry    13. Legal skills & practice    14. Writing & editing guides   

Subjects:  1. General    2. Handbooks, manuals, etc    3. Law    4. Legal System    5. Legal assistants    6. Paralegals & Paralegalism    7. Politics / Current Events    8. United States   

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west's paralegal
The book is very informative and easy to read although the authors describe old laws/rules in great detail, only to find out that the law has changed and everything that you read is void.Of course they describe the revisions but I found the old information a waste of my time and also annoying.

West's Paralegal Today
Have no review.It was a required book for school.Amazon had the best price for book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. General    2. Law    3. Legal Profession    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession    5. Legal assistants    6. Paralegals & Paralegalism    7. United States    8. Business & Economics / General    9. Legal skills & practice    10. Organizational theory & behaviour    11. USA   

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This book is great for LA's learning the ropes.
I really love this book.I've been a Legal Assistant for only 2 years and I find that this book gives a clear understanding as to the how and why legal documents are prepared. Especially when preparing documents with 3rd party defendents/plaintiffs and also headings for Infant Compromise cases. I've added it to my Legal Reference Library and sit's on my desk with my CPLR.I'm currently in school working on my associates degree in Paralegal Studies and at the ripe "young" age of 48...I think I've found my niche.

What a Great Helpful Book
This book is so wonderful and helpful.I just started working in a law firm doing litigation and I knew nothing.This was a total foreign language to me.The book is laid out so easy to read and is so interesting it keeps your attention.I highly recommend this book to everybody.Even just to keep as a reference book.It is very helpful.I hope one day they make a Strictly New York book.

reply to: Not completely satisfied but a good reference
... the reason it wouldn't show specific court documents is because each state has VERY different rules for how documents must be presented.Your local legal secretaries association should have a more explicit reference guide showing exactly how pleadings, etc. should look for your state.I think you're missing the point of the book if you're expecting that kind of information. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business / Economics / Finance    2. Handbooks, manuals, etc    3. Legal Secretaryship    4. Legal secretaries    5. Paralegals & Paralegalism    6. Reference    7. Secretarial Aids & Training    8. United States    9. Business & Economics / Secretarial Aids & Training    10. Law    11. Secretarial & office skills   

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Strengthen your legal vocabulary in seriousness and fun
This is an excellent resource for law students, paralegals, legal secretaries and law clerks.Each chapter shows the words in use and gives real-world explanations of the terms.At the end of each chapter there are true/false, matching, fill-in-the-blank, and crossword puzzle exercises to test your knowledge.This book covers just about all the major areas of law:criminal, civil, torts, bankruptcy, property, wills/estate... you name it.I swear by this book - it really helped me in pre-law.At many colleges, this book is standard. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business / Economics / Finance    2. Business Law    3. General    4. Law    5. Law (General)    6. Legal System    7. Terminology    8. United States    9. Law / General    10. POLITICS & GOVERNMENT   

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business/Economics    3. Civil Procedure    4. Commercial law    5. Contracts    6. General    7. Handbooks, manuals, etc    8. Legal Profession    9. Legal Reference / Law Profession    10. Legal assistants    11. Paralegals & Paralegalism    12. United States    13. Business & Economics / General    14. Contract law    15. USA   

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business/Economics    3. Civil procedure    4. General    5. Handbooks, manuals, etc    6. Legal Profession    7. Legal Reference / Law Profession    8. Legal assistants    9. Litigation    10. Paralegals & Paralegalism    11. United States    12. Business & Economics / General    13. Commercial law    14. Legal skills & practice    15. USA   

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Great Paralegal Reference!
This is the first "for Dummies" book that I have purchased and I must say it is great for the beginning paralegal student as well as a paralegal graduate students. This book is a great refresher!When I purchased the book I was able to recap legal research and writing courses that I had completed a couple semesters ago. I was in the process of taking business law and ethics and this book helped me to understand the basics of the two courses I was about to explore as well as refreshed my memory on past courses.I will refer back to this book as a reference.This book really does cover EVERYTHING THERE IS TO KNOW about the paralegal profession!!!
Thinking of a Paralegal Career?
Are you thinking of becoming a legal professional? Have you considered a career as a paralegal? Paralegals are legal professionals who assist lawyers but don't have to spend 3 years in law school!
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Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Career Development    3. Career/Job    4. Careers - General    5. Careers - Other Specific Fields    6. Careers / Job Opportunities    7. Paralegal Services    8. Paralegals & Paralegalism    9. Law / Paralegals & Paralegalism    10. Law for the lay person   

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Not helpful at all.
Everything in this book is too general to be of any practical value, especially if litigation is not your practice area.

Needed Excelelnt Reference Guide, Got It
In order to exapand my skill set I needed a book that gave me an overview of multiple areas of paralegal work.Sometimes I would get called for something they would say do you do estates wills and trusts or corporate derivatives? And while my experience may've lent to it, unless you've done something for years and years its hard to jump right into a conversation about it.Not so with this book at your fingertips.Gives you excellent outline of an assortment of areas. Review of Paralegal Practice and Procedure: A Practical Guid
As an individual who was very new to the paralegal profession, I found that the book was only minimally beneficial in that many of the explanations and legal terms were not clearly defined or explained...It definitely left me feeling like I needed help from other sources... ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Handbooks, manuals, etc    2. Law    3. Legal Profession    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession    5. Legal assistants    6. Legal secretaries    7. Paralegals & Paralegalism    8. Reference    9. United States    10. Courts & procedure    11. Law / Paralegals & Paralegalism    12. USA   

Subjects:  1. Conveyancing    2. General    3. Law    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession    5. Legal assistants    6. Paralegal Services    7. Paralegals & Paralegalism    8. Property Law    9. Real Estate    10. Real property    11. United States    12. Vendors and purchasers    13. Business & Economics / General    14. Legal profession    15. Legal skills & practice    16. Property, real estate, land & tenancy law   

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Valuable resource!
As a student who wants to work for agencies to prevent crime on the internet, I wasn't sure how much "Family Law and Practice: The Paralegal's Guide" was going to do for me.It turned out to be an incredible resource, not only of how the system works, but also of the workings of families in suboptimal conditions. Great for Students and People Interested in the Law
This is a wonderful book for both students and people interested in family law.It covers everything from the history of family law to current events, such as Roseanne and Tom Arnold's marriage.The cases are more like soap operas than the dry cases one usually associates with law.These cases will inspire great conversation in the classroom and will hold the students' interest from start to finish. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business Law    2. Domestic Relations Law    3. Domestic relations    4. Family Law - General    5. General    6. Law    7. Legal Reference / Law Profession    8. Paralegal Services    9. Paralegals & Paralegalism    10. United States    11. Family law    12. Law / General    13. Legal profession    14. Legal skills & practice   

Subjects:  1. Civil Procedure    2. Courts    3. Courts - General    4. General    5. Handbooks, manuals, etc    6. Law    7. Legal Profession    8. Legal Reference / Law Profession    9. Legal assistants    10. Paralegals & Paralegalism    11. Practice Of Law    12. United States    13. Business & Economics / General    14. Courts & procedure    15. USA   

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business/Economics    3. Civil Procedure    4. Criminal Law - General    5. Criminal law    6. Criminal procedure    7. General    8. Handbooks, manuals, etc    9. Legal Profession    10. Legal Reference / Law Profession    11. Legal assistants    12. Paralegals & Paralegalism    13. United States    14. Business & Economics / General    15. Economics, Finance, Business and Industry   

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Great learning tool
I bought this book for a legal assistant class and I enjoyed it.I learned a lot.It's hard to learn computers from a book - but not this one.The book comes with software and has tutorials and exercises that accompany the software.My class also liked the fact that there are tons of practical applications for how computers are actually used by practicing paralegals and legal secretaries in the book.Also, when it comes to litigation support -one of the most difficult legal computer applications to master - it was fantastic.It comes with three different litigation support programs, including Summation.Summation is fairly involved to learn and the book, tutorials, exercises and software did a good job of teaching this to me.I am confident now in my ability to do basic litigation support.The chapter on using the Internet to do legal and factual research was also excellent.

I would definately buy this again!
This book is essential for anyone working in a law office.Computers are used in nearly every aspect of working in a law firm.The book is huge - nearly 700 pages - and it covers every main type of program used in a law office.It comes with software, and lots of exercises and I thought it was very easy to read and straight forward.It covers hard topics like litigation support and Access databases in a way that I could understand without totally going over my head.The book covers both entry level and advanced topics.For example in the word processing chapter the Word tutorial had 7 lessons that got progressively more difficult, starting with basic word processing and ending with mail merges and creating tables of authorities.

Highly Recommended
I think this is a fabulous book.It comes with demonstration versions of 5 legal software programs including three litigation support programs, a time and billing program and a case management program.There were a number of in-depth, hands-on exercises for each program, so I really got to learn about each type of program by using it.Also, although I have used Access, Word, Excel and Powerpoint before, I liked the fact that there were in-depth exercises for learning legal applications for each of these programs.This is a very practical book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Automation    2. Business Software - General    3. Computer Applications    4. Computer Literacy    5. Handbooks, manuals, etc    6. Information storage and retrieval systems    7. Law    8. Law Office Administration    9. Law Office Education    10. Law Office Technology    11. Law offices    12. Legal Reference / Law Profession    13. Legal assistants    14. Paralegals & Paralegalism    15. United States    16. Applications of Computing    17. Industrial or vocational training    18. Legal skills & practice    19. Office & workplace   

Subjects:  1. General    2. Law    3. Legal Profession    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession    5. Legal assistants    6. Paralegal Services    7. United States    8. Business & Economics / General    9. Jurisprudence & General Issues   

Subjects:  1. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    2. Business enterprises    3. Corporate    4. Corporate Governance    5. Corporation law    6. Handbooks, manuals, etc    7. Law    8. Law and legislation    9. Legal Reference / Law Profession    10. Legal assistants    11. Paralegals & Paralegalism    12. United States   

Subjects:  1. Law    2. Legal Reference / Law Profession    3. Legal Research    4. Legal Writing    5. Legal composition    6. Paralegals & Paralegalism    7. Research    8. United States    9. Business & Economics / General    10. Legal skills & practice    11. Writing & editing guides   

Subjects:  1. California    2. Costs (Law)    3. Handbooks, manuals, etc    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession    5. Legal secretaries    6. Paralegals & Paralegalism   

Subjects:  1. Law    2. Legal Profession    3. Legal Reference / Law Profession    4. Legal assistants    5. Paralegals & Paralegalism    6. Practice of law    7. United States   

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Great Book!
Perfect book for someone trying to learn immigration.Very hands on with respect to the procedure.I highly recommend! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Constitutional    2. Emigration & Immigration    3. Emigration and immigration law    4. Law    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession    6. Legal assistants    7. Paralegals & Paralegalism    8. United States