The skills that I have acquired before can be integrated into my new legal career. Through my research, I found that paralegals have many responsibilities. They draft documents, conduct research, investigate facts of a case and get affidavits and other formal statements that may be used as evidence in court. The most popular work environments for paralegals are law firms, corporate legal departments or government agencies. (Bureau of Labor Statistic, 2012).
IS415: Week 5 Assignment 1 Provide a Testimony as an Expert Witness & Document a Clear Chain of Custody Learning Objectives and Outcomes You will learn what is needed to provide expert witness testimony. You will understand how to create a chain of custody form and fill in the entries. Assignment Requirements You are a computer forensics intern at AAA Computer Forensics, a small forensics investigations and data recovery firm. One of the investigators needs to prepare for a court appearance where she will provide an expert testimony. Your manager asks you to help her prepare.
Fundamental Lawyering Skills Spring 2014 (Professor Lebovits) Planning Protocol for Simulation 1 Lindsey Huddle & Oren Rafii Client: Taylor 1. What are your goals for this initial client meeting? Why do you believe these goals are important? Our primary objective is to better understand Taylor’s reasons for divorcing his/her spouse and Taylor’s goals with respect to the legal, financial, and child custody aspects of the separation. Once we have a better understanding of Taylor’s situation and desired outcomes, we will provide him/her with a general set of potential options and solutions along with information about retaining our firm.
Certified legal assistants have many duties and responsibilities in a law office. Certified Legal assistants support and help a lawyer in doing paper work, keeping up with and maintaining client records. They also do legal research, conduct interviews, draft contracts, create legal forms; they also prepare evidence, prepare witnesses and help in preparing the case for trial. They can do anything a board certified lawyer does except give legal advice, represent clients in front of the judicial system and charge attorneys fees. A degree is not mandatory to become a paralegal, unless you want to acquire a certification.
SAMPLE OFFICE MEMORANDUM (Boxed text from Appendix D in Shapo, Writing and Analysis in the Law (Rev’d 4th ed. 2003)) I. MAIN HEADING MEMORANDUM TO: Senior Attorney FROM: Associate RE: Emily West; Contract litigation regarding breach of warranties DATE: November 21, 1994 The main heading of a memorandum, as in the boxed text above, identifies the reader, the writer, the subject, and the date. The "RE:" or subject line generally includes the client name, and a brief description of the topic. A law office will also customarily include an internal file number, and use the subject line information for filing purposes and to preserve client confidences.
Task 5 P5 The interviews for the selection of the new manager have now been arranged. Ahmed has asked you to take part in the interviews, during which you must ask at least five questions you have prepared. You will need to take notes of the applicants responses. The interview panel will be Derrick Bailey, the Company Secretary, Ahmed and yourself. Your task is to: * Take part in the interview of an applicant.
* Given name | * | * Surname | * | * Student number | * | * Email | * | * Unit name | * Business Law 100 | * Unit code | * 11011 | * Assignment title | * Assignment Two: Four Step Process | * Lecturer's name | * Alice Urud | * Date submitted | * 3st May 2014 | * Student’s comment to tutor | * An excellent tutor. She explains clearly the format to the students so that we can understand the way to apply the four steps. | * * Marker’s comments | * | * Recorded mark | * | * Marker | * | * Comments | * | * | * | Question 1 STEP 1: The area of law in this question is the elements of agreement required for the formation of a valid contract. STEP 2: There are three main elements required to form a legally enforceable contract: Intention to be legally bound, agreement and consideration. An agreement requires a meeting of the minds of both parties.
Along with each step being identified, the characters claims, reasoning and conclusion will be evaluated against the book, Asking the Right Question. What are the issue and conclusions? An Examination into Critical Thinking Mr. Anil Ravaswami , who is the Vice-President (VP) of Human Resources (HR) at Cliffside Holding Company of Massapequa (CHCM), is drafting a confidential proposal to his CEO, Ms Cynthia Castle, in regards to a request, spawned from Ms. Forsythe, to have funding for a leadership development program for all junior insurance executives. His memo crops up interesting declarations and inclusions about his views toward
You have received a brief from the HR manager asking you to produce a booklet/report for the college's business courses. The booklet should ‘describe the recruitment documentation used in a selected business’ for a specific job role. You must describe the following areas and give examples of documentation: 1. Person specification (Suitably skilled staff) 2. Contracts of employment 3.
USG/L&WSUPPY Company Work Environment My Proposal DeVry University Work Place Culture and Communication: Socs33ON_A Professor Natasha Houston September 10th , 2011 The organization The organization that I decided to write about is the company that I currently work for. The major name of the company is USG and I work for the subsidiary L&WSupply Company. I am what they call a Transaction Associate and I deal with the different stores located throughout the United States. Since I deal with the store locations as well as my department I thought it would be a good company to do the paper on because there are different ethnicities through the corporation. As well as over 50 locations throughout the United States.