In its new Fourth Edition, Evidence for Paralegals continues to help students understand how evidentiary principals are applied in practical situations. Written from a real-life perspective allowing students to see beyond the walls of the classroom, the authors apply the material to actual practice at all judicial levels.
This text owes its popularity to the following features:
- Focuses on the practical applications of the Federal Rules of Evidence and how the rules relate to paralegal practice;
- Covers a full range of topics, including gathering evidence, interviewing witnesses, and researching;
- Written from a real-life perspective, showing how actual practice works in local, state, and federal court;
- Pedagogy in text developed for paralegal students, and includes short case summaries, readable examples, marginal definitions of terms, marginal cross-references to the Rules of Evidence, review questions, and hypotheticals;
- Short, concise presentation is ideal for paralegal courses.
Changes to the Fourth Edition include:
- Updated with changes to the Federal Rules of Evidence;
- New case studies added for student analysis;
- New hypotheticals and discussion questions have been added.
This short, concise text focuses on the relationship between the Federal Rules of Evidence and the paralegal practice.
The subject matter is clearly written and draws on true-to-life scenarios to illustrate its lessons. This combination of characteristics makes Evidence for Paralegals a successful and accessible text for paralegal students.
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O. Bolanos, Aug 22, 2010 - Evidence for Paralegals, Fourth Edition
I like the organize imformation provided in the book, but I found some mispelled words. The mispelling caused some confusion as to what the author was try to say, but eventually I began to get caught up to it and figured out. The term and the definition placed on the side of the page next to the related subject, was very helpful to understand the content of the material in the chapters. I also founded very helpful to have the full written Federal Rules of Evidence on the last pages of the book.
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jomoses, Aug 22, 2010 - Evidence for Paralegals, Fourth Edition
This book makes understanding important topics in evidence easy to understand. There is more of a focus on the criminal court than civil, but the book still describes how the (federal) rules of evidence impact both areas of law. Each chapter is fairly easy to read and has relevant review questions and scenarios at the end of each.
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Valerie Delatte, Aug 22, 2010 - Evidence for Paralegals, Fourth Edition
This book contains most of the same information of the 4th edition. All the other people in my class spent a lot of money on the 4th edition and I bought this one for under 5 dollars. I have yet to have a problem following along in class. The only difference is page numbers.
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