About the Book
Evidence for Paralegals
Fourth Edition
Joelyn D. Marlowe
Suzanne Cummins
2008. 340 pages. Paperback. ISBN: 978-07355-5852-6. Instructor's Manual with Test Bank, and PowerPoint slides. (Ancillary material also included on CD-ROM.) Available in eBook Format.
About the Book
In its new Fourth Edition, Evidence for Paralegals continues to help students understand how evidentiary principles are applied in practical situations. Writing from a real-life perspective that allows 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:
- practical applications of the Federal Rules of Evidence and explanations of how the rules relate to paralegal practice
- a full range of topics, including gathering evidence, interviewing witnesses, and researching
- a real-life perspective showing how actual practice works in local, state, and federal court
- pedagogy develped for paralegal students, including short case summaries, readable examples, marginal definitions of terms, marginal cross-references to the Rules of Evidence, review questions, and hypotheticals
- short, concise presentation ideal for paralegal courses
Changes to the Fourth Edition include:
- changes to the Federal Rules of Evidence
- new case studies for student analysis
- new hypotheticals and discussion questions
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.
