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Resources
West Publishing
has provided several online resources for students to use. First, is the
Study Guide that summarizes each chapter of the textbook and the second
is interactive practice pre-test quizzes. Both resources are excellent
tools for students to use because they provide immediate feedback and
will enhance their learning process.
Study
Guide
Students
can utilize the online study guide by clicking on the appropriate links
provided below to West's Paralegal Today textbook chapters. For
your convenience, I am providing the link to the home page for the Online
Companion web site. http://www.delmarlearning.com/companions/content/1401810829/guides/index.asp?isbn=1401810829
Part I
- The Paralegal Profession
Study
Skills Guide
Chapter
1: Today’s Professional Paralegal
Chapter
2: Career Opportunities
Chapter
3: Ethics and Professional Responsibility
Chapter
4: The Inner Workings of the Law Office
Part II - Introduction to
Law
Chapter
5: Sources of American Law
Chapter 6: The Court System and Alternative Dispute Resolution
Chapter 7: Tort Law and Product Liability
Chapter 8: Contracts and Intellectual Property Law
Chapter 9: Real Property, Estates, and Family Law
Chapter 10: Agency, Business Organizations, and Employment
Chapter 11: Administrative Law and Government Regulation
Part III - Legal Procedures
and Paralegal Skills
Chapter 12: Civil Litigation - Before the Trial
Chapter 13: Conducting Interviews and Investigations
Chapter 14: Trial Procedures
Chapter 15: Criminal Law and Procedure
Chapter 16: Legal Research and Analysis
Chapter 17: Computer-Assisted Legal Research
Chapter 18: Legal Writing: Form and Substance
Practice Quizzes
Students can take practice quizzes online before they complete tests
for grading purposes. Click on the links provided below to access
the online pre-tests.
How to Take a Practice Quiz
I have provided links to each chapter of West's Paralegal Today textbook
for your use. Click on the links to locate chapter quizzes and
you are taken directly to the pre-test. Complete the pre-test questions
by answering at least one question and hit the "submit" button.
Students are provided with a results page that provides you with
information on how well you performed on the practice test. I recommend
that you complete the practice test before you attempt the real test that
you will be graded on. If you receive the message "Sorry, your
session timed out due to inactivity" the interactive session has
temporarily timed out and you should link to the home page.
To access West's Paralegal Today Online Companion home page, please
click on the following web link: http://www.delmarlearning.com/companions/content/1401810829/quizzes/index.asp?isbn=1401810829
Part I - The Paralegal Profession
Chapter
1: Today’s Professional Paralegal
Chapter
2: Career Opportunities
Chapter
3: Ethics and Professional Responsibility
Chapter
4: The Inner Workings of the Law Office
Part II - Introduction to Law
Chapter
5: Sources of American Law
Chapter
6: The Court System and Alternative Dispute Resolution
Chapter
7: Tort Law and Product Liability
Chapter
8: Contracts and Intellectual Property Law
Chapter
9: Real Property, Estates, and Family Law
Chapter
10: Agency, Business Organizations, and Employment
Chapter
11: Administrative Law and Government Regulation
Part III - Legal Procedures and Paralegal
Skills
Chapter
12: Civil Litigation - Before the Trial
Chapter
13: Conducting Interviews and Investigations
Chapter
14: Trial Procedures
Chapter
15: Criminal Law and Procedure
Chapter
16: Legal Research and Analysis
Chapter
17: Computer-Assisted Legal Research
Chapter
18: Legal Writing: Form and Substance
Legal Websites of Interest
- Legal Quicklinks, http://www.legalengine.com/mainhome.htm
- California Judicial Council forms, http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp/forms/
California Judicial Council forms that you can print using
Adobe Acrobat Reader. The JC forms can be downloaded and can be printed
but data cannot be saved.
- Keyboarding Software Program,http://www.kagi.com/edicom/typing.html
A web site that provides a free keyboarding software program
for students to test their keyboarding skills.
- Hotmail e-mail account, http://www.hotmail.com
Students can establish an e-mail account for free on Hotmail.
- State of California Website http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov
- Learning Basic Legal Citation http://www2.law.cornell.edu/cgi-foliocgi.exe/Citation/query=[jump.../pageite...
- Legal Research Using the Internet http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/~llou/mpoctalk.html
- Keyboarding Software Program http://www.kagi.com/edicom/typing.html
- Hotmail Website http://www.hotmail.com
- JCF-Lite Judicial Council Software http://www.mmacorp.com
- Legal Documents Online http://www.legaldoc.com
- The Importance of Learning West's American Digest System http://www.law.uh.edu/guides/learn_west.html
- Referencing (Citing) to Legal Materials http://www.law.uh.edu/guides/citing.html
- General Legal Website http://www.findlaw.com
- Litigation Forms http://www.lectlaw.com/forma/thm
- Kathleen R. v. City of Livermore http://www.techlawjournal.com/courts/kathleenr/default.htm
- Abortion website http://members.aol.com/abtrbng/index.htm
Homework Help - Hints and Tips
Students executing online testing
should access the Quia website at http://www.quia.com/pages/slack.html
and "click on" the vocabulary test or chapter quiz assignment.
The naming convention for vocabulary tests and chapters is as follows:
- 245vocb1, 245 vocb2, 245vocb3, 245vocb4, 245vocb5, etc.
- 245chaps1&2, 245 chaps3&4, 245 chaps5&13, etc.
Students must amend the naming convention of online tests to access the
current week's test. Quia's direct login screen is located at http://www.quia.com/servlets/quia.activities.se.PlaySE?
Chapter 3 Using Internet Resources
In re Leonard Ford Powell Case
http://www.canb.uscourts.gov/canb/Documents.nsf/bf0c3519af9731c88825671d00666479/8152a13a3102bd6c88256aa4007c7cc3?OpenDocument
Final Examination Resources
A. What is a Debate?
Students should explore the International Debate Education Association
website and the extensive online debate resources it has to offer. It
explains how to structure the pro and con arguments for a debate http://www.idebate.org/info/whatisdebate.asp
There are several major resources on how to conduct a debate and
I am linking you to one resource by World Schools Debating Guide http://www.idebate.org/materials/Ferret/WSGuide2.doc
Several of the links located under Brown v. The Board of Education
and Civil Rights do not have titles but are linked to the appropriate
resource in the internet.
Examples of Debates
Minority Schools
http://www.debatabase.org/details.asp?topicID=191#sites
Nazi War Criminals
http://www.debatabase.org/details.asp?topicID=84
Exploring Constitutional Law
Separate But Equal? The issue: Does the Constitution
allow states to segregate schools or other public facilities on the basis
of race or sex?
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/sepbutequal.htm
Display Speech and Debate Exercises
http://www.idebate.org/projects/exercises/displayexercises.asp
Supreme Court Antitrust Debates
http://www.ripon.edu/faculty/bowenj/antitrust/INTRO.htm
Clips of Famous Presidential Debates
http://www.wfu.edu/%7Elouden/Political%20Communication/PresDebateClips/mediaclipDebates.html
B. Debate Documents
Legal 245 - Debate Teams
file:///C|/My
Documents/Skyline/Legal Operations/Debates/DebateTeamsrevisions.doc
Legal 245 Debate Paper Guidelines
file:///C|/My
Documents/Skyline/Legal Operations/Debates/Legal 245 DEBATE PAPER GUIDELINES.doc
Legal 245 Grading Rubic - Debate
file:///C|/My Documents/Skyline/Legal
Operations/Debates/Legal 245 Grading Rubic.doc
Legal 245 - Debates - Student Evaluation Form
file:///C|/My
Documents/Skyline/Legal Operations/Debates/DebateTeamForms.doc
Sample of Issue Paper
file:///C|/My Documents/Hayward State2/6705
Class/FinalDraft5.rtf
Legal 245 - Debate Rules Rubic
file:///C|/My
Documents/Skyline/Legal Operations/Debates/Lega 245debaterules.doc
Legal 245 - Final Project, Paper, and Evaluations
file:///C|/My
Documents/Skyline/Legal Operations/Debates/FinalProjectSummary.doc
Debate Questions
Question: Approach to Issues and Debates - Past,
Present, or Future
On the segregation/integration of schools, PRO
or CONS, are we debating the historical positions when Brown v. Education
was decided, or are we debating the current position on integration issues,
brought about by Brown v. Education?
Answer: What I think will work best is for you is to state the Court's
position that supports your side and then provide an update or outcome
result. For example, you can specifically state anti-intergration position
from the Plessy case if you cannot locate it in the Brown case and then
support it by citing examples of poor performance, etc. of African American
males. Or take the opposite position, cite how integration has improved
the performance of African Americans on standardized testing or in a competitive
sense later on in their careers. In Brown one of the PRO integration arguments
is "To separate them because of their race generates a feeling of
inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their
hearts and minds in a way unlikely to ever be undone." You can take
the PRO position and substantiate it with how integration in education
impacts African Americans in a positive sense and their future careers
are extremely successful. Thereby, you have mixed the Brown case with
an updated viewpoint. Let me know if you have any additional questions
on the debate or if I can be of further assistance.
C. Survivors of the Shoah Visual History
Foundation - Holocaust Survivors
http://www.vhf.org/vhfmain-2.htm
D. Brown v. The Board of Education
Resources
American Bar Association Commission on the
50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education
http://www.abanet.org/brown/home.html
Columbia Law School - Brown v. The Board
of Education
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/networks/advanced/brown/
50th Year Anniversary Brown v. The Board
of Education - Former President Clinton's lecture http://www1.law.columbia.edu/news_events/2004/brownvboard/feb10
Harvard's Civil Rights Project
http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/aboutus.php
From Plessy v. Ferguson to Brown v. Board
of Education: The Supreme Court Rules on School Desegregation
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/pubs/A5/wolff.html
Landmark Cases, Supreme Court
http://www.landmarkcases.org/
Oyez Supreme Court Website
http://www.oyez.org/oyez/frontpage
Jurist Law Audio Lectures
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/live.htm
Civil Rights Project at Harvard
http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/news/pressreleases.php/record_id=42/
http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/research/deseg/Schools_More_Separate.pdf
http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/research/reseg03/intro.pdf
American Bar Association - Brown v. The Board
of Education
http://www.abanet.org/brown/brownvboard.pdf
American Bar Association - Brown v. The Board of
Education Raising the Bar
http://www.abanet.org/publiced/raisingthebar.html
Tolerance
http://www.tolerance.org/teach/printar.jsp?p=0&ar=486&pi=ttm
http://www.tolerance.org/teach/expand/mag/features.jsp?p=0&is=34&ar=491#
http://www.tolerance.org/hidden_bias/index.html
Interactive Constitution
http://www.constitutioncenter.org/constitution/
E. Civil Rights Resources
Exploring Constitutional Law
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/home.html
Racial Discrimination and the State Action
Requirement
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/stateaction.htm
Milestone Cases in Supreme Court History
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0101289.html
Schools of Thought on Segregation
Exploring Differing Viewpoints on the Battle to Integrate America's Public
Schools
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/specials/littlerock/little-rock-home.html
Working It Out
Exploring Racial Divisions in the Workplace: A Simulation Activity
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/20000616friday.html
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
at Stanford
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/
Marching On
Learning About the New Civil Rights Movement
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/20030825monday_print.html
Marching On
Learning About the New Civil Rights Movement
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/20030825monday.html
The Civil Rights Era
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9.html
African American Policy
Forum
http://www.aapf.org/
Vindicating the Founders
http://www.vindicatingthefounders.com/library/
Government for Kids
http://www.kids.gov/
F. Law and History Review Periodical Articles
Brown over "Other White": Mexican
Americans' Legal Arguments and Litigation Strategy in School Desegregation
Lawsuits
http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/lhr/21.1/forum_wilson.html
Emerging from the Margins of Historical Consciousness:
Chinese Immigrants and the History of American Law
http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/lhr/17.2/cole.html
Race, Class, and Legal Ethics in the Early
NAACP (1910–1920)
http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/lhr/20.1/carle.html
An Online Bibliography of Resources for the
Study of Woman Suffrage
http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ht/37.2/sparacino.html
Teaching Japanese-American Incarceration
http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ht/37.2/miksch.html
An Innovative Summer Institute for Teachers:
Examining the Underground Railroad
http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ht/35.4/dallmer.html
American Slavery in History and Memory and
the Search for Social Justice
http://www.historycooperative.org/cgi-bin/justtop.cgi?act=justtop&url=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/90.4/berlin.html
Women Lawyers Directory
http://www.womenlawyers.com/partners.htm
G. Other Resources
Social Issues
http://www.multcolib.org/homework/sochc.html
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