Product Description: More than a legal dictionary, Legal Terminology, 6e: 2014 Update is designed to develop students understanding of legal terms by emphasizing the how they are used in context. Featuring over 1500 legal terms with phonetic pronunciations, this book uses a text/workbook style to present narrative, definitions, study aids, and application activities all geared toward making the study of legal terms more meaningful...read more

Product Description: Introduce students to the laws that affect their lives! Glencoe Business and Personal Law: Real-World Connections provides Integrated Reading and Academic Strategies to improve your students' comprehension and reinforce academic skills to meet NCLB requirements...read more

The new edition of this well-received text includes the same format and cogent writing style as the previous edition but with updated information to reflect the many recent changes in the legal field. A comprehensive package of materials is also available to meet the needs of instructors and students.

The third edition of this text follows tradition with an easy-to-understand writing style that helps paralegal and legal assistant students comprehend a complex technical subject area. Undergraduate students who plan to work in the legal field, but who are not law students, will find this text to be very focused and to the point, yet broad in its coverage of topic areas related to wills, trusts and estates. All legal terms are clearly defined when first presented in the text. State-by-state information is presented clearly with the use of maps, tables and case studies. Charts and boxed cases help to make complex topics easier to understand. Each chapter begins with an outline, a list of outcomes, and job competencies. This is followed by a "day-at-the-office" scenario with questions about legal and ethical issues that arise. This gives the students a real world context in which to study the concepts of the chapter. Celebrity features, including photos, pique student interest while illustrating the subject at hand. At the end of each chapter, students find a summary, review questions, cases to discuss and chapter projects entitled "Sharpening Your Professional Skills" and Sharpening Your Legal Vocabulary". Instructors have applauded these unique features and appreciate the suggestions and guidelines for further research.

Product Description: Understanding Business & Personal Law provides a thorough overview of the basics of law, including ethics and technology issues. Through journal activities, Internet research activities, and activities that encourage them to get involved in their communities, students get the hands-on practice they need to build a stronger understanding of chapter concepts...read more

A huge amount of legal information is contained within this compact and orderly book. All legal terms are easy-to-find and up-to-date, and the book includes definitions, pronunciation, and easily understood explanations.Structured into short, easily digested chapters, Legal Terminology presents the fundamentals of the principal areas of the law, including: terms used in criminal law, tort law, contract law, personal property and agency law, practice and procedure law, will and estate law, trust law, family law, law of negotiable instruments, and business organization law.An excellent reference work for lawyers, legal secretaries, paralegals, legal assistants, and court personnel.

Understanding Business & Personal Law provides a thorough overview of the basics of law, including ethics and technology issues. Through journal activities, Internet research activities, and activities that encourage them to get involved in their communities, students get the hands-on practice they need to build a stronger understanding of chapter concepts.

Product Description: Lots of shelf wear on spine, minor corner wear. Otherwise in new condition. Pages have begun to yellow from storage.