NALS Basic Manual for the Legal Professional, 15th

NALS Basic Manual for the Lawyer's Assistant, 15th, a guide for legal professionals, lays out legal principles and approved law office procedures for those who have previous experience in the legal fields. It assumes a working knowledge of legal terminology and law office procedure.

Chapters include:

• Career development
• Ethics
• Law office management, computer information systems, and accounting
• Legal writing and legal research
• The courts and administrative agencies
• Trial preparation, civil procedure, and criminal procedure
• Torts, contracts, real estate transactions, landlord and tenant
• Estate planning, estates, guardianships, and family law
• Business organizations, bankruptcy, taxation, and arbitration
• Environmental law, water law, and oil and gas law
• Labor law, intellectual property law, pension and profit sharing plans, and workers’ compensation law
• Admiralty and maritime law, antitrust law, and immigration law
• Federal civil rights and employment discrimination laws

This text also includes easy-to-read charts, diagrams, and illustrations provides practical guidance on topics the successful lawyer’s assistant must address every day, as well as a bibliography, several glossaries, and index.

NALS Basic Manual for the Lawyer's Assistant, 15th is the required text for the NALS Virtual Legal Training Course and the Accredited Legal Professional (ALP) Exam. A Student Study Guide (419631) and an Instructor's Manual (419619) are not available for general sale, but are available to course instructors.