Includes index.

The legal community and professional responsibility -- The American legal system -- Laws: their sources -- Finding the law: legal -- Using the law: analysis and legal writing -- Laws : civil vs. criminal -- Personal injury practice: tort law and workers' compensation -- Family law -- Wills, trusts, and probate -- Business practice: contract law and property law -- Business practice: the law of business organizations and bankruptcy -- Civil procedure before -- Alternative dispute -- Criminal practice: criminal law and juvenile law -- Criminal procedure before trial -- Rules of evidence -- The trial -- Constitutional law -- Law and technology: a paralegal perspective.