About the Book
Interviewing and Investigating: Essential Skills for the Legal Professional
Fourth Edition
Stephen P. Parsons
2010. Approx. 592 pages. Paperback. ISBN 978-0-7355-8735-9. Instructor's Manual with Test Bank, and PowerPoint slides. (Ancilllary materials also included on CD-ROM.)
About the Book
Now in it's fourth edition, this popular text uses realistic case scenarios, practical exercises, illustrations, and examples to teach the essential skills of interviewing and investigating. Ideal for paralegal students, Interviewing and Investigating: Essential Skills for the Legal Professional encompasses civil, criminal, and non-litigation practice.
Thorough and practical, interviewing and investigating: essential Skills for the Legal Professional, Fourth Edition offers:
- Dynamic pedagogy, with new and updated illustrations, examples, hypothetical, and Learn by Doing exercises, plus new chapter summaries and basic review questions in every chapter
- Examples drawn from civil, criminal, litigation, and non-litigation scenarios that emphasize teh context in which interviewing and investing are practiced.
- Four case studies - updated and revised in the Fourth Edition - that provide realistic situations and facts for applying legal analysis
- Timely and responsible coverage that includes:
- a chapter dedicated to ethics, as well as the ethics issues integrated throughout the book
- e-discovery
- recent case law addressing issues arising from discovery of Electronically Stored
Information (ESI)
- important changes to deadlines in the federal rules of civil procedure and
criminal procedure
- significant amendments to the Freedom of information Act, including President
Obama's January 21,2009 memorandum on the Freedom of Information Act
- appropriate references to online social networking phenomena, such
as Facebook and Twitter
- recent legislation, such as the Consumer Product Safety Act of 2008 and the
OPEN Government Act of 2007
- Updated and extensive online resources for investigators in the Appendicies
