Personal Injury and the Law of Torts for Paralegals: Aspen Paralegal

by Emily Lynch Morissette

Personal Injury and the Law of Torts for Paralegals: Sixth Edition, balances complete coverage of substantive torts topics with essential paralegal skills. Emily Lynch Morissette provides consistently clear writing and realistic examples that convey a working understanding of the role of the paralegal in tort cases.

Teaching basic torts and skill development, the text features a logical organization, introducing substantive topics with an overview of the concepts and then moving through each element of negligence, followed by medical malpractice as a type of negligence, intentional torts, and workers’ compensation.

New to the Sixth Edition:

• New examples and exercises throughout the text
• Meticulously updated throughout with citations to the current research

Professors and students will benefit from:

• A wealth of clear and accessible examples
• Fact-based exercises that use real-life scenarios Integrated treatment of ethics
• Practice-based topics on medical record discovery, tort discovery, and litigation
• A consistent emphasis on medical information related to personal injury, such as how to obtain and understand medical records, including an introduction to medicine in the appendix
• Helpful pedagogy, including chapter objectives, marginal definitions, visual aids, case summaries, chapter summaries, and review questions

Please Note:

Some used, second-hand copies may be missing some supplemental materials like access codes or additional media originally attached to book.