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A COURSE
PLAN
This Instructor’s Manual is a resource of teaching ideas and materials to accompany The Litigation
Para- legal: A Systems Approach, Sixth Edition, by James W. H. McCord and Pamela R. Tepper. The
text and Instructor’s Manual form an integrated but flexible course plan consisting of substantive text,
study aids, exercises in paralegal skills (competencies), classroom activities, Internet exercises, case
assignments, discussion points, review questions, systems and application assignments, a test bank,
and answer keys to both assignments and tests.
The approach of the text places the student in a law office setting where the instructor assumes the
role
of the paralegals’ supervising attorney. This office training procedure uses a systems approach in
which the student incrementally develops a litigation systems folder, complete with forms, documents,
check- lists, rules, and practice tips. The system is complete at the end of the course and should provide
students with a valuable resource as they embark on their careers, and can be used as a job reference
manual.
The integrated materials are designed to give the instructor maximum flexibility in determining
the
course objectives and choosing the assignments and exercises most compatible with those objectives
and the time available.
THE SYSTEMS
FOLDER
A systems folder is a detailed procedural manual providing direction, forms, and checklists for tasks
regu- larly performed by a paralegal. As a resource for the paralegal, it provides obvious advantages in
efficien- cy, uniformity, accuracy, and quality. It also can be regularly updated.
Use of the systems folder has proven valuable in both teaching and learning litigation paralegal
skills.
Because a good systems folder helps the student on the job, and perhaps in securing a job, the systems
folder provides an extra incentive to do the assignments thoroughly and accurately. It helps the
student learn the benefits of being organized and develop the confidence to create a system in any
area of law. Utilization of the systems approach also reinforces the skills presented in the text.
Although this approach can be useful to both the instructor and the students, it is not necessary to
the
productive use of the text and the Instructor’s Manual. The key is flexibility; use a process with
which you are comfortable.
Appendix A at the end of the text provides an outline of the contents of a completed systems folder.
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ASSESSMEN
T
The following features of the integrated course plan can be used as assessment tools:
1. A broad chapter objective
2. The completed systems folder as a course portfolio
3. A collection of selected end-of-chapter assignments and exercises as a course
portfolio
4. .Internet Exercises and Apply Your Knowledge exercises throughout the
chapters
5. Tests compiled from the Instructor’s Manual Test Bank as pre- and post-
tests
6. Selected Test Bank questions incorporated into an overall program exit assessment
exam
THE TEXT
The Litigation Paralegal: A Systems Approach, Sixth Edition introduces students to the law office
and takes them chronologically through the steps and tasks involved in litigation, from fact situations
of cases they will be working on to judgment enforcement and appeal. Chapter by chapter, students
build profi- ciency in the specific tasks or competencies required of them as paralegals.
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vi Introduction
THE INSTRUCTOR’S
MANUAL
MOCK
TRIAL
This activity captures student interest and heightens motivation toward the conclusion of the course
when the attention of some students begins to wane.
Many of the assignments in the text may be used as building blocks for the mock trial. Any of
the Chapter 1 cases can be used, or another case that you might choose. If the Forrester or Ameche
case is used, there are numerous assignments throughout the text that are particularly appropriate for
dividing the class into teams representing the plaintiff(s) or defendant(s). The trial can be held over
two to three class periods or at a longer special evening or weekend session. This session might be held
in a local courtroom to lend an aura of reality. The instructor, a local attorney, or a judge can serve as
trial judge. (It is best to ask someone else to serve as judge so you are free to evaluate each student’s
work.) Background infor- mation, pleadings, depositions, and other materials will have been
accumulated by the end of the course to provide the gist for the trial.
Procedur
e
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Divide the class into legal teams for the plaintiff and defendant. Each team can have as many as six
or seven members responsible for various aspects of the case, such as opening, direct examination of
witness A, cross-examination of defendant’s witness C, closing, and so forth. When not actually playing
the law- yer’s role, students can serve as supporting paralegals keeping track of documents and
making sugges- tions when needed.
Some of the class will be assigned to be key witnesses for each side. Although the witnesses may
have
the benefit of material covered previously in the text and chapter assignments, all witnesses will
need some general parameters for their testimony. To keep workloads as even as possible, witnesses
also could be assigned some of the trial preparation tasks to ease the burden of the legal teams.
Remaining students can be assigned as jurors. Students from outside class can be used as jurors if
you have a small class. (Students from an Introduction to Law class make good jurors. This is a
valuable learning experience for them, too.) If the class is particularly large, you could have two juries.
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Introduction vii
Each juror is responsible for a critique of his or her jury’s decision process and why the jury decided
the way it did. Several students could be asked to read their critiques as a concluding activity focusing
on jury dynamics. For those schools so equipped, a closed-circuit video may be arranged so the student
legal teams and witnesses can watch the deliberation process.
The time for opening arguments, direct examination and cross-examination, and other matters
will have to be calculated and strictly enforced. The maximum time for jury deliberation will have to
be de- termined according to how much class time remains.
The jury also should be given guidelines, such as the following: choose a foreperson; discuss the
most
critical aspects of evidence, the plaintiff’s burden of proof, whether all elements are proved to their
satis- faction, and whether the defendant is negligent and, if so, how much in damages should be awarded.
Critiquin
g
This class project can be assessed in several ways. Evaluation can be on the basis of a written analysis
by each student of his or her role or task and what the student learned overall from the experience.
Another method is based on the individual performance of each student’s assigned task.
Further
Suggestions
Opening and closing arguments should be kept brief, possibly no more than five minutes for each
side. Most of the time should be allotted to witness testimony through direct examination and
cross- examination. Judges should deal with objections quickly, giving some latitude to questions and
evidence to speed the trial along. Demonstrative evidence can be permitted but needs to be approved
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ahead of time by the instructor to see that common sense applies and that such evidence does not
impair the speed and
*
A small team of students could be assigned early in the course the task of drafting the witness background information sheets
so that the case is close but slightly tilted in one direction. They could be told to draft it both ways so that you have the choice
and can prevent leaks on which direction the testimony will lean. This is a valuable assignment because it forces the students to
focus on elements and needed evidence to support those elements.
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viii Introduction
fairness of the trial. Some instructions may be read to the jury by the judge, but they should be kept
brief and go to the heart of the elements in the case. Unless there is a lot of time, jury deliberation
should be kept to thirty minutes. It will be the foreperson’s job to see that a decision is made in that
time.
STUDENT
FAIR
Fellow educator Faith O’Reilly has developed a student fair that provides another focus to the course.
At the end of the litigation course, the students display their systems folders to a team of judges and
lawyers. Based on some criteria established by the instructor, the judges evaluate the systems folders
and ask the students questions. They decide on several top places and some honorable mentions.
This provides an extra incentive for each student to be conscientious in the preparation of the systems
folder, especially near the end of the course. A further benefit is getting prospective employers to
see and appreciate the ability of the students and the quality of their instruction.
ASSIGNMENTS AND
GRADING
If this text is to be covered in one semester, it is not realistic to expect students to complete all the
as- signments provided in each chapter. The purpose of some assignments is simply to provide more
practice for those who need it in an area that has already been covered; others repeat an area, but from
a different angle. Many assignments are flexible, allowing you to insert material, forms, or cases from
your own ex- perience or additional student research. Select the assignments that best fit the needs of
your students and your time frame. When deciding what assignments are appropriate for your course,
consider checking the answer or comment provided in the Instructor’s Manual prior to making the
assignment to confirm that it is consistent with your objectives and whether added information, such as
state practice, is needed.
The chapter exercises require the student to prepare a variety of documents. Every student ought to
be able to do many of these assignments accurately and completely, leaving little if any differentiation
be- tween a grade of A and a grade of C on the assignment. In such instances, it is the drafting and
familiarity with the documents that are paramount. Therefore, you may wish to consider using S
(satisfactory) or U (unsatisfactory—to be redone) as a more practical system for grading such
assignments. It might be added that eventually all such assignments must be completed satisfactorily
to receive a passing grade in the course. This procedure will avoid the problem of watering down
your A, which should be reserved for those assignments in which the difference in student learning or
abilities will be more apparent and meas- urable.
James W. H. McCord
Pamela R. Tepper
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CHAPTER 1: WELCOME TO THE LAW OFFICE:
FOUNDATIONS FOR LITIGATION
CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
Understand the role of the paralegal in the law office
Recognize the importance of law office procedures in the practice of
law Explain the ethical obligations of the paralegal in the legal arena
Distinguish between the federal and state court systems
Identify the different types of jurisdiction and in which court cases should be filed
The purpose of this chapter is to give students the feeling that they are starting work in a law office.
The first section provides case “stories” that demonstrate the kinds of events that may lead to
litigation. The stories give the necessary factual settings for many of the assignments and examples in
the text, and bring them to life.
The Paralegal Handbook section is “the firm’s” introduction to the office, its personnel, the role of
the
paralegal, important procedures, professional ethics, and professional development. It also introduces
the systems approach. The section following the handbook provides an introduction to (or review of)
court structure, jurisdiction, and venue.
2. Re: Case V. Note that sexual harassment under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act can be
based on qualitative and quantitative differences in offensive conduct toward female and male
employees, and does not have to be lewd or sexual in nature [Christopher v. National Education
Ass'n. No. 04-
35029 (9th Cir. 2005, Sept.
2)].
2. Invite a local judge to lecture on the state and federal courts and their jurisdictions.
3. Have officers of local, state, or national paralegal associations speak to the class about
their associations, the
® importance of professional ethics, and personal professional development.
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'Tiresome work I find that, with all my zeal for the service,' observed
Hammersley, as the entire cavalry force moved off about four in the
morning, when the sky and landscape were alike dark. 'We have much
bodily endurance, and run enormous risks which the people at home don't
understand or fully appreciate, because our antagonists are naked savages,
though second to no men in the world for reckless valour; thus honour may
be accorded to us but scantily and grudgingly, because they are savages and
not civilised enemies, or, as some one says of the days of the Great Duke,
when so many thousand men in red coats and blue breeches met and beat so
many thousand men in blue coats and red breeches.'
General Marshall, with the King's Dragoon Guards and 17th Lancers,
had reconnoitred the country in advance as far as the Upoko River, and
there effected a junction with Buller's command on the same ground where
the latter had escaped the ambuscade referred to.
Above the vast mountain opposite, where the Upoko (a tributary of the
great White Umvulosi, which flows towards the sea) was rolling in golden
sheen between banks clothed with date palms, Kaffir plums, flowering
acacias, and thornwood, the uprisen sun was shining in all his glory. The
mountain was torn by ravines and studded with mimosa groups. On the left
of the troops rose the vast Inhlatzatye, or mountain of greenstone, turned to
crimson in the morning sun, its base clothed with lovely pasture, and twenty
miles in its rear was known to be Ulundi, the great military kraal of
Cetewayo, the chief object of the advance.
In the immediate foreground was the force of cavalry, with all their
white helmets and sword blades shining in the sun, the dark blue of the
Lancers, and the sombre uniforms of the Irregular Horse, relieved and
varied by the bright scarlet of the King's Dragoon Guards and the mimosa-
coloured tunics of the Mounted Infantry.
'Buller's Horse to the left!' cried the officer of that name, digging spurs
into his charger; 'Whalley's to the right! Frontier Light Horse and
Hammersley's Mounted Infantry the centre!'
Uncovering to the flanks, the formation was made at a canter, and the
forward movement began. During the morning Florian had more than once
(till his men required his attention) an unpleasant sense of the presence of
two secret enemies on the ground, which made him look frequently to
where the oddly costumed volunteer troopers were advancing, and before
that day's fighting was quite over he had bitter cause to know that both were
in the field.
The 1st King's Dragoon Guards had been quartered in the same barracks
with the regiment to which these two deserters belonged, and, feeling
themselves now in hourly expectation of recognition by some of them, the
camp of the Second Division had become perilous for the two desperadoes,
and on that day they had resolved to 'levant,' but not before effecting their
villainous purpose, if possible.
They knew well that by the rules of the service, at foreign stations, when
there is no doubt as to the identity of a deserter, he is sent at once to his own
corps to be dealt with there; moreover, they know that the fact of their
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fraudulent enlistment; and neither had any desire to be tied to the wheel of a
field-piece and flogged as an example to others, for that punishment had not
been quite abandoned yet.
While Colonel Buller's force was advancing, the Zulus had moved off by
companies in singularly regular formation, and taken post in the rocky
ravines at the base of the Euzangonyan Hill, which was covered with thick
scrub and high feathery reeds, that swayed to and fro in the wind like a
mighty cornfield.
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advanced to within three hundred yards of the foe, and leaped from their
saddles, with rifles unslung. The horses were then led forward out of fire, or
nearly so, by every third file, told off for that purpose.
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river, but not before several men were killed or wounded, with fifteen
horses placed hors de combat; then the Queen's cavalry were ordered to
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lurking there feel what the point of a lance is, he rode straight at it.
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Frith—a favourite officer—was shot through the heart, and brought to camp
dead across the saddle of his charger.
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of attacking them in the open, proved vain; and upon broken and steep
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assail them, they were seen swarming in vast black hordes round the flanks
of the Euzangonyan Hill, and still maintaining a sputtering but distant
though defiant fire, while the cavalry and other mounted men fell back
towards their respective columns; and now it was that the calamitous
outrage we have hinted at occurred.
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said Hammersley to Florian, as they were riding leisurely now at a little
distance in rear of their men. 'They are nearly six hundred yards off. Well,
we have not got even a scratch to-day,' he added, laughing, as he
manipulated and proceeded to light a cigar; 'and now to get back to camp
and have a deep drink of bitter beer. By Jove, I am thirsty as a bag of sand.'
Again the 'retire' was sounded, now by two trumpeters together, but
without avail apparently.
At that moment two rifle-shots came upon the speakers, delivered by the
very men in question, and then they were seen to gallop at full speed, not
after the retreating column, but at an angle towards the north-west, on
perceiving that their shots had taken fatal effect; for Hammersley, struck by
one, fell from his saddle on his face, and rolled over apparently in mortal
agony, while Florian felt Tattoo give a kind of writhing bound under him
and nearly topple over on his forehead till recovered by the use of spur and
bridle-bit. Florian at once dismounted, for the horse was seriously
wounded; but he could only give a despairing glance at his friend, if he
meant to act decisively and avenge him.
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have not a moment to lose!' cried Florian, in a voice husky with rage, grief,
and excitement, as he leaped upon poor Hammersley's horse; and with a
section of four men, one of whom was Tom Tyrrell, he spurred after them at
full speed, without waiting for orders given or permission accorded.
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the Droogveldt, who were boldly attempting to escape in the face of the
column after failing to shoot himself, and who had now fully thousand
yards start of him and his pursuing party.
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