LEGAL OFFICE PROJECTS is designed to utilize a project-based approach to completing legal office activities
that involve legal document preparation, layout, formatting, Internet research, and transcribing. The setting for
the projects is a law firm where the student serves as a floating legal assistant for a number of diverse individuals
practicing various types of law. The projects allow a hands-on approach to legal document preparation.
Benefits:
NEW! Software tips, added where appropriate, provide instant recall for a word processing specialist function.
Office job scenarios are included to depict the office scene for each project.
The text takes a project-based approach that includes numerous tasks for completing office activities to provide
students with multi-tasking experience.
Critical-thinking activities at the end of each chapter provide the opportunity for additional learning.
Transcription material that correlates to projects in the student book and data files previously on cassette
tape are now in CD format and packaged with the text.
NEW! Legal focus will call attention to situations in the legal field worthy of noting.
NEW! Enhanced table of contents added to show tasks within each project.
NEW! Added dictated exercises provide for more transcribing material.
NEW! Transcription CD, which contains all newly dictated material, comes packaged with the text.
NEW! A marriage dissolution case study focusing solely on legal issues provides practice in multi-tasking and
critical-thinking.
NEW! Twelve projects having a specific legal focus, such as conflict of interest, e-mail ethics, appellate
pitfalls, and pre-trial preparation provide a glimpse into the many different areas of the legal profession.
NEW! The Office Procedures Manual includes general reference, document formatting procedures, pleadings, and
court papers and is now located on the data CD.
NEW! Internet activities at the end of each project show students how useful the Web can be for projects that
involve research and problem solving.