Personal Injury and the Law of Torts for Paralegals is a highly teachable new textbook that balances substantive
and practical coverage to prepare students to work as personal injury paralegals. Emphasizing medical information
specifically related to personal injury law, Emily Lynch Morissette provides consistently clear writing, examples
drawn from experience, and myriad teaching devices to convey a working understanding of the role of the paralegal
in personal injury cases.
Providing both foundational information on torts and the skill development needed to work as a personal injury
paralegal, this text features:
* complete coverage of the AAfPE�s Model Tort Law syllabus
* logically organized substantive topics that begin with an introduction to the concept of torts and move through
each element of negligence, followed by medical malpractice as a type of negligence, intentional torts, and Worker�s
Compensation.
* practice-based topics that examine how to discover medical records, tort discovery, and litigation
* An Introduction to Medicine in the Appendix
* an emphasis on medical information specifically related to personal injury � such as how to obtain and understand
medical records
* a wealth of clear and accessible examples
* fact-based exercises using real-life scenarios
* consistent and hard-working pedagogy, including:
o Chapter Objectives
o marginal definitions
o tables and figures
o case summaries
o ethics topics
o Chapter Summaries
o review questions
o Web links
* detailed Instructor's Manual that includes sample syllabi, answers to all review questions and exercises,
and a Test Bank
Take a look at the new Torts book for paralegals that offers complete coverage of substantive torts topics while
underscoring the specific skills critical to the work of a personal injury paralegal: Personal Injury and the Law
of Torts for Paralegals by Emily Lynch Morissette.