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Torts: Personal Injury Litigation, 5th Edition

William P. Statsky

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Torts: Personal Injury Litigation 5th Edition by William P. Statsky

Overview

TORTS: PERSONAL INJURY LITIGATION, 5TH EDITION, will provide your students with a comprehensive guide to the law of torts. This fifth edition extends the discussion of paralegal roles within tort litigation and examines the ethics of attorney solicitation. A comprehensive checklist, which includes definitions, defenses, relationships, paralegal roles and research references, is provided for each tort presented. This checklist will provide your students with an overview of information and serves as an on-the-job refresher. Over forty pertinent case studies are included, allowing your students to examine important court opinions. Among the controversial issues discussed in these court opinions are AIDS, the Oklahoma bombing, computer torts, assistance to the homeless, billion dollar verdicts and settlements, biomedical research and the alleged tort committed by President Clinton that became part of his historic impeachment and Senate trial.

William P. Statsky

William Statsky has been a member of the ethics committee and the advisory council for the National Federation of Paralegal Associations and a member of the Certifying Board of the National Association of Legal Assistants. He has taught at Columbia Law School, UCLA School of Law, Antioch School of Law and Thomas Edison State College and is the author of numerous groundbreaking legal textbooks for paralegals. He was a member of the transition team for then-President-Elect Ronald Reagan. Mr. Statsky holds a master of law degree (LL.M.) in urban affairs as well as a juris doctorate degree (J.D.).
  • StudyWare Student CD-ROM includes quizzing, case studies, and flashcards to help students better understand the content presented.
  • Specific learning objectives identify the goals of each chapter.
  • All of the substantive chapters now include a project that requires students to undertake an Internet research task pertaining to the main tort covered in each chapter.
  • "Check the Cite" element in all of the substantive chapters asks students to read and answer questions about an opinion that is available on the Internet.
  • "Ethics in a Personal Injury Practice" in every chapter presents a factual situation involving a paralegal in a personal injury practice and asks students to identify the ethical issues involved in the facts.
  • Provides relevant case studies that allow your students to examine important court opinions, driving interest and application.
  • Provides a comprehensive checklist for each major tort, offering your students a helpful overview of information.
  • Includes charts, drawings and other practical tools to increase your students' understanding of the material.
Introduction to Tort Law and Practice.
Legal Analysis in Tort Law.
Fact Gathering in Tort Litigation.
Foreseeability in Tort Law.
Battery.
Assault.
False Imprisonment and False Arrest.
Misuse of Legal Process.
Infliction of Emotional Distress.
Conversion and Trespass to Chattels.
Strict Liability.
Negligence: A Summary.
Negligence: Element I: Duty.
Negligence: Element II: Breach of Duty (Unreasonableness).
Negligence: Element III: Proximate Cause.
Negligence: Element IV: Damages.
Negligence: Defenses.
Medical Malpractice and Legal Malpractice.
Products Liability.
Mass Tort Litigation.
Survival and Wrongful Death.
Torts Against and within the Family.
Torts Connected with Land.
Defamation.
Invasion of Privacy.
Misrepresentation, Tortious Interference, and Other Torts.
Additional Tort Defenses.
Workers' Compensation.
Settlement.
Appendix A: Resources on Tort Law.
Appendix B: Sample Accident Report Filed with Police.
Appendix C; Automobile Insurance.
Appendix D: Legal Nurse.
Appendix E: "Do You Seldomly Swear..."
Glossary.

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  • ISBN-10: 1401865976
  • ISBN-13: 9781401865979
  • RETAIL $46.95

  • ISBN-10: 1401879640
  • ISBN-13: 9781401879648
  • RETAIL $304.95

Cengage provides a range of supplements that are updated in coordination with the main title selection. For more information about these supplements, contact your Learning Consultant.

FOR INSTRUCTORS

Essentials of Torts

ISBN: 9781401879648
Ideal for instructors in need of a concise text, ESSENTIALS OF TORTS, Third Edition is a practical and relevant guide for the paralegal as well as for anyone preparing for a career in the field of law. Well-written, logical, and full of interesting and diverse pedagogical material, this text focuses on paralegal roles in tort litigation while providing students with a comprehensive overview of the law of torts. This condensed version of Statsky's TORTS: PERSONAL INJURY LITIGATION, Fifth Edition, ESSENTIALS OF TORTS has been thoroughly updated to include topics that are relevant for today's students including the Internet, terrorism, 9/11, and tort liability. Chapter objectives, margin definitions, review questions, and numerous exhibits are included in each chapter and serve to reinforce chapter concepts.

FOR STUDENTS

The Pocket Guide to Legal Writing, Spiral bound Version

ISBN: 9781401865979
The Pocket Guide to Legal Writing is designed as a desk book for use by practicing paralegals, legal assistants, attorneys, and students. It is a reference book that allows the user to quickly obtain the answer to many commonly encountered writing questions concerning the following subjects: sentence and paragraph drafting, word selection and usage, spelling, numbers, grammar, punctuation, legal citation, legal correspondence, legal research memoranda, and court briefs. It also includes a chapter on the location of various non fee-based internet and other computer based legal research sources. There is a chapter that presents a collection of general considerations involved in legal writing, including a detailed discussion of the legal writing process (an organized approach to legal research, analysis, and writing that helps you develop writing skills and makes legal writing easier) and guidelines to follow when engaging in the process. The book is color coded so information may be easily located and designed to lie flat on a desk next to a computer. It is written in a non technical manner and designed so that it is easy to understand and use by anyone working in a law office. It includes checklist for use in conjunction with the various types of legal writing.

Essentials of Torts

ISBN: 9781401879648
Ideal for instructors in need of a concise text, ESSENTIALS OF TORTS, Third Edition is a practical and relevant guide for the paralegal as well as for anyone preparing for a career in the field of law. Well-written, logical, and full of interesting and diverse pedagogical material, this text focuses on paralegal roles in tort litigation while providing students with a comprehensive overview of the law of torts. This condensed version of Statsky's TORTS: PERSONAL INJURY LITIGATION, Fifth Edition, ESSENTIALS OF TORTS has been thoroughly updated to include topics that are relevant for today's students including the Internet, terrorism, 9/11, and tort liability. Chapter objectives, margin definitions, review questions, and numerous exhibits are included in each chapter and serve to reinforce chapter concepts.