Contract Law for Paralegals: Traditional and e-Contracts

by Kathleen Mercer Reed

Written from the paralegal’s perspective, this book examines the ethical, practical and professional topics relating to Contract Law and combines both substantive material and contemporary cases. Offering exceptional coverage of e-contracts and technology, it emphasizes contract law as an important core competency for all paralegals. Each chapter is infused with application-oriented features that range from scenarios to feature articles to portfolio-building exercises. End-of-chapter material focuses on reinforcing skills through internet exercises, case questions and case-briefing assignments. Throughout the book, each chapter shows how paralegals work with contracts and why it is important for all paralegals to understand contract law. Paralegals

576 pages, Paperback

First published November 10, 2008

Reviews

[Hannah · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a great textbook with lots of good, clear definitions and resources. While contract law is not the most exciting topic, this book was explained well and made the topic easily understandable.

[Adrienna · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm reading the second edition copyright 2013. This book had testimonials from paralegals in the legal arena. Unfortunately, this should have been of a great interest but I was not intrigued by this section of each chapter it was introduced. The literature was not factual at times, and when the first quiz offered from the book, the answer key was not correct on a number of questions. The professor even contacted the author directly to try to get justification and clarification; luckily, thereafter, she created her own tests and I reached my normal A score with the use of the book and PowerPoint notes. The previous quiz given by author's questions/answers, failed the test miserably, meaning it was a grade below a C. Overall, I am thankful for the professor to make the literature more attractive and easier to ingest.

Plan to return the book back to BookRenter in a couple weeks.