Cyber Trip offers students a research exercise on using the Internet to study important law-related documents and resources.
Research This allows students to use various research skills to learn more about the chapter topics.
Practice Tips are designed to give students hands-on experience with different activities required for a paralegal, including research, filing, and note-taking.
Team Activities allow students to interact together to solve a hypothetical situation or work together to deliver an assignment.
Eye on Ethics raises legitimate ethical issues that students would encounter in the workplace. Short assignments accompany the exercises.
Chapter Summary provides a quick review of the key concepts presented in the chapter.
Key Terms used throughout the chapters are defined in the margin and provided as a list at the end of each chapter. A common set of definitions is used consistently across the McGraw-Hill paralegal titles.
Discussion Questions ask students to apply critical thinking skills to the concepts learned in each chapter, focusing on more specific legal topics and promoting dialogue among students.
Portfolio Assignments are designed to use the skills mastered in the chapter and convert them into a practical legal document that can be used as samples of work during interviews.
Crossword puzzles at the end of each chapter utilize the key terms and definitions to help students become more familiar using their legal vocabulary.
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