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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:

Chapter Objectives

marginal definitions

tables and figures

case summaries

ethics topics

Chapter Summaries

review questions

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.