In September 2019, Samantha Jones and Heather Smith both decided to voluntarily move out of their respective parents’ homes and to rent a townhouse together in order to be closer to their jobs.  Jones and Smith were hired on the same day by Verizon and quickly became friends.  Neither graduated from High School and both young ladies had worked full-time at Verizon for about a […]

The purpose of the discussion forum is to provide students a place to work together through the course material as if they were meeting in a classroom. I typically refrain from providing an explicit discussion prompt. Discussion prompts can facilitate conversation if the board is quiet. However, prompts narrow our focus to a specific issue within a larger amount of content. For that reason, I […]

 When we read the Fourth Amendment it tells us that every citizen of this country has the right to be secure in their persons, their homes, their papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures by the government without a warrant. Most of us are not trained as a Lawyer and it hinders our understanding of the law most of the time. But the fourth […]

 Jones was the attorney for the Town of Smithville. He filed a defamation lawsuit against a newspaper that served the Smithville area and against the writer of that newspaper’s Town Crier column. Jones based his case on statements that appeared in the column. The writer of the column referred to Jones as a “political hatchet man” and as “one of the biggest powers behind the […]

Financial Credit Corporation issued a check payable to Ronson Metal Company.  Ronson endorsed the check and deposited the check in its account in Unionville National Bank.  Unionville transmitted the check to the drawee bank which returned it because payment had been stopped by Financial Credit Corporation.  Unionville Bank and Larch entered into an agreement which stated that the bank “hereby” negotiated the check to Larch.  This document was attached […]

The objective of this assignment is to enable you to demonstrate your ability to develop a court management policy proposal that addresses the key factors that should be considered to ensure that legal requirements and best practices in management are observed. You will craft a policy proposal designed to address problems of case backlog and excessive delay in calendaring of hearings that have resulted from […]

you are a paralegal working at the law office of Smith & Smith. The office represents David Gerry in a divorce action against his wife, Lena Gerry. One of the disputes is how to divide business assets acquired during the marriage. In an effort to pressure Lena to divide the assets in his favor, David tells his attorney to request sole physical and legal custody […]

 In our continuing case with Scott Mayo (the accused) and Basil Scowen (the victim), Mayo shot Scowen after an argument ensued.  Based on the known facts at this time the police appropriately arrested Mayo based on probable cause.  The probable cause utilized in the arrest is Mayo being in possession of a firearm, verbally confessing to shooting Scowen, and witnesses providing eye witness verbal statements on various […]

The assignment is to read the attached article and then write a 2 page typed and double spaced response to the article.  Your response must cover the following items:– Was the behavior of the parties legal?– What laws applied to the incident?– What are the ethical and legal issues presented?  – Who acted ethically?  Who acted unethically? – What was ethical? What was unethical?– Discuss any […]

Your final research paper assignment is to write 7-9 pages on any topic in the field of legal analysis or conflict resolution. Your research paper could discuss a topic that we’ve covered this semester that you’d like to delve into more deeply (e.g., the effect of gender on negotiation performance) or a topic that we haven’t discussed this semester (e.g., recent U.S. Supreme Court cases […]