Customer Reviews

Law 101: Know Your Rights, Understand Your Responsibilities and Avoid Legal Pitfalls

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(1)
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This is the BEST and most informative legal guide for the lay person I've come across and I reviewed many. It's the only reference of its kind that helped me every single step of the way from moving to sue for wrongful termination to realizing the perfect approach was to sue for intentional tort/battery as well as negligence. Brien Roche wrote a legal masterpiece in very friendly language and I highly recommend this book to everyone. Many may not realize they can receive a 6-, 7- or 8-figure judgment in their favor, that they're sitting on a situation that the law says is worth a lot in dollars - they just need to know how to present it intelligently to prospective attorneys. This book did this for me!

I bought this book to use as a resource to teach a law class to Juniors and Seniors at a Charter School for motivated learners. This book has been a godsend when it comes to structuring my course, as there are NO TEXTBOOKS out there that cover the wide spectrum of the law, without fluff or opinion. I hope to adopt this book as our class text book for next year, as it is so information-packed and so informative that I find myself practically lecturing right out of the book! I recommend it to other teachers, and to anyone who wants to learn about all the types of law. It would be very helpful to students considering a career in the law, who want to know what types of law exist. It is also a convenient-to-carry size with larger type so that it is easy to understand and read.

Very thorough and easy to follow. Provides a solid understanding of the legal situations that a layperson is most likely to fall into. Overall, extremely helpful.

I know very little about US law, and this book is well written, easy to follow, and informative. Not boring, either! I recommend it.

While this book would not interest a legal professional, it is an excellent basic text on U.S. law for the lay person or beginning pre-law student. The simple definitions and descriptions make the law approachable and gives a good basis for future legal study. It also could serve well as a shelf reference for a family library.

I am sometimes afflicted with a lack of impulse control, especially in bookstores. The impulse is lightening fast and my good judgment has to get to battle stations before I encounter the customer advocate at the counter saying, "Will there be anything else?" The impulse was swift and punishing as I walked out of the store with this in hand.

The book is well-written and covers several topics that the uninformed American might not know, make that probably doesn't know about our legal system. The first section "Where Our Laws Come From" is designed to weed out the reader who is given to reading Wuthering Heights and has just been handed the equivalent of a Archie and Jughead comic book.

Section two covers "The Court System" which includes civil law, criminal procedure law, juvenile law, and what to expect if called as a juror. It covers constitutional law, administrative law, case law, and statutory law.

Section three is entitled "Areas of the Law." This covers contracts, torts, domestic relations, estates and probate, taxes, insurance, real estate, banking, employment, bankruptcy and Workman's Compensation.

The reason for three stars is not that there is anything wrong with the book or the writing. It is the audience author Brien Roche is seeking. It simply isn't there. People who need a lawyer will need more than this book can offer. And as I have noticed many tea partiers voice in the past two years, they believe in the Constitution, a book they hold usually higher than the John Deere hat they are wearing. These are the people that need this book before they can read the more complex one they already have in their hands. It is also insulting to suggest that some people need to read about Archie and Jughead in the malt shoppe before they attempt Wuthering Heights.

The people that need this are the ones who won't buy it, and the ones who understand it already, don't need to buy it.

I rest my case.