Legal Terminology with Flashcards (West Legal Studies) [Paperback]

Cathy Okrent (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 20, 2007 | ISBN-10: 1418039802 | ISBN-13: 978-1418039806 | Edition: 3

Legal Terminology with Flashcards, third edition transforms the student into someone who is proficient in the language of law: communicating correctly to clients, lawyers, judges, and the police. Beginning with the use of a dictionary/thesaurus in each chapter, the student is immersed into nineteen separate areas of the law with phonetic pronunciations, definitions, usages, and spellings that facilitate the quickest approach to writing and speaking with the appropriate legal terms

Editorial Reviews

Review

The flashcards are excellent and a very useful addition to the book...It would be of immense value...to make the CD audible/playable that states and defines the words audibly.

As a text focusing exclusively on terminology, Ms. Okrent's text is outstanding...I like the variety of exercises included in the text: the students would get a great deal of practice with the terms.

Most of the students I had when I taught with this book said they used those flashcards and that's how they really learned the legal terms...The case application section was something I always assigned for each unit.

About the Author

Cathy Okrent, J.D. is a member of the New York State Bar Association; and is admitted to the United States Supreme Court, and the Federal and State Courts of New York. Cathy is a practicing attorney and adjunct professor. She also serves as a government administrator, and employee relations manager. She is the author of several textbooks on Legal Terminology, Court Reporting, and Tort Law. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 576 pages
• Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning; 3 edition (June 20, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1418039802
• ISBN-13: 978-1418039806
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.4 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #984,756 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #95 in Books > Law > Dictionaries & Terminology

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just like Jeopardy, this books gives all the answers FIRST, and then asks the questions., January 9, 2009

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Jay S. Whitney - See all my reviews
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What a great resource! It is one I keep at my desk all the time. This book separates all the different areas of law into sections and offered me a step-by-step approach to learning the terminology I needed for a new job. Some words have multiple meanings so it was helpful to have them defined in each area of law- where I noted the differences.
I just made a pack of cards from the flash cards provided in the back of the book and practice when I could: on the subway, stuck in highway traffic, or with another person at work. It was even fun, especially as I got closer to mastering the pack of cards. It gives you all the answers up front in a dictionary format: the words, pronunications, and definitons! No need worrying about getting up to speed quickly with this.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Purchase!! Kept the Flash Cards for 2 Years!, April 28, 2011

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This review is from: Legal Terminology with Flashcards (West Legal Studies) (Paperback)

Kept them until I learned all the terminology to memory! Once that happened I gave away all of them! for my class it was an amazing help! would recommend this book~

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Attention! This Book Has NO Answer Key, January 10, 2008

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Kelly (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Legal Terminology with Flashcards (West Legal Studies) (Paperback)

While a great book with lots of questions and practice, this book should be sold with a major emphasis that it is STUDENT only. There is no way for a student to check their answers.

I got this book for study outside my coursework and am getting a lot out of it -- but it is very frustrating to be unable to check my work.
Only Instructors are allowed to purchase the keys to the text.

BE AWARE of this, Students!

(BTW: The case studies at the start of each section are very condensed and do not really engage the student to connect it to the remainder of the practice section.)