You are a paralegal working for attorney William Wagner. He met with a potential client named Tom Smith.
You are a paralegal working for attorney William Wagner. He met with a potential client named Tom Smith. Please read the fact pattern below and then complete the Assignment. Note this is the same fact pattern from this week’s Discussion.
Tom and Mary Smith went to dinner at La Grande Fromage restaurant. Tom’s bad lower back (hereditary disc problems) was acting up but he did not take a pain pill before going out. He was in some pain when the couple arrived at the restaurant. He had three glasses of wine before dinner hoping it would quell the pain. Before dinner was served, he got up to use the restroom. On his way to the restroom, he slipped on a puddle of melted butter on the floor and was seriously injured. The puddle he slipped on was comprised of several wrapped individual butter pats that had simply melted into a rather large yellowish blob on the floor near the men’s room door. The butter pats had fallen off a tray that a busboy was carrying back to the kitchen while clearing a table. It is unclear how long they had been on the floor before Tom slipped on them. As soon as he dropped them, the busboy had yelled to the restaurant hostess (who saw them fall from her post at the hostess station) “That needs to be cleaned up!”
Please use the fact pattern above to write a formal letter to Mr. Tom Smith. Mr. Smith knows nothing about the legal process and just needs a little bit of guidance. Please write him a letter that explains what will happen once he has agreed to have your firm represent him in his legal case. Apply critical thinking skills to explain to Mr. Smith all of the steps and procedures that will take place up to and including the trial. Additionally, take some time to analyze the potential solutions to Mr. Smith’s situation. Describe what the various legal decisions may be and what they will mean for Mr. Smith. Please use proper legal terminology; just make sure to define the terms for your client. Concepts that your letter should cover include, but may not be limited to, party designations, the complaint, summons, service of process, answer, default judgment, the discovery process, summary judgment, pretrial procedure, and then the trial and ultimate decision. Your letter should also have an introductory paragraph, the body of the letter, and a conclusion.
Make sure to follow the rules for proper letter writing given in Chapter 4 of your Legal Transcription textbook. This includes including all the components of a letter mentioned in the reading. You can use Figures 4-1 and 4-2 for examples. Please also consult the Week 2 rubric for the requirements of the Assignment. Your letter does not need internal citations, but remember to include an APA formatted reference page.
Tom Smith’s Attorney:
William Wagner
Wagner & Evans LLP
109 Wayfair Avenue
Portage, Indiana 46368
(219)314-7857
W.Wagner@Wagner&Evans.net
Client Address
Tom Smith
405 Land’s End Drive
Portage, Indiana 46368
Grading
Please review the Assignment grading rubric under Grading Rubrics for more information on how your Assignment will be graded.
Submitting Your Work
Create your Assignment as a Word document. Save it in a location and with a name that you will remember. When you are ready to submit, select the Unit 2 Assignment Dropbox and upload your file. To view your graded work after your instructor has evaluated it, please use the Dropbox or the Gradebook.
PA106 Legal Terminology and Transcription
Unit 4 Assignment
Client Interview/Draft Complaint
Here are the facts of the case you have been working on.
Tom and Mary Smith went to dinner at La Grande Fromage restaurant. Tom’s bad lower back (hereditary disc problems) was acting up but he did not take a pain pill before going out. He was in some pain when the couple arrived at the restaurant. He had three glasses of wine before dinner hoping it would quell the pain. Before dinner was served, he got up to use the restroom. On his way to the restroom, he slipped on a puddle of melted butter on the floor and was seriously injured. The puddle he slipped on was comprised of several wrapped individual butter pats that had simply melted into a rather large yellowish blob on the floor near the men’s room door. The butter pats had fallen off a tray that a busboy was carrying back to the kitchen while clearing a table. It is unclear how long they had been on the floor before Tom slipped on them. As soon as he dropped them, the busboy had yelled to the restaurant hostess (who saw them fall from her post at the hostess station) “That needs to be cleaned up!”
Tom has now decided to retain your law firm Wagner & Evans LLP. Your supervising attorney has asked you to begin working on the case. This Assignment has two parts.
Part one is an interview with your client Tom Smith.
Part two is drafting the complaint.
This week, you will be interviewing and drafting a complaint for your client Tom Smith.
Part 1: Please draft 10 questions you would like to ask Tom about his accident.
Part 2: After some initial research, you will be filing the complaint against the La Grande Fromage restaurant for the slip and fall. Please use the facts above. Listen to the dictation, available via the Audio icon below, in order to complete your complaint. Listen to the dictation a few times while taking notes. Pay special attention to paragraph breaks, spelling of legal terms, and proper punctuation.
Use Figure 1-4 in your textbook for an example of formatting for your complaint.
Also please review the following regarding proving fault.
FindLaw. Proving fault in slip and fall accidents. Retrieved from http://injury.findlaw.com/torts-and-personal-injuries/proving-fault-in-slip-and-fall-accidents.html.
Grading
Please review the Assignment grading rubric under Grading Rubrics for more information on how your Assignment will be graded.
Submitting Your Work
Create your Assignment as a Word document. Save it in a location and with a name that you will remember. When you are ready to submit, select the Unit 4 Assignment Dropbox and upload your file. To view your graded work after your instructor has evaluated it, please use the Dropbox or the Gradebook.
PA106 Legal Terminology and Transcription
Unit 5 Assignment
Career Planning
Part I (Individual Project)
It is important to reflect on the career field for which you are studying. Take some time to review the video below which summarizes paralegal careers. How would your describe your career plan to potential future employers, colleagues, and/or instructors?Summarize your personal career plan and how you plan on meeting your career goals in a short paper. Take this opportunity to write out a clear, concise, and organized description of your personal career plan; the steps you are currently taking; and those you plan to take, to achieve your career goals.
Part II (Group Project)
Your instructor will be placing you into a small group with two to four of your fellow students. Take a short opportunity to meet in the team area of the classroom. Your instructor will explain this area during your week 4 Seminar. In the team area discuss your personal career plans and how you plan on achieving your career goals.
Part III (Peer Evaluation)
You will assess your team members, and they will assess you using the Peer Evaluation form. Your instructor will not share your peer evaluation feedback with others; you may choose to ask teammates to share their perceptions with you, so you can improve your team contribution.
Group Project Clarification
Your instructor will assign you to a group. Groups will be posted in a course Announcement
All students must use the Team Area in the classroom to conduct the group discussion.
All students must submit their own paper.
All students must submit a Peer Evaluation form (found in Course Documents).
Refer to the Unit 5 Assignment Rubric under Grading Rubrics for Individual and Group Grade detail.
Submitting Your Work
Create your Assignment as a Word document. Save it in a location and with a name that you will remember. When you are ready to submit, select the Unit 5 Assignment Dropbox and upload your file. To view your graded work after your instructor has evaluated it, please use the Dropbox or the Gradebook.
PA106 Legal Terminology and Transcription
Unit 6 Assignment
Last Will and Testament
The Unit 6 Assignment consists of two parts: Part 1 is drafting a will and part 2 is locating some information on drafting a will in your state.
Part 1:
For part 1 of this week’s Assignment, you will be writing a will. For this Assignment, you will be listening to the dictation, available via the Audio icon below, and drafting the last will and testament of George Curtis Landers. Please use the examples located in Chapter 5 of your Legal Transcription book to help you in formatting the document. Also, please pay attention to the transcription rules provided for you located at the end of Chapter 3, pages 134–135. Listen to the dictation a few times while taking notes. Pay special attention to paragraph breaks, spelling of legal terms, and proper punctuation.
Transcribe the will of George Curtis Landers, who has a wife and two sons. Center the title on three double-spaced lines. Use centered article numbers or the divisions, i.e., ARTICLE I, etc. Use the following style or page numbering: Page 1 of My Will _____.
Part 2: Research your state’s statutes on creating a will. Please share the following:
Share the basic requirements for making a valid will in your state. Cite to the precedent you located for your answer.
Determine whether the wills must be notarized.
How many witnesses are necessary to create a valid will?
Are holographic wills permitted?
Be sure to cite the appropriate state code section where you found the information
Grading
Please review the Assignment grading rubric under Grading Rubrics for more information on how your Assignment will be graded.
Submitting Your Work
Create your Assignment as a Word document. Save it in a location and with a name that you will remember. When you are ready to submit, select the Unit 6 Assignment Dropbox and upload your file. To view your graded work after your instructor has evaluated it, please use the Dropbox or the Gradebook.
PA106 Legal Terminology and Transcription
Unit 8 Assignment
Petition to Establish Paternity and Adoption
The Unit 8 Assignment consists of two parts. The first part is to listen to a dictation and draft a petition to establish paternity. The second part consists of finding the laws regarding adoption in your home state.
Part 1: Please listen to the Dictation 9-5, available via the Audio icon below.
Transcribe a petition to establish paternity in a case where the father, David Fred Gupton, paid hospital bills for the child and mother, lived with the mother for 2 years, and then left the mother, Lynn Ann Church, when the child was 2 years old. The attorney is Christopher F. Chadwell.
Phone: (907) 555-8822, Facsimile: (907) 555-8823,
Email address: [email protected].
Note: Include the facsimile number and email address in the signature block.
Please note that at the end, you are asked to include a jurat and a notary signature block. Make sure to listen to the dictation a few times while taking notes. Pay special attention to paragraph breaks, spelling of legal terms, and proper punctuation.
Use Figure 9-5 in your Legal Transcription textbook for an example.
Part 2:
A client has come into your office. She would like to find out some information about her birth parents. She is 19 years old and was adopted as a newborn through a private adoption. She knows nothing about her adoption and wants to know what the laws are regarding the types of information she is entitled to. Please research the laws of your state and provide a paragraph or two explaining the laws of adoption from your state. Make sure to properly cite the laws that you find.
Grading
Please review the Assignment grading rubric under Grading Rubrics for more information on how your Assignment will be graded.
Submitting Your Work
Create your Assignment as a Word document. Save it in a location and with a name that you will remember. When you are ready to submit, select the Unit 8 Assignment Dropbox and upload your file. To view your graded work after your instructor has evaluated it, please use the Dropbox or the Gradebook.
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