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Interviewing and Investigating: Essential Skills for the Paralegal, Ninth Edition

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  • Stephen P. Parsons
Series / Aspen Paralegal Series
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632 pages
Publication Date
2024-09-15
Edition
Ninth Edition
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Preface

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Interviewing and Investigating: Essential Skills for the Paralegal, Ninth Edition, provides a thorough and practical approach to helping paralegal students establish a strong foundation in interviewing and investigating skills. Experienced author Stephen Parsons carefully places that instruction in exactly the context of civil disputes, criminal prosecutions, and commercial business transactions where modern lawyers need assistants with those skills. Students learn how to identify and locate witnesses, obtain vital information from both public and private sources, and how to arrange and conduct effective interviews of clients and witnesses, both in the office and in the field. Throughout, the text uses explanations, examples, and illustrations along with realistic case studies with vetted student role-playing assignments to accomplish its pedagogical goals.

New to the Ninth Edition:
● New and freshened examples, hypotheticals, and Learn by Doing exercises
● Updated references to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, and Federal Rules of Evidence
● All forms have been updated
● Updated references to numerous online resources
● Chapters 1 and 2 contain expanded discussion of attorney responsibility and potential liability for paralegal conduct, including new ABA Formal Opinion 506 dealing with the use of paralegals for intake work
● Chapter 2 also expands coverage of the movement toward non-lawyer legal licensing
● Revised coverage of personal jurisdiction in civil litigation in Chapter 3
● In the chapters on communication skills and interviewing, fresh consideration of concepts such as implicit bias as the potential enemy of communication and comprehension.
● Continued emphasis on the latest developments in communication technology
● Expanded discussion of the implications of the growing participation by individuals and entities in social media on the tasks of identifying and locating witnesses, interviewing clients and witnesses, and e-discovery in civil and criminal cases
● New coverage of Artificial intelligence (AI) and facial recognition technology

Professors and students will benefit from:
● Dynamic pedagogy, including hypotheticals with questions, Learn by Doing exercises, chapter summaries, and basic review questions in every chapter
● Examples from civil, criminal, litigation, and non-litigation scenarios
● Emphasis on ethical and professional standards, integrated throughout the text and focused on in a chapter devoted to ethical issues
● Four realistic cases for analysis and use in the Learn by Doing exercises-homicide, personal injury, domestic relations, and a commercial real estate development project
● Keep in Mind feature emphasizes and recaps important points
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Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments

PART 1: Foundations for Interviewing and Investigating
Chapter 1: Introduction to Interviewing and Investigating
Chapter 2: Ethical and Professional Responsibilities for Legal Professionals Engaged in Interviewing and Investigating
Chapter 3: The Adversarial System, ADR, and Pre-Filing Investigation
Chapter 4: Formal Discovery in Civil Litigation
Chapter 5: Formal Discovery in Criminal Litigation
Chapter 6: Rules of Evidence for the Investigator—Part 1
Chapter 7: Rules of Evidence for the Investigator—Part 2
Chapter 8: Communication Skills for the Investigator

PART 2: Formulating and Executing a Plan of Investigation
Chapter 9: Formulating a Plan of Investigation
Chapter 10: Preparing for a Client Interview
Chapter 11: Conducting a Client Interview
Chapter 12: Preparing for a Witness Interview
Chapter 13: Conducting a Witness Interview
Chapter 14: Identifying and Locating Fact Witnesses
Chapter 15: Working with Expert Witnesses
Chapter 16: Public Sources of Information—Federal
Chapter 17: Public Sources of Information—State and Local
Chapter 18: Private Sources of Information

Appendix: Case Studies
Glossary
Table of Cases
Index
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About the authors
Stephen P. Parsons
Professor Emeritus
Appalachian School of Law

Stephen P. Parsons has been licensed to practice law in the state of Tennessee for more than 40 years. He was a partner in the Stophel, Caldwell and Heggie law firm in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and later in the Wagner, Myers & Sanger firm in Knoxville, Tennessee, specializing in commercial law and tort litigation. Thereafter, he was the principal in The Parsons Law Firm in Greeneville, Tennessee. From 2006 to 2015, he was a professor of law at Appalachian School of Law in Buchanan County, Virginia, where he taught Evidence, Contracts, Sales, Debtor-Creditor Law, Civil Trial Practice, and Appellate Advocacy. He retired from the school of law in 2015 as Associate Professor of Law Emeritus. Prior to service at the school of law, he was active in paralegal education, having served as the initial program director for the Paralegal Studies Program at Walters State Community College in Morristown, Tennessee, where he was a tenured professor and chair of the Legal Studies Department.

Parsons received his B.A. degree from David Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee, with a double major in Speech and Religion. He received his J.D. from The University of Tennessee College of Law, finishing first in his graduating class and was selected for inclusion in the Order of the Coif. While a law student, Parsons received book awards for achieving the high grade in five different courses: Torts, Evidence, Corporations, Administrative Law, and Bills & Notes. He also won the Advocates Prize Moot Court competition as a law student and was named Best Oralist in the competition.

In addition to Interviewing and Investigating: Essential Skills for the Legal Profession, now in its eighth edition, Professor Parsons is the author of The ABC’s of Debt: A Case Study Approach to Debtor-Creditor Relations and Bankruptcy Law, now in its sixth edition. He is also the author of Consumer Bankruptcy Law and co-author of Business Bankruptcy, both titles in the Aspen Publishing Focus Casebook Series.
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Edition
Ninth Edition
Publication date
2024-09-15
Copyright Year
2024
Pages
632
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