What is Law?
Lawmaking
Citizen Advocacy and Settling Disputes
The Court System
Lawyers
100
The study of law and legal philosophy
What is jurisprudence?
100
Congress exercises its lawmaking authority by the passage of these.
What are statutes?
100
This is a way to influence the lawmaking process by convincing lawmakers to vote as you want them to.
What is lobbying?
100
These listen to testimony, consider evidence, and decide the facts in disputed situations.
What are trial courts?
100
Another term for trial attorney
What is litigator?
200
All members of society are required to support the legal system and obey is law.
What is "the rule of law"?
200
States that "the Constitution and the Laws of the United States...shall be the supreme law of the land."
What is the supremacy clause?
200
The art of persuading others.
What is advocacy?
200
A process where opposing lawyers question each prospective juror to discover any prejudices they may have about the case.
What is voir dire?
200
Organizations that license lawyers
What are bar associations?
300
These deal with the fundamental questions of right and wrong. These deal with the accumulation, preservation, use, and distribution of wealth. And these deal with issues that are important to society.
What are Moral, Economic, and Societal Values.
300
A judge interprets what the legislature means is determining this.
What is legislative intent?
300
These three terms describe what citizens can do about laws. The first is where the people create the law, the second is where the people vote on the law, and the third is where voters remove an elected official from office.
What are initiative, referendum, and recall.
300
An appeal is possible because the court has created this.
What is an error of law?
300
This is a down payment on the total fee. This is a percentage of what the client wins in the case; however, the client pays nothing except the expenses if the case is lost.
What are a retainer and a contingency fee?
400
The offenses listed under criminal law.
What are felonies and misdemeanors?
400
A written opinion that sets this for similar cases in the future.
What is a precedent?
400
The process by which people involved in a dispute talk to each other about their problem and try to reach a solution acceptable to all. This is an agreement.
What are negotiation and settlement.
400
Judges who disagree with the majority opinion. And judges who agree with the majority opinion, but for different reasons.
What are dissenting and concurring opinions?
400
This is where anything you tell your attorney about your case is secret and confidential.
What is privilege/attorney-client privilege?
500
The alleged criminal in a criminal case and the person harmed in a civil case.
What are the defendant and the plaintiff?
500
Higher court know as an appeal or this.
What is an appellate court?
500
Both parties to a dispute agree to have another person listen and make a decision for them. This is another method where a third person helps disputing parties talk about their problem and settle their differences. They do NOT make a decision for the parties.
What are arbitration and mediation?
500
A request of a lower court to send up is records.
What is petition for certiorari?
500
These are both bad things: the first is where your license is taken away as an attorney; the second is where a lawyer is sued by a client for serious errors in their case.
What are disbarred and legal malpractice?
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