LEGAL 210 & the Paralegal Program
Students in LEGAL 210 are expected to attend regularly and may only have this many absences before grade deductions begin.
What is 2 absences?
The process of finding laws, regulations, and cases for a specific legal issue.
What is Legal Research?
The branch that makes the laws through statutes.
What is the Legislative Branch?
The supreme law of the land, which all other laws must follow.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
Students may not use these devices to attend class because they don't meet the technology requirements.
What are cell phones and iPads?
The skill of clearly and professionally communicating legal analysis in documents like memos or letters.
What is Legal Writing?
The branch that enforces laws through agencies, regulations, and executive orders.
What is the Executive Branch?
Federal regulations are published here.
What is the Code of Federal Regulations (C.F.R.)?
These courses teach the rights and duties of people and entities, like Contracts or Criminal Law.
What is Substantive Law?
The set of rules used to reference legal authorities, like cases and statutes accurately.
What are Legal Citations?
The branch that interprets laws through court decisions.
What is the Judicial Branch?
The highest legal written authority within each state.
What is the State Constitution?
Courses in this category teach how lawsuits move through the courts and include LEGAL 205.
What is Procedural Law?
This national citation guide is used to format legal citations for constitutions, cases, statutes, and secondary sources.
What is The Bluebook?
This is what distinguishes regulations from statutes.
Statutes are created by congress (legislative branch) while regulations are created by agencies (executive branch).
This principle in Article VI of the U.S. Constitution resolves conflicts by giving federal law priority over state law.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
This category of course emphasizes hands-on learning, such as drafting legal documents, researching using Westlaw, and learning legal technology.
What are Skill-Building courses?
This resource is used in Legal Research & Writing to help students correctly cite Washington State legal materials.
What is the Washington Style Sheet?
These laws are created by administrative agencies under authority granted by the legislature through these kinds of laws.
What are enabling statutes?
These decisions by state and federal courts interpret and apply state constitutions, statutes, and regulations.
What is case law?