Vocabulary
Penalty of a crime punishable by more than one year in prison.
What Is a felony?
A retainer fee is an upfront cost incurred by an individual in order to pay for the services of a lawyer
What is a retainer fee?
What is a trial court?
Rules and regulations made and enforce by government that regulate the conduct of people within a society.
What are Laws?
The person accused of committing a crime in a civil or criminal case
What is a defendant?
a sum of money that a lawyer receives as a fee only if the case is won.
What is a contingency fee?
The U.S court system is based on this type of system
What is an Adversarial system
This is the study of law and legal philosophy
What is Jurisprudence?
The accuser of a crime in a criminal case
What is a prosecutor?
Changing of family status, buying or selling real estate, creation of wills
What are reasons to consult a lawyer?
The Role of the Jury is Outlined in these two amendments
This value deals with the fundamental question of what is right or wrong
What are Moral values?
Penalty of a crime punishable by less than one year in prison
What is a misdemeanor?
What is the average contingency rate?
This type of trial is only possible when there is a claim that the trial court has committed an error in the law
What is an appeals court?
This value deals with the accumulation, preservation, use, and distribution of wealth
What are economic values?
The accuser of a crime in a civil case.
What is a plaintiff?
Lawyers that go to court
This is the highest court in the American court system
What is the Supreme Court?
This value deals with the issues that are important to society
What are social values