Clearly written textbook that helps students understand how evidentiary principles are applied in real-life situations. Text focuses on the practical applications of the Federal rules of Evidence and how the rules relate to paralegal practice.

Features:

• Covers a full range of topics, including gathering evidence, interviewing witnesses, and researching.
• Written from a real-life perspective, showing how actual practice works in local, state, and federal court.
• Pedagogy in text developed for paralegal students, and includes short case summaries, readable examples, marginal definitions of terms, marginal cross-references to the Rules of Evidence, review questions, and hypotheticals.
• Short, concise presentation is ideal for paralegal courses.
• Updated with changes to the Federal Rules of Evidence.
• Updated with new cases.
• New hypotheticals and discussion questions added.