Which of the following are types of documents that paralegals prepare?
a. Pleadings and discovery
b. General legal correspondence
c. Internal legal memoranda
d. Pleadings and discovery and internal legal memoranda
e. All of these choices are correct
Q. 2Which of the following is an important writing resource for paralegals?
a. Black's Law Dictionary
b. The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation
c. The Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style
d. Black's Law Dictionary and The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation
e. All of these choices are correct
Q. 3Why is it important to have access to a legal dictionary such as Black's Law Dictionary?
a. Some words such as trusts or consideration have specific law meanings
that are not necessarily the same as their meaning in ordinary speech
b. Many paralegals have trouble with spelling
c. Attorneys often quiz their paralegals on law terminology
d. All of these choices are correct
Q. 4Which of the following would a paralegal be unlikely to use when writing?
a. A dictionary
b. A thesaurus
c. A style manual
d. None of these choices are correct
Q. 5Which of the following are useful writing tools?
a. A dictionary
b. A thesaurus
c. A style manual
d. A dictionary and a thesaurus
e. All of these choices are correct
Q. 6Which of the following skills are essential for creating legal documents?
a. The ability to organize material and write to the intended audience
b. The ability to avoid legalese
c. The ability to be brief and to the point
d. The ability to present well-constructed sentences and paragraphs
e. The ability to organize material and write to the intended audience and the
ability to be brief and to the point
f. All of these choices are correct
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