{"id":404,"date":"2011-05-14T10:48:45","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T17:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/owlpublishing.ca\/?p=404"},"modified":"2018-05-12T13:59:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-12T20:59:30","slug":"legal-office-procedures-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/owlpublishing.ca\/?p=404","title":{"rendered":"Legal Office Procedures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title: <\/strong><em>Legal Office Procedures,<\/em> 7th Edition, 2017.<br \/>\n<strong> ISBN: <\/strong>978-1-896512-56-3.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Author:<\/strong> Tina Kamakaris,\u00a0Jane Kamakaris, Louis Kamakaris<br \/>\nWith a Foreword by Gordon A. Ullman, of the Ontario Bar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Classification: <\/strong> Textbook for law clerks, paralegals, legal assistants; law office reference manual.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Price:<\/strong> Please contact our distributors: Emond\u00a0Publishing, Toronto.\u00a01-888-837-0815<\/p>\n<p>Tina Kamakaris combines her extensive experience as a college professor with her legal office knowledge to create this high-quality <em>Legal Office Procedures<\/em> text that is respected throughout professional and educational communities.\u00a0 With Jane Kamakaris and Louis Kamakaris being graduates from law clerk and legal office programs and enjoying successful careers in the legal field, the text provides a firsthand eyewitness account of the legal office environment and the skills and professionalism that legal students require for a successful legal career.\u00a0 The text takes students step-by-step through start-to-finish legal files and also outlines the rationale, background, and substantive law behind these procedures, giving students a true glimpse inside a busy and dynamic legal office environment.\u00a0 Designed for Canadian college-level law clerk, paralegal, and legal office programs, the text uses a writing style that is concise, easy to follow, and ideal for students new to the subject.\u00a0 By incorporating the most widely practised areas of law into a single volume, this highly respected text covers the entire legal curriculum and also serves as a handy legal reference manual, carrying students from their legal classroom, to their legal field placement, to their legal workplace.\u00a0 Students can also purchase the <em>Legal Office Procedures Workbook<\/em> that includes hands-on start-to-finish legal files and assignments, including interfacing files and legal templates, aligned with each chapter in the main text.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Areas of law include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Practice Management<\/li>\n<li>Civil and Criminal Litigation<\/li>\n<li>Family Law<\/li>\n<li>Corporate and Commercial Law<\/li>\n<li>Real Estate<\/li>\n<li>Estates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Features:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The hallmarks and mainstays that <em>Legal Office Procedures<\/em> has originated and is renowned for include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Start-to-finish\u00a0legal files with ongoing full life cycle scenarios, to Aristotle&#8217;s, &#8220;The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.&#8221;\u00a0 Like a big puzzle that is difficult to put all the pieces together without seeing the overall big picture on the front cover, the start-to-finish files of <em>Legal Office Procedures<\/em> allow students to see the big picture and to understand the relevance and significance of each procedural part.\u00a0 This holistic method of learning eliminates mechanical performance and provides a good level of independence in the legal workplace by enabling students to anticipate and act with initiative on the next procedural step.<\/li>\n<li>Concise, comprehensive coverage of the most commonly practised areas of law &#8212; practice management, civil litigation, criminal litigation, family, corporate and commercial, real estate, and estates &#8212; all under a single cover, as opposed to seven individually priced books.\u00a0 <em>Legal Office Procedures<\/em> affordably covers the entire legal curriculum and renders its students at once employable in any and all of these areas of practice.<\/li>\n<li>Straight forward student-centered language that presumes no prior legal knowledge, to Benjamin Franklin&#8217;s, &#8220;Tell me, I will forget. Teach me, I may remember. Involve me, I will understand.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Step-by-step practice and procedure aptly reinforced by substantive law, case law, and completed precedents.<\/li>\n<li>Principles of legal writing and oral presentation with exclusive examples by Manitoba&#8217;s Justice John A. Scollin and Ontario&#8217;s Justice Thomas G. Zuber.<\/li>\n<li>Legal tips to help students reveal important points in practice and procedure, including charts, tables, and screen prints.<\/li>\n<li>Chapter summaries and end-of-chapter review questions.<\/li>\n<li>Precedents completed on legal software:\u00a0 PCLaw, ACL, DIVORCEmate, Do Process (Conveyancer, Fast Company, Estate-A-Base).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Brief Table of Contents:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Part I: Practice Management<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nChapter 1 The Legal\u00a0Office Environment<br \/>\nChapter 2 Legal Office Records Management<br \/>\nChapter 3 Legal Office Dockets and Accounts<br \/>\nChapter 4 Effective Legal Writing and Oral Presentations<br \/>\nChapter 5 Legal Office Correspondence<br \/>\nChapter 6 Legal Research and Memorandums of Law<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part II: Litigation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chapter 7 The\u00a0Court System of Canada<br \/>\nChapter 8 Preparing and Serving Court Documents<br \/>\nChapter 9 Introduction to Civil Litigation<br \/>\nChapter 10 Commencing the Civil Litigation Action<br \/>\nChapter 11 Defending the Civil Litigation Action<br \/>\nChapter 12 Counterclaims and Third Party Claims<br \/>\nChapter 13 Discoveries<br \/>\nChapter 14 Pre-trial<br \/>\nChapter 15 Trial<br \/>\nChapter 16 Applications<br \/>\nChapter 17 Motions<br \/>\nChapter 18 Disposition without Trial and Enforcement of Orders<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part III: Family Law<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chapter 19 Marriage and Domestic Contracts<br \/>\nChapter 20 Introduction to Family Law<br \/>\nChapter 21 Family Law Rules and Procedures<br \/>\nChapter 22 Commencing a Divorce Case<br \/>\nChapter 23 Contesting a Divorce<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part IV: Corporate and Commercial Law<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chapter 24 Unincorporated Businesses<br \/>\nChapter 25 Corporate Law<br \/>\nChapter 26 Incorporating\u00a0a Business Corporation<br \/>\nChapter 27 Organizing the Business Corporation<br \/>\nChapter 28 Post-Incorporation Matters<br \/>\nChapter 29 Corporate and Commercial Law<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part V: Real Estate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chapter 30 Introduction to Real Estate<br \/>\nChapter 31\u00a0 Land Registration Systems<br \/>\nChapter 32 Transfers<br \/>\nChapter 33 Charges\/Mortgages and Remedies<br \/>\nChapter 34 Discharges and Related Documents<br \/>\nChapter 35 Sale Transactions<br \/>\nChapter 36 Purchase Transactions<br \/>\nChapter 37 Condominiums<br \/>\nChapter 38 Title Searching &#8211; A New Perspective<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part VI: Estates<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chapter 39 Wills and Powers of Attorney<br \/>\nChapter 40 Inheritance<br \/>\nChapter 41 Application for Certificate with a Will<br \/>\nChapter 42 Application for Certificate without a Will<br \/>\nChapter 43 Distribution of Estates<\/p>\n<p>Glossary<br \/>\nIndex to Precedents<br \/>\nIndex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventh Edition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/owlpublishing.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/owlpublishing.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/owlpublishing.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owlpublishing.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owlpublishing.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":76,"href":"https:\/\/owlpublishing.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552,"href":"https:\/\/owlpublishing.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/owlpublishing.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owlpublishing.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owlpublishing.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}