For courses in Legal Office Procedures, Legal Procedures, Introduction to Legal Office Procedures, Legal Secretarial Procedures, Legal Support/Assistant Procedures, and Introduction to Paralegal/Legal Assisting. Designed as a total concepts/applications learning experience, this text presents basic legal concepts in various fields of law, outlines the preparation of documents commonly used in those fields, and provides hands-on examples and projects involving data from actual cases. The approach simplifies a complicated subject into a logical, meaningful course that prepares students for successful careers as law office support staff, and provides instructors with a total instructional program that is both interesting and easy to teach.