10 Books Every Paralegal Student Should Read
Students interested in becoming a paralegal should read the following 10 books.
1. Becoming a Paralegal
This book tells the reader everything they need to know about becoming a paralegal.
2. The Everything Guide to Being a Paralegal: Winning Secrets to a Successful Career!
This book covers paralegal career options, day to day paralegal work and ethics.
3. Legal Research For Beginners
This book is an excellent choice because paralegals spend a lot of time researching the law. This book covers the basics of how to research a legal issue from start to finish.
4. Legal Writing In Plain English: A Text With Exercises
This book will help interested students learn to prepare and write legal documents. This text helps the student learn more effective wording.
5. The Paralegal’s Handbook: A Complete Reference for All Your Daily Tasks
This is a good choice for reading because it covers every aspect of a paralegal’s job.
6. Paralegal Career For Dummies
This book is focuses on helping the reader get a job in the right area of law where the paralegal will be happiest and most effective.
7. Introduction to Paralegalism: Perspectives, Problems and Skills
This text covers document preparation, legal research, rules of ethics for each state, representing clients at administrative agencies and many other skills. Each topic in this text is covered in great detail.
8. 2010 Federal Civil Rules Booklet
This book is important because paralegals need to be aware of the current laws.
9. Paralegal Procedures and Practices
This book is meant to supplement another paralegal text. Readers of this text are given examples on how to interview clients, create documents and structure their resume.
10. Lessons from the Top Paralegal Experts: The 15 Most Successful Paralegals and What You can Learn from Them
This book is very important to provide the reader with real world examples of exactly what the paralegal profession entails. Paralegals discuss certification and whether paralegals should be state certified. They also give the reader day to day advice on a range of topics.
