The authors present the first objective and carefully documented study of this new occupation and explore its development, operations, and future prospects, as well as its significance for both the legal services delivery system and the consuming public. Drawing on extensive field research involving both paralegals and lawyers, the authors compare the different settings in which paralegals are employed and the characteristics of their training and organizations, how they function on the job, and what controls are maintained by the lawyers for whom they work. The authors discuss...

Nineteenth-century English author Wilkie Collins is a second-tier novelist, but his stories are full of narrative invention, high-flown emotions, and deep insights into the fate of women in English society. Moreover, Collins offered an experimental style that became overshadowed only because the Modernists were so radically experimental in their own fashion. Collins mixed genres and so offers his readers breathtaking shifts between highly accomplished passages of opera, romantic comedy, melodrama, and theatre. Collins also offers characters that have obscure and conflicted motivations,...