PARALEGAL 101 ACTUAL 2026 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Partnership - ✔✔A business run by two or more persons as co-owners.
✔✔Professional Corporation (PC) - ✔✔A professional entity in which the stockholders
share in the organization's profits but have their liabilities limited to the amount of their
investment.
✔✔Limited liability partnership (LLP) - ✔✔A professional entity in which the owners
share in the organization's profits but are not liable for the malpractice of their partners.
✔✔Legal clinic - ✔✔Usually organized as either a partnership or a professional
corporation, law clinics provide low-cost legal services on routine matters by stessing
low overhead and high volume.
✔✔Legal services offices - ✔✔Affiliated with the federal government's Legal Services
Corporation, these offices serve those who would otherwise be unable to afford legal
assistance.
✔✔Laws - ✔✔Rules of conduct promulgated and enforced by the government.
✔✔Constitutional law - ✔✔A body of principles and rules that are either explicitly stated
in, or inferred from, the constitutions of the United States and those of the individual
states.
✔✔Separation of powers - ✔✔The division of governmental power among the
legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
✔✔Federalism - ✔✔A system of government in which the authority to govern is split
between a single, nationwide central government and several regional governments that
control specific geographical areas.
, ✔✔Bill of Rights - ✔✔The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
✔✔Power of judicial review - ✔✔A court's power to review statutes to decide if they
conform to the federal or a state constitution.
✔✔Statute - ✔✔A law enacted by a state legislature or by Congress.
✔✔Administrative law - ✔✔Rules and regulations created by administrative agencies.
✔✔Regulation - ✔✔A law promulgated by an administrative agency.
✔✔Enabling act - ✔✔A statute establishing and setting out the powers of an
administrative agency.
✔✔Common law - ✔✔Body of law that has evolved from judicial decisions in cases that
do not involve constitutional, statutory, or administrative regulation interpretation.
✔✔Stare decisis - ✔✔The doctrine stating that normally once a court has decided one
way on a particular issue, it and other courts in the same jurisdiction will decide the
same way on that issue in future cases given similar facts unless they can be convinced
of the need for change.
✔✔Codification of the common law - ✔✔The process of legislative enactment of areas
of the law previously governed solely by the common law.
✔✔Derogation of the common law - ✔✔Used to describe legislation that changes the
common law.
✔✔Equity - ✔✔Fairness; a court's power to do justice. Equity powers allow judges to
take action when otherwise the law would limit their decisions to monetary awards.
Equity powers include a judge's ability to issue an injunction and to order specific
performance.
✔✔Injunction - ✔✔A court order rquiring a party to perform a specific act or to cease
doing a specific act.
✔✔Specific performance - ✔✔A requirement that a party fulfill his or her contractual
obligations.
✔✔Federalism - ✔✔A system of government in which the authority to govern is split
between a single, nationwide central government and several regional governments that
control specific geographical areas.
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Partnership - ✔✔A business run by two or more persons as co-owners.
✔✔Professional Corporation (PC) - ✔✔A professional entity in which the stockholders
share in the organization's profits but have their liabilities limited to the amount of their
investment.
✔✔Limited liability partnership (LLP) - ✔✔A professional entity in which the owners
share in the organization's profits but are not liable for the malpractice of their partners.
✔✔Legal clinic - ✔✔Usually organized as either a partnership or a professional
corporation, law clinics provide low-cost legal services on routine matters by stessing
low overhead and high volume.
✔✔Legal services offices - ✔✔Affiliated with the federal government's Legal Services
Corporation, these offices serve those who would otherwise be unable to afford legal
assistance.
✔✔Laws - ✔✔Rules of conduct promulgated and enforced by the government.
✔✔Constitutional law - ✔✔A body of principles and rules that are either explicitly stated
in, or inferred from, the constitutions of the United States and those of the individual
states.
✔✔Separation of powers - ✔✔The division of governmental power among the
legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
✔✔Federalism - ✔✔A system of government in which the authority to govern is split
between a single, nationwide central government and several regional governments that
control specific geographical areas.
, ✔✔Bill of Rights - ✔✔The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
✔✔Power of judicial review - ✔✔A court's power to review statutes to decide if they
conform to the federal or a state constitution.
✔✔Statute - ✔✔A law enacted by a state legislature or by Congress.
✔✔Administrative law - ✔✔Rules and regulations created by administrative agencies.
✔✔Regulation - ✔✔A law promulgated by an administrative agency.
✔✔Enabling act - ✔✔A statute establishing and setting out the powers of an
administrative agency.
✔✔Common law - ✔✔Body of law that has evolved from judicial decisions in cases that
do not involve constitutional, statutory, or administrative regulation interpretation.
✔✔Stare decisis - ✔✔The doctrine stating that normally once a court has decided one
way on a particular issue, it and other courts in the same jurisdiction will decide the
same way on that issue in future cases given similar facts unless they can be convinced
of the need for change.
✔✔Codification of the common law - ✔✔The process of legislative enactment of areas
of the law previously governed solely by the common law.
✔✔Derogation of the common law - ✔✔Used to describe legislation that changes the
common law.
✔✔Equity - ✔✔Fairness; a court's power to do justice. Equity powers allow judges to
take action when otherwise the law would limit their decisions to monetary awards.
Equity powers include a judge's ability to issue an injunction and to order specific
performance.
✔✔Injunction - ✔✔A court order rquiring a party to perform a specific act or to cease
doing a specific act.
✔✔Specific performance - ✔✔A requirement that a party fulfill his or her contractual
obligations.
✔✔Federalism - ✔✔A system of government in which the authority to govern is split
between a single, nationwide central government and several regional governments that
control specific geographical areas.
