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© PENN FOSTER, INC. 2017 PAGE ECALR Graded Project

She wants you to validate the legal materials to find out if they’re still good law. Carry out the assignment and print your research results. It’s OK to print only the first few pages if you get a lot of hits. (Note: For the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, select your first hit and print the first page.)

Section VII: Conduct Company and Financial Research Locate the company headquarters, address, and telephone number for eBay, the online auction house. Print samples of your research results.

A. Print the first two pages of the latest quarterly (10Q) report for Dell Computer Corporation.

B. Please note, to ensure that you’ve included all the required assignments, label each assignment with the appropriate roman numeral and letter if applicable. Paper clip the papers for each assignment together.

Expectations for This Project You should be able to perform factual, business, and legal research on the Internet; understand how a paralegal uses the Internet in the legal environment; start a Lexis Advance research session; formulate a search request; search for documents; search and retrieve primary and secondary legal sources; verify the accuracy of citations using Shepard’s citation service; locate, profile, and investigate companies; conduct financial and business research; and find factual resources.

Grading Criteria for This Project

Content 100%

I. Build a judge profile 5%

II. Perform company research 5%

III. Evaluate Internet information quality 10%

IV. Formulate a search request 15%

V. Search and retrieve primary and secondary legal materials 25%

VI. Verify the accuracy of case law and statutes 25%

VII. Conduct company and financial research 15%