The \"cartwheel\" is a technique designed to assist paralegals in acquiring the

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The "cartwheel" is a technique designed to assist paralegals in acquiring the skill of using indexes and tables of contents in law books. The "cartwheel" is a method of developing the habit of phrasing every word involved in the client's research problem at least ten different ways. Using a legal thesaurus, such as Ballentine's Legal Dictionary and Thesaurus, is helpful in developing this skill.

For example, if you researched the issue of the validity of a client's marriage that took place in Barbados, you would "cartwheel" the term marriage and begin your research using terms such as wedding, annulment, divorce, separation, celebration, ceremony, formality, wedlock, contract, religion, betrothal, minister, name change, jurisdiction, and prenuptial.

Please "cartwheel" each of the following problems and provide at least ten other terms that you would use in beginning a research project involving each of the following hypotheticals.

2.   Your office's client, Ima Klutz, recently slipped and fell in the back of a local grocery store. She requested to view, and possibly purchase, "day old bakery" and was informed by store personnel that the "day old bakery " was on bins "in the back of the store". Ima proceeded to the back of the store and through the doors marked "Employees Only" in search of the "day old bakery". She then slipped and fell in that part of the store. Please cartwheel this problem.

Explanation / Answer

day old bakery: day past bakery, day smelt bakery, day used bakery, day long bakery, day perished bakery, 24 hour old bakery, 24 hour spent baking house, day used bread, day long baking shop, day old baking shop.

in the back of the store: back store, besides the front side, hind side of the store, backing of the store, back side of the shop, rear side of the shop, rear side of the store, waste side of the store, wasteful part of the stop, wastage side of the shop.

Employees Only: hired persons only, paid persons only, working persons only, good workers only, occupied person only, clerks only, loyally employed only, performers only, job doer only, participants only.

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