This book helps students effectively learn, appreciate, and develop lawyering skills in this fundamental subject by evaluating real-world practice-based problems and using best practices for legal education. The text continually places students in the roles of practitioners who apply their learning to work through solutions to modern-day client problems. This casebook implements proven instructional strategies such as clear overviews of law, graphic organizers, active learning exercises, and plentiful opportunities for practice and formative and summative assessment, including multiple choice questions.