Business Law Paper

Business Law

A Primer to the Administrator and Staff of Law

Professor: John Becker

By

Carolyn Johnson

I have been hired by Primary Care of Atlanta located in Sandy Springs, Georgia with the objective to provide training of the basic legal principles and concepts which make up our legal system to our team that will be working closely with our Legal Department. Our laws within the United States purpose is to govern and maintain a certain standard of behavior within our society for the common good of all and without such govern laws, our society would be in disarray. There is an expressed importance for each individual to have a sound basic knowledge of and obligation to abide by these laws. Ignorance of the law is no excuse and is no defense in our court systems. Our court system imposes punishment for any violations of individuals that break these laws.

Our Constitution set the standard of our responsibilities as well as provide for us our rights that are enforced by our court systems and the law is for all not a few or a selected few. The most powerful weapon against injustice is the Law. In an effort to ensure the employees of this department has the basic understanding of various legal concepts of the law, due to your operation duties with our legal department, This training session will address and highlight the common law tradition and sources of law that will include the following topics:

The Unites States legal system is based upon English common law.

What is common law?-Common law is law developed by judges through decisions of courts and similar tribunals through legislative statutes or executive branch action, Our common law system is a legal system that gives great precedential weight to common law on the principle that it is unfair to treat similar facts differently on different occasions and the body of precedent is called common law that binds future decisions.

What are the sources of American Law?-There are four sources of law which are:...