A convenient, comprehensive guide to the language of law for everyone from the homeowner to the legal professional.  Includes more than 10,000 legal words and phrases.  Updated entries taken from recent events that propelled legal terms into our da ily lives:  From the financial meltdown?credit default swap, subprime, systemic risk, credit rating agency, moral hazard  From the world of computers and the Internet?cyberbullying, identity fraud, malware, phishing  From crime?Amber alert, commu nity policing, person of interest  Includes pronunciations, example phrases and quotations, and frequent supplementary notes.  Special sections on the judicial system, important legal cases, government agencies, and historic laws.