Agricultural chemistry. Agricultural chemistry is concerned with the substances and chemical reactions that are involved with the production, protection and use of crops and livestock. It is a highly interdisciplinary field that relies on ties to many other sciences.
Legal assistance provided, as by a specially established organization, for those unable to afford an attorney. 1  American HeritageÂ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright Â© 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
The current definition of legal assistant/paralegal replaces the definition adopted by the ABA Board of Governors in 1986. It adds the term paralegal since the terms legal assistant and paralegal are, in practice, used interchangeably. legal assistant or paralegal is a person, qualified by education, training or work experience who is employed or retained by a lawyer, law office, corporation, governmental agency or other entity and who performs specifically delegated substantive legal work for which a lawyer is responsible.