Litigation Publications

Building Trial Notebooks

By Leonard H. Bucklin

Leonard Bucklin’s proven and highly-visible approach to litigation preparation will ensure that your cases and you are always ready for the next skirmish… even when unanticipated issues and arguments arise.

Mr. Bucklin, who has been identified by the International Academy of Trial Lawyers as one of the top 500 trial lawyers in the U.S., created and polished his litigation preparation system over decades of high-stakes trial work. Now the Bucklin system is available to help you. Learn more

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California Causes of Action

By Stanton T. Mathews & Kevin Lancaster

"Here is an extremely useful tool for practitioners engaging in various civil practice areas - concise and preresearched, it is a guide to over 90 causes of action, all in one desk top binder.  The collected work of twenty-one litigation specialists and 100 practicing attorney advisors, California Causes of Action covers sixteen separate practice categories."

— Excerpted from California Journal of Law

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California Objections: Civil and Criminal

By Gregory H. Ward and James Michael Byrne

The key to winning evidentiary debates is objecting and responding with arguments and supporting authority at your fingertips. That is where Judge Gregory Ward (Ret.) and Judge James Byrne’s (Ret.) California Objections can help. It uses a courtroom-friendly format to cover 125 objections with clear and concise explanations, trial-tested tips, persuasive arguments, and supporting cases. Learn more

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California Pretrial Practice & Forms

By Judge Owen Lee Kwong, Donald G. Rez, and Robert F. Kane

Concentrates on the topics where questions and disputes arise. It devotes pages where you spend time: drafting pleadings, preparing and presenting motions, conducting discovery, resolving discovery disputes, and negotiating settlements. Learn more

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Deposition Checklists & Strategies

By Evan Schaeffer

1,000’s of deposition questions are supported with strategy, law, practice tips, and thumbnail deposition outlines. Troublesome answers are annotated with commentary and follow-up questions. Covers auto accidents, premises liability, products liability, medical malpractice, employment discrimination and termination, and insurance coverage disputes. Learn more

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Deposition Objections

By Joseph A. Ranney

This handy $69 softcover guide provides the grounds and language for: attorney-client privilege, attorney work-product privilege, proprietary and confidential information, witness self-incrimination, family communications privileges, privileges for communications with professionals, privacy privilege, legal process privilege, overbroad and burdensome questions, vagueness, ambiguity, repetition, lack of foundation, legal conclusions, and more. Learn more

Softcover book, $69

Federal Trial Evidence

By Charles M. Grant & Kim Zeldin

Ideal for the courtroom Federal Trial Evidence is complete with tactics, illustrations, key cases and simplified restatements of the Federal Rules of Evidence. Learn more

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Federal Trial Objections: Civil and Criminal

By U.S. District Judge David Levi and U.S. Magistrate Judge Peter Nowinski

Authors U.S. District Judge David Levi and U.S. Magistrate Judge Peter Nowinski masterfully detail 150 objections with pattern objection language, scope of governing rules, practice tips and cautions, arguments for making and responding to objections, and over 2,000 cases. Learn more

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Guerrilla Discovery

By Ashley Lipson

Ashley Lipson's Guerrilla Discovery offers dozens of clever strategies, novel arguments, direct answers, cautionary instructions, helpful timelines, tactically-annotated rules, and innovative forms. Learn more

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Handling Federal Discovery

By William M. Audet, Kimberly A. Fanady and Judge Fern M. Smith

"The book is first rate.  It is thoughtfully done, extremely well-organized, thorough, covers a wealth of information, and is very easy to use."

— Andree S. Blumenstein, Nashville, TN

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Illinois Objections

By Daniel M. Locallo and Gerald F. Grubb

Ideally suited to the demands of trial and last-minute trial preparation, Illinois Objections provides a time-saving alternative to lengthy treatises. Its concise but well-supported text puts the rules and cases at your fingertips. And its practical orientation guides you through the realities of evidentiary battles. Learn more

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Illinois Pretrial Practice

By Judge Jennifer Duncan-Brice, James P. Flannery, Jr., Timothy W. Kelly, & Kevin G. Owens

This answer book focuses on areas where questions frequently arise. Two-thirds of the book’s pages address pleadings, motions, and discovery. Eight chapters are devoted to discovery issues and procedures. You will find detailed coverage of: Jurisdiction and venue, privileges, standing and joinder, production of documents, pleadings, physical and mental exams, summons and service, interrogatories, motion practice, depositions, summary judgment, TROs and injunctions, settlement and ADR, defaults, and special proceedings. Learn more

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Is It Admissible?

By Ashley S. Lipson

One volume delivers fast answers and solid principles on how to propose and oppose virtually every form of evidence. Get instant access to cases, statutes and checklists to help you lay solid foundations, make accurate objections, effectively examine witnesses and more. Learn more

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Legal Secretary Federal Litigation

By Pamela Everett Nollkamper

The who, what, when, where, and how of filing documents in any federal court. Court directory information, filing, motion and discovery requirements, plus sample forms, timetables, fee schedules, and document completion requirements for every federal court in the country. Learn more

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Litigating Employment Discrimination Cases

By Andrew H. Friedman

Tactics, argument, and documents to help you with the practical aspects of discrimination litigation: case evaluation, pleading, discovery, summary judgment, experts, mediation and more.

You receive pattern arguments supported by 1,100 recent cases with parentheticals and pinpoint citations, pleadings, motions, discovery documents, deposition outlines, pitfalls to avoid ... and most important ... practice-proven tactics and techniques. Learn more

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Litigating Sexual Harassment and Sex Discrimination Cases

By Elizabeth Hubbard

This comprehensive guide covers all aspects of sexual harassment and sex discrimination claims, from both the plaintiff’s and the defendant’s perspective. The book includes practical information for employers and human resource departments on avoiding these claims. Learn more

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Model Interrogatories

By Kevin R. Culhane

The latest edition now features each of the more than 4,500 interrogatories on a companion CD-ROM, free of charge. Learn more

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New York Civil Practice Before Trial

By Judge Myriam Altman, Michael Barr, Sharon Gerstman, and Burton Lipshie

Step by step guide to New York litigation featuring 3,200 case citations and 120 forms on CD-ROM. Learn more

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New York Objections

By Helen E. Freedman

"The fact that a distinguished and expert judge co-crafted the work product with insights from "inside" the judicial mind lends practical weight to its substance. Add New York Objections to your desk top or library. For about $90, it is a steal."

— Excerpted from the New York Law Journal

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Pattern Cross-Examinations

By Walter Simpson

This practical work provides strategies, angles of attack, checklists and pattern cross-examinations for 59 witness in 10 broad subject areas: auto accidents; premises liability; medical malpractice; breach of contract; employment discrimination; products liability; insurance policy litigation; civil rights; malicious prosecution; and civil assault and battery. Learn more

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Pattern Voir Dire Questions

By Susan Broome, Ph.D.

Here are more than 1,700 jury voir dire questions at your fingertips. Built from author Susan Broome’s 20+ years of experience as a professional trial consultant, Pattern Voir Dire Questions covers a broad range of civil and criminal cases, and includes 26 written Supplemental Juror Questionnaires that you can use as-is or as the foundation for building a more detailed, fact-specific questionnaire. A Topical Index of Questions gives you an alternative way to find just the right questions for your case and make sure you have covered all the bases. Learn more

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Personal Injury Handbook

By Larry Booth and Roger Booth

This practical $99 guide is loaded with forms, checklists, and tips for 14 types of contingency cases: auto, railroad crossing, premises, inadequate security, construction site, electrocution, dog bites, livestock collisions, products, crashworthiness, industrial equipment, medical malpractice, sexual molestation, and insurance bad faith. Learn more

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Preparing for Trial in Federal Court

Includes more than 115 tasks, each broken down into separate categories that give you the what, why, when and how to federal trial preparation. Learn more

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Proven Jury Arguments & Evidence

By Karen Lisko

Juror biases, juror questions that counsel must answer, thematic options, jury analogies, most important witnesses, demonstrative evidence checklists, how to argue damages, high-risk jurors, 10-minute voir dire, and questions to avoid – all specific to case type.  Learn more

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Proving Damages to the Jury

By Jim Wren

Here is a comprehensive plan for dealing with the damages aspect of your case, from the outset of the litigation through the close of trial. Built on a solid foundation of current scientific research and more than 30 years of in-the-trenches trial experience, this 800-page masterwork will help you understand juror biases and motivations, develop persuasive evidence of damages, and talk to jurors in a way that triggers the jurors’ natural desire to do what is right and significant by awarding damages to your client. Learn more

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Qualifying & Attacking Expert Witnesses

By Robert C. Clifford

Use expert witness testimony to your advantage, even your opponent's expert. This briefcase-sized book offers tactics, checklists and case law that make easy work of preparing to deal with expert witnesses from initial discovery to trial. Learn more

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Texas Objections

By Ken Curry and Harvey Brown

Judge Ken Curry and former judge and current litigator Harvey Brown masterfully detail 175 objections with pattern objection language, scope of governing rules, practice tips and cautions, arguments for making and responding to objections, and over 3,000 cases. Learn more

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Trial Evidence Foundations

By Gordon P. Cleary & John A. Tarantino

"Designed to fit easily into a briefcase, the book will enable the advocate to quickly find the tools which he needs to offer or to oppose evidence."

— Excerpted from book review in American Journal of Trial Advocacy

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Trial Objections

By R. Rogge Dunn and Karen Hirschman

Explains when and how to make and meet objections more successfully. This quick-reference book covers the full range of objections, complete with more than 100 pattern objections, tactics, forms, suggested responses, necessary foundations, and hundreds of state and federal cases. Also includes a handy quick reference guide. Learn more

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Trial Preparation Tools

By Beth D. Osowski

Strategies, tools, checklists, calendars, idea lists, tables, spreadsheets, logs, and more for efficient and effective preparation and trial. 122 forms and checklists.;

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