Litigation Publications

Age Discrimination Litigation

Respected litigators L. Steven Platt and Cathy Ventrell-Monsees know what it takes to win age cases. They have tried over 100 age cases and submitted more than 50 amicus briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court and circuit courts. Within Age Discrimination Litigation, they reveal proven strategies, procedures, law, and forms.

Bankruptcy Courts & Procedures

Covers 2005’s comprehensive overhaul of the Bankruptcy Code with: detailed explanations of the changes (including the petition-preparer regulations and debtor-attorney certification), new official forms, avoiding common pitfalls, and a new chapter on needs-based bankruptcy. 

Building Trial Notebooks

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.

California Causes of Action

"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.

California Objections: Civil and Criminal

The key to winning evidentiary debates is objecting and responding with arguments and supporting authority at your fingertips. That is where Judges Gregory Ward and James Byrne’s 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.

California Pretrial Practice & Forms

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.

Deposition Checklists & Strategies

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.

Deposition Objections

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.

Federal Trial Evidence

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

Federal Trial Objections: Civil and Criminal

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.

Florida Pretrial Procedure

Organized in step-by-step outline format, Florida Pretrial Practice walks you through each portion of pretrial procedures featuring proven practice tips to help you avoid pitfalls. This two-volume publication also comes with a free companion CD-ROM featuring 90 ready-to-use forms.

Guerrilla Discovery

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

Handling Federal Discovery

"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

How to Prepare for, Take and Use a Deposition

"The authors have provided a valuable text not only for experienced attorneys and new practitioners but also for legal assistants who will find the explanations of procedures easy to understand and easy to follow."

— Excerpted from TRIAL Magazine.

Illinois Objections

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.

Is It Admissible?

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.

Legal Secretary Federal Litigation

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.

Litigating Employment Discrimination Cases

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.

Litigating Sexual Harassment and Sex Discrimination Cases

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.

Model Interrogatories

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

New York Civil Practice Before Trial

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

New York Objections

"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.

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.

Qualifying & Attacking Expert Witnesses

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.

Texas Objections

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.

Texas Pretrial Practice

Contains 2,700 citations and 165 forms on a free companion CD-ROM featuring the entire text of the publication in a searchable format.

Triple-Threat Discovery Forms

This 750-page book of forms provides you the power to dominate the early discovery rounds. Combining interrogatories, requests for admissions, and requests for production into one strategically-interwoven document, these powerful discovery documents will hit your opponents hard. You receive triple-threat discovery forms for many types of cases.

Trial Evidence Foundations

"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

Trial Hearsay - Objections and Exceptions

Get your evidence admitted and exclude your opponent's. This tabbed courtroom guide is designed for ready access to the language of the federal hearsay rule and its numerous exceptions.

Trial Objections

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.

Trial Preparation Tools

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