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This succinct paperback on tort reform lays bare one of the most important recent movements in the civil justice field. It begins with a brief overview of central themes and issues and then presents a series of original essays and comments by preeminent scholars, lawyers, and leaders in Tort Reform.

The first student-centred coursebook of its kind, this is a comprehensive instructional source combining background explanation of changes to the legal industry with practical guidance on topics such as electronically stored information, advanced research analytics, cybersecurity, automation, and remote lawyering.

Exposing the issues that led us to January 6, 2021, Beyond Imagination? brings together 14 deans of American law schools to examine the day's events and how we got there, from a legal perspective, in hopes of moving the nation forward towards healing and a recommitment to the rule of law and the Constitution.

Unlike conventional legal research books that limit their focus to teaching students how to find and use the various sources of law, this book stresses a systematic, practice-oriented approach to acquiring legal-research skills. It presents a highly effective research strategy that helps students efficiently solve complex legal-research problems.

Examines how legislatures develop and enact statutes through a blend of theory and practical considerations. Each chapter covers a different aspect of legislative activity, including the structure of the legislature, ethical issues, policy development and the legislative process, constitutional issues, legislative drafting, lobbying and advocacy.

Brings behavioural insights to the array of topics taught in the required professional responsibility course, including admission to the practice of law, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, representing entities, prosecutorial and criminal defence ethics, litigation and negotiation ethics, and managerial and subordinate responsibilities.

This text may be used in a variety of ways: as an introduction to appellate advocacy for first-year students, as a self-contained upper-level course for second- and third-year students, for in-house associate training programs, or as a refresher for practitioners.

Presents clinical background and summarizes the history of the insanity defense. The heart of the book features extensive excerpts of testimony from the trial of John W. Hinckley Jr, and draws out the widely contrasting accounts of Hinckley's psychiatric condition, motivations, and legal responsibility at the time of the offense.

Makes complex criminal law issues more accessible to students by examining the facts of real-life case studies. This new edition continues the practice of adding additional cases, along with all accompanying material. This approach encourages analysis about what the law is and should be, and the aftermath of each case encourages discussion about what actually happened to the defendant and why.

Provides a flexible teaching instrument for any course in legal drafting covering contracts, instruments, and legislation. The book contains text, examples, and exercises that deal with both contract and statutory drafting - making it suitable for a general drafting course, or one that focuses on contracts and instruments or legislation.

Provides an introduction to US law. The book explains the major substantive areas of the law in narrative form and includes citations to cases and sources for additional detail. In addition, the book has chapters on the essential basic history and governmental structure necessary to understand the legal system and the legal profession.

More than a trial-practice manual, this handbook looks beneath a lawyer's public duties to the preparation and planning that lead to courtroom success. It gives both prosecutors and defenders an insider's view of their counterparts' roles, lending insights that build both effectiveness and mutual respect.

This new version of a classic text allows professors to assign problems in advance for preparation with case material. To prepare answers for the problems, students must synthesize case material from the entire assignment and frequently incorporate material from earlier assignments. In reviewing the problems in class, the teacher has a greater opportunity to develop rigorous case analysis.

The Thirteenth Edition includes substantial material involving new media, as technological changes affect traditional patterns of both communication and governance. Key principles remain but are under stress as both media and interpersonal communication systems evolve.

This supplement is designed to accompany Haydock and Sonsteng's Trial Advocacy Before Judges, Jurors, and Arbitrators, 6th, which explains advocacy principles and the trial process and explores theories, tactics, and techniques involved in preparing and presenting a case.

Draws on Bryan Garne'sr more than 30 years of experience in teaching contract drafting and in consulting on contracts for multinational companies. With 150 blackletter principles, Garner explains how to prepare contracts that are both precise and readable.

Provides a comprehensive treatment of judicial decision-making that combines social science with a sophisticated understanding of law and legal institutions. The book is built around well-known and accessible disputes such as gay marriage, women's rights, and the death penalty; and it offers students a new way to think about familiar legal issues.

The consummate resource guide for law students and practitioners who seek to take their advocacy skills to the next level. This new edition includes deeper levels of instruction and illustrative analogies across all fundamental advocacy skills. By trial lawyers and for trial lawyers, this book prepares attorneys for trial.

Addresses key topics in the evolving legal profession and the business of law. The book features chapters on the traditional law firm; the corporate client; the emergence of alternative legal services providers; legal technology; access to justice; employment and diversity in the legal profession; and legal education reform.

The new edition of this popular textbook for externship seminars has been revised and updated. It now includes several additional chapters written by contributing authors new to this edition, including a chapter on judicial externships, expanded material on ethical issues in externships, a chapter on creative problem solving, and a chapter on le...

This widely adopted book has become the preeminent advocacy text for law students and lawyers. The chapters comprehensively explore planning and preparation, procedures and motions, evidence and objections, direct and cross examinations, the use of exhibits, opening statements and summation, jury selection, and verdicts and appeals.

Perfect for an upper level seminar or course, this casebook traces the legal impacts of genetics across the legal spectrum--from family law to medical law to forensics.

This book explains fundamental lawyering skills, values, and relationships for students in skills, clinical, and related courses. The chapters thoroughly explore interviewing, counseling, negotiating, the business of lawyering, transactional work, investigations, pleadings, discovery, depositions, mediation, and dispute resolution planning.