Litigation Practice Guide: Treatises & Handbooks

Found under the Tools tab of the Westlaw Precision Home page.

This treatise on the law and art of successful summation at trial provides strategies and techniques of constructing a powerful and convincing closing argument to the jury.

Resources to help counsel navigate document discovery. Specifically, this Toolkit directs counsel to other toolkits that offer a variety of resources on the document discovery process, including how to draft and implement a litigation hold, handle e-discovery, and draft document requests and subpoenas.

Practical guide to the federal discovery rules, their application, and the strategies for using the rules for courtroom advantage.

The main volume of the Handbook now comprises over 1300 pages, replete with Practice Tips, Checklists, and highlighted notations of particularly IMPORTANT principles and techniques applicable to specific situations. A second "eDiscovery" volume, in over 600 pages, provides a comprehensive and practical guide to all aspects of that singularly important subject.

Pretrial Discovery: Strategy and Tactics provides in-depth, informed examination of the pretrial discovery process, including advice on strategies, tactics, protective orders, witnesses, and winning the judge's approval.

Comprehensive and authoritative coverage of all aspects of federal civil, criminal and appellate procedure, including rules of civil, criminal, and appellate procedure, rules of evidence, the federal judicial system, jurisdiction of all federal courts, venue, removal of cases, res judicata, relation of state and federal courts, multidistrict litigation, and more.

This treatise covers the relevant issues of jury selection such as predicting juror favorability and spotting problematic jurors, as well as practical techniques such as using forms and questionnaires.

Provide a comprehensive set of jury instructions and related commentary for federal court.

Examines an integrated approach to jury selection, providing the latest social science methodology and voir dire techniques in order to help you identify problems, spot personality traits, and isolate social and political biases that may affect jury decisions.

Organized to provide a readily available resource for attorneys during voir dire. Includes a host of legal authorities to support the propriety of questions to ask in such areas as occupation, education, organizational affiliation, life experience, and attitudes about the court system. Also features roundtables with leading jury consultants and trial attorneys.

Provides an in-depth view of the legal issues involved in direct and cross-examination to help you master the art of witness interrogation.

Contains detailed checklists address the increase in use of expert witnesses in today's courtroom, and discusses the selection, use, and admissibility of expert testimony, discovery, and cross-examination.

A comprehensive guide to depositions, providing thousands of checklists and other deposition aids for plaintiff and defendant for myriad civil litigation topics.

ONU Law Student's can access through their West Academic subscription.

Comprehensive and authoritative coverage of all aspects of federal civil, criminal and appellate procedure, including rules of civil, criminal, and appellate procedure, rules of evidence, the federal judicial system, jurisdiction of all federal courts, venue, removal of cases, res judicata, relation of state and federal courts, multidistrict litigation, and more.

Moore's AnswerGuide Federal Discovery Practice answers your basic questions about discovery in federal civil cases, including topics such as privilege, discovery of electronically stored information, and discovery from nonparties