Litigating in Federal Court: A Guide to the Rules [Paperback]

Ann E. Woodley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1999 | ISBN-10: 0890899703 | ISBN-13: 978-0890899700

This book is designed to provide guidance to the law student or litagator as to the applicable rules - and the inter-relationship among those rules - for all of the stages of a federal civil lawsuit. The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are not sufficiently organized or cross-referenced to allow law students or litagators to easily understand the relationships among the rules, or to make sure that all relevant rules have been consulted. Litigating in Federal Court seeks to remedy this deficiency.

Litigating in Federal Court is divided into two parts. The first part of the book covers all of the stages of federal court litigation, including a short narrative discussion of each stage and one or more charts showing the applicable rules and their relationship to each other. These charts have been drafted and re-drafted over a period of years in order to best represent the knowledge of litigation that Professor Woodley has acquired in the process of learning, teaching, and using the litigation process. The second part of the book contains multiple checklists for drafting most of the documents used in the pretrial process (which include citations of the basic relevant rules).

This extremely practical yet analytically complex guide to federal court litigation will prove to be a valuable resource for law students and litigators alike.

Product Details

• Paperback: 158 pages
• Publisher: Carolina Academic Pr (December 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0890899703
• ISBN-13: 978-0890899700
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,024,554 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I learned what I needed to learn from this book., December 1, 2000

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Michelle Bogus (JOHNSTOWN, PA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Litigating in Federal Court: A Guide to the Rules (Paperback)

As a law student attending school and working in a law office, this book has helped me tremendously. I can always find what I am looking for and it gives me answers for my questions. I have yet found anything that wasn't talked about in this book. This is a must have book for all legal students.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best book for People New to Civ Pro, March 11, 2004

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Melissa C Hall (Tallahassee, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Litigating in Federal Court: A Guide to the Rules (Paperback)

The biggest problem I had in civil procedure was understanding the underlying procedure. This book takes you though the decisions that you have to make when filing suit and then brings in the case law and federal rules to show how they work in the process as a whole. This book also has many handy charts that help with complex issues.
If your floundering around in civil procedure because your not really sure what your even arguing about this can help. It doesn't waste a lot of words but it gives you the structure you need to understand the issues.