The third edition of this pathbreaking text expands the principles of client-centered lawyering into areas not explored in previous editions. It newly covers transactions involving non-profit organizations (Chapter 9); counseling of corporations and loosely structured community action groups (Chapter 21); and the interviewing and counseling of defendants charged with criminal offenses (Chapters 10 and 22).

Lawyers as Counselors: A Client-Centered Approach, 3rd Edition

Paul Bergman

Paul R Tremblay

Ian S. Weinstein

David A. Binder

Legal Education

West Academic Publishing

This book breaks with tradition to provide both a theoretical and practical understanding of the Federal Rules of Evidence. Under the principle that learning is most effective when it is both challenging and fun, the book includes numerous courtroom-based problems, both to facilitate the students theoretical understanding of the rules and to develop their ability to apply evidence rules in practice.
 Evidence Law and Practice consistently provides examples, practice hints, explanations and illustrations in the form of mini-transcripts. Each chapter begins with a checklist of important questions to be addressed for each subject area, followed by the pertinent provisions of the Federal Rules of Evidence, a subject overview, illustrations, examples, and problems. While appellate court opinions are not the primary text of this book, the ways that judges discuss evidence rules are important and a useful basis for classroom discussions. Consequently, many chapters provide a library of important opinions. Features of the Third Edition include: • Reorganized hearsay chapters, reflecting the U.S. Supreme Courts most recent Confrontation Clause rulings; • Additional text and problems focusing on the role of evidence rules in pretrial procedures; • Practical tips illustrating how advocates can use evidence rules effectively; • Enhanced opportunities for classroom role-play exercises; • Explanations of the latest amendments to the Federal Rules of Evidence; • Dramatic photo stills from courtroom films, and a variety of problems, including problems based on courtroom films (giving instructors the option to show the scenes on which the problems are based in class). 
 The Teachers Manual provides answers to every problem, exercise, and role-play. It also includes excerpts from recent scholarship on cutting-edge issues, answers (with explanations) to multiple-choice questions, and teaching hints.

Evidence Law and Practice, Cases and Materials

Steven I. Friedland

Andrew E. Taslitz

Reference

LexisNexis

Explains how to handle a contested court case from start to finish without a lawyer. Covers gathering and analyzing evidence, determining whether there is a valid case, choosing a jury, questioning witnesses, introducting documentary evidence, cross-examining the opponent, and more. Good in all 50 states. Illus.

Represent Yourself In Court: How to Prepare and Try a Winning Case

Rules & Procedures

NOLO.COM BOOKS +

Whether dealing with a personal injury claim, a landlord-tenant dispute, a small business disagreement or any of the dozens of other possible legal issues, this book will help the non-lawyer successfully navigate the complexities of the court system. Thoroughly revised and updated, this second edition includes a new chapter dealing with divorce, child custody, or child support.

Represent Yourself in Court: How to Prepare and Try a Winning Case (2nd ed)

Legal Self-Help

Nolo

Getting deposed can seem as mysterious and complicated as the tango. What are the right moves? The subtle signals to send? Is it possible to make it through without getting stepped on? The new, easy-to-follow guide to the entire deposition process, The Deposition Handbook is one guide that won't leave users sweaty-handed. 
The Deposition Handbook addresses witnesses, parties, experts and non-experts who will have their deposition taken; providing all the information, tips and instructions they need whether or not they are represented by a lawyer. Packed with concrete suggestions and examples, the book explains how to arrange a convenient date, prepare for the deposition and respond to questions with aplomb. The Deposition Handbook even includes the three "golden rules" for answering questions and points out the trick questions lawyers often use to try to influence testimony. Finally, the book discusses the questions one can refuse to answer and how to testify at a videotaped deposition. 
The Deposition Handbook provides a separate chapter for experts, which explains the expert's involvement in helping the lawyer to prepare for the deposition. It also covers how the expert should prepare for the deposition and answer questions by the deposing lawyer; and how the other side will try to challenge the expert's opinion and establish that the expert is biased during the deposition. 
The Deposition Handbook also addresses anyone who is a pro-se--either a person who wishes to defend her own deposition or the deposition of another person; or to take a deposition herself. Once again, the book explains, with numerous concrete examples and suggestions, how to: schedule and prepare for the deposition; question the witness, make and respond to objections, respond to improper behavior by the other side's lawyer, depose the other side's expert witness, take a videotaped deposition and depose a witness favorable to his or her case to preserve deposition testimony for use at trial. 
Written by two UCLA law professors and attorneys, The Deposition Handbook enables anyone who has been deposed to sail through the deposition process smoothly, confidently--and with only one left foot.

Nolo's Deposition Handbook (1st Edition)

Albert J. Moore

Bergman, Paul, Berman-Barrett, Sara J.

The Criminal Law Handbook : Know Your Rights, Survive the System (3rd edition)

Sara J. Berman

Criminal Law

You probably can’t afford to pay a lawyer upwards of $200 an hour to represent you in a civil lawsuit. Fortunately, with the help of this book, you don’t have to. 
Written in plain English, Represent Yourself in Court breaks down the trial process into easy-to-understand steps so that you can act as your own lawyer — safely and efficiently. Veteran attorneys Bergman and Berman-Barrett tell you what to say, how to say it, even where to stand when you address the judge and jury.

Represent Yourself in Court: How to Prepare & Try a Winning Case (3rd Ed)

Business & Money

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Do you know: 
*what happens when you are accused of a crime? 
*how you are charged? 
*how plea bargains work? 
*what happens in court? 
Now everyone who needs answers to these questions -- people accused of a crime, victims of crime, their families and friends, witnesses and those who want to know how the system works -- has a place to turn for the information they need. 
With The Criminal Law Handbook you can learn exactly what goes on in a criminal case. The easy-to-follow, question-and-answer format covers: 
*arrests 
*booking 
*preliminary hearings 
*charges 
*bail 
*courts 
*arraignment 
*search and seizure 
*defenses 
*evidence 
*trials 
*plea bargains 
*sentencing 
*juveniles 
*"crimespeak," the language commonly used in criminal statutes 
*and much more 
The 4th edition, completely revised and updated, provides a new chapter on prisoners rights, including paroles and pardons. It also includes information about recent Supreme Court cases, covering police roadblocks, heat-monitoring devices in searches, the legality of arrest for petty offenses and more.

The Criminal Law Handbook: Know Your Rights, Survive the System

Nolo.com

You don't have to pay a lawyer upwards of $200 an hour to represent you in a civil lawsuit! 
Written in plain English, Represent Yourself in Court breaks down the trial process into easy-to-understand steps so that you can act as your own lawyer -- safely and efficiently. Veteran attorneys Bergman and Berman-Barrett tell you what to say, how to say it, even where to stand when you address the judge and jury. 
Armed with the simple but thorough instructions in Represent Yourself in Court, you can be heard and taken seriously in any courtroom. And better yet, you'll be well prepared to achieve good results, without having to pay a lawyer's ransom. 
Learn how to: *file court papers *handle depositions and interrogatories *comply with courtroom procedures *pick a jury *prepare your evidence and line up witnesses *present your opening statement and closing argument *cross-examine hostile witnesses *understand and apply rules of evidence *locate, hire and effectively use expert witnesses *make and respond to your opponent's objections *get limited help from an attorney on an as-needed basis *monitor the work of an attorney if you decide to hire one 
Whether you are a plaintiff or a defendant, this book will help you confidently handle a divorce, personal injury case, landlord/tenant dispute, breach of contract, small business dispute or any other civil lawsuit. 
The latest edition provides extensive information on summary judgments.

Represent Yourself in Court: How to Prepare and Try a Winning Case

Law Practice

Do you know what happens when you are accused of a crime? How you are charged? How plea bargains work? What happens in court? 
Anyone who needs answers to these questions -- people accused of a crime, victims of crime, their families and friends, witnesses and those who want to know how the system works -- can turn to a plain-English legal book for the information they need. 
With The Criminal Law Handbook, you can learn exactly what goes on in a criminal case. The easy-to-follow, question-and-answer format covers: 
*arrests *booking *preliminary hearings *charges *bail *courts *arraignment *search and seizure *defenses *evidence *trials *plea bargains *sentencing *juveniles *"crimespeak," the language commonly used in criminal statutes *and much more 
The 5th edition provides the latest in the law and court findings. Find out if police can use high-tech devices to search for evidence in your house, whether school officials can search students without warrants, and how the post-9/11 Patriot Act expands the power of federal agents.

The Criminal Law Handbook : Know Your Rights, Survive the System (Criminal Law Handbook)

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