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New in 2008
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 Guerrilla
Discovery
(September). Use Ashley Lipson’s new book to strike and parry quickly and
painfully during your next discovery confrontation. This battle-proven,
600-page tactician’s guide offers dozens of creative forms, checklists,
arguments, and strategies. Use it to:
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Firmly establish your allegations
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Learn of additional counts or causes
of action
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Discover and weaken the enemy’s
defenses
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Quickly eliminate fictitious and
boilerplate defenses
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Obtain concessions and admissions
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Coerce
settlement
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 Medical
Issues in Social Security Disability
(March). Dr.
David Morton, a former Chief Medical Consultant, explains the SSA’s
unwritten medical rules and how to best present your claimant’s
impairments. The book is filled with nuggets about shortcomings in submitted
medical records, the types of mistakes adjudicators are most likely to make,
where generous allowances are provided claimants, ailments and tests
frequently overlooked by treating doctors, and much more. Best of all, Dr.
Morton helps you obtain medical records satisfactory to the SSA with his new
residual functional capacity forms.
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 Employment
Evidence
(February). This is the first book with strategies, forms, and cases
specifically for admitting and excluding employment evidence – past sexual
conduct, after-acquired evidence, discriminatory remarks, missing documents,
medical and psychological history, employee disciplinary records, and many
more. For each item of evidence, the book provides: foundational elements,
objections, responses, tactics for plaintiff and defendant, jury
instructions, motions in limine, checklists of arguments, and supporting
cases and statutes. Includes 87 practice-proven motions, responses,
checklists, requests, bench briefs, notices, affidavits, protective orders,
and jury instructions.
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 Representing
ADA Plaintiffs
(February). Maximize Americans with Disabilities Act recoveries with these
model complaints, pattern discovery documents organized by jury instruction,
responses to motions for summary judgment, settlement strategies,
well-supported arguments, and trial tips. Discovery for 26
cause-of-action elements is covered step-by-step with a governing jury
instruction, supporting authority from each circuit, requests for
admissions, requests for production, pattern interrogatories, deposition
checklists, and discovery tips and cautions. Supported with 1,000 case
citations and 78 forms in print and on CD.
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New
state books |
 California
Objections
(December). Judges Gregory Ward and James Byrne have employed a
courtroom-friendly format to cover 125 objections with clear and concise
explanations, trial-tested tips, persuasive arguments, and thousands of
supporting cases. You receive: |
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Pattern objection language
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How to respond when faced with the
objection
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Comments on how the rules apply
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Practice tips and cautions with detailed
advice from the bench
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Arguments and strategies to support your
objection
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Tactics and arguments to counter your
opponent’s objection
- Relevant case
cites, with a synopsis of each case
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 California
Insurance Issues & Forms
(September). D.W. Duke’s masterwork offers solutions to insurance
settlement logjams, answers to tough questions, guidance on complicated
cases, and forms for efficient case processing. For assistance with
troublesome matters ranging from policy interpretation through auto policies
to insurance litigation, you will reach for this issue-oriented guidebook
again and again. It includes hundreds of practice tips and issue spotters,
thousands of cases, and dozens of forms.
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 Illinois
Objections
(November). Judges Daniel M. Locallo and Gerald F. Grubb have employed a
courtroom-friendly format to cover over 130 objections with clear and
concise explanations, trial-tested tips, persuasive arguments, and thousands
of supporting cases. You receive: |
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Pattern objection language
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How to respond when faced with the
objection
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Comments on how the rules apply
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Practice tips and cautions with detailed
advice from the bench
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Arguments and strategies to support your
objection
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Tactics and arguments to counter your
opponent’s objection
- Relevant case
cites, with a synopsis of each case
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 Texas
Objections
(June). Harvey Brown and Judge Ken Curry have employed a courtroom-friendly
format to cover 175 objections with clear and concise explanations,
trial-tested tips, persuasive arguments, and 3,000 supporting cases. You
receive: |
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Pattern objection language
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How to respond when faced with the
objection
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Comments on how the rules apply
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Practice tips and cautions with detailed
advice from the bench
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Arguments and strategies to support your
objection
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Tactics and arguments to counter your
opponent’s objection
- Relevant case
cites, with a synopsis of each case
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New
edition |
 California
Drunk Driving Law
(November). Hundreds of effective strategies, arguments, defenses, motions,
and practice tips are provided by authors Josh Dale and Ed Kuwatch. Over
1,700 cases are analyzed and explained. This top resource includes: |
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Aggressive
defenses. Hundreds of arguments,
heavily-supported by case law, bring real leverage to your plea
bargaining, trials, and DMV proceedings.
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Creative motions.
These artfully-drafted documents by some of the top DUI lawyers in the
state have been proven in practice, and are available on the CD.
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Tips from experts.
The authors have been collecting successful tactics from around the state
for decades, and they share them in their book.
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Detailed Traffic
chapter. Effective defenses against additional charges like speeding,
reckless driving, suspended license and more
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Helpful charts.
Address directories, dozens of checklists of additional cases, and a
punishment chart.
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63 forms.
Discovery requests, jury instructions, letters, checklists, and more.
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