Law Game Company - TransMedia's Objection! series law games & James Publishings law books

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:

Firmly establish your allegations
Learn of additional counts or causes of action
Discover and weaken the enemy’s defenses
Quickly eliminate fictitious and boilerplate defenses
Obtain concessions and admissions
Coerce settlement

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.

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.

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.

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:

Pattern objection language
How to respond when faced with the objection
Comments on how the rules apply
Practice tips and cautions with detailed advice from the bench
Arguments and strategies to support your objection
Tactics and arguments to counter your opponent’s objection
Relevant case cites, with a synopsis of each case

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.

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:

Pattern objection language
How to respond when faced with the objection
Comments on how the rules apply
Practice tips and cautions with detailed advice from the bench
Arguments and strategies to support your objection
Tactics and arguments to counter your opponent’s objection
Relevant case cites, with a synopsis of each case

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:

Pattern objection language
How to respond when faced with the objection
Comments on how the rules apply
Practice tips and cautions with detailed advice from the bench
Arguments and strategies to support your objection
Tactics and arguments to counter your opponent’s objection
Relevant case cites, with a synopsis of each case

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:

Aggressive defenses. Hundreds of arguments, heavily-supported by case law, bring real leverage to your plea bargaining, trials, and DMV proceedings.
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.
Tips from experts. The authors have been collecting successful tactics from around the state for decades, and they share them in their book.
Detailed Traffic chapter. Effective defenses against additional charges like speeding, reckless driving, suspended license and more
Helpful charts. Address directories, dozens of checklists of additional cases, and a punishment chart.
63 forms. Discovery requests, jury instructions, letters, checklists, and more.