A complete and comprehensive guide to California legal procedures, this book provides in-depth coverage of eight practice areas: civil litigation, federal proceedings, family, real property, corporations, landlord/tenant, and wills and probate.

A comprehensive guide to the entire bankruptcy process, including involuntary, creditor, and adversary proceedings.

How to file federal pleadings and papers, document completion and filing requirements, and a directory of names, addresses, telephone numbers and more for each federal court.

Ready-to-use evidence and arguments: discovery requests, motions in limine, voir dire questions, model openings, cross-examination questions for all types of prosecution witnesses, direct examination questions for lay and expert defense witnesses, closing phrases for common issues, complete closings, and demonstrative evidence.

Forms, checklists, and tips to help you maximize the value of your cases. Case selection, investigation and discovery, selecting your expert, defense medical exam, deposing the defense expert, overcoming settlement hurdles, and more.

When and how to make and meet objections more successfully. This quick-reference book covers the full range of objections, complete with over 100 pattern objections, tactics, forms, suggested responses, necessary foundations and hundreds of state and federal cases.

Learn how to choose small to medium-sized personal injury cases with the best chances of success, and how to efficiently deliver the biggest results. Includes pattern responses to adjusters, case-screening rules, cost-reducing techniques, sample letters, discovery, motions and more.

A step-by-step guide to procedures, practice-proven strategies, and over 190 digital forms and 3,600 recent case citations.

A complete planning toolbox with: a full range of domestic and international structures, from simple spendthrift clauses through equity strips to collapsing bridges.

A behind-closed-doors look at how insurance cases are valued, what the adjuster needs to settle your case, and how to keep your case moving. Scope runs from estimating bodily injury damages and investigating coverage to claims denials and action letter outlines.