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LexisNexis Practice Guide: Massachusetts Family Law offers concise explanations of each step in a family law case, transitioning smoothly from legal analysis to practical application of a point of law. Updated for the Massachussets Parentage Act.

Intellectual Property in Bankruptcy: A Collier Monograph offers a comprehensive legal analysis of how intellectual property rights—particularly copyrights, patents, trade secrets and trademarks—are treated in bankruptcy, focusing on ownership, licensing, litigation and the impact of key Bankruptcy Code provisions like §§ 365 and 523.

Contains all the primary law necessary to practice law in California's federal courts.

Evidentiary Foundations provides sample lines of questioning that demonstrate how to lay the foundation for admitting various kinds of evidence. It also includes a brief discussion of the underlying legal principles, based on modern common law and the applicable Federal Rules of Evidence.

False Advertising and the Lanham Act by Thomas M. Williams covers established precedent and Section 43(a) false advertising case law, including key decisions where courts have developed essential analytical tools to flesh out sparse statutory language.

Intellectual Property Enforcement in the Digital World by Laura M. King and Thomas J. Peistrup continues to help attorneys understand the increasing range of illegal and malicious internet activity and a similarly expanding number of response or enforcement options.

Rules of Patent Drafting: Guidelines from Federal Circuit Case Law, by Katrina Rose, gives patent drafters a wealth of strategic, organized information on the relevant case law issued by the Federal Circuit.

In Software Licensing, Michael L. Rustad examines key clauses and negotiating points that both licensors and licensees confront in licensing software and offers insight into the larger business implications of software-licensing strategies.

The Class Action Playbook, by Brian Anderson and Andrew Trask, addresses every important issue related to class actions, including the initial shape of the proposed action, choice of forum, case-management schedules, pre-certification discovery and motions activity, briefing and argument of the class-certification motion, class notice, preparation for trial, class settlements, and the binding effects of class action judgments.