Electronic Books

The Pretrial Process covers all stages of pretrial litigation comprehensively, pragmatically, and succinctly without being over-simplified. This book is designed to be useful both to clinical students working on their first cases and to classroom students expecting an intellectually satisfying law school experience.

This Document Supplement includes the following material: Federal Rules of Civil Procedure; Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Appendix of Forms; Additional District Court Forms; Local Rules of the U.S. District Court; Local Rules for Electronic Filing; Attorney's Handbook for Practice in the District Court; District Court Handbook on Civil Discovery Practice; Standing Order on Discovery of Electronically Stored Information; Federal Rules of Evidence; Selected Indiana Rules of Professional Conduct; Standards for Professional Conduct; Example Stipulation Regarding Remote Depositions.

The public trust doctrine (PTD), an ancient anti-monopoly precept of property law inherited from Roman and civil law, exists in every United States jurisdiction and several international ones.

The Quotable Brandeis has three purposes: gather together Brandeis's quotes in a subject-related order; provide accurate information for the source of the quotes; attempt to set the matter straight on quotes misattributed to Brandeis.

This textbook provides a comprehensive, case and problem-based approach to studying the Reconstruction Amendments—the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments.

The Reimagined Lawyer is the final book from the celebrated legal scholar and humanitarian Bruce Winick, who for decades taught at the intersection of law and mental health at the University of Miami School of Law.

This substantially revised and updated second edition includes discussion of recent judicial, legislative and regulatory college safety mandates, modern risk management and prevention practices, and the explosion in college safety and wellness issues (suicide, active shooter violence, sexual assault, etc.

What evidence exists to support the advice that legal writing professors offer their students? For example, do legal readers really prefer short sentences and the active voice? Is outlining the best way to start a memo or brief? Can a certain font type make a brief more persuasive? Is deductive reasoning the most effective form of legal reasoning? Will a legal writer view the use of the word “clearly” with skepticism? Are judges annoyed by minor grammatical errors or typos? These questions and many more are addressed in The Science Behind the Art of Legal Writing.

Scribes—The American Society of Legal Writers is a respected national organization devoted to improving legal writing.

This publication is an excellent text for both the novice and the experienced professor. The book is designed to be useful in a wide variety of law or business school courses, including a doctrinal course, seminar, graduate law or MBA course, or as a helpful desk reference for nonprofit professionals.