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From preparing for trial and tailoring procedure to local rules to presenting the case and attacking or defending the judgment, Matthew Bender Practice Guide: California Trial and Post-Trial Civil Procedure brings you confidently up to speed on every issue, procedure, and detail you'll likely encounter in California trial and post-trial proceedings.
Authored by experts with over 100 years of combined legal experience and updated twice a year, this guidance-packed resource helps you successfully make the most of every step involving:
• Preparing for Trial
• Jury Selection
• Witness Preparation
• Burden of Proof and Persuasion
• Motions During Trial
• Closing Argument
• Jury Instructions
• Judgments
• Motions for Judgment, New Trial or Mistrial
• Contempt
• Entry of Judgment
• Much more
An essential addition to your litigation library, Matthew Bender Practice Guide: California Trial and Post-Trial Civil Procedure is also the perfect complement to California Pretrial Civil Procedure Practice Guide: The Wagstaffe Group.
Matthew Bender Practice Guide: California Trial and Post-Trial Civil Procedure offers one-stop access to expert analysis and guidance that's always up to date.
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Featured Authors
Patrick Cathcart
Patrick Cathcart is a founding partner in the Los Angeles law firm Cathcart Collins LLP. For over twenty-five years, his practice has emphasized complex business trials and appeals, including multi-party insurance coverage litigation and professional liability matters. Mr. Cathcart was trial counsel for London market insurers in Fuller-Austin v. Fireman¿s Fund Ins. Co., et al. (2006) 135 Cal. App. 4th 958, and lead counsel for the successful appeal in Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's, London v. Superior Court (Powerine) 24 Cal. 4th 945 (2001). Mr. Cathcart is the current President of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers (Los Angeles). Following law school, Mr. Cathcart clerked for United States District Judge Spencer Williams, in the Northern District of California. He was a Research Assistant in 1974-1975 to Hon. Arthur J. Goldberg, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, retired. During law school, Mr. Cathcart was Editor-in-Chief of the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly.
The Honorable Ronald S. Prager
The Honorable Ronald S. Prager has served as a Judge of the San Diego Superior Court for over 18 years. For the past ten plus years he has been assigned as a civil independent calendar judge presiding over a broad spectrum of civil cases including complex statewide coordinated class actions involving tobacco companies and the natural gas anti-trust cases. Judge Prager is a frequent panelist on civil litigation topics before various groups including bar associations and the Association of Business Trial Lawyers. He currently serves as an advisor judge to the Executive Committee of the State Bar Litigation Section.
Daralyn Durie
Daralyn Durie is a partner at Keker and Van Nest in San Francisco+C31, California. Ms. Durie has tried cases in both the state and federal courts in a wide range of areas including patent, trade secret, and unfair competition. Her practice focuses on intellectual property, professional liability, and complex civil litigation. Ms. Durie has been selected by the Daily Journal as one of the top 75 women litigators in California, identified by Chambers & Partners as one of the top intellectual property lawyers on the West Coast, and recognized by Law & Politics as one of the top 50 women lawyers in Northern California. She has served as a Lawyer Representative to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, a member of the Board of Governors of the Northern California Association of Business Trial Lawyers (ABTL), and a member of the faculty of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.
Table of contents
Volume 1
Chapter 1 Preparing for Trial
Chapter 2 Public Access to Trial and Records
Chapter 3 Notice of Trial
Chapter 4 Final Pretrial Conference
Chapter 5 Non-Jury Trials
Chapter 6 Jury Selection
Chapter 7 Compelling Witness Attendance and Witness Preparation
Chapter 8 Interpreters
Chapter 9 Burden of Proof and Persuasion
Chapter 10 Opening Statement
Chapter 11 Questioning Witnesses and Objections
Chapter 12 Motion for Nonsuit and Other Motions During Trial
Chapter 13 Motion for Judgment
Chapter 14 Motion for Directed Verdict
Chapter 15 Closing Argument
Chapter 16 Jury Instructions
Chapter 17 Dealing With the Jury
Chapter 18 Jury Verdicts
Volume 2
Chapter 19 Introduction to Judgments
Chapter 20 Motions for Judgment Notwithstanding the Verdict
Chapter 21 Motion for New Trial
Chapter 22 Motion for Mistrial
Chapter 23 Contempt
Chapter 24 Costs
Chapter 25 Collecting Attorney's Fees From Client
Chapter 25A Recovering Attorney's Fees From the Other Party
Chapter 26 Entry of Judgment
Chapter 27 Motion to Vacate Judgment and Enter Different Judgment
Chapter 28 Correcting and Modifying Judgment
Chapter 29 Setting Aside Judgments and Orders
Table of Cases
Table of Statutes
Index
