Federal Civil Rules Handbook, 2013 ed.

With Federal Civil Rules Handbook, you'll benefit from rule-by-rule commentary in a comprehensive and up-to-date guide. This publication provides the text of each rule, followed by the authors distillation of the rule s purpose and scope, a summation of the core concept of each rule s subsection, and an extended discussion of each rule in application. Also, this publication: Provides a quick and easy, up-to-the-minute, one-stop reference tool; Provides comprehensive commentary, including more than 1,000 citations to new interpretive cases each year, saving research time; Provides expert discussion and practice tips, including practical applications, limitations, and traps to avoid; Discusses the future of federal pleading; Covers the timing and filing of motions and other litigation actions to reduce confusion; Provides information in e-discovery and e-government privacy; Contains directories of federal courts and judges to keep you current; Includes appendix of forms to save preparation and administrative time; Includes a summary of any restyling or substantive changes to a rule; Covers the 2009 Time Computation project, which revises every time period set in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.