Litigation in Practice

Author of Rutter's Civil Procedure Before Trial (West/Thomson Reuters), Superior Court Judge Curtis E. A. Karnow's Litigation in Practice provides invaluable tips, courtroom strategies and helpful insights of the trial process, with a no-nonsense writing style, offering courtroom do's and don'ts that every new trial lawyer and student needs in understanding that law is what happens in the courtroom. Other sections provide advanced practical guidance for settlement, case management, using case precedent,and expert testimony. Chapters include: 1. Trials and Tribulations, 2. Statistics and Probability, 3. Timing Settlements, 4. Complexity in Litigation, 5. Similarity in Legal Analysis and the Post-Literate Blitz, 6. Expert Witnesses, 7. Prejudices of the Past and the Role of Experiential Learning