California Civil Litigation | 
| Author: Susan Burnett Luten
Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning
Category: Book
Buy New: $111.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 4540542
Media: Paperback
Edition: 5
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 480
ISBN: 1428318453
Dewey Decimal Number: 340
EAN: 9781428318458
ASIN: 1428318453
Publication Date: June 9, 2008
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Product Description
California Civil Litigation, fifth edition, is designed to provide paralegal students and practicing paralegals with information, skills, and experience. It follows the litigation process chronologically from initial client questions and contracts, to ethical issues, through the pleading and discovery phases, to trial, post-trial and appeal. Each phase of litigation is explored through official forms and drafted documents and each chapter includes highlighted glossary words and definitions to enable the reader to learn the technical language of litigation. In addition to the usual probing discussion questions, each chapter includes online projects requiring the reader to locate and analyze relevant Internet material.
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 Easy Shopping For A Good Book February 23, 2008
I planned to sue someone and represent myself in court without a lawyer. This book was the most useful of several I purchased. The updates were easy to place in the looseleafe book, the instructons were thorough and easy to understand.
Ultimately I won my case. This book allowed me to avoid some very simple but very stupid mistakes I would have made without this reference guide.
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All in all, a good book from a great shopping experience.
Karl Loren, Author
 Good material---but Outdated March 17, 2004
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The title of my review says it all: the text and the study guide were fine at the time they were published in 1996, but this is 2004 and a great deal has changed in California's court system from the vantage of civil procedure. The publisher should have updated this book no later than 2000 when the courts were administratively unified; additionally, local and state rules of procedure have been dramatically altered to place greater emphasis on ADR (alternative dispute resolution) and the rules regarding Fast-track litigation have likewise undergone significant changes.In short, a book which purports to teach the nuts and bolts of litigation procedure needs to be revised whenever there are major changes in the procedural law, as has been the case in California. With that said, the examples, the case studies, and the explanations make this Study Guide an invaluable companion to the main textbook.
Next best thing to the law library September 30, 1999
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I bought this book in preference over several other self help law books I examined after I fired my lawyer and went in pro per. Lots of really helpful, accessible, thorough, and friendly information. In fact it was so good that I promised myself I would write its first online review. You won't get much help on how to act in court, though, as only attorneys can do that and not paralegals, who it was written for. But don't listen to me I'm not an attorney. My lesson in all of this was to stay out of court in the first place.
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