Full 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. Benefits: NEW! Complete updating in the material and citations of the codes and rules reflecting changes in the law. Study Guide provides outlines of materials, a variety of opportunities for self-testing, and alternative online projects and case work assignments. NEW! Complete updating of exhibits of official forms, charts and drafted documents. NEW! New material on electronic filing and service, calendaring and discovery. NEW! New online projects and assignments highlighting electronic databases and new online resources. Material is organized and presented in a clear, chronological way. Discussion questions provide thought-provoking material that tests the reader's comprehension. Online projects ask readers to use online resources as they would on the job. Includes examples of work product and court forms. Assignments show a realistic case step-by-step.
