Going to Trial: A Step-By-Step Guide to Trial Practice and Procedure (5150099)

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Summary: Serving a Limited Purpose
Review: I am one of the initial contributors to this trial primer from the ABA General Practice Section. The orignal authors, all veteran trial lawyers, produced a work designed to help the occaisonal litigator get through the morass of a jury trial.

First published in the mid-1980's, it had become a popular book for the ABA Press. Recently a Second Edition was released, which attempts to bring the guide up to date.

Within its modest ambitions, the book works. It contains numerous checklists for each stage of the pretrial and trial process. It cannot substitute for trial experience, however or with knowledge of local practice rules.

If you don't get to trial often, this book can help. That is all it ever aspired to do.