Litigation category: 116 books

Employment Litigation provides exhaustive procedural guidance on the booming field of employment law. Whether you represent employers or employees, this book will help you save time, avoid unpleasant surprises, and gain the upper hand at every stage of your case. Coverage includes a stepbystep examination...

International Aspects of U.S. Litigation addresses the topics that arise when international disputes find their way to U.S. courts, which they do with great frequency. The purpose of this book is to explain the authority and competence of American courts with regard to international disputes and explore...

For General Counsel, Business Litigators, Intellectual Property Attorneys, Employment Attorneys, Those Defending a Claim. A Practical Guide to the Changing Landscape. Because modern technology now permits easy access to confidential information from virtually any location, and because...

Cited by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia In recent years, whistleblower lawsuits have led to billions of dollars in judgments and settlements, debarment from government contracts, and criminal prosecutions as the government and the public seek to root out fraud and abuse. In 2010,...

Rights-based Litigation, Urban Governance and Social Justice in South Africa considers the overlap between legal and everyday struggles for social and spatial justice in the particular context of Johannesburg, South Africa. Drawing from literature across disciplines of law, urban geography and urban...

Learn how to maximize the Attorney-Client relationship to give your employment law case the best chance of success! Many of us have experienced unfair or hostile treatment in the work place. Let's face it, the employment world is generally not democratic and can be brutal. Sometimes matters...

In class actions, attorneys effectively hire clients rather than act as their agent. Lawyer-financed, lawyer-controlled, and lawyer-settled, this entrepreneurial litigation invites lawyers to act in their own interest. John Coffee’s goal is to save class action, not discard it, and to make private enforcement of law more democratically accountable.

“How much is this going to cost me” — a question every client asks and every lawyer answers during the course of every litigated matter. Yet one of law’s persistent mysteries is how to accurately estimate the attorneys’ fees necessary to resolve a particular dispute.But accurate estimates...

Parallel proceedings refers to the simultaneous or successive investigation or litigation of separate criminal, civil, or administrative proceedings. This book serves as a central repository of statutes, case law, Department of Justice policy, federal agency policy, litigation strategy and ethical...

Use of Statistics in Equal Employment Opportunity Litigation examines legal precedents for the use of statistics, the plaintiff's burden of establishing a prima facie case, and statistical concepts. Featuring charts and diagrams, it includes indepth coverage of: the hiring process; job assignment,...

Whatever deficits remain in the Canadian project to make justice available to all, class actions have been heralded as a success. The theme of access to justice runs throughout the discourse on collective litigation, but what do access and justice mean in this context? Class actions have been...

Over the past decade or so, Pennsylvania has seen a significant (if not explosive) increase in lawsuits that, at their core, complain that some other lawsuit was “wrongful” or “abusive.” Such suits are popularly known as “Dragonetti” actions. Typically, these cases are brought not only...

Because of the amount of money routinely at risk in CERCLA cleanups, most private parties facing Superfund liability will continue to look to the courts for resolution. Focusing on case-oriented information, this guidebook casts light on the issues that are central to current Superfund litigation....

1. Most of what’s in here isn’t taught in law schools. Even if your school has a competent, experienced litigator teaching trial advocacy, you still won’t learn most of this information there; and2. Working in the legal profession will not, without some outside help (like this book), teach it...