Litigation category: 116 books

“A fundamental and essential addition to every practitioner's bookshelf.” —Stephen E. Kaufman, Former Chief of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York White collar crime continues to make headlines. But many cases that may not make the headlines are just...

Reliance on manual and keyword search methods alone is increasingly seen as inadequate for searching large volumes of information. There are concerns about the accuracy and efficiency of these methods, especially as compared with more advanced search techniques. This book provides a set of perspectives...

Passed in the wake of the Watergate Scandal and enforced only sporadically for two decades, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act has emerged as a potent and feared law enforcement tool. In recent years, U.S. authorities have zealously enforced the FCPA, seeking historically high fines for corporations...

Ganhe tempo de estudo com esta Edição Inteligente da Código Civil Brasileiro, atualizada até 27/02/2013. A Lei nº 10.406, de 10 de janeiro de 2002, institui o Código Civil Brasileiro. Esta Edição Inteligente foi concebida com...

To effect just outcomes the justice system requires that law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and judges be committed—above all—to doing justice. Those whose allegiance is to winning, regardless of evidence, do the opposite of justice: they corrupt the system. This is the jaw-dropping story...

The untold story of how one sensational trial propelled a self-taught lawyer and a future president into the national spotlight. In May of 1856, the steamboat Effie Afton barreled into a pillar of the Rock Island Bridge, unalterably changing the course of American transportation history. Within...

Court allegations can be based on nothing but a perspective that criminalizes confusing behaviors. Professionals who work within the court and its related bodies often are trained to seek out, diagnose and ostracize those who causesocial upheaval by these "aberrant" behaviors. Given the power to assert...

Health Care Fraud: Enforcement and Compliance is the most complete, essential and uptodate guide for criminal and civil lawyers, law enforcement officials, health care providers and anyone interested in the health care industry. You'll find discussion of: the latest antifraud initiatives from Congress,...

Sherlock Holmes, the iconic fictional English detective that he was, had a lot to teach modern-day lawyers about logical reasoning and forensic science. The popular and well-beloved creation of the Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes was an immediate success after...

“[It] is a comprehensive and insightful treatise of enormous assistance to anyone involved in federal criminal cases.” —Robert G. Morvillo of Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, P.C. Put the prosecution on the defensive! Defending Federal Criminal Cases: Attacking the Government's...

Sometimes the outcome of a lawsuit depends upon sensations known only to the person who experiences them, such as the buzzing sound heard by a plaintiff who suffers from tinnitus after an accident. Lawyers, litigants, and expert witnesses are now seeking to re-create these sensations in the courtroom,...

A New, Objective, Pro-Objectivity Normative Theory tries to solve fundamental normative moral, social, political, educational, legal, etc. problems. It defends a uniquely evidence-based, objective theory. The theory argues it has one objective, primary end, and plural a-objective, secondary ends irrelevant...

Tort reform is a favorite cause for many business leaders and right-leaning politicians, who contend that out-of-control lawsuits throttle growth and inflate costs, particularly in healthcare. Less is said about how such reforms might affect the ability of individuals to recover damages for injuries...

Building the Construction Case: A Blueprint for Litigators is a practice-oriented guide meant to assist a litigator from the first client meeting through to the end of a case. Case examples are selected that are representative and illustrative of fundamental patterns that all counsel must handle in a construction case.