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About the Book
If you think that keeping your calendar on an electronic device is a smart move, wait until you try a case in a court that doesn't allow you to bring it in the building. How can you prepare for that? What should you do if you accidentally send privileged material to opposing counsel? There are also more routine problems: what if a senior lawyer sends you an e-mail that says "draft a set of interrogatories for me in the morning" and you've never drafted interrogatories before?
The Commercial Litigator's Job: A Survival Guide provides helpful tips and instruction on the assignments that litigators are likely to receive in the commercial litigation department of most law firms. This book is not a summary of the law but rather a recipe book for turning out legal work that satisfies the palates of the senior lawyers who give you your work and write your reviews.
Content Includes:
Surviving as an Associate
Things law school will never teach
Organizational advice
Advice on billing hours
Managing a litigation calendar
Drafting complaints
Drafting answers
Conducting and making discovery
Interrogatories
Oral depositions
Things to ask when you are assigned a research project
Style issues
Motion practice
Settlement and dismissal
Service of process
Managing exhibits at trial
Survival in Court
Basic guidelines for your first court appearance
Also included on CD-ROM are sample complaints, answer, plaintiff's proof plan, plaintiff's discovery plan, certificate of service, interrogatories, requests for production, request for admission, notice of deposition, motion to dismiss under Rule 12(b)(6), motion to compel and more.
What Others Are Saying...
"This book should be on the "must have" list for every new commercial litigation associate. It covers all the basics of what new associates are expected to know and do when they start at a firm. I highly recommend it!"
Benjamin S. Boyd, Hiring Partner, DLA Piper US LLP
