Publication Date: 8/25/21
Copyright Year: 2021
Pages: 350
ISBNs:
Print: 9781601567697
eBook: 9781601567703
Advance praise for Pretrial Advocacy:
“Pretrial Advocacy fills an important space for litigators. It teaches how to try cases from the moment a client contacts the lawyer through the trial, encouraging lawyers to engage in strategic decisions about pretrial discovery and motion practice. Why depose this witness rather than another? What is the purpose? What are the salient documents—not every single one, not just the few ‘gotcha’ documents, but those that build the narrative.”
Honorable Nancy Gertner
Retired Judge, U.S. District Ct., D. Mass.
Senior Lecturer, Harvard Law School
Managing Director, MGH Center for Law Brain & Behavior
“Pretrial Advocacy offers knowledge and guidance to law students interested in civil litigation. This easy-to-read book covers all the major rules—as well as strategy and best practices. Recommended!”
Scott Dodson
James Edgar Hervey Chair in Litigation
Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law
Director, Center for Litigation and Courts
UC Hastings College of the Law
“Guttman and Lore have distilled decades of litigation experience into this manageable yet indispensable treatise. All too often lawyers fail to develop a litigation game plan at the outset of their case reflective of the relief the complaint purports to seek: a trial. Pretrial Advocacy instructs litigators on how to make sound decisions early on that will impact their readiness to bring a case to trial or relatedly to extract maximum value for their clients. This book should be in every serious litigator’s library.”
Jerry Martin
Former United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee
Partner, Barrett Johnston Martin & Garrison, LLC