New Books

 March 2007

This practical book supplies pattern questions and outlines for medical depositions and examinations regarding injuries commonly encountered by trial lawyers. The pattern questions are supported by tactics, medicine, and four-color illustrations. 

The book’s 25 chapters are organized by medical specialties. Each specialty begins with a discussion of the types of injuries usually dealt with by trial lawyers. This discussion is followed by a chapter concerning depositions and then one on trial testimony of the expert in the particular specialty. The book is unique in providing medical information on the injuries you are most likely to encounter within each specialty, plus insight on how to prepare and take medical testimony. The book covers:

• Chiropractic

• Neurology

• Orthopedics

• Neurosurgery

• Physical medicine and rehabilitation

• Neuropsychology

• Dentistry and oral surgery

• Plastic and reconstructive surgery

$129

 February 2007

Attacking and Defending Drunk Driving Tests

by Don Bartell and Anne ImObersteg 

Its trial-tested questions and strategies will make you more effective when cross-examining the arresting officer and prosecution expert. The pattern examinations are preceded by strategy discussions and followed by explanatory text.  You receive:

• Letting jurors know the sample was analyzed with a largely automated process.  5:32

• Countering bloodshot eyes, odor of alcohol, slurred speech, and flushed face.  8:41

• How to attack the horizontal gaze nystagmus and Romberg tests.  8:50

• Questioning the one-legged stand, walk-the-line, and alphabet exercise results.  8:52 

• Taking advantage of the way prosecution experts present their Widmark calculations.  10:41

• Exposing the many prosecution experts who don’t know Dr. Widmark’s formula and have not read his book.  10:43

• Exploiting the Widmark variables in your cross examination of the prosecution’s expert.  10:45

• How to weaken the prosecution’s claims of accuracy when its calibration and other records appear flawless.  12:25

• How the prosecution opens the door to a cross-examination on the partition ratio, and how to conduct that exam.  12:44

• Why you must and how to fight back in cross examination against a damaging point made in the prosecution’s direct.  20:82

$119

December 2006

Texas Small-Firm
Practice Tools

by Cindy Stormer

536 forms for 16 practice areas, plus step-by-step procedures, voice-of-experience tips, answers to common questions, mistakes to avoid, and practice checklists.

1. Civil Litigation: 90 forms and 43 pages of law and procedure

2. Car Accident Cases: 50 forms and 32 pages of law and procedure

3. Consumer Protection and Fair Trade Practices: 8 forms and 13 pages of law and procedure
    

4. Business Litigation: 32 forms and 28 pages of law and procedure

5. Landlord-Tenant Relations: 10 forms and 15 pages of law and procedure

6. Employer-Employee Relations: 12 forms and 22 pages of law and procedure

7. Credit and Collections: 24 forms and 24 pages of law and procedure
    

8. Organizing and Operating a Small Business: 13 forms and 19 pages of law and procedure

9. Buying and Selling a Business: 12 forms and 10 pages of law and procedure

10. Marriage Dissolution: 47 forms and 27 pages of law and procedure
     

11. Estate Planning: 32 forms and 22 pages of law and procedure

12. Estate Administration: 83 forms and 19 pages of law and procedure

13. Guardianship: 21 forms and 7 pages of law and procedure
     

14. DWI Defense: 17 forms and 23 pages of law and procedure

15. Misdemeanor: 34 forms and 26 pages of law and procedure

16. Real Estate: 51 forms and 17 pages of law and procedure

$99

November 2006

Deposition Checklists
& Strategies

by Evan Schaeffer

1,000’s of pattern deposition questions are supported with summaries of the law, tips and tactics, discovery forms, and deposition outlines, including:

1. Vehicular Liability

   Police Officer Who Did the Accident Report

   Defendant’s Accident Reconstruction Expert

   Passenger in the Vehicle of the Driver Defendant

   Witness at the Scene of an Accident

   Ambulance Driver

2. Premises Liability

   Store Manager in a Slip and Fall Case

   Plaintiff's Treating Physician

   Owner of Laundromat Where Plaintiff Slipped on Ice

   Defendant’s Human-Factors Expert

   Witness to a Fall in a Store Parking Lot

3. Products Liability