Civil Procedure in a Nutshell

by Mary Kay Kane

Rules of civil procedure govern everything that happens outside of criminal proceedings. This Nutshell provides a road map to navigating civil procedure rules and helps build a foundation for understanding the overall picture. Topics discussed include how to choose the proper court, pretrial and trial preparation, adjudication, judgments, appeals, and specialized multi-party/multi-claim proceedings.

Genres: Law, Legal, Nonfiction

311 pages, Paperback

First published February 5, 2013

Reviews

[Mohammed Alshamsi · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book tells it all, it’s like a professor talking to you. I now understand the law much better. Before you study the American Law, you have to read this book.

[Alex Timberman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Every area of the law is interesting in its own way. American civil procedure is unique for his rules of discovery, adversarial nature, and federalism (state and federal law).

Even though the actual Federal Rule of Civil Procedure are fairly short, the application of the laws to a set of facts can easily be complicated. For example - what should be the citizenship of a corporation, for jurisdiction purposes, HQ or place of registration? Actually, Supreme Court has recently decided in 2010, 2011? that it is the HQ or nerve center, but these debates have been going on for some time now.

It's interesting to see how little has changed in the law from the 1970s to now, at least in certain areas of the law like civil procedure and contracts.