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This updated handbook is your one-stop resource for sophisticated practice guidance for each stage of the business or commercial case. It includes over 35 checklists and adaptable forms on the CD, including a representation agreement, both a simple and a detailed litigation budget, and an expert witness deposition outline. The authors guide you through a case from beginning to end with winning trial techniques for pleadings and motions, discovery, jury selection, cross-examination, using expert witnesses, and opening and closing arguments.
Joseph L. Kish, Synergy Law Group, L.L.C., Chicago, General Editor
Chapter 1 — Initial Evaluation of the Case
Robert L. Byman, Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago
Chapter 2 — Pleadings and Motions in Business and Commercial Cases
Jeanah Park and Chad A. Schiefelbein, Vedder Price P.C., Chicago
Chapter 3 — Discovery Overview in Federal and State Courts in Illinois
James H. Kallianis, Jr., Meckler Bulger Tilson Marick & Pearson LLP, Chicago
Chapter 4 — Written “Discovery” — Requests for Admission (After the Illinois Supreme Court’s Decision in Vision Point and 2011 Amendments) and Interrogatories
Daniel T. Graham, Clark Hill PLC, and Michelle L. Wolf-Boze, Funkhouser Vegosen Liebman & Dunn Ltd., Chicago
Chapter 5 — Document Production and Organization
William N. Howard and Garry L. Wills, Freeborn & Peters LLP, and Daniel J. Voelker, Voelker Litigation Group, Chicago
Chapter 6 — Electronic Discovery
Brent E. Kidwell, Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago
Chapter 7 — Depositions
Joseph G. Bisceglia, Jenner & Block LLP, and Anwar T. Shatat, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, Chicago
Chapter 8 — Trial Techniques in Business and Commercial Cases
Jeffrey J. Mayer and Gia F. Colunga, Freeborn & Peters LLP, Chicago
Chapter 9 — Temporary Restraining Orders (TROs) and Preliminary Injunctions
Gregory J. Scandaglia and William J. Ryan, Scandaglia & Ryan, Chicago
Chapter 10 — Expert Witnesses
Joseph L. Kish, Synergy Law Group, L.L.C., Chicago
Chapter 11 — Insurance Issues
Charlotte L. Wager and Justin C. Steffen, Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago
Chapter 12 — Preparing for the Appeal in the Trial Court: Preserving Issues for Review
J. Timothy Eaton, Shefsky & Froelich Ltd., Chicago
Chapter 13 — Arbitration — The Practitioner’s Viewpoint
H. Roderic Heard, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, and Susan L. Walker, Law Offices of Susan Walker, Chicago
Chapter 14 — Mediation
Brian A. Rosenblatt and Sara S Zorich, SmithAmundsen LLC, Chicago
