Legal Research Guides by Course: Advanced Pretrial Litigation Techniques

Faculty Who Teach This Course

• Steven Baicker-McKee (Assistant Professor of Law)

Subject Covered Presently in Collection by

Print Collection

KF8866-KF8885 Pleading and Motions
KF8900-KF8902 Pretrial Procedure

Legal Research Databases

• Bloomberg Law
• HeinOnline
• Legal Scholarship Network
• Lexis Advance
• LoisLaw-Treatise Library-Litigation Library
• Westlaw Next
• CALI - Civil Procedure
• Pretrial Procedure (Harvard Law School)
• Secrets to Effective Trial Preparation (FindLaw)
• Discovery (LII)
• Resolving Your Case Before Trial: Court Motions (FindLaw)
• Deposition (LII)
• Interrogatories to Parties (LII)
• Expert Witness (LII)
• Drafting of Civil Complaint: the Highest Leverage Obtainable in a Lawsuit
• Responsive Pleadings (USLegal)
• Keys to Effective Motions Practice in the Civil Case (Morgan Lewis)
• Preparing a Witness for a Successful Deposition (Atkinson & Baker)
• Deposition Preparation: the Ten Essential Steps (Lexis)
• Expert Testimony in Federal Civil Trials: a preliminary summary (Federal Judicial Center)
• Pre-Complaint Discovery in Pennsylvania: Uses and Abuses

ABA Trial Skills Articles

• Preparing for Your First Civil Trial Part One: Where and How to Begin (ABA)
• Preparing for Your First Civil Trial Part Two: Depositions (ABA)
• How to Write an Effective Reply Brief (ABA)
• Ascroft vs Iqbal: New Pleading Standards and Motions to Dismiss (ABA)
• Strategic Motions to Dismiss (or Lack thereof) (ABA)
• Fundamentals of Discovery Motion Practice (ABA)

Pa Code Information

• Complaint Preparation (Pa Code)
• Motion for Change of Venue or Change of Venire (Pa Code)
• Video Depositions (Pa Code)
• Opinions and Expert Testimony (Pa Code)
• Discovery of Expert Testimony (Pa Code)

Blogs

• CEB Blog

DCLI Webpage Links

• Primary Legal Research: Federal Case Law, Federal Statutory Law, Federal Administrative Law
• Legal Research Guides: Civil Procedure

Course Listed Under the following Law School Concentrations

• Civil Litigation

created by: Patricia Horvath
rev. 2/18/2013