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Civil Procedure in Focus, Third Edition

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Authors
  • Jeremy Counseller
  • Eric Porterfield
Series / Focus Casebook Series
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Book length
706 pages
Publication Date
2024-02-01
Edition
Third Edition
Description
Table of contents
Preface

Buy a new version of this textbook and receive access to the Connected eBook with Study Center on Casebook Connect, including academic lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities. Access also includes practice questions, an outline tool, and other helpful resources. Connected eBooks provide what you need most to be successful in your law school classes.



The reader-friendly approach of this casebook provides a hands-on, experiential learning environment that can be essential to many students’ success. Simply knowing the facts of a benchmark case is not enough; knowing how to apply the doctrine from one case to a different set of facts enhances a student’s ability to succeed in and after law school. With the practice-based exercises in every chapter, students learn to apply legal principles and concepts to real-world scenarios.

Key Features:
• Case Previews and Post-Case Follow-Ups. To succeed, law students must know how to deconstruct and analyze cases. Case Previews highlight the legal concepts in a case before the student reads it. Post-Case Follow-Ups summarize the important points and ramifications but also goes one step further, noting the significance of a case to current law.
• Real Life Applications. Every case in a chapter is followed by Real Life Applications, which present a scenario similar to the facts in the case followed by a series of related questions. Real Life Applications challenge students to apply what they have learned and help prepare them for real-world practice. Professors can use Real Life Applications to spark class discussions or use them as individual short-answer assignments.
• Applying the Concepts and Civil Procedure in Practice. These end-of-chapter exercises encourage students to synthesize chapter material and apply relevant legal doctrine and code to real-world scenarios. Students can use these exercises for self-assessment, or the professor can use them to promote class interaction.

New to the Third Edition:
• Current issues regarding generative AI as it relates to Rule 11 and Discovery.
• The COVID-19 Pandemic’s effects on litigation.
• An explanation of the U.S. Supreme Court’s latest Personal Jurisdiction cases.
• A discussion of Snap Removal.

Professors and students will benefit from:
• Explanatory text on the key concepts, allowing professors to spend more class time on application of the concepts rather than explanation of basic doctrine
• Essay, short answer, and multiple-choice questions in every chapter, along with model answers in the teacher’s manual for each question.
• Exhibits containing the relevant constitutional, statutory, or rule text. • Case Previews and Follow-ups that help to frame the key issues in the case and discussion of how the holdings have developed in subsequent cases 
 
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About the authors
Jeremy Counseller
Dean and Abner V. McCall Chair of Evidence Law
Baylor University Law School

Jeremy Counseller, a member of Baylor Law School’s faculty since 2003, assumed the deanship on July 1, 2024. A Baylor Law School alum who graduated with honors in 2000, Counseller was actively involved in the Baylor Law Review, the Order of the Barristers, and the interscholastic moot court and mock trial teams.

Counseller teaches Civil Procedure and is part of Baylor Law School’s Practice Court Program faculty. He has authored articles and presented papers on various evidentiary and procedural issues. In addition to Civil Procedure in Focus, Third Edition, Counseller co-authored the Handbook of Texas Evidence, Texas Commercial Causes of Action, and Texas Trial Procedure and Evidence.

In 2006, the President of the State Bar of Texas appointed Counseller to serve on the Administration of the Rules of Evidence Committee, where he helped to restructure the Texas Rules of Evidence. Dean Counseller is the Contributing Evidence Editor of the State Bar of Texas General Practice Digest.

After completing law school, Counseller served as a law clerk for the Honorable Reynaldo G. Garza of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. As an associate in the trial section, he joined the private practice at Bracewell & Patterson, LLP (now Bracewell, LLP) in Houston, Texas, as an associate in the trial section. Additionally, Counseller worked as an Assistant Criminal District Attorney in McLennan County, Texas, where he prosecuted misdemeanors and felonies.

For the 2021-2022 academic year, Counseller received Baylor University’s Outstanding Faculty Award for Teaching for the second time.

Eric Porterfield
Associate Professor
University of North Texas at Dallas College of Law

In 2014, author Eric Porterfield joined the inaugural faculty of UNT Dallas College of Law, where he teaches Civil Procedure, Evidence, and upper division procedural courses. In 2001, Porterfield earned his B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin with a double major in Government and German with highest honors. In 2004, Porterfield was Valedictorian of his law school class at Baylor Law School, where he was the Senior Executive Editor of the Baylor Law Review and earned his J.D. summa cum laude. After graduating from Baylor Law, Porterfield served as a law clerk to the Honorable David C. Godbey, United States District Judge for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division. While a law clerk, Porterfield was assistant coach of Baylor’s National Championship Mock Trial Team in the 2005 ATLA Competition. Following his clerkship, Prof. Porterfield joined Carrington Coleman, a large Dallas law firm, where he defended a variety of medical and legal professionals in malpractice and administrative licensure actions, health care institutions in a variety of matters, and corporations in multi-national disputes, helping to resolve a global dispute in London involving parties from three continents. While at Carrington Coleman, he was active in pro bono work for the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program, helping victims of domestic violence and exploited consumers. In 2009, Prof. Porterfield joined Lee Brown at the Brown Law Firm in Dallas, where he represented catastrophically injured consumers in complex cases against car manufacturers and automotive component suppliers. Porterfield tried several multi-week product liability cases and litigated these cases in federal and state courts from Hawaii to New York, at all stages, and from pretrial through trial and appeals, including briefing to intermediate courts of appeals and the Texas Supreme Court. In 2012, Prof. Porterfield left the Brown Law Firm to earn an LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School in 2013, where he researched and specialized in international civil litigation. In 2013, he also published, in the Temple Law Review, a critique of the treaty governing international service of process, including suggestions for reform. A revised and expanded version of Porterfield’s LL.M. thesis for Harvard was published in the Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law, entitled “A Domestic Proposal to Revive the Hague Judgments Convention: How to Stop Worrying about Streams, Trickles, Asymmetry, and a Lack of Reciprocity” in 2015.

Author Eric Porterfield continues to research and write in the areas of Civil Procedure and Evidence.

Product Information
Edition
Third Edition
Publication date
2024-02-01
Copyright Year
2024
Pages
706
Print + eBook
9798889060628
eBook
9798889060635
LLPOD
9798892070300
Audiobook
9798899630118
eBook + Audiobook
9798899634499
Subject
Civil Procedure
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