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Fundamentals of California Litigation for Paralegals, Eighth Edition

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  • Marlene Pontrelli Maerowitz
  • Thomas A. Mauet
Series / Aspen Paralegal Series
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552 pages
Publication Date
2025-02-01
Edition
Eighth Edition
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Preface

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Fundamentals of Litigation for California Paralegals offers a complete understanding of the litigation process from the time the client walks into the office through to trial and post-judgment, including settlements and alternative forms of resolutions. Tailored to California practice, the authors’successful, balanced approach presents a complete overview of the litigation process, with clear explanations and examples of the rules and procedures. The text’s flexible organization allows the instructor to easily pick and choose the areas to cover in the course. Intended specifically for California paralegals, each chapter references specific California statutes, and relevant California forms are included throughout the book.

Professors and students will benefit from:
• Text tailored to California Law with California-specific Judicial Council forms and references to specific California statutes in each chapter.
• A balanced and reader-friendly presentation.
• Concise and clear writing—students will not get lost in the details of the rules.
• A flexible organization that lends itself to a variety of teaching objectives.
• Helpful pedagogy, including bold-face terms defined in the margins and in the glossary; numerous examples, charts, checklists, and sample documents; chapter overviews and summaries; and review questions.
• A companion workbook, available as a downloadable file, with review questions (including true-false, short answer, and essays, with answers and explanations) and case scenarios for the student to use in completing assignments for the course and for use by the instructor as case studies in class.

New to the Eighth Edition:
• Updated with changes to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, California Rules of Court, and Judicial Council forms.
• Includes new developments in e-discovery.
• Includes a new section on the use of artificial intelligence in litigation.
• Updated review questions and research questions at the end of each chapter to supplement the readings.
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Summary of Contents

Contents 
Preface 
About the Authors 

Part I. Investigating and Planning the Litigation
Chapter 1. Introduction to Litigation 
Chapter 2. Informal Fact Gathering and Investigation 
Chapter 3. Case Evaluation and Strategy 
Chapter 4. Parties and Jurisdiction 

Part II. Pretrial Litigation 
Chapter 5. Pleadings 
Chapter 6. Complaints, Answers, and Cross-Claims 
Chapter 7. Special Pleadings 
Chapter 8. Introduction to Motions 
Chapter 9. Motions Attacking the Pleadings 
Chapter 10. Summary Judgments 
Chapter 11. Provisional Remedies 
Chapter 12. Evidence 
Chapter 13. Introduction to Discovery 
Chapter 14. Written Discovery 
Chapter 15. Depositions

Part III. Settlement, Trial, and Post-Trial
Chapter 16. Settlements 
Chapter 17. Trial Preparation, Trial, and Appeal 
Chapter 18. Enforcement of Judgments 
Chapter 19. Alternative Dispute Resolution 
Chapter 20. Social Media and Artificial Intelligence in Litigation 

Glossary 
Index
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About the authors
Marlene Pontrelli Maerowitz

Marlene A. Pontrelli is an attorney with Dickinson Wright PLLC, in Phoenix, Arizona, and the Family Law Group Practice Chair. She is admitted to both the Arizona and California bars. Ms. Pontrelli is a judge pro tem for the Superior Court of Maricopa County in family law. She has extensive trial and appellate experience, including appearing before the Arizona Court of Appeals, Arizona Supreme Court, and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Ms. Pontrelli is an adjunct professor at Arizona State University School of Law where she teaches a class on family law.

Thomas Mauet
Professor of Law

Professor Mauet directs the Trial Advocacy Program and teaches Evidence, Pretrial Litigation, and Trial Advocacy. For ten years, Professor Mauet practiced as a trial lawyer in Chicago. He was a prosecutor with the Cook County State's Attorney and the United States Attorney offices. He was a commercial litigator and specialized in medical negligence litigation with the firm of Hinshaw & Culbertson. During these years, he also was an adjunct faculty member at Loyola and Chicago-Kent law schools, teaching criminal law and trial advocacy.

Professor Mauet is a leading authority on trials. His latest book is Trials: Strategy, Skills, and the New Powers of Presentation. His other books include: Trial Techniques (6th ed.), Materials in Trial Advocacy (5th ed.), Pretrial (6th ed.), and Trial Evidence (3rd ed.), all published by Aspen Publishing. Trial Techniques is the leading text in the field and has Canadian, French, New Zealand, Australian, and Chinese editions. Professor Mauet was an Arizona Superior Court Judge pro tem in 1987–1988 and in 1988–1989 taught at George Washington University as the Howrey Professor of Trial Advocacy. He has also served as a visiting faculty member at Harvard Law School’s trial advocacy program and at Washington University. He is a co-founder of the Arizona College of Trial Advocacy. He is a former regional director of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) and has taught in numerous NITA programs throughout the United States since 1976.

Professor Mauet’s research interests center on the application of social science research, particularly in psychology and communications, to the jury trial process.
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Edition
Eighth Edition
Publication date
2025-02-01
Copyright Year
2025
Pages
552
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Subject
Litigation
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