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Authored by a respected litigator, this book provides step-by-step guidance through every aspect of trial preparation and presentation. It shows you how to use rhetorical styles, psychological principles, and dramatic techniques to formulate a cohesive, winning trial strategy, from client interview through closing argument.

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This handbook is designed to help in the development and implementation of practical human resource systems that have a proven record for increasing individual and firm-wide effectiveness. The book highlights procedures and programs that will help a firm, corporate law department, or government legal staff hire, develop, and manage the performance of employees to enhance organizational productivity and profitability.

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Submitted by Malgorzata Pawska, Digital Content Coordinator on 03-01-2010
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On Friday I attended the WestlawNext preview breakfast where Thomson Reuters unveiled its new product to the Philadelphia legal information community. Designed to revolutionize the way legal professionals search, WestlawNext only requires the entering of some key terms and the selection of a jurisdiction, unlike the database driven format of traditional Westlaw. WestlawNext then runs a search in cases, statutes, regulations, treatises, briefs, etc. The results come back clustered, so that you can see how many hits you had in...

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Course Handbook from the program Ninth Annual Institute on Securities Regulation in Europe: A Contrast in EU & U.S. Provisions, held January, 2010.

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Police Misconduct examines the implications of police misconduct from the crime scene, arrest, preliminary proceedings, investigation, discovery, and litigation of pretrial motions through the jury selection process and trial. Supporting legal analysis and case citations are provided together with sample motions and memoranda.

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Submitted by Malgorzata Pawska, Digital Content Coordinator on 02-15-2010
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Ever wish that computerized legal research could be more like searching Google? You’re about to get your wish fulfilled. For those of you who haven’t heard, Westlaw and Lexis are revamping their databases to make searching and finding legal materials much simpler and efficient.  Westlaw recently debuted their new product called WestlawNext and Lexis is rumored to be unveiling their “New Lexis” later this year. Here at Jenkins we’re not too concerned about all the changes to come- hey we worked through the switch from dial...

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