This handbook is a guide through each stage of a business or commercial case. The chapters cover the steps of a case from beginning to end with techniques for pleadings and motions, jury selection, cross-examination, using expert witnesses, and opening and closing arguments. Discovery issues, including discovery in federal and state courts, written discovery, e-discovery, and document production and organization, are extensively covered. Other topics include mediation, arbitration, temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions, preparing for appeal, expert witnesses, and insurance. The handbook includes multiple forms, samples, checklists, and model clauses, including sample deposition questions, separate checklists for plaintiffs and defendants regarding preparing pleadings, charts for a simple and detailed litigation budget, temporary restraining orders with and without notice, and a protective order.
Joseph L. Kish, Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney, Ltd., Chicago, General Editor
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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., Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, Chicago
Chapter 4 — Written Discovery — Requests for Admission and Interrogatories
Daniel T. Graham and Jeffrey M. Sniadanko, Clark Hill PLC, Chicago
Chapter 5 — Document Production and Organization
Chad Layton and Patrick F. Sullivan, Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney, Ltd., Chicago
Chapter 6 — E-Discovery
Kelley Gordon, Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney, Ltd., Chicago
Chapter 7 — Depositions
Andrew W. Vail, Lindsey A. Lusk, and William M. Strom, Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago
Chapter 8 — Trial Techniques in Business and Commercial Cases
Jeffrey J. Mayer, Akerman LLP, and Gia F. Colunga, Freeborn & Peters LLP, Chicago
Chapter 9 — Temporary Restraining Orders and Preliminary Injunctions
Gregory J. Scandaglia and William J. Ryan, Scandaglia & Ryan, Chicago
Chapter 10 — Expert Witnesses
Joseph L. Kish, Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney, Ltd., Chicago
Chapter 11 — Insurance Issues
Charlotte L. Wager, Justin C. Steffen, and Monika N. Kothari, Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago
Chapter 12 — Preparing for the Appeal in the Trial Court: Preserving Issues for Review
J. Timothy Eaton, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, Chicago
Chapter 13 — Arbitration — The Practitioner’s Viewpoint
Mark P. Miller and Brian W. Lewis, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Chicago
Chapter 14 — Mediation
Brian A. Rosenblatt, Bryce Downey & Lenkov LLC, and Sara S. Zorich, SmithAmundsen LLC, Chicago
