This handbook details the steps and stages of a corporate litigation matter from beginning to end with techniques for pleadings and motions, jury selection, cross-examination, using expert witnesses, opening statements, closing arguments, and alternative dispute resolution. 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.
General Editor:
Joseph L. Kish, Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney, Chicago
Chapter 1 — Initial Evaluation of the Case
Matthew D. Kelly and Momal Kahn, Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney, Chicago
Chapter 2 — Pleadings and Motions in Business and Commercial Cases
Jeanah Park and Chad A. Schiefelbein, Vedder Price, Chicago
Chapter 3 — Discovery Overview in Federal and State Courts in Illinois
James H. Kallianis Jr., Skarzynski Marick & Black 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 J. Layton and Teal Johnson, Goldberg Segalla, and Patrick F. Sullivan, Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP, Chicago
Chapter 6 — E-Discovery
Joseph B. Moore III, Gunty & McCarthy, Christina M Putman, Resolute Management Inc., and Roman E. Solowski,Chicago
Chapter 7 — Depositions
Andrew W. Vail and Lindsey A. Lusk, Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago
Chapter 8 — Trial Techniques in Business and Commercial Cases
Jeffrey J. Mayer, Akerman LLP, and Gia F. Colunga, Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP, Chicago
Chapter 9 — Temporary Restraining Orders and Preliminary Injunctions
Michael S. Shapiro and Michael P. Tomlinson, Tomlinson & Shapiro, P.C., Chicago
Chapter 10 — Expert Witnesses
Joseph L. Kish, Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney, Chicago
Chapter 11 — Insurance Issues
David M. Kroeger, Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago
Chapter 12 — Preparing for the Appeal in the Trial Court: Preserving Issues for Review
Jonathan B. Amarilio, J. Timothy Eaton, and Adam W. Decker, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, Chicago
Chapter 13 — Arbitration — The Practitioner's Viewpoint
Denise A. Lazar and Paul T. Olszowka, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Chicago
Chapter 14 — Mediation
Brian A. Rosenblatt, Downey & Lenkov LLC, Chicago
