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Civil Procedure Before Trial, 2nd Edition assists you in preparing for all aspects of civil trial, from the initiation of the lawsuit to the beginning of the trial. It provides:
- Substantive discussion and practice tips
- Strategic and tactical advice
- Insights into pleading, discovery, and summary judgments
Topics include:
- The Illinois court structure and judiciary
- Jurisdiction
- Process and service of process
- Venue and related concepts
- Statute of limitations and personal actions
- Provisional relief
- Provisional equitable relief
- Prejudgment attachment and garnishment
- Lis pendens
- Pleading
- Parties and joinder
- Capacity of parties
- Class actions
- Discovery
- Depositions
- The pretrial conference
- Pretrial dispositions
- Summary judgments
- Voluntary dismissals, dismissals for want of prosecution, defaults, and confessions of judgment
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