Civil Procedure

This is FindLaw’s collection of Civil Procedure articles, part of the Litigation and Disputes section of the Corporate Counsel Center. It is the body of law surrounding procedural rules detailing how the court will handle a civil case. Civil procedure is a set of rules that help determine what pleas, orders and motions are allowed, as well as how to handle depositions and discovery. The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, adopted by the US federal court in 1938, has been used by most states. Law articles in this archive are predominantly written by lawyers for a professional audience seeking business solutions to legal issues. Start your free research with FindLaw.

Civil Litigation

Civil Procedure Articles

Enforcement of Judgments

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Environmental, Health & Safety Audits and the Self-Evaluative Privilege

The proliferation of environmental laws and regulations by federal, state and local governments beginning in the early 1970s has created a complex web of statutes, regulations and ordinances not only affecting traditional heavy manufacturing or ...
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Environmental Issues in Real Estate Transactions

Environmental issues routinely arise in all types of real estate transactions, from the sale individual residences to the transfer of large commercial and industrial facilities. Managing the associated risks is almost always possible. The bigger ...
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Ethics Ruling OK’s Lawyer as Expert

Editor's Note: This article was originally published in BullsEye, a newsletter distributed by IMS Expert Services. When a lawyer testifies as an expert witness on a party's behalf, is an attorney-client relationship created? A new ethics ruling says ...
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Evaluating Experience: The Key to Successful Selection of Outside Counsel

As General Counsel become more important to the strategic development of their companies, corporate law departments across the nation face a common dilemma when hiring outside counsel. The selection process is about managing both risks and ...
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Expanding Scope of Attorney-Work-Product Doctrine: United States v. Aldman

Assume that your company is faced with an important business decision. It decides to study whether to merge two of its wholly-owned subsidiaries. The contemplated merger will result in losses of hundreds of millions of dollars, which will, in turn ...
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Expert Courtroom Testimony in the Closed-Head Injury Case

CLOSED HEAD INJURY is poorly understood by the public in general and by juries of laypersons in particular. It is essential that rehabilitation experts be willing and able to testify in court so that jurors can appreciate the sequelae of closed head ...
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Expert Proves Key to Lifting Injunction

Editor's Note: This article was originally published in BullsEye, a newsletter distributed by IMS Expert Services. Expert opinion proved to be the key to vacating a preliminary injunction in a design-patent case recently decided by the Federal ...
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Expert Witnesses

Experts can play an important role in your case, depending on the issues in the case. We all remember the O.J. Simpson trial. Remember the experts who testified about the DNA in the blood samples? The Rules of Evidence allow the use of experts to ...
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Experts’ Use of Published Materials Subject to Cross-Examination

In a recent Los Angeles Superior Court jury trial which arose from a multiple rear-end automobile accident, the jury found in favor of plaintiff for $69,000 after a 16-day trial. Plaintiff had asked the jury for $7.2 million in damages. Plaintiff ...
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