The Practice of Consumer Law

400 pp.
2007 CD-Rom

Summary Contents
Table of Contents
Index
CD-Rom Contents
About the Authors

Sample NCLC Manual Pages

Practice insights and pointers from scores of consumer litigators around the country gets you started and helps you develop your consumer law practice to a higher level:

• Opening and expanding a consumer law practice, choosing a specialty, sample fee and co-counseling agreements, networking, and marketing yourself
• Making even small claims cost-effective
• Survey of troublesome businesses and successful legal approaches, including Car Cases 101
• Sample complaints, discovery, other practice aids, ready to paste into a wordprocessor from the book’s CD-Rom
• Discovery tips, client intake forms, sample protective orders, and tips on using expert witnesses
• A lively roadmap to consumer protection legislation
• Overcoming common defense tactics and how to explain technical consumer statutes
• 50 ways to lose a winning case
• Settlement tactics; preparing clients with reasonable settlement goals
• How to try a case and what you need to know about consumer remedies, attorney fees, and class actions
• Understanding your litigation’s tax consequences for clients
• Preparing for your first appellate argument, and much more.

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