General Practice Clinic

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Agencies, Non-Governmental Organizations | Primary Law | Family Law | Public Benefits | Small Estate Administration | Legislative Process | Procedural Resources | Court Forms | Pleading and Practice Forms | General Trial | Motions | Discovery | Evidence | Dispute Resolution | Case Management | Legal Writing and Research | CALI Exercises | Electronic Databases | Lexis Searches | Westlaw Searches

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Federal Agencies

Maryland Agencies

Non-governmental Organizations and Other Resources

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Primary Law

Federal Law

Maryland Law

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Family Law

101+ practical solutions for the family lawyer / by Gregg Herman, editor.
2nd ed.
Chicago, Ill : Section of Family Law, American Bar Association, 2003.
UMLL Stacks | KF505.A2 A15 2003

Family law in a nutshell / by Harry D. Krause, David D. Meyer.
4th ed.
St. Paul, Minn. : Thomson/West, c2003.
UMLL Reading Room | KF505.Z9 K7 2003

Hot tips for family law practitioners.
Baltimore, Md. : MICPEL, c2003.
UMLL General Stacks | KFM1294 .H68 2003

The Maryland guardianship benchbook: the practitioner's guide to adult guardianship and guardianship alternatives in Maryland / Joan L. O'Sullivan and Andrea I. Saah.
[Baltimore, MD]: MICPEL, 2002
UMLL General Stacks | KFM1291.A3 O78 2002
Access through Westlaw.

Family practice update: the most important new case law, legislation, and court rules.
Baltimore, MD.: Maryland Institute for Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers, Inc., 2001.
UMLL General Stacks | KF505 .F12 2001

Representing children in child protective proceedings : ethical and practical dimensions / Jean Koh Peters.
2nd ed.
Charlottesville, Va. : LEXIS Law Pub., c2001.
xxiii, 1077 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
UMLL General Stacks | KF3735 .P47 2001

Representing children with learning disabilities in the juvenile justice system / Stanley J. Antonoff, editor.
New York, N.Y. : International Dyslexia Association, New York Branch, c2000.
UMLL General Stacks | KF9779.A2 R46 2000

Guardianship-- under the Maryland rules.
Baltimore, Md. : MICPEL, 1999.
vi, 308 p. : forms ; 29 cm. + 3 audiocassettes
UMLL General Stacks | KFM1306 .G93 1999

No minor matter : children in Maryland's jails.
New York : Human Rights Watch, c1999.
UMLL General Stacks | HV9105.M3 N6 1999

Guardian ad litem : representing children in custody cases.
Baltimore, MD : MICPEL, c1998.
1 v. : forms ; 29 cm.
UMLL General Stacks | KFM1304 .R42 1998

Advocating for children and families in CINA proceedings 1991 / Susan P. Leviton, Larry M. Waranch ; updated by: Marilyn Blimline ... [et al].
Baltimore, Md. : Maryland Institute for Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers, c1992.
UMLL General Stacks | KFM1550.C4 L48 1991

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Public Benefits

Improving child well-being by focusing on low-income noncustodial parents in Maryland / by Wendell Primus and Kristina Daugirdas.
Baltimore, MD: The Abell Foundation, 2000.
UMLL General Stacks | KFM1304.8 .P45 2000
http://www.abell.org/admin/pubs/pubsitems/cd_improving_child_900.pdf

Representing parents in child welfare cases : a basic introduction for attorneys / Diane Boyd Rauber with Lisa A. Granik ; edited by Mimi R. Laver.
Washington, D.C. : American Bar Association, c2000.
UMLL General Stacks | KF3735 .R38 2000

Maryland child welfare benchbook / by Debra Ratterman Baker.
Washington D.C. : American Bar Association, 2000.
1 v. (looseleaf) ; 28 cm.
UMLL Clinic | KFM1304.6 .B3 2000

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Small Estate Administration

Effective estate planning for the small estate in Maryland / David A. Cagle, Charles S. Winner.
Eau Claire, WI : NBI, 2000.
UMLL General Stacks | KFM1340 .C22 2000

Planning for small and moderate-sized estates : document drafting and tax planning.
Baltimore, MD : Maryland Institute for Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers, Inc., 1988-
UMLL General Stacks | KFM1340 .P7
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Legislative Process

Legislative drafting manual
Annapolis, Md. : State Dept. of Legislative Reference, Legislative Division
UMLL Reference Stacks | KFM1621.5.B5 L43
http://dls.state.md.us/side_pgs/legislation/drafting_manual/draft_contents.html

Legislative handbook series / [prepared by the Department of Legislative Services].
Annapolis, Md. : Dept. of Legislative Services, 1998.
9 v. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
UMLL General Stacks | JK3871 .M39 1998

Lawyer's manual for dispositional hearings (review hearings) / prepared by: Subcommittee for the Underrepresented, Young Lawyer's Section, Baltimore Bar Association.
[S.l. : s.n., 1983?]
1 v. (various pagings) : forms ; 28 cm.
UMLL General Stacks | KFM1796 .L38 1983

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General and Maryland Procedural Resources

Federal Local Court Rules (3rd ed.).
Eagan, MN: West Group, c2001-
General Stacks | KF8816 .A2 2001
Search the local rules of federal courts in Maryland via Lexis
 
Pretrial / Thomas A. Mauet.
New York: Aspen Law & Business, c2002.
General Stacks | KF8900 .M386 2002

Maryland Procedural Resources

Basic Civil Trial Practice Pre-Trial / Neil J. Dilloff.
Baltimore, Md.: MICPEL, c2000.
General Stacks | KFM1730 .D58 2000
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Maryland Rules.
Charlottesville, Va.: Michie Co.,
Reserves | KFM1230.5.M5 M37
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Search Maryland Court Rules via Lexis
Maryland Rules Commentary Paul V. Niemeyer, Linda M. Schuett.
Charlottesville, Va.: Michie Co., c1992.
General Stacks | KFM1729 .N67 1992
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Maryland Rules of Court. Federal.
St. Paul, Minn.: West Group, c2002-
General Stacks | KFM1729 .A198
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Maryland Rules of Court. State.
St. Paul, Minn.: West Group, c2002-
General Stacks | KFM1729 .A197
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Modern Maryland Civil Procedure / John A. Lynch, Jr., Richard W. Bourne.
Charlottesville, Va.: Michie Co., c1993.
Reserves | KFM1730 .L96 1993
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Pleading causes of action in Maryland / Paul Mark Sandler, James K. Archibald. 3rd ed. Baltimore : Maryland Institute for Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers, c2004.
Thurgood Marshall Law Library General Stacks | KFM1735 .S26 2004
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Court Forms

Maryland Court Forms

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Pleading and Practice Forms

American Jurisprudence Legal Forms 2d.
Rochester, N.Y., Lawyers Co-operative Pub. Co., West Group, 1966-.
General Stacks | KF170
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American Jurisprudence Pleading and Practice Forms Annotated.
Rochester, N.Y., Lawyers Co-operative Pub. Co., West Group, 1966-.
General Stacks | KF8836 .A45
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Bender's Forms of Discovery.
New York, M. Bender, 1963-
General Stacks | KF8900.A3 B4
Access through Lexis: Interrogatories (Volumes 1 to 10a)
and Treatise (Volumes 11 to 16)

Maryland Pleading and Practice Forms

Civil Procedure Forms / George W. Liebmann.
St. Paul, Minn.: West Pub. Co., 1984.
General Stacks | KFM1715.A73 M32
Maryland Civil Procedure Forms: with Practice Commentary / Robert D. Klein.
New York, NY: LEXIS Pub., c2000-

Reserves | KFM1730.A65 D542 2000
Access through Lexis
Maryland Practice Forms
Baltimore, Md.: MICPEL, c1995.
General Stacks | KFM1268 .M3

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General Trial

American Jurisprudence Trials.
Lawyers Co-operative Pub. Co., Rochester, N.Y., 1964-
General Stacks | KF8913 .A35
Access through Westlaw
Goldstein Trial Technique / Fred Lane.
Wilmette, Ill.: Callaghan, c1984-
General Stacks | KF8915 .G62 1984
 
Questioning Techniques and Tactics (3rd ed.) / by Jeffrey L. Kestler.
[St. Paul, Minn.] : West Group, 1999.
Trial practice series
General Stacks looseleaf | KF8915 .K47 1999
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Trial Communication Skills (2nd ed.) / Roberto Aron, Julius Fast, Richard B. Klein.
Deerfield, Ill. : Clark Boardman Callaghan, c1996-
Trial practice series
General Stacks looseleaf | KF8915 .A85 1996

Modern Federal Jury Instructions / Leonard B. Sand ... [et al.].
looseleaf, New York, N.Y. : M. Bender, 1984-
General Stacks | KF9682.A6 M62 1984
Access through Lexis (Bender Federal Practice)

Maryland Civil Pattern Jury Instructions (4th ed.).
Baltimore, Md.: MICPEL, c1984.
General Stacks | KFM1742 .M37 2002
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Motions

Motion Practice / David F. Herr, Roger S. Haydock, Jeffrey W. Stempel.
New York: Aspen Law & Business, 2001-
General Stacks | KF8875 .H47 2001
Access through Lexis
Motions Practice.
Baltimore, Md.: MIPCEL, c2000.
General Stacks | KFM1735 .M35 2000

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Discovery

Bender's Forms of Discovery.
New York, M. Bender, 1963-
General Stacks | KF8900.A3 B4
Access through Lexis: Interrogatories (Volumes 1 to 10a)
and Treatise (Volumes 11 to 16)
Deposition Questioning Strategies and Techniques /
David A. Binder, Albert J Moore, Paul Bergman.
St. Paul, Minn.: West Group, 2001.
General Stacks | KF8900 .B56 2001
Discovery Practice (4th ed.) / Roger S. Haydock, David F. Herr.
New York: Aspen Law & Business, c2002-
General Stacks | KF8900 .H42
Access through Lexis
Pattern Discovery [Various topics] / Douglas Danner, Larry L. Varn.
Deerfield, IL: Clark Boardman Callaghan, c1995.
General Stacks | KF8900 .Dxx
Access through Westlaw: Employment Discrimination, Tort Actions, Products Liability, Motor Vehicles, Premises Liability
Pattern Interrogatories / Douglas Danner.
Rochester, N.Y. : Lawyers Co-operative Pub. Co. ; San Francisco, Calif. ; Bancroft-Whitney, 1970.
General Stacks | KF8900 .D36
 
Pretrial Discovery: Strategy and Tactics / Edward J. Imwinkelried and Theodore Y. Blumoff.
St. Paul, Minn.: West Group, c1999.
General Stacks | KF8900 .I483 1999

Winning through discovery in employment discrimination cases. Baltimore, MD: MICPEL, 2002
UMLL General Stacks | KF8900 .W28 2002

Discovery - Maryland

Civil Discovery Practice in Maryland.
Springfied, IL: Law Practice Handbooks, Inc., c1995.
General Stacks | KFM1737 .C55 1995
Taking and Defending Depositions: A Handbook for Maryland Lawyers /
Paul W. Grimm.
Baltimore, Md.: MICPEL, c1991-
General Stacks | KFM1737 .G74 1991
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Evidence

American Jurisprudence Proof of Facts, 3d series.
Rochester, N.Y.: Lawyers Co-operative Pub. Co., 1988-
General Stacks | KF8933 .A35 1988
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Evidentiary Foundations (5th ed.) / Edward J. Imwinkelried.
Newark, N.J.: LexisNexis, c2002.
General Stacks | KF8935 .I45 2002
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How to Prepare Witnesses for Trial (2nd ed.) / Roberto Aron, Jonathan L. Rosner ; contributor, James C. Gray, Jr.
[St. Paul, Minn.] : West Group, c1998- .
Trial practice series
General Stacks looseleaf | KF8915 .A83

McCormick on Evidence (5th ed.) / John William Strong, et al.
St. Paul, Minn.: West Group, 1999.
Reserves | KF8935 .M29 1999

Evidence - Maryland

Maryland and Federal Evidence
with the Hon. Joseph F. Murphy, Jr. and the Hon. Paul W. Grimm.
Baltimore, MD: MICPEL, 2002.
General Stacks | KFM1740 .M377 2002
Maryland Evidence: Courtroom Manual / Alan D. Hornstein, Glen Weisseberger.
Cincinnati, OH.: Anderson Publishing Co., 2000-
General Stacks | KFM1750 .H688
Access through Lexis
Maryland Evidence Handbook / Joseph F. Murphy, Jr. 3rd ed.
Charlottesville, Va.: LEXIS Law, c1999.
General Stacks | KFM1740 .M87 1999
Access through Lexis

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Dispute Resolution

Mediation : law, policy, and practice, 2nd ed.
by Sarah R. Cole, Nancy H. Rogers and Craig A. McEwen.
[St. Paul, Minn.] : West Group, c2001-
3 v. (loose-leaf) ; 25 cm.
UMLL General Stacks | KF9084 .C52 2001

Consumer arbitration agreements : enforceability and other topics, with CD-ROM, 2nd ed. / F. Paul Bland, Jr., Michael J. Quirk, Jonathan Sheldon.
Boston, MA : National Consumer Law Center with the TLPJ Foundation, 2002.
The consumer credit and sales legal practice series
UMLL General Stacks | KF9084 .B53 2002

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Case Management

Collecting your fee : getting paid from intake to invoice / Edward Poll.
Chicago, Ill. : Law Practice Management Section, American Bar Association, 2003.
UMLL Stacks | KF316 .P65 2003

The business of law / [Faculty : Harry A. Harrison ... [et al.]].
Baltimore, MD : MICPEL, c1995.
UMLL General Stacks | KF315.Z9 B97 1995

Winning alternatives to the billable hour : strategies that work 2nd ed. / James A. Calloway, Mark A. Robertson, editors.
Chicago, Ill. : American Bar Association, c2002.
UMLL General Stacks | KF316 .W52 2002

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Legal Writing and Research

NLRB style manual : a guide for legal writing in plain English, Rev. Jan. 2000 / National Labor Relations Board.
[Washington, D.C.?] : The Board : For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., 2000.
1 v. (loose-leaf) ; 30 cm.
UMLL General Stacks | KF250 .N2 1983
Legal writing and analysis / Linda Holdeman Edwards.
New York : Aspen Publishers, 2003.
UMLL Writing Center | KF250 .E378 2003
UMLL Special Collections Stacks | KF250 .E378 2003

Introduction to advocacy : research, writing, and argument. 7th ed. / edited by David Ware, Gregory Lantier, Mandana Dashtaki. ; [prepared by] Board of Student Advisors, Harvard Law School.
New York, N.Y. : Foundation Press, 2002.
UMLL General Stacks | KF281 .A2 I57 2002

Legal research in a nutshell 8th ed. / by Morris L. Cohen, Kent C. Olson.
St. Paul, MN : Thomson/West, [2003]
UMLL Reserves | KF240 .C54 2003

Synthesis : legal reading, reasoning, and writing / Deborah A. Schmedemann, Christina L. Kunz.
Gaithersburg : Aspen Law & Business, c1999.
UMLL Reserves | KF250 .S36 1999

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CALI Lessons

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