Description
This book contains procedure-based practice guides for filing pleadings, motions, and discovery papers in selected Illinois courts. The guides consist of excerpts from the state and local rules of civil procedure and state statutes, reorganized into an outline format to serve as a quick reference guide for a practitioner. The relevant court rules are augmented with analysis from secondary sources. Because this product is organized by type of filing (pleadings, motions, and requests), practitioners can easily and efficiently find the relevant court rules and secondary source materials they need for a particular filing.
Features
- Contains more than 20 of the most commonly filed trial documents and discovery requests
- Includes an easy-to-use index, Table of Cases, and Table of Laws, Rules, and Regulations
- Includes checklists and sample forms for each document type to assist in efficient drafting
- Lists relevant state and local rules at the beginning of each document for convenient research
- Provides a comprehensive, procedural guide to civil practice in selected Illinois courts
- Provides an appendix with examples of filed documents and Westlaw® search terms
- Combines rules with state-specific cases and multiple secondary materials to provide a clear understanding of rules and their application
- Illinois KeyRules covers Cook County and the Third, Sixth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Judicial Circuits