There are an estimated 1.4 million active service members and 23 million veterans. However, many of these military families are not fully aware of their legal rights.

“The Legal Guide for Military Families complements the important work being done by state and local bar associations throughout the nation to provide legal services to military personnel and their families,” said Kim Askew, chair of the ABA Standing Committee on Public Education. “The guide helps military members and their families to understand their rights and protections and to know when to seek legal assistance.”

David G. Ehrhart, a retired Air Force brigadier general and chair of the ABA Standing Committee on Legal Assistance for Military Personnel, added, “Of the many sacrifices made by our nation’s military families, many of which often go unseen, one sacrifice these families should never make is in having a clear understanding of the legal rights and special protections available to them.”

“The guide successfully bridges the knowledge gap for service members, veterans and their families between their awareness of legal rights and their need for counsel to help resolve their legal issues,” Ehrhart said.

The guide is written by highly accomplished attorneys who have worked for years with military service members and their families. The user-friendly tips give readers what they need to make informed legal decisions.

For example, the guide:

• Locates state and federal resources, including pro bono clinics and legal aid offices
• Explains eligibility requirements for veterans benefits
• Manages family law issues (marriage, divorce, child custody and ex-spouses)
• Details benefits for same-sex spouses
• Explains estate planning basics and life insurance
• Explains health care and disability insurance/coverage
• Advises on negotiation for the sale of homes and vehicles
• Navigates the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (a federal law that provides protections for military members when they enter active duty)

Trevor Orsinger, an attorney in the General Counsel’s Office at Fermi Research Alliance in Batavia, Ill., and a contributor to the guide, observed: “The United States provides incredible programs that benefit veterans in countless ways. As a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom and a lawyer in Illinois, I understand how difficult it can be to access those benefits. Wading through those processes can be a daunting task, even for the most-experienced service members.”

“The ABA’s Legal Guide for Military Families is an outstanding guide and a must-have for any attorney who helps those who have given so much for this country,” added Orsinger, who is also a military attorney in the Illinois Air National Guard.

The book is published by the ABA Division for Public Education in partnership with Random House Reference.

For more information about resources for military families and veterans, visit www.abahomefront.org.

Title: The American Bar Association Legal Guide for Military Families:
Everything You Need to Know About Family Law, Estate Planning,
and the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act
Publisher: Random House Reference
Pages: 372
Product Code: 2350268
ISBN-13: 978-0-375572-384-1
Size: 5.2 x 0.8 x 8 inches
Binding: Paperback
Price: $14.99
eBook: $11.99
Pre-order: $10.19
Orders: Available wherever books are sold.

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Through his prolific career, McElhaney has written the book on litigation. Now, his latest effort, McElhaney’s Litigation, Volume II, captures his time-tested advice through a collection of columns published in the magazine between 1994 and 2011.

McElhaney’s book continues his tradition of presenting useful, entertaining advice in a clear, simple, effective way that every lawyer will find invaluable. In McElhaney’s Litigation, Volume II, McElhaney provides comprehensive advice on how to avoid the snares, traps and pitfalls that challenge every trial lawyer, regardless of experience. He shows, with wit, clarity and simplicity, how to conduct the best trial a lawyer is capable of conducting and offers techniques and strategies based on actual courtroom experience.

McElhaney, who lives in New Mexico, is one of the most respected and prolific writers to contribute to the ABA and the ABA Journal. His litigation column appeared every month in the magazine for 25 years, and his “Trial Notebook” column appeared four times a year for nearly 30 years in Litigation magazine, published by the ABA Section of Litigation. McElhaney has also devoted many years to law school teaching, hundreds of continuing legal education appearances and trial consulting. He is regarded as one of the country’s most authoritative sources on litigation.

Title: McElhaney’s Litigation, Volume II
Publisher: Section of Litigation
Pages: 640
Product Code: 5310420
ISBN:               978-1-61438-962-0
Size: 6×9
Price: $64.95
Orders: 800-285-2221 or Section of Litigation

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With nearly 400,000 members, the American Bar Association is one of the largest voluntary professional membership organizations in the world. As the national voice of the legal profession, the ABA works to improve the administration of justice, promotes programs that assist lawyers and judges in their work, accredits law schools, provides continuing legal education, and works to build public understanding around the world of the importance of the rule of law. To review our privacy statement, click here. Follow the latest ABA news at www.abanow.org and on Twitter @ABANews.

The book, Bioinformatics Law: Legal Issues for Computational Biology in the Post-Genome Era, will serve as a useful resource for lawyers, researchers, policymakers and scholars on the complex intersection of law and bioinformatics. A host of experts, from law to science, offers insights and research that will help in navigating this complex environment and cutting-edge research into bioinformatics, a field that develops and improves upon methods for storing, retrieving, organizing and analyzing biological data.

Thousands of laboratories across the globe are studying the human genome sequence, with new associations between genetic variations and diseases and physiological traits announced weekly. Many experts say the world has entered a “post-genome” era, a time in which the availability of the human genome sequence is taken as a given and serves as a starting point for multiple new and innovative research endeavors.

The book tackles a range of issues associated with this booming field, from the intellectual property landscape that deals with patents and other areas to the legal issues raised by software tools that enable large-scale computational biology. Also covered are the legal aspects of the research environments in which bioinformatics work is increasingly conducted, including biopharma collaborations and university research and development, among many other areas.

About the Authors

Jorge L. Contreras is an associate professor at American University’s Washington College of Law. His research focuses primarily on the effects of intellectual property structures on the dissemination and production of technological innovation, with a focus on basic scientific research and technical standards. Contreras is co-chairman of the ABA Section of Science and Technology Law’s Committee on Technical Standardization and a member of the National Academy of Science’s Committee on Intellectual Property Management in Standard-Setting Processes. He is the editor of the Technical Standards Patent Policy Manual (ABA Publishing: Chicago, 2007) and has written numerous articles, book chapters and blog postings relating to intellectual property and standards development. He recently became the founding editor of the Social Science Research Network’s Law, Policy and Economics of Technical Standards eJournal, and in 2011, he was awarded first place in the Society for Standards Professionals’ World Standards Day Paper Competition (together with co-authors). Before joining the faculty of American University, Contreras was senior lecturer and acting director of the Intellectual Property Program at Washington University in St. Louis and a partner at the international law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP. He is a cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School. 

Dr. A. Jamie Cuticchia has more than 20 years of academic and industry experience leading groups in computational biology, genomics, high-performance computing, software engineering and genome database construction. He has held numerous leadership positions, including professorships at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine. Cuticchia founded the Ontario Center for Genomic Computing, a Top 500 Supercomputing Center and the largest supercomputing center devoted solely to addressing issues of life sciences. He also held several full- and part-time industrial positions, including director of computational biology for the MITRE Corp., director of bioinformatics and genomics for ChemGenics Pharmaceuticals, director of drug discovery information technology for Millennium Pharmaceuticals, consulting vice president of genomic information for Ceres Genomics, chief information officer for SynX Pharmaceuticals, and scientific founder of New Chemical Entities. Cuticchia was also director of bioinformatics for the Research Triangle Institute. After several years at RTI, he went to the Duke University Health System, where he held numerous positions, including Duke bioinformatics scholar. He completed a law degree and was licensed by the North Carolina Bar to practice law. He is presently winding down his work at Duke and transitioning to his new law practice, AJC Legal Services. Cuticchia, however, intends to remain active in the scientific field. 

Title:                     Bioinformatics Law: Legal Issues for Computational
                                 Biology in the Post-Genome Era
Publisher:           Section of Science and Technology Law
Pages:                     248
Product Code:     5450067
ISBN:                       978-1-62722-010-1
Size:                         6×9
Price:                      $99.95
Orders:                  800-285-2221 or ambar.org/bioinformatics

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The Law of Class Action: Fifty-State Survey 2012-2013 represents a valuable tool for both in-house and outside counsels who confront the possibility of a class action suit in a state in which they have little or no experience and must make informed recommendations on removal. Experienced litigators from each of the states have prepared summaries that address changes in rules and statutes as well as significant case law.

The survey serves as a comprehensive guide for state court class action litigation that came about after the 1985 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Shutts (427 U.S. 797). In that decision, the high court found that state courts, within certain due process constraints, can adjudicate claims of nonresident class members, a ruling that opened the door for state courts to entertain suits that traditionally were in federal forums.

The Section’s Class Actions and Derivative Suits Committee prepared the book.

About the Editors

Elizabeth J. Cabraser is a founding partner of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP, with 28 years of experience representing plaintiffs in mass tort, investment and consumer fraud, product liability, toxic contamination, employment discrimination and civil rights litigation. She has written scholarly and practical articles and lectured extensively on federal civil procedure, complex litigation, securities litigation, class action trials and settlements, environmental claims, mass tort litigation and substantive tort law issues. Cabraser was named one of the National Law Journal’s “100 Most Influential Lawyers in America” for 2006.

Dennis K. Egan, editor emeritus, is an attorney at the law firm Kotz Sangster Wysocki P.C., in Detroit, and a 1978 graduate with honors of the University of Michigan Law School. His practice is concentrated in the representation of national and regional securities broker/dealers in defending customer lawsuits and arbitrations as well as regulatory enforcement actions. He also regularly defends corporate clients in class actions in state and federal courts. Egan serves as co-chair of the State Laws Subcommittee of the Litigation Section’s Class Actions and Derivative Suits Committee. He is also an active member of the Broker/Dealer Litigation Subcommittee of the Litigation Section’s Federal Regulation of Securities Committee. He has been recognized by Law & Politics as a “Michigan Super Lawyer” in the field of securities litigation.

Thomas R. Grande, editor emeritus, graduated from Bates College in1976 and studied at the University of Copenhagen and Lycée Presles in Vichy, France. He attended law school at the University of Hawaii (J.D., 1985), where he was an academic selection to law review and recipient of the Susan McKay Memorial Moot Court Award for outstanding oral advocacy. He was a law clerk to Chief Justice Edward King, Federated States of Micronesia Supreme Court. Grande is the principal of Grande Law Offices in Honolulu, where he represents consumers in group and class actions in state and federal court and plaintiffs in cases brought under the state and federal false claims acts. He is a past officer and director of the Consumer Lawyers of Hawaii and was awarded the Outstanding Delivery of Legal Services Award by Hawaii Lawyers Care.

Fabrice N. Vincent is a partner at the national plaintiffs’ firm of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP. A graduate from Cornell Law School (J.D., cum laude, 1992), Vincent’s practice focuses on class actions, personal injury/torts, defective products, wrongful deaths, medical malpractice, and environmental and toxic torts. He has been recognized by Law & Politics as a “Northern California Super Lawyer” for the past two years and has written extensively on current issues in litigation, including co-editing California Class Actions Practice and Procedures from 2003-2006.

Title: The Law of Class Action: Fifty-State Survey 2012-2013
Publisher: Section of Litigation
Pages: 660
Product Code: 5310419
ISBN: 978-1-61438-964-4
Size: 7×10
Price: $149.95
Orders: 800.285.2221 or ambar.org/classactions2013

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With nearly 400,000 members, the American Bar Association is one of the world’s largest voluntary professional membership organizations. As the national voice of the legal profession, the ABA works to improve the administration of justice, promotes programs that assist lawyers and judges in their work, accredits law schools, provides continuing legal education, and works to build public understanding around the world of the importance of the rule of law.

Five attorneys from the law firm of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP joined the American Bar Association to publish this book, which is extremely timely and relevant given the influx of veterans returning home from war and the constant flood of stories in the news about veterans issues.

Christopher Clay, general counsel of the Disabled American Veterans, observed: “I have read much of the literature on this subject, including the guidance published by some other institutions. The Finnegan book beats them all. … It is a gem. In addition to being readable and useful, the book’s simplicity is evidence of the fact that the contributors have achieved mastery of the subject matter.”

Veterans Appeals Guidebook assists lawyers representing veterans and other claimants who are pursuing appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. The book addresses the basics of appeals to the CAVC, explores the jurisdiction of the court and outlines the CAVC appellate process. The book will help facilitate appeals to the court and might even increase the chances for appellate success.

About the Authors

Ronald Smith, editor of the guidebook, is counsel for Finnegan’s Veterans’ Pro Bono Program and a counsel in its Intellectual Property Specialties Practice Group. Smith has prosecuted more than 400 veterans’ appeals in the federal courts, including before the CAVC and the Federal Circuit. The co-authors are Anita Bhushan, Elizabeth D. Ferrill, Stephen L. Hennessy and Maureen D. Queler, all active in Finnegan’s Veterans’ Pro Bono Program, which serves disabled U.S. military veterans, their dependents and their survivors.

Title: Veterans Appeals Guidebook: Representing Veterans in the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
Publisher: Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice
Pages: 126
Product Code: 5010075
ISBN:               978-1-61438-960-6
Size: 6×9
Price: $69.95
Orders: 800-285-2221 or ambar.org/veteransappeal

Editor’s note: Review copies are available by sending an email to Laura Vecchia at Laura.Vecchia@americanbar.org. If you publish a review of this book, please send tear sheets or a copy for our files to Laura Vecchia, American Bar Association, Book Publishing, 321 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL 60654.

With nearly 400,000 members, the American Bar Association is the world’s largest voluntary professional membership organization. As the national voice of the legal profession, the ABA works to improve the administration of justice, promotes programs that assist lawyers and judges in their work, accredits law schools, provides continuing legal education, and works to build public understanding around the world of the importance of the rule of law.

The field of scientific interpretation of evidence and its portrayal in the media has created an environment in which expert testimony at trial is not only commonly accepted by judge and jury, but also expected. The book focuses on the Daubert-Joiner-Kumho Tire trilogy and other high court decisions that have established a standard for admissibility of scientific testimony in U.S. courts of law and helped foster that situation.

Scientific Evidence Review: Admissibility and the Use of Expert Evidence in the Courtroom, Monograph No. 9 is a valuable resource for lawyers and other interested readers that provides quick access to the governing expert evidence rules in federal and state courts across the United States. The circuit-by-circuit chapters are written by experienced attorneys with knowledge of the application of the rules regarding expert evidence in their specific jurisdictions. Included is guidance on factors to consider when selecting an expert and an examination of the impact on court decisions of the National Research Council’s 2009 report about the scientific foundation underlying forensic testimony.

About the Editors

Cindy H. Cwik is a partner with the San Diego office of Jones Day. She has extensive experience in complex litigation and class actions, including mass tort and product liability cases, consumer class actions, and environmental and securities cases. She has represented clients in multidistrict litigation proceedings, arbitrations, mediations and trials. She has been selected seven times as a California “Top Female Litigator” by The Los Angeles/San Francisco Daily Journal.

Jules Epstein is Associate Professor of Law at Widener University School of Law (Delaware), where he teaches evidence and criminal law courses. He has published extensively regarding the death penalty, eyewitness identification and evidence, and is on the faculty of the National Judicial College, teaching evidence and capital case courses. In the area of forensics, Epstein has worked on two DNA work groups and in capital case trainings for the National Institute of Justice and now serves on a working group on latent print issues for the National Institute for Standards and Technology. He is co-chair of the Future of Evidence Committee of the ABA’s Section of Science & Technology Law.

Carol Henderson is the founding director of the National Clearinghouse for Science, Technology and the Law (NCSTL) and a professor of law at Stetson University College of Law. Professor Henderson planned and managed NCSTL’s development since 2002. NCSTL provides the only comprehensive, searchable database of science, technology and law in the world (www.ncstl.org) with hits from 170 countries and more than 138,000 data entries. NCSTL received the 2010 August Vollmer Excellence in Forensic Science Award for Innovation in Forensic Technology from the International Association of Chiefs of Police.

Title: Scientific Evidence Review: Admissibility and the Use of Expert Evidence in the Courtroom, Monograph No. 9

Publisher: Section of Science & Technology Law

Pages: 532

Product Code: 5450066

ISBN:               978-1-61438-997-2

Size: 7×10

Price: $149.95

Orders: 800.285.2221 or http://ambar.org/scientificevidence

Editor’s note: Review copies are available by sending an e-mail to Dean Pappas at Dean.Pappas@americanbar.org. If you publish a review of this book, please send tear sheets or a copy for our files to Dean Pappas, American Bar Association, Book Publishing, 321 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL 60654.

With nearly 400,000 members, the American Bar Association is the world’s largest voluntary professional membership organization. As the national voice of the legal profession, the ABA works to improve the administration of justice, promotes programs that assist lawyers and judges in their work, accredits law schools, provides continuing legal education, and works to build public understanding around the world of the importance of the rule of law.

The book Google Gmail and Calendar in One Hour for Lawyers is designed as a step-by-step guide for lawyers to learn what features and functions are available in Gmail and Google Calendar, as well as related services such as Google Chat, Google Talk, Google Hangout and Call Phone. Millions of corporations, small businesses, solo lawyers, large and small law firms, and government agencies have moved from hosting their own e-mail servers ‑ and in some cases, calendars and documents ‑ to using Google Apps.

Google Gmail and Calendar in One Hour for Lawyers suggests that more lawyers should rely on Google for routine functions. Through this book, readers will learn how to:

• Create Google Apps for business accounts;
• Get started with Gmail as the e-mail service provider;
• Use labels and customized settings to manage e-mail;
• Stay organized with Contacts and Task Manager;
• Access Gmail messages and Calendar offline;
• Communicate with Google Chat, Google Talk and Google Hangout;
• Use Gmail to make phone calls;
• Add, edit, search and print Calendar events;
• Download Google Apps marketplace add-ons and Google Chrome plug-ins to further customize the online experience; and
• Understand security, confidentiality and ethics concerns related to Google Apps.

Authors Carole Levitt and Mark Rosch, principals of Internet for Lawyers, are nationally acclaimed speakers and authors who focus on Internet research and social networking for lawyers. They have co-authored several other books published by the ABA Law Practice Management Section, including Google for Lawyers and Find Info Like a Pro, Volumes 1 and 2. The authors present continuing legal education seminars on these topics throughout the country.

The ABA Law Practice Management Section is a professional membership organization providing resources for lawyers and other legal professionals in the core areas of the business of practicing law — marketing, management, technology, and finance — through its award-winning magazine, webzines, educational CLE programs, website and publishing division. For more than 30 years, LPM has established itself as a leader within the legal profession by producing ABA TECHSHOW, the world’s premier legal technology conference and expo, and through its publishing arm, which has more than 90 titles in print.

With nearly 400,000 members, the American Bar Association is one of the world’s largest voluntary professional membership organizations. As the national voice of the legal profession, the ABA works to improve the administration of justice, promotes programs that assist lawyers and judges in their work, accredits law schools, provides continuing legal education, and works to build public understanding around the world of the importance of the rule of law.

Title: Google Gmail and Calendar in One Hour for Lawyers

Publisher: ABA Law Practice Management Section

Product Code: 5110759

ISBN:                          978-1-61438-727-5

Size: 7 × 8.5

Price: $39.95

Orders: 800.285.2221 or www.ShopABA.org

Editor’s note: Review copies are available by sending an email to Lindsay Dawson at Lindsay.Dawson@americanbar.org. If you publish a review of this book, please send tearsheets or a copy for our files to Lindsay Dawson, American Bar Association, Book Publishing, 321 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL 60654.

The new edition, which is updated and expanded from 2008, will allow users to save time and money, reduce risk, and compete more effectively. The concise manual offers practical guidance and addresses the full range of issues relating to the language and layout of contracts. It also includes useful appendices and tables.

A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting, Third Edition is an essential resource for a wide range of legal and business professionals. These include solo and small firm general practitioners, who handle a broad range of contracts, from leases to separation agreements; big law associates, who draft mergers and acquisitions contracts; in-house lawyers, who overhaul the company’s template sales contracts; and judges, who try to make sense of confusing contract provisions.

Author Kenneth A. Adams is a consultant, writer and speaker on contract drafting. Adams is also a lecturer in law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and founder of Koncision Contract Automation, a developer of online document assembly contract templates. He blogs at Adams on Contract Drafting.

Title: A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting, Third Edition

Publisher: Business Law Section

Product Code: 5070661

ISBN: 978-1-61438-803-6

Size: 7×10

Price: $99.95

Orders: 800-285-2221 or http://ambar.org/manualstyle

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With nearly 400,000 members, the American Bar Association is one of the largest voluntary professional membership organizations in the world.  As the national voice of the legal profession, the ABA works to improve the administration of justice, promotes programs that assist lawyers and judges in their work, accredits law schools, provides continuing legal education, and works to build public understanding around the world of the importance of the rule of law.

Congressional debates and proposed legislation are bringing the biggest names in technology, broadcasting and music to Capitol Hill to address “performance royalties,” in particular, the formulas for determining the music royalty rates paid by Internet radio and streaming services compared with satellite radio providers and traditional broadcasters. These hotly contested issues will ultimately determine the future of music — who is best positioned to take advantage of the shifting terrain of the U.S. and global music business.

Music & Copyright in America highlights the intimate relationship between new technologies and the evolution of music copyright, revealing the degree to which historical debates inform current issues.  Sections covering the Internet revolution and the rise of digital and cloud music services are placed in context by exploring the impact of other technologies — including radio itself — that burst onto the scene 100 years ago.

The book, by Kevin Parks, a Chicago-based attorney, has been called “deeply researched” and “beautifully written,” and has been praised as a “must-read” book that “succeeds marvelously” and is “a great contribution to the field.”

Title: Music & Copyright In America: Toward the Celestial Jukebox
Publisher: Section of Intellectual Property Law
Product Code: 5370201
ISBN: 978-1-61438-671-1
Size: 7×10
Price: $97.95
Orders: 800-285-2221 or http://ambar.org/musicinamerica

Editor’s note: Review copies are available by sending an e-mail to Amelia Stone at Amelia.Stone@americanbar.org. If you publish a review of this book, please send tearsheets or a copy for our files to Amelia Stone, American Bar Association, Book Publishing, 321 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL 60654.

With nearly 400,000 members, the American Bar Association is the largest voluntary professional membership organization in the world.  As the national voice of the legal profession, the ABA works to improve the administration of justice, promotes programs that assist lawyers and judges in their work, accredits law schools, provides continuing legal education, and works to build public understanding around the world of the importance of the rule of law.

In just one hour, readers will learn how to:

• Calendar trial deadlines;
• Store and review documents and exhibits;
• Take, read and annotate depositions;
• Conduct legal research outside of the office;
• Discover the best accessories and apps to use in the courtroom;
• Select the best jury for your client’s needs; and
• Present evidence digitally with ease.

Author Mighell is a senior consultant with Contoural Inc. and author of iPad in One Hour for Lawyers, Second Edition, and iPad Apps in One Hour for Lawyers, both published by the ABA Law Practice Management Section. He is a frequent speaker and writer on the Internet, electronic discovery and other legal technology issues. He has published The Mighell Marker, a Legal Technology Weekly since 2000 and the legal technology blog Inter Alia (www.inter-alia.net) since 2002. He is also the co-host of “The Kennedy-Mighell Report,” a legal technology podcast produced by the Legal Talk Network.

The ABA Law Practice Management Section is a professional membership organization providing resources for lawyers and other legal professionals in the core areas of the business of practicing law — marketing, management, technology, and finance — through its award-winning magazine, webzines, educational CLE programs, website and publishing division. For more than 30 years, LPM has established itself as a leader within the legal profession by producing ABA TECHSHOW, the world’s premier legal technology conference and expo, and through its publishing arm, which has more than 90 titles in print.

With nearly 400,000 members, the American Bar Association is one of the world’s largest voluntary professional membership organizations. As the national voice of the legal profession, the ABA works to improve the administration of justice, promotes programs that assist lawyers and judges in their work, accredits law schools, provides continuing legal education, and works to build public understanding around the world of the importance of the rule of law.

Title: iPad in One Hour for Litigators
Publisher: ABA Law Practice Management Section
Product Code: 5110751
ISBN:                          978-1-61438-682-7
Size: 7 × 8.5
Price: $39.95
Orders: 800.285.2221 or www.ShopABA.org

Editor’s note: Review copies are available by sending an email to Lindsay Dawson at Lindsay.Dawson@americanbar.org. If you publish a review of this book, please send tearsheets or a copy for our files to Lindsay Dawson, American Bar Association, Book Publishing, 321 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL 60654.