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Secondary & Practice Guides: Guide Outline & General Information

This guide includes the Library's most current, updated secondary and practice guides.
URL: https://libguides.law.ucla.edu/secondarypractice

Guide Outline

  1. General Encyclopedias and Guides
  2. Topical Annotations, Selected Topics
  3. Rutter Group Practice Guides
  4. Accounting for Lawyers
  5. A.D.A. (Americans with Disabilities Act) Practice
  6. Administrative Law
  7. Admiralty/Maritime Law
  8. Antitrust/Trade Regulation
  9. Appeals/Appellate Procedure (See also: Trial Technique/Advocacy/Jury Selection)
  10. Arbitration/Mediation
  11. Art Law
  12. Attorney Fees
  13. Automobiles/Motorist Law (See also: Insurance)
  14. Aviation
  15. Banking & Financial Services
  16. Bankruptcy
  17. Bar Exam
  18. Business & Franchise Law (See also: Contracts, Commercial/UCC)
  19. Civil Procedure (See: Court Practice)
  20. Civil Rights/Discrimination (See also: A.D.A. Practice, Employment Law)
  21. Class Actions
  22. Collective Bargaining/Public Sector (See: Labor Law/Collective Bargaining)
  23. Commercial/UCC
  24. Community Property (See: Family Law/Community Property)
  25. Constitutional Law
  26. Construction
  27. Consumer Protection & Advertising Law (See also: Bankruptcy, Debt Collection)
  28. Contracts
  29. Copyright (See: Intellectual Property)
  30. Corporations/Partnerships/LLCs (See also: Nonprofits)
  31. Court Practice (See also: Discovery, Form Books, Jury Instructions, Sentencing, and Trial Technique/Advocacy/Jury Selection)
  32. Criminal Law & Procedure
  33. Damages (See also: Remedies and individual subject areas, e.g. Insurance, Torts, etc.)
  34. Data Protection (See: Privacy/Data Protection, Internet & Computer Technology Law)
  35. Debt Collection (See also: Bankruptcy; Consumer Protection)
  36. Discovery (See also: Court Practice)
  37. Discrimination (See: A.D.A. Practice; Civil Rights and Employment Law)
  38. Education Law
  39. Elder Law
  40. Elections & Lobbying
  41. Employment Law (For Collective Bargaining/Public Sector, see Labor Law/Collective Bargaining)
  42. Entertainment Law
  43. Environmental Law (See also: Land Use)
  44. Estate Planning/Wills/Trusts (See also: Probate)
  45. Evidence (See also: Court Practice; Criminal Law & Procedure)
  46. Family Law/Community Property
  47. Form Books (See also: Court Practice, Discovery, Jury Instructions)
  48. Government Liability
  49. Health Law
  50. Immigration
  51. Insurance
  52. Intellectual Property (See also: Trademarks/Unfair Competition/Trade Secrets)
  53. Internet & Technology Law (See also: Privacy/Data Protection)
  54. Jury Instructions
  55. Juveniles
  56. Labor Law/Collective Bargaining (See also: Employment Law)
  57. Land Use (See also: Environmental Law; Real Property/Mortgages)
  58. Landlord-Tenant/Commercial Leases (See also: Real Property/Mortgages)
  59. Law Practice 
  60. Legal Ethics/Professional Responsibility
  61. Legal Writing (See also: Style Manuals)
  62. Licensing
  63. Local Government/Municipal Law
  64. Maritime Law (See: Admiralty/Maritime Law)
  65. Medical Malpractice
  66. Medicare (See: Social Security/Medicare)
  67. Mortgages (See: Real Property/Mortgages)
  68. National Security & Terrorism Prevention
  69. Nonprofits
  70. Paralegals
  71. Partnerships (See: Corporations/Partnerships/LLCs)
  72. Patents (See: Intellectual Property)
  73. Pensions
  74. Personal Injury (See: Torts)
  75. Police Liability (See: Government Liability, Torts)
  76. Prisons & Prisoners (See also: Criminal Law & Procedure; Sentencing)
  77. Privacy/Data Protection (See also: Internet & Computer Technology Law)
  78. Probate (See also: Estate Planning/Wills & Trusts)
  79. Products Liability (See: Torts)
  80. Professional Responsibility (See: Legal Ethics/Professional Responsibility)
  81. Real Property/Mortgages (See also: Landlord-Tenant/Commercial Leases, Land Use)
  82. Remedies (See also: Damages and individual subject areas, e.g., Insurance, Torts, etc.)
  83. Securities Regulation
  84. Sentencing (See also: Criminal Law & Procedure)
  85. Social Media Law
  86. Social Security/Medicare
  87. Sports Law
  88. Statutory Construction & Interpretation
  89. Style Manuals
  90. Taxation (See also: Estate Planning/Wills & Trusts)
  91. Torts (See also: Government Liability, Medical Malpractice)
  92. Trademarks/Unfair Competition/Trade Secrets (See also: Intellectual Property)
  93. Trial Technique/Advocacy/Jury Selection (See also: Court Practice, Jury Instructions)
  94. Trusts (See: Estate Planning/Wills & Trusts)
  95. UCC (See: Commercial/UCC)
  96. Unfair Competition (See: Trademarks/Unfair Competition/Trade Secrets)
  97. Wills (See: Estate Planning/Wills & Trusts)
  98. Workers' Compensation
  99. Zoning (See: Land Use)

General Encyclopedias & Guides

General

American jurisprudence, 2d. (AmJur
KF 154 .A42 1962 (no longer updated in print as of 2020) & Westlaw subscription database & Nexis Uni

American jurisprudence legal forms, 2d.  KF 170 .A542 & Westlaw subscription database 

American jurisprudence pleading and practice forms annotated. 
KF 8869.1 .A44 (no longer updated in print as of 2021) & Westlaw subscription database 

American jurisprudence trials.  KF 8917 .A53 (no longer updated in print as of 2021) & Westlaw subscription database

American jurisprudence proof of facts, 3d.  KF 8933 .A43 (no longer updated in print as of 2017) & Westlaw subscription database

Corpus juris secundum (CJS). (West)  KF 154 .C56 (no longer updated in print as of 2014) & Westlaw subscription database

California:

Action guides (Continuing Eduation of the Bar--California) ("How to..."). (CEB) KFC 995 .A1 C34 (Reserve)

For a list of of print guides owned by the Law Library, follow this link: CEB Action Guides. Sort by date, by author or by title (drop-down menu on top left).

California jurisprudence, 3d. (Cal JurKFC 65 .C33

Witkin (published by the Witkin Legal Institute) (all available on Westlaw subscription database): 

Summary of California law, 11th ed.  KFC 80 .W5 2017

California procedure, 6th ed.  KFC 995 .W52 2021

California evidence, 5th ed.  KFC 1030 .W5 2012

California criminal law, 4th ed.  KFC 1100 .W52 2012

Witkin finding aids Westlaw subscription database (ID and password required)

Nexis Uni's Am Jur & Legal Reference Sources

Nexis Uni is a UC-wide subscription database. Please see the Database Access LibGuide for more information on subscription databases.

Nexis Uni includes the full-text of American Jurisprudence 2d as well as  Ballentine's Law Dictionary, 3rd.

Topical Annotations, Selected Topics

American law reports (ALR), 6th. (Thomson/West)  KF 132 .A56 (no longer updated in print as of 2017)

American law reports (ALR), Federal 2d. (Thomson/West)
KF 105 .A542 (no longer updated in print as of 2017)

Rutter Group Practice Guides

Please note that most Rutter Guides are kept on Reserve, unless otherwise indicated as "Stacks." Ask for Reserve titles at the Circulation Desk.

Administrative law (Asimow, Strumwasser, Levy, Tuleja) KFC 780 .A975

Alternative dispute resolution (Knight, Fannin, Disco) KFC 1093 .K542

Anti-SLAPP litigation (Burke) KFC 1012.A6 B87

Bankruptcy (March, Ahart, Tchaikovsky) KFC 365 .A6 M37 

Bus. & Prof. C. [section] 17200 practice [California Unfair Business Practices Act] (Stern) KFC 375 .S827 

California criminal law (Levensen) KFC 1100 .L35 (Reserve)

California criminal procedure (Levenson) KFC 1155 .L482 

California fair housing and public accommodations (Cheng, Noel, Saylor) KFC 820 .C44 

California law and motion authorities (Parker, Finley, Maze)  KFC 1012 .P37 

California summary judgment and related termination motions (Finley) KFC 1052 .F56 (Reserve)

California three strikes sentencing (J. Richard Couzens, Tricia A. Bigelow)  KFC 1172 .C68 

Civil appeals and writs (Eisenberg, Horvitz, Weiner) KFC 1075 .E47 1989

Civil procedure before trial (Weil & Brown) KFC 995 .W4 (Reserve)

Civil procedure before trial: forms (Rivera) KFC 995 .A65 R58 (Reserve)

Civil procedure before trial: statutes of limitations (Rylaarsdam & Turner) KFC 1020 .R95 (Reserve)

Civil trials and evidence (Wegner et al.) KFC 1025 .A6 W43 (Reserve) 

Corporations (Friedman) KFC 345 .A6 F75

Elder abuse litigation (Balisok) KFC 111 .A34 B35 

Employment litigation (Chin) KFC 572 .A6 C35

Enforcing judgments and debts (Schwartz & Ahart) KFC 1065 .S37 1988 (Reserve)

Family law (Hogoboom) KFC 126 .H65 1982 (Reserve)

Federal civil procedure before trial (Schwarzer, Tashima, & Wagstaffe) KF 8900 .S39 1989 (Reserve)

Federal civil trials and evidence (Jones, Rosen, Wegner, & Jones) KF 8935 .F37 

Federal employment litigation (Rosen et al.) KF 3319 .F43 (Reserve)

Federal Ninth Circuit civil appellate practice (Nelson, Goelz, & Watts) KF 9054 9th .N44 (Reserve)

Insurance litigation (Croskey, Johnson, Heeseman) KFC 290 .C76 2007 {Law School ed.}

Insurance litigation (Croskey et al.) KFC 290 .A6 C76 (Reserve)

Landlord-tenant (Friedman, Garcia, Hagarty) KFC 145 .F75 1989 (Reserve)

Personal injury (Flahavan, Rea, Kelly) KFC 1028 .P4 H36 (Reserve)

Privacy law (Guzzetta) KF 1262.A7 G89 2020

Probate (Ross) KFC 205 .Z9 R67 1986 

Professional responsibility (Vapnek, Tuft, Peck, Wiener) KFC 76.5 .A2 V36

Public sector employment litigation (Holtzman, Hartinger) KFC 760 .H65

Real property transactions (Greenwald & Asimow) KFC 169 .G74 

Sex crimes: California law and procedure (Couzens, Bigelow) KFC 1122 .C68 

Law Library Information

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