Secondary & Practice Guides: Guide Outline & General Information

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 & Computer 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 Management
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

American jurisprudence, 2d. (AmJur) (Thomson/West) 
KF 154 .A42 1962

American jurisprudence legal forms, 2d.  KF 170 .A542

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KF 8869.1 .A44 (as of 2021 no longer updated in print)

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  KF 8917 .A53 (as of 2021 no longer updated in print)

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  KF 8933 .A43 (as of 2017 no longer updated in print)

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 (West)  KF 154 .C56 (as of 2014 no longer updated in print)

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 Jur)  KFC 65 .C33

Witkin (published by the Witkin Legal Institute):

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

California procedure, 5th ed.  KFC 995 .W52 2008

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

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

Witkin finding aids Online access via Westlaw (ID and password required)

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.

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)

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

Alternative Dispute Resolution (Knight, Fannin, Disco)  KFC 1093 .K542

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

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

California Criminal Procedure (Levenson)  KFC 1155 .L482 (Stacks)

California Law and Motions Authorities (Parker, Finley, Maze)  KFC 1012 .P37 (Stacks)

California Three Strikes Sentencing (J. Richard Couzens, Tricia A. Bigelow)  KFC 1172 .C68 (Stacks)

Civil Appeals and Writs (Eisenberg, Horvitz, Weiner)  KFC 1075 .E47 1989

Civil Procedure Before Trial (Weil & Brown)  KFC 995 .W4

Civil Procedure Before Trial: forms (Rivera)  KFC 995 .A65 R58

Civil Procedure Before Trial: statutes of limitations (Rylaarsdam & Turner)  KFC 1020 .R95

Civil Trials and Evidence (Wegner et al.)  KFC 1025 .A6 W43

Corporations (Friedman)  KFC 345 .A6 F75

Elder Abuse Litigation (Balisok)  KFC 111 .A34 B35 (Stacks)

Employment Litigation (Chin)  KFC 572 .A6 C35

Enforcing Judgments and Debts (Schwartz & Ahart)  KFC 1065 .S37 1988

Family Law I (Hogoboom)  KFC 126 .H65 1982

Federal Civil Procedure Before Trial (Schwarzer, Tashima, & Wagstaffe) KF 8900 .S39 1989

Federal Civil Trials and Evidence (Jones, Rosen, Wegner, & Jones)  KF 8935 .F37 (Stacks)

Federal Employment Litigation (Rosen et al.)  KF 3319 .F43

Federal Ninth Circuit Civil Appellate Practice (Nelson, Goelz, & Watts)  KF 9054 9th .N44

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

Insurance Litigation (Croskey et al.)  KFC 290 .A6 C76

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

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

Probate (Ross)  KFC 205 .Z9 R67 1986 (Stacks)

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

Real Property Transactions (Greenwald & Asimow)  KFC 169 .G74 (Stacks)

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

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• RIA Checkpoint
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