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The Iowa Association for Justice is pleased to introduce…. EXPEDITED CIVIL ACTIONS | RULES FOR DISCOVERY Slated for publication in the first quarter of 2016, Expedited Civil Actions | Rules for Discovery will take its place alongside Iowa Pleadings, Causes of Action and Defenses (by George A. LaMarca) and Making Objections and Laying Foundations in Iowa (by Ivan T. Webber & Randy Stefani) as one of IAJ’s MVPs (Most Valuable Publications) for Iowa trial lawyers.
Order your book by January 9, 2016 and also receive the recorded IAJ “New Rules” Training for Attorneys and Law Firm Staff that was presented by Tim Bottaro and Steve Lawyer in Cedar Rapids on September 25. (Good for 5.5 CLE hours.)
• New mandatory discovery conferences • Required initial disclosures • Changes in discovery and permissible objections • New expert disclosure requirements AND Expedited Civil Actions, including… • Eligibility, stipulation and termination protocols • Written discovery and depositions • Motions and trial procedure (including trial-setting - pre-trial preparations - time limitations - admissibility of evidence in the ECA framework - all applicable bench trial procedures) ____________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________ ADVANCE PRAISE FOR EXPEDITED CIVIL ACTIONS | RULES FOR DISCOVERY “Expedited Civil Actions | Rules for Discovery is one of those publications that trial lawyers always want to have at their fingertips.” –– Tim Bottaro, Vriezelaar, Tigges, Edgington, Bottaro, Boden & Ross, Sioux City “The ‘New Rules’ were years in the making and they will leave a lasting mark on our civil courts. To make the most of the new rules for the sake of the clients we represent, trial lawyers need a legal text that will help us learn the rules inside out. Expedited Civil Actions | Rules for Discovery is that text.” –– Steve Lawyer, Lawyer Law Firm, West Des Moines Bottaro and Lawyer served on the Iowa Supreme Court’s Civil Justice Reform Task Force, chaired by Justice Daryl Hecht, that proposed new discovery rules and trial procedures (for all civil cases) and new rules for expedited civil actions (in personal injury cases). They were subsequently appointed to an Iowa Supreme Court Advisory Committee, chaired by Justice Ed Mansfield, that developed the “New Rules” recommendations that were ultimately adopted by the Court. They have trained hundreds of lawyers on the new rules in the past several months. |
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