Recommended Titles and Treatises
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Civil Procedure
O'Connor's Texas rules. civil trials
Updated annually.
O’Connor’s Texas rules civil trials covers all the procedures practitioners need to understand both pretrial and during trial. Chapters cover general rules for filing, serving, hearings, and preserving error, plaintiff’s lawsuit, defendant’s response and pleadings, alternative dispute resolution, pretrial motions, discovery, disposition without trial, the trial, the judgment, and post judgment motions. Also includes charts, timetables, and annotated copies of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure and the Texas Rules of Evidence.