This innovative text For The basic litigation course is the first to integrate today's high-tech tools and skills into a thorough treatment of the civil litigation process. Each chapter features technology discussions, explaining how the latest litigation software, online sources, and other electronic tools are used for more efficient case preparation. As your students follow the litigation process, they will be learning the kind of high-tech skills demanded by today's most advanced law firms. The accompanying workbook makes it easy to incorporate an array of high-tech resources into your current litigation course. The electronic student workbook, based on an extended case involving a helicopter crash, gives your students hands-on practice with litigation software. The Only Civil Litigation Text Focusing on Today's High-Tech Tools and Skills.... Thorough coverage of the litigation process from client contact, investigation, and managing documents...to trial preparation, proceedings, and post-trial considerations-all with a focus on paralegal's tasks and responsibilities an emphasis on electronic resources and skills using websites, and other high-tech resources as an essential link between legal theory and practice Technology discussions in each chapter, explaining how to use the latest software for litigation-specific paralegal tasks, with accompanying illustrations and expert tips. Text pedagogy and web links reinforce the technology focus, with website listing for each chapter, ethics alerts, technology highlights, chapter objectives, key terms, practice tips, and more Electronic workbook, uses extensive documents and exercises from a real case involving a helicopter crash - allowing students to work through every step of an actual case in depth A CD-ROM with digital video, contains actual court pleadings, investigation and discovery, witness statements, animations, and more. Can be copied for distribution or uploaded onto school networks Software will be provided for access to teaching licenses for such popular software as Summation, Trial Director, Deposition Director, CaseMap, TimeMap, and NoteMap