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The Ultimate Resource for the Commercial Litigator
Business and Commercial Litigation in
Federal Courts, Fourth Edition
Robert Haig, Editor-In-Chief
American Bar Association, 2016
Reviewed By Daniel A. Cotter
Many commercial litigators
practice in the federal courts,
but until the first edition of
Business and Commercial Litigation in
Federal Courts published in 1998, there
was no definitive treatise on the subject.
The Fourth Edition, published by the
American Bar Association Section of
Litigation, adds twenty-five chapters to the
Third Edition and has grown to fourteen
volumes and 17,142 pages. The resource
covers every conceivable aspect of com-
mercial litigation, including chapters on
construction, civil rights, e-commerce and
many other substantitive areas. Robert L.
Haig, a partner in the firm of Kelley Drye
& Warren LLP in New York City, served
as the Editor-in-Chief of this significant
update and publication.
The multi-volume set is a unique and
invaluable resource, and it has become the
definitive work in this area of law. Business
and commercial litigation has evolved
over the past six years since the Third Edi-
tion was published, and the new volume
includes a number of new subjects that
have become more important in recent
years, including marketing to potential
business clients, teaching litigation skills,
social media, regulatory litigation, civil
justice reform, cross-border litigation,
securitization and structured finance,
advertising, and health care institutions.
The Fourth Edition contains approxi-
mately 4,400 more pages of text than the
Third Edition.
The Fourth Edition covers all aspects
of a commercial case, from the investiga-
tion and assessment that take place at
inception, through pleadings, discovery,
motions, trial, appeal, and enforcement of
judgment. A CD-ROM comes with the set
that provides various jury instructions and
forms, which are also found in the set.
Written by an illustrious team, the 296
principal authors of the Fourth Edition
include 28 distinguished judges and many
distinguished litigators. Chicagoans have a
significant role in the set, including United
States District Judges Edmond E. Chang,
John W. Darrah, and Ronald A. Guzman
of the United States District Court for the
Northern District of Illinois; United States
Bankruptcy Judge Donald R. Cassling of
the United States Bankruptcy Court for
the Northern District of Illinois; and the
following well-known Chicago lawyers:
Richard C. Godfrey, Catherine L. Fitz-
patrick, and R. Chris Heck of Kirkland
& Ellis LLP; Anton R. Valukas, Craig C.
Martin, Robert R. Stauffer, Michele L.
Slachetka, and Christopher Tompkins of
Jenner & Block LLP; Robert A. Clifford
and Michael S. Krzak of Clifford Law
Offices PC; Daniel E. Reidy, Lawrence
C. DiNardo, and Nicole C. Henning of
Jones Day; Edward L. Foote and Peter C.
McCabe III of Winston & Strawn LLP;
Sean M. Berkowitz of Latham & Watkins
LLP; Julian Solotorovsky and Matthew C.
Luzadder of Kelley Drye & Warren LLP;
Scott Mendeloff and Gabriel Aizenberg
of Greenberg Traurig, LLP; John Hamill
of DLA Piper LLP (US); E. King Poor of
Quarles & Brady LLP; David M. Stahl
and Lisa M. Cipriano of Eimer Stahl LLP;
Gregory T. Fouts of Morgan, Lewis &
Bockius LLP; and Steven D. Pearson of
Cozen O’Connor.
This Fourth Edition is an amazingly
comprehensive, step-by-step guide to the
practitioner who litigates commercial cases
in federal courts. From jurisdictional and
procedural issues to substantive consider-
ations, it covers all aspects of practice in
the federal courts. Lawyers new to federal
court practice–as well as seasoned practi-
tioners–will find much guidance and useful
information in this fourteen-volume set
of Business and Commercial Litigation in
Federal Courts.
Anyone practicing commercial litiga-
tion in the federal courts should have this
set readily accessible to assist them in their
practice.
Daniel A. Cotter is a Partner
at Butler Rubin Saltarelli &
Boyd LLP, where he chairs
the Insurance Regulatory and
Transactions Practice. He is
also a member of the CBA
Record Editorial Board.
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