Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to discovery -- Disclosures -- Relevance -- Trial preparation materials -- Experts -- Supplemental responses -- Protective orders -- Discovery strategies -- Precomplaint discovery : Rule 27 -- Privileges -- Common-law and state privileges -- Attorney-client privilege -- United States constitutional privileges -- Federal statutory and governmental privileges -- Privilege : procedures, inferences, forum, and waivers -- Deposition process and procedures -- Preparing for and taking the deposition -- Representing the deponent -- Concluding the deposition -- Use of the deposition -- Interrogatories -- Drafting interrogatories -- Responding to interrogatories -- Document production procedures -- Requesting documents and responding to requests -- Information from nonparties -- Requesting specific information : computer data and tests -- Document destruction (and fabrication) -- Physical examinations -- Requests for admissions -- Sanctions and enforcement of discovery rights -- Discovery ethics and malpractice -- Motion and appellate discovery practice -- Complex discovery -- Freedom of Information Act discovery -- Administrative discovery -- Arbitration discovery -- Foreign discovery -- Appendix A. Federal rules of civil procedure relating to discovery -- Appendix B. Sample discovery forms -- Appendix C. Sample deposition protocol -- Appendix D. Discovery provisions from Manual for complex litigation (fourth) -- Appendix E. Standing order of the court on effective discovery in civil cases -- Appendix F. Suggested protocol for discovery of electronically stored information ("ESI").

Continued by a soft-bound publication with the same title.