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EVIDENCE HANDBOOK PROVIDES PRIMER ON ADMITTING
EVIDENCE IN BANKRUPTCY CASES
size='3'>October 17, 2007,
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American Bankruptcy Institute’s (
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the Quick Evidence
Handbook, is a practical and highly accessible
primer on the mechanics of admitting (or excluding) evidence in
bankruptcy cases. Written by
size='3'>Evan Slavitt of AVX Corp., an
experienced litigator and past lecturer at
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Skills Symposium, the new book is especially valuable for new and young
practitioners, spelling out what counsel needs to say to get documents
admitted, experts qualified and witness testimony into the
record.
The
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size='3'>provides an overview of the types of evidence (direct,
cross-examination, documents, experts and motions
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complete with examples. Also treated are the basics of the hearsay rules
that most frequently occur in bankruptcy litigation.
The 118-page softbound
manual is available for purchase ($15 members; $25 non-members)
at
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education on matters related to insolvency.
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and the public with unbiased analysis of bankruptcy issues. The
than 11,500 attorneys, accountants, bankers, judges, professors,
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