"This book is a practical guide to understanding selected federal rules of evidence and how they are applied. Knowing how to handle evidentiary issues will make or break your legal case ... This book is designed to introduce the process of legal reasoning and the basic principles of evidence to anyone preparing for trial. Whether you are an attorney faced with presenting your client's case or a student studying evidence for the first time, the tools introduced here will allow you to step into the courtroom and make your arguments with confidence". -- INTRODUCTION.

Covering all major evidentiary doctrines, this work provides a blueprint for introduction of evidence at trial. It allows the student mentally to convert a sentence in the Federal Rules of Evidence into a line of questioning to be used at trial. An excellent companion to a course casebook in Evidence or Trial Practice, it enables the student to picture the manner in which the rules of evidence operate. The author dissects major evidence doctrines into lists of foundational elements. With this framework, lists of questions form which lay a foundation. This sample foundation, in turn, allows fuller understanding of the evidence rule to which it refers.

Revision of the author's Tangible evidence.

"This Action Guide is primarily for the attorney seeking to introduce evidence at trial, but also includes grounds on which opposing counsel may object to admission of evidence. It helps the trial lawyer identify evidence and prepare the necessary evidentiary foundations. It also describes courtroom procedures and etiquette, and includes judicial perspectives as well as sample records of foundations, objections, and offers of proof. The appendixes include a checklist of objections and sample trial preparation systems, a sample evidence memorandum, and a sample motion in limine." -- Scope of Guide, t.p. verso.

"This Action Guide is primarily for the attorney seeking to introduce evidence at trial, but also includes grounds on which opposing counsel may object to admission of evidence. It helps the trial lawyer identify evidence and prepare the necessary evidentiary foundations. It also describes courtroom procedures and etiquette, and includes judicial perspectives as well as sample records of foundations, objections, and offers of proof. The appendixes include a checklist of objections and sample trial preparation systems, a sample evidence memorandum, and a sample motion in limine." -- Scope of Guide, t.p. verso.