"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.

In Laying Foundations and Meeting Objections, Deanne Siemer gives you the questions to ask and the answers to get from your witness so that your exhibits will be admitted in evidence. Set up the foundation for an exhibit and protect against the objections available to your opponent. This text provides easy-to-follow examples for text documents, e-mails, spreadsheets, computer printouts, charts, graphs, maps, diagrams, drawings, computer animations, and more. Never lose an exhibit to your opponent's objection. Make sure you do not miss any of the four elements of foundation: competence of the witness, identification of the exhibit, relevance, and authentication. Each of the elements has specific requirements right from the evidence rules. Keep yourself on firm ground so that each element is met. See how you can separate the objection to foundation from the other objections--hearsay, original document, and policy (undue prejudice, confusion, waste of time)--so that you can respond quickly and effectively when your opponent challenges your exhibit..

"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.

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.