The annually updated, all-purpose Federal Rules of Evidence is designed to support any classroom text on the subject and provides clear and comprehensive directions through the Federal Rules. The pamphlet highlights the major instances in which case law has diverged from an applicable rule and raises red flags indicating basic areas where lawyers and judges should consider the interplay between case law and the rules. The text also includes the Evidence Map, a study aid presented in the format of a flowchart that helps law students understand the operations within particular rules and the relationships between different rules.

This text is an essential complement to Arthur Best’s casebook, Evidence: Practice, Problems, and Rules, Third Edition. The practice problems provide students with an opportunity to apply their knowledge of Evidence rules and doctrines in a variety of practice contexts. Highlights of the 2024 Edition: ● Federal Rules of Evidence, as amended December 1, 2023 ● Advisory Committee Notes and Legislative History ● Trial preparation problems that present particular evidence issues in seven different practice settings; they call for the drafting of motions or memos that lawyers would typically prepare to deal with them in advance of trial ● Extensive in-trial problems that follow the transcript of a hypothetical trial, with evidence issues arising in a somewhat unpredictable order that reflects actual trial practice