Alabama Appellate Practice is a practice-oriented resource that assists trial attorneys in handling every stage of the appeal process from preserving issues for appeal in an Alabama trial court to filing an application for rehearing in the Supreme Court of Alabama. It provides detailed step-by-step coverage of the appellate process, including:?Taking and perfecting the appeal?Obtaining appellate review by mandamus? Determining whether a Rule 54(b) certification is sufficient?Positioning an appeal with appellate motions?Staying the judgment during the appeal?Preparing a winning appellate briefTrial litigators will get practical information about appellate practice in the various Alabama appellate courts from Ed Haden, a proven Alabama appellate attorney with over 20 years of legal experience. Alabama Appellate Practice gives trial attorneys critical information on when and how to file civil, criminal, and administrative appeals. In addition to winning strategies, checklists, legal analysis, and practical guidance, Alabama Appellate Practice includes citations and discussion of key cases, rules, and procedures necessary to place the merits of a case before an Alabama appellate court.

Trial Handbook is the one-stop resource you can trust in the planning, trial, and post-trial stages of litigation.

They never told you this in law school. Out of a hundred new lawyers in prestigious, high-profile law firms: Two will have a long-term career at the firm, ninety-eight of you will (sooner or later) be shown the door. There's an overwhelming chance you will become another statistic and one day you'll be on your own with no law firm to provide security, a paycheck, or even a desk. If you don't know how to manage and grow a law firm, you will be lost in a sea of lawyers. You will be desperate for any clients you can get and have no idea how to manage a sta or hire a team of superstar employees. This book was written for you. Most books about law firm management and marketing are motivational with little practical advice. But when you have your own law practice and are just trying to survive, you don't need motivation--you need to know what to do ... right now. This book was written to fill that gap--the gap between theory and practice. The gap that law schools ignore, the gap that many lawyers ignore. Take small, baby steps to implement these principles, and with some time, consistent application, and a heavy dose of courage, you will be on the way to building the law firm of your dreams.

Charles Gamble, Dean Emeritus at The University of Alabama School of Law, is one of the nation's leading experts on evidence. The 4th edition of the trial manual will include extensive commentary and analysis on the Alabama Rules of Evidence, including new rules and amendments that were recently passed. This resource is designed as a reference to appropriate objections for use in trial proceedings, as well as appropriate responses to objections. It also includes practice pointers for use in trial proceedings, the most recent case annotations, and committee comments. Joining Dean Gamble as co-authors of this edition are Terry McCarthy, an evidence professor and partner at the law firm of Lightfoot, Franklin & White, and Robert Goodwin, Professor Emeritus at Cumberland School of Law and current reporter for the Alabama Rules of Evidence advisory committee.

My Father and Atticus Finch is the true story of Foster Beck, the author's late father, whose courageous defense of a black man accused of raping a white woman in 1930s Alabama foreshadowed the trial at the heart of Harper Lee's classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird. After repeatedly being told that his father's case "might have" inspired Ms. Lee, author Beck, now a lawyer himself, located the trial transcript and multiple newspaper articles and here reconstructs his father's role in State of Alabama v. Charles White, Alias. On the day of the arrest, the local newspaper reported, under a page-one headline, that "a wandering negro fortune teller giving the name Charles White" had "volunteered a detailed confession of the attack" of a local white girl. However, Foster Beck concluded that the confession was coerced. The same article claimed that "the negro accomplished his dastardly purpose," but as in To Kill a Mockingbird, there was stunning and dramatic testimony at the trial to the contrary. The saga captivated the community with its dramatic testimonies and emotional outcome. This riveting memoir, steeped in time and place, seeks to understand how race relations, class, and the memory of southern defeat in the Civil War produced such a haunting distortion of justice and how it may figure into our literary imagination.