Federal Civil Judicial Procedure and Rules (2005 ed.) (Call Number: KF 8816 .A193 Law Reserve)

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

United States Code, Title 28

United States Supreme Court

California Supreme Court

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

California Court of Appeal, First Appellate District

United States District Court, Northern District of California

Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco

Cyclopedia of Federal Procedure (3d ed., regular updates) (Call Number: KF 8840 .C9 Law Reference)

Federal Procedure, Lawyer's Edition (regular updates) (Call Number: KF 8840 .F4 Law Reference) This particular set is organized by topic instead of by rule number of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

William W. Schwarzer, et al., California Practice Guide: Federal Civil Procedure Before Trial (1989, regular updates) (Call Number: KF 8900 .S35 Law Open Reserve) This is not an academic treatise but a set meant for the use of practicing attorneys.

Charles Alan Wright, Federal Practice and Procedure (3d ed., regular updates) (Call Number: KF 8840 .W7 Law Stacks) The most well-known treatise on federal civil procedure, it is organized by rule number of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

Jack H. Friedenthal, et al., Civil Procedure (4th ed. 1999) (Call Number: KF 8840 .F72 2005 Law Open Reserve)

Fleming James, Jr., et al., Civil Procedure (5th ed. 2001) (Call Number: KF 8840 .J3 2001 Law Open Reserve)

James E. Pfander, Principles of Federal Jurisdiction (Concise Hornbook series, 2006) (Call Number: KF 8858 .P45 2006 Law Open Reserve)

Larry L. Teply, Ralph U. Whitten, Civil Procedure (3d ed. 2004) (Call Number: KF 8840 .T46 2004 Law Open Reserve) This hornbook presents more of a historical perspective to the development of the rules of civil procedure than other hornbooks.

Kevin M. Clermont, ed.,Civil Procedure Stories (2004) (Call Number: KF 8840 .C55 2004 Law Stacks). The stories behind famous civil procedure cases. For each case under consideration, Civil Procedure Stories discusses the parties, the context, the impact of the case, and its importance in shaping the law of civil procedure.

Joseph W. Glannon, Civil Procedure: Examples and Explanations (2006) (Call Number: KF 8839 .G58 2001 Law Open Reserve and Law Reserve) Contains an introduction to each area of civil procedure, followed by sample problems accompanied by explanations of their answers.

Joseph W. Glannon, The Glannon Guide to Civil Procedure: Learning Civil Procedure Through Multiple-Choice Questions and Analysis (2003) (Call Number: KF 8841 .G59 2003 Law Open Reserve) Combines short explanations, multiple-choice questions, and analyses of the multiple-choice questions and their possible answers.

Mary Kay Kane, Civil Procedure in a Nutshell (6th ed. 2007) (Call Number: KF 8841 .K36 2007 Law Open Reserve)

Carolyn J. Nygren, Starting Off Right in Civil Procedure (1999) (Call Number: KF 8841 .N94x 1999 Law Open Reserve)

Suzanna Sherry & Jay Tidmarsh, Civil Procedure: Essentials (2007) (Call Number: KF 8840 .S482 2007 Law Open Reserve)

Gene R. Shreve & Peter Raven-Hansen, Understanding Civil Procedure (2002) (Call Number: KF 8840 .S484 1994 Law Open Reserve and Law Reserve)

A. Benjamin Spencer, Acing Civil Procedure: A Checklist Approach to Solving Procedural Problems (2005) (Call number: KF 8841 .S654 2005 Law Open Reserve)

Stephen N. Subrin & Margaret Y. K. Woo, Litigating in America: Civil Procedure in Context (2006) (Call number: KF 8840 .S83 2006 Law Open Reserve)

Professor Smith's Civil Procedure Tutorial from LawSchoolHelp.com. (click on the "Civil Procedure" link on the home page.)

Outlines for downloading (in Civil Procedure and other subjects) from the Internet Legal Research Group

"Area of Law Outlines" (also called "Capsule Summaries") in Civil Procedure and other subjects, from LexisNexis. Each outline is available in Word, PDF, or HTML format. (Students do not need LexisNexis IDs to view or download these outlines.)

Kevin M. Clermont, Civil Procedure (Black Letter series, 7th ed. 2004) (Call Number: KF 8841 .C56 2004 Law Open Reserve) This outline also has True/False, multiple choice, and essay questions after each part of the outline, along with answers for each. There is also a practice exam at the end of the outline, but there is no sample answer for it.

Steven Emanuel, Civil Procedure (1996 ed.) (at Zief Law Library Circulation/Reserve Desk). This outline also has sample essay exam questions and sample answers.

Linda S. Mullenix, Civil Procedure (Roadmap Law Course Outlines, 1997) (Call Number: KF 8841 .M78 1997 Law Open Reserve) Contains some sample essay questions and their answers.

CALI Lessons in Civil Procedure are available from the CALI Web site.

CALI Exercises are online, interactive tutorials. There are exercises for many law school courses, including Civil Procedure. Law students who want to access these exercises will need the school's CALI authorization code. To get USF's CALI authorization codes, visit the Zief Library reference desk.

Roger C. Park, Douglas D. McFarland, Computer-Aided Exercises on Civil Procedure (3d ed. 1991) (Call Number: KF 8841 .P37 1991 Law Open Reserve). This is a companion volume for the exercises; some exercises require you to have read the appropriate chapters from this book first.

Other law schools' exams in all subjects (from Jurist - The Legal Education Network)

There are several items at the Zief Law Library Circulation/Reserve Desk that can be used to prepare for exams.

Although the practice is increasingly rare, some USF law school professors have placed their old exams on reserve at the Zief Library's Circulation/Reserve Desk. Ask at the desk by course name or professor's name.

Since civil procedure is one of the essay topics on the California Bar Examination, some bar examination preparation material is also included here. Note that some of the bar examination material may have a different focus than what your professor may be looking for. Some of the resources in the "Outlines" section of this guide also have exam preparation material.

Essay Questions and Selected Answers: From the California Bar Examination (Call Number: KFC 76 .E87 Law Reserve for latest 5 years; older exams in Law Compact Storage) Essay questions and answers from past bar exams. Check the front of each booklet to see if civil procedure was an essay topic for that exam.

Beginning with the July 2001 exam, the State Bar's web site also has essay questions and selected answers. From the home page of the State Bar of California, follow the path: "Home > Bar Exam > Examination Results/Statistics."

Linda S. Mullenix, Civil Procedure (Exam Pro series, 1998) (Call Number: KF 8841 .M782 1998 Law Open Reserve) A set of sample civil procedure essay questions and answers.

William V. Dorsaneo & Elizabeth G. Thornburg, Questions & Answers. Civil Procedure: Multiple Choice and Short Answer Questions and Answers (Call Number: KF 8841 .D67 2004 Law Circulation).

Brian N. Siegel, Siegel's Civil Procedure: Essay and Multiple Choice Questions and Answers (Siegel's Series, 2005) (Call Number: KF8841 .S54 2005 Law Open Reserve).

Authorized Lexis users may find civil procedure sources on Lexis.com in the "Search Advisor."

Once you log on to lexis.com, click on the link for the "Search Advisor," then scroll down for the legal topic "Civil Procedure."

Moore's Federal Practice, a well-known civil procedure treatise, is on Lexis in full, and in an abridged version. Authorized Lexis.com users may use either version by following these paths in the "Legal" tab of the "Look for a Source" directory:

All Sources > Secondary Legal > Matthew Bender > General Practice > Moore's Federal Practice - Civil

All Sources > Secondary Legal > Matthew Bender > General Practice > Moore's Manual: Federal Practice and Procedure
(Moore's Manual: Federal Practice and Procedure is the abridged version of Moore's Federal Practice.)

For authorized users, Westlaw has the California Practice Guide: Federal Civil Procedure Before Trial in the database TRG-CAFEDCIVP.

Westlaw has Wright & Miller's treatise Federal Practice & Procedure in the database FPP.

When looking for material held in this library, you might wish to start with the subject "Civil Procedure— United States" and then limit your search by year or by location (e.g. limiting your search to the material held on Reserve).