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Slightly revised in Jan. 2023. Do not bother to buy this version if you already have any previous version. The Pocket Guide to Common Trial Objections & Evidentiary Foundations (6" x 9") was designed to be brought to court and be at your side in the office. This guide includes a 15-page section on making and responding to common objections (including a list of over 60 common trial objections) and over 60 pages on evidentiary foundations and impeachment (including 25 examples of foundations for introducing physical, electronic, hearsay, and social media evidence, as well as a brief discussion on differing standards for authenticating digital evidence. There are also 30 cartoons with original captions on evidence, negotiation, and ADR to make you smile. The author is a former Detroit criminal trial lawyer, a full-time law professor for 50 years - a professor at the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii for 45 years and 5 years at the Wayne State Law School in Detroit. He has taught evidence since 1981 and has been the Director, and now Co-Director, of the Law School's Clinical Program since 1978. He has been a member of the Hawaii Supreme Court's Standing Committee on the Rules of Evidence since 1993. His clinic students have tried real cases in the Detroit and Honolulu courts every semester for the past 50 years. He has published evidence handbooks similar to this one for all 50 states as well as 15 other jurisdictions from American Samoa to the U.S. Virgin Islands.