Federal Practice Manual for Legal Aid Attorneys
The 2006 Federal Practice Manual for Legal Aid Attorneys,
edited by Jeffrey S. Gutman, Professor of Clinical Law and Associate
Dean of Academic Affairs at George Washington University Law School and
published by the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law is
available in PDF format, below.
An updated version of this manual, which includes caselaw from the
Supreme Court's 2006-07 term, is available at eJustice.org. This
HTML version of the Manual also includes hyperlinks to statutes, case
documents, and model pleadings and is fully searchable by keyword.
eJustice is the national technology project of the Sargent Shriver
National Center on Poverty Law.
Table of Contents, Foreword, Dedication, and Preface (from the 2004 edition)
Chapter 1: Preparing for Litigation
Chapter 3: The Case or Controversy Requirement and Other Preliminary Hurdles
Chapter 4: Drafting and Filing the Complaint
Chapter 6: Pretrial and Trial Practice
