Depositions: Checklists & Strategies, James Publishing (2006, updated yearly).
How to Feed a Lawyer (and Other Irreverent Observations from the Legal Underground) (Palermo Publishing Co. 2012)
Articles
"How to Have a Collegial Relationship with Opposing Counsel," Lawyerist, June 2015;
"How to Take a Deposition Like a Pro," Lawyerist, May 2015;
"Write Better Legal Documents with an Editing Checklist," Lawyerist, April 2015;
"5 Questions to Ask Before Taking a Deposition," Lawyerist, March 2015;
"Prevent Phone Calls from Monopolizing Your Time," Lawyerist, December 2014;
"Six Steps to Better Depositions," Lawyerist, November 2014;
"Anatomy of a Good Deposition Question," Lawyerist, November 2014;
"When Your Client Testifies," Trial Magazine, July, 2011;
"A Blogging Guide for Lawyers," St. Louis Bar Journal, July 2009 (with others);
"Incorporating EDD into Your Depositions," Discovery Resources, March 2007 (with Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell);
"Metadata Revisited: Recent Developments, Correcting Common Misconceptions and Analyzing the Florida Approach," Discovery Resources, October 2006 (with Dennis Kennedy);
"Practical Tips for Evaluating E-Discovery Vendors and Providers," Discovery Resources, March 2006 (with Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell);
"Asked and Answered," Law Office Computing, February 2006;
"Mining the Value from Metadata," Discovery Resources, January 2006 (with Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell);
"Why Aren't More Lawyers Doing Electronic Discovery?" Discovery Resources, October 2005 (with Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell);
"Rethinking Paper Discovery and Electronic Discovery in the Post-Katrina Era," Discovery Resources, September, 2005 (with Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell);
"Disconnect and Discontent--The Electronic Discovery Landscape in Summer 2005," Discovery Resources, August, 2005 (with Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell);
"What Weblogs Can Do For You," Illinois Bar Journal, May 2004, and Ohio Lawyer, 1/06;
"First Drafts Made Easy," Illinois Bar Journal, June 2003;
"We Need a Tough Law on Medical Privacy," Alton Telegraph, January 13, 2002;
"The Best Defense Against Class Actions," Alton Telegraph, July 15, 2001;
"Class Actions Deter Corporate Wrongdoing," Roanoke Times, February 23, 2001;
"Five Steps Towards Persuasive Writing," Illinois Bar Journal, June, 1998;
"Law Needs to Protect Medical Records," Primary Care Weekly, March 17, 1997;
"Improve Your Legal Writing With Five Simple Rules," Illinois Bar Journal, February, 1997;
"Law Needed to Protect Medical Records," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 31, 1997;
"House Version of Medical Privacy Legislation is Preferable to Senate's," St. Louis Metropolitan Medicine, September, 1996;
"Right Now, Medical Records Are All Too Often A Leaky Sieve," Portland Press Herald, July 5, 1996;
"National Law Needed to Protect Confidentially of Medical Records," Allentown Morning Call, April 28, 1996;
"Keeping Medical Records a Secret," Illinois Medicine, April 26, 1996;
"Federal law must not compromise patients' privacy," Los Angeles Daily Journal, April 10, 1996;
"Keeping Medical Records a Secret," Chicago Tribune, April 5, 1996;
"The Myth of Confidential Medical Records," Indianapolis News, March 20, 1996;
"Medical Records are an Open Book," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, March 8, 1996;
"Compulsory Consolidation of Commercial Arbitration Disputes," 33 St. Louis University Law Journal 495, 1989.
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