2018 O’Connor’s Federal Rules * Civil Trials
Well look what showed up on my desk today. The O’Connor’s series is 25 years old, and I’ve been working on the federal book for – can it really be 20 years? I drafted a section in 1997 for the second edition of the book (it actually had no chapter on motions to transfer venue initially), and the next year had responsibility for two chapters, which then increased to five, to seven, and eventually to nine for many years with the late Greg Coleman handling discovery. I inherited that chapter as well after his untimely passing in 2010, and have been the sole updating editor ever since.
I still have their first book – the 1991 Texas civil trial book that we had to smuggle in and out of Practice Court at Baylor Law because Professor Muldrow banned it. Most of the time being banned at Baylor meant something entirely different, but in this case he was outraged that the book made questions of civil procedure too easy.
It still does. But you still have to read it first.