Jennifer McHugh and Robert Fiebach, attorneys in the firm's Commercial Litigation Department, co-authored a chapter titled “Issue and Claim Preclusion” in the prestigious legal series Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts, Fourth Edition. Thomson Reuters releases the series in a joint venture with the American Bar Association Section of Litigation. Among the 296 principal authors of the 153 chapters in the Fourth Edition there are 27 judges and many of the best known commercial litigators in the United States. The treatise is a step-by-step practice guide that covers every aspect of a commercial case, from the investigation and assessment that takes place at the inception, through pleadings, discovery, motions, trial, appeal, and enforcement of judgment. Great emphasis is placed on strategic considerations specific to commercial cases. This edition contains 25 new chapters, and 78 substantive law chapters covering the subjects most commonly encountered in commercial cases including securities, antitrust, banking, contracts, insurance, sale of goods, intellectual property, professional liability, business torts, franchising and many other business and commercial law topics. In addition, compensatory and punitive damages and other remedies are incorporated as well. An annually updated appendix contains an index as well as tables of all laws, rules, and cases.
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