Litigation.

Matthew Bender (Charlottesville, VA), a unit of Lex-isNexis, has released "Moore's AnswerGuide Federal Pretrial Civil Litigation," a softbound volume designed to answer basic questions about federal pretrial practice and procedure, including forum selection, pleading, discovery and pretrial motions. Reflecting the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure effective on Dec. 1, 2007, the new desk reference Content includes discussion of major points of federal practice, analysis, warnings, circuit split decisions, checklists and cross-references to content with more detailed analysis. Chapters cover removal, parties, pleading stage, required conferences and case management, provisional remedies, class actions, discovery, pretrial motion practice, settlement agreements and offers of judgment, and sanctions and contempt. The volume costs $145.