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Survival Guide: Filing Your Own Lawsuit & Much More--Are You In Over Your Head? Do you know which courthouse to go to? What is evidence, really? Are you sure you remember all the accident details perfectly? Certificate of service? What's the difference between a summons and a subpoena? Is a grand jury just bigger than a regular one? As a juror, do you really need to listen to everything every witness says, or will the lawyers tell you what it means? This guide helps you understand how the court system works. It also covers such simple things as how you should dress and act in court. If you already know all the answers, you probably went to law school. If you don't know everything, this book will help you avoid being your own worst enemy or becoming a fool as a client at the courthouse.

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A helpful guide through the vagaries of the legal system, Zeigler deftly explains how the court system works, and how to process a complaint and appeal adverse judgments. -- Sherri Burr, Attorney, Author of 27 books, including A Short & Happy Guide to Financial Well Being Like a page-turning whodunit, but more of a how-to-do-it, this layperson's guide to the American legal system will keep you up all night. You never know when you'll need to know. -- Charlene Bell Dietz, educator, award-winning author, and involuntary expert witness Filled with common sense tips which a typical trial lawyer will usually learn after years of trial and error, this is a must-have reference guide for every trial lawyer. -- Dinesh H. Singhal, Attorney at Law; Board Certified Civil Trial Law; admitted to practice in Texas, California, New York and New Delhi, India This is an amusing, pithy compendium of information designed to keep you out of trouble should you choose to represent yourself--or as she would say At your peril! -- Diane McManus, Clinical Supervising Attorney, Civil Clinic, University of Houston College of Law

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ANN D. ZEIGLER's book, Preserving Electronic Evidence for Trial, written with the late computer forensics expert Ernesto Rojas, was named 2016 Best Business Book by the New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards. Zeigler also has three mystery books in progress, featuring a female archaeologist and a male international business consultant. The first in the Inadvertent Detectives mystery series, Hobby of Corpses, was the only genre finalist for the 2017 David Morrell Prize in Fiction. Zeigler holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana Writers Workshop, with the libretto a professionally-performed science-fiction opera as her MFA thesis. She is a graduate of the University of Houston College of Law, and the Houston Police Dept and FBI (Houston) Citizens' Academies. She practiced federal law in Houston for more than thirty years, and was a citizen volunteer at Houston PD's juvenile sex crimes unit for five years. Zeigler has written extensively on legal topics and held various editorial positions on The Houston Lawyer magazine, and was editor in chief in 2009-2010. She received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018 from Marquis Who's Who, after being listed in its highly-competitive contemporary international biographies series annually for more than 25 years. Zeigler is a long-time member of international mystery writers' organizations Sisters in Crime (SinC) and Mystery Writers of America (MWA), and was program chair for MWA Southwest (Houston) from 2008 to 2013. She was 2017 President of SinC's Croak & Dagger (New Mexico) chapter, and a member of the planning committee for the 2015 Croak & Dagger/Rocky Mountain MWA Mystery Roundup writers' workshop, and chair of Evidently, the 2018 SinC writers' workshop on evidence, held in Albuquerque and headlined by internationally famous mystery author Jan Burke. Zeigler is the chief perpetrator of the ongoing Croak & Dagger Great Library Adventure, showcasing C&D authors at libraries throughout New Mexico and southern Colorado. Zeigler is also Senior/Managing Editor of the Supremus Group HIPAA Certification Training Guide, which provides technical certification training for health information privacy and security personnel, an active member of the New Mexico Book Co-op, and a judge for the New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards. She enjoys the outdoors when she occasionally gets to go there.

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