Instead, a firm will buy a single set and place it in the firm library. This means that a lawyer who has a question about California civil procedure must walk to the library and locate the needed volume. More often than not, some lunkhead has taken that volume back to his office without leaving a note. The advent of typesetting software specifically designed for book-length documents and of easy access to the internet has rendered traditional legal publishing methods obsolete. If the legislature amends a statute, we can simply modify our files as needed, regenerate our book, and in a few minutes we have updated files, repaginated, cross-referenced, and indexed.
Republication is simply a matter of reposting the files to the website.
The purpose of the Handbook is to provide each litigator with a concise source of information about California civil procedure, whether in digital or paper form. Continued . . .