If a researcher is not familiar with federal civil procedure, including the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, it is helpful to consult secondary sources. Note: A practitioner is more likely to use a comprehensive multi-volume treatise (examples: Federal Practice and Procedure, available in Westlaw and Moore's Federal Practice, available in Lexis). These multi-volume treatises are highly useful when one seeks an in-depth discussion of a particular rule and wants to find cases interpreting the rule.
Treatises:
Federal Practice and Procedure (multi-volume treatise)
by
original authors: Charles Alan Wright & Arthur R. Miller
Moore's Federal Practice - Civil (multi-volume treatise)
by
Original author: James William Moore. Current Board of Editors: Daniel R. Coquillette, Gregory P. Joseph, Georgene M. Vairo & Chilton Davis Varner
Civil Procedure (Aspen treatise series)
by
Richard D. Freer
Hornbooks:
The Glannon Guide to Civil Procedure: Learning Civil Procedure Through Multiple-Choice Questions and Analysis
by
Joseph W. Glannon
Civil Procedure (Gilbert Law Summaries)
by
Richard Marcus; Thomas Rowe Jr.