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Trialbook, Crafting Your Case

1st Edition
John Sonsteng | Roger Haydock | Damien Riehl
ISBN: 9798317701048
Subject: Trial Practice
Format: Print - Softbound
Page Count: 244
Copyright: 2026 | Status: Accepting Pre-Orders

Trialbook and the forthcoming trialbook.org site allow advocates to:

  • Readily access their very own advocacy mentor.
  • Augment ideas, approaches, and content from other sources.
  • Preserve their case presentations in a singular and accessible place.
The advanced text explains successful advocacy tactics, theories, and methods. The specialized AI structure allows advocates to analyze and adopt these approaches to case planning and presentations. The chapters enable advocates to develop as highly competent, responsible, and ethical professionals.

The inventive contents and accompanying LLM-backed system offer personalized on-demand support to enhance advocacy talents. These materials permit advocates to create and enhance their own approaches attuned to specific cases. The GenAI tool can generate practice scenarios, help develop compelling arguments, and provide feedback on specific presentations and examinations.

Advocates can initially rely on this proprietary AI system and this book’s insightful contents with prompting queries and directions. Then, advocates can review, modify, improve, verify, and select the best approaches from among the produced planning materials and preparation documents. In essence and in practice, advocates can craft their very own Trialbook for their cases reflecting their very own best practices.

This is truly a comprehensive text and ground-breaking AI system for students and lawyers. Forthcoming editions will include future LLM and Gen AI advancements heralding and explaining contemporary advocacy developments.


Imprint: West Academic Publishing
Series: Coursebook
Publication Date: 06/15/2026

John Sonsteng, Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Roger Haydock, Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Damien Riehl

CasebookPlus™

This title is available in our CasebookPlus format. CasebookPlus provides support beyond your classroom lectures and materials by offering additional digital resources to you and your students. Anchored by faculty-authored formative self-assessments keyed to our most popular casebooks, CasebookPlus allows students to test their understanding of core concepts as they are learning them in class — on their own, outside of the classroom, with no extra work on your part. CasebookPlus combines three important elements:

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Multiple-choice self-assessment questions, including:
  • Chapter questions keyed to the casebook
  • Black Letter Law questions (available in select subjects)
  • Subject area review questions for end of semester use
Essay and short answer questions with sample answers and expert commentary, in 1L and select upper-level subjects

Leading digital study aids, an outline starter, and audio lectures in select subjects

Students can still utilize CasebookPlus digital resources if they've purchased a used book or are renting their text by purchasing the Learning Library at westacademic.com.

With CasebookPlus, you can customize your students' learning experience and monitor their performance. The quiz editor allows you to create your own custom quiz set, suppress specific quiz questions or quiz sets, and time-release quiz questions. Additionally, the flexible, customized reporting capability helps you evaluate your students' understanding of the material and can also help your school demonstrate compliance with the new ABA Assessment and Learning Outcomes standards.

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