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[email protected] lauramovesyou.com SCAN FOR LISTINGS Raising the Bar in Real Estate Performance. Excellence You Can See. Results You Can Feel. PROFESSIONAL EXCELLENCE Top Ten Kentucky Law Books to Own in Print Kurt X. Metzmeier Occasionally, while watching the local news, I will see a video clip from a Kentucky trial, featuring a serious attorney standing up to make a legal point, waving or gesticulating to a passage in a certain green book. More frequently, I see legal scenes played out with attorneys sitting behind stacks of other fa- miliar books, often tabbed or marked with sheets of paper. Since I work around Kentucky law books every day, purchasing them, using them to teach Kentucky law and to answer legal research questions, it is easy for me to iden- tify the books I commonly see on counsels’ tables. As a legal researcher, I find it useful to con- sult Kentucky legal treatises in electronic re- sources where I can direct keyword searches and pinpoint a passage or two to understand a narrow point of law. This is what databases are good for. Sometimes, however, I wish to better grasp a whole area of law. At these times, I’ll pull the book down from the shelves, scan through the table of contents for the applicable chapters and read or skim through all the relevant passages. This is a task a book is suited for. Often the books are legal treatises authored by lawyers, judges and law professors that many Kentucky attorneys know, respect and could recognize walking through the lobby at a bar meeting. Their key works are authoritative, legally correct and can be cited in court—unlike the glib AI-generated legal commentary that is beginning to glut the internet. Here are my top ten Kentucky books that you might want to own in print. These are books that a lawyer might want to read cover to cover, tab the important things and bring to the counsel’s table. At critical points in a trial, they might even want to show a passage to a judge who does not seem to be getting the point they are making. I tried to make my picks universal, but I can’t get around the fact that the books that a personal injury lawyer might find useful aren’t the same as those a criminal lawyer would. 10. Thomas L. Canary, Jr., Kentucky Collections (Thomson Reuters) As the nephew of prominent Kentucky collections lawyer William R. Mapother once yelled into a phone: “Show me the money!” Every lawyer wants their clients and themselves to get the fruits of successful litigation, even if it is sometimes a “mission impossible.” This book builds on the late Bill Mapother’s prior treatise and covers default judgements, garnishment, execution on per- sonal property and real estate, replevin and attachment. Trying to collect on a judgment without ever consulting Kentucky Collections is risky business. This book is part of Thomson’s Handbook series; each title is one paperback book that is issued with updates annually. Fragile law- yers know that Kentucky law doesn’t change that much and they don’t need to buy new ones every single year. The Kentucky Col- lections title is one of the books in the series that a young lawyer can build a practice area around. Another is Joseph B. Suhre and Wilbur M. Zeveley’s Kentucky Driving Under the Influence Law. 9. Leslie W. Abramson, Substantive Criminal Law (Thomson Reuters) 8. David J. Leibson, Tort Law (Thomson Reuters) Both of these titles are written by former professors of the UofL Brandeis School of Law, and the topics correspond to courses UofL students may have taken. In David Leibson’s Torts class, students learned that concept of reasonableness is best under- stood by asking “What would your mother say?” but his description of the reasonable person standard in his book is a little more conventional. Both books are part of Thomson Reuters’ Kentucky Practice service, a group of numbered hardback maroon books that, together, look like a legal encyclopedia but are not. Also, in the series is … 7. Louise E. Graham and James E. Keller, Domestic Relations Law (Thomson Reuters) This treatise was drafted by Louise E. Gra- ham, an emeritus professor of the topic at the University of Kentucky College of Law who was beloved by generations of law students who knew her as “Weezy,” and the late Kentucky Supreme Court Judge James E. Keller. While neither of the original authors may be editing the annual pocket parts, the foundational material is eminently citable in family court. (Continued on next page)
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