Pretrial Advocacy, First EditionNinety percent of all civil cases never make it the jury; they are resolved through a pretrial process that is today the unsung forum for dispute resolution. Rather than teaching lawyers to abandon evidence and trial skills, Pretrial Advocacy does the opposite; it teaches lawyers that modern litigation is front loaded and cases must be prepared with the assumption that they will be tried. As the authors note, it is the rigor of the pretrial process