NCFPF: Cutting to the chase in federal litigation

Suppose your organization is litigating a federal lawsuit and wants to move to strike material from an opponent's pleading. In this situation, a federal procedure form can help the attorney avoid reinventing the wheel—and save lots of drafting and research time.

You can easily retrieve such forms from the Nichol's Cyclopedia of Federal Procedure Forms database (NCFPF), recently released on Westlaw. NCFPF contains the full text of Nichol's Cyclopedia of Federal Procedure Forms (current through June 2009), an exhaustive collection of forms for federal pleading and practice, including forms for a variety of specific factual and procedural situations. To supplement its forms collection, the publication is full of practice suggestions and concise summaries of the applicable law. (For more detailed analysis, you can proceed to Wright and Miller's Federal Practice and Procedure, also on Westlaw.) To quickly browse the contents and retrieve sections by name, use the Table of Contents service.

While viewing a section, you can retrieve the full text of an authority cited in the text by clicking the appropriate link. For example, if you click a reference to Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(f), you can quickly view the text of the rule—as well as its red KeyCite® status flag (yet one more reason to access this publication via Westlaw!).

NCFPF documents are also available on Westlaw via FormFinder.

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