PA Keystone - Lawyer's Desk Library of Practice-Print Version

Published: 1964-2023
Most recent supplement/update: 2023 supplement & 10 textlets; released March 2023.
ISBN: 1-887024-57-3

ALSO AVAILABLE IN CD-ROM VERSION 1-887024-57-3CD 

Judge Laub's KEYSTONE is the one unique Pennsylvania work designed to give you fast, accurate answers in daily procedure. Two Hundred Seventy-Two (272) separate topics are presently covered across a broad spectrum of practice, and will be expanded as new areas come into focus. (Click here to view sample topic)

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  Here is a launching pad for the many steps a busy lawyer must take each day in the pursuit of a general practice. Not only will it provide a fresh approach each time a specific problem appears, but it will stimulate your memory, cut down research time and reduce the number of interviews with your client.
  
  PURPOSE
  A quick approach to the initiation of legal actions, drafting of instruments, and the taking of both aggressive and protective steps in the course of litigation.
  
  PLAN
  Guides the Pennsylvania lawyer through the important channels, indicating possible courses of action and raising the red flag of danger by appropriate caveats; everything from the conduct of the interview with your client to the conclusion of the matter.
  
  ARRANGEMENT
  Step-by-step arrangement which includes: Basic text, important citations, appropriate sources for research, check lists, location of legal forms required and appropriate rules pinpointed.

  SUMMARY OF CONTENTS

  Binder 1

  Absentees and Presumed Decedents	Abuse of Process	Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition Program (ARD)	Accounting
  Accounting Fundamentals for Lawyers	Acknowledgments	Administrators	Admiralty
  Adoption	Adulterated Foods	Adverse Possession	Age Discrimination
  Alienation of Affections	Alternate Dispute Resolution	Amusement Rides	Anatomical Gifts
  Annulment of Marriage	Antenuptial Contracts	Appeal and Certiorari	Appearance & Withdrawal
  Arbitration	Attachment-Garnishment	Attorney Fees	Attorney Representation Agreements
  Auction Sales and Auctioneers	Automobile Lemon Law	Bail	Bailments (Revised 2016)
  Bankruptcy

  Binder 2

  Bingo and Other Small Games of Chance	Boating Laws	Breach of The Peace	Bulk Transfers
  Burial Grounds and Cemeteries	Business Records	Business Trusts	Camping Laws
  Change of Name By Individuals	Charitable Solicitations	Charitable Trusts	Child Support
  Civil Action	Class Actions	Collection of Commercial Claims	Collective Bargaining
  Commitments of The Mentally Disabled and Alcoholics	Common Law Marriage	Comparative Negligence	Computer Crime
  Condominiums	Confession of Judgment	Consolidation & Severance	Consumer Credit (Truth In Lending)
  Consumer Discount Company Act	Consumer Protection	Contempt	Contraband Forfeitures
  Contracts In General	Contribution	Conversion-Equitable	Conversion-Tortious
  Copyrights	Corporations-Amendment of Articles of Business Corporation	Corporations-Amendment of Articles of Nonprofit Corporation	Corporations-Bylaws of Business
  Corporations-Bylaws of Nonprofit	Corporations-Dissolution of Business	Corporations-Dissolution of Nonprofit	Corporations-Formation of Business Corporations
  Corporations-Formation of Nonprofit	Corporations-Professional	Corporations-Qualification of Foreign Business	Corporations-Statutory Close

  Binder 3

  Corrupt Organizations (PA. RICO)	Costs-Taxation of	Counterclaims	Covenants Not To Compete
  Credit Cards	Criminal Law Checklists	Child Custody	Dead Man's Act
  Death Actions	Decedent's Estate-Settlement of With Assets Over $10,000	Declaratory Judgments	Dedication
  Deeds Conveying Real Estate	Default Judgment	Deficiency Judgments	Delay Damages
  Dependent and Delinquent Child Adjudication	Dependent Children	Depositions and Discovery	Desertion & Non-Support
  District Justice-Civil Actions	Divestiture of Liens	Divorce and Alimony	Domicile
  Driving Under Influence	Easements	Ejectment	Election Recounts and Election Contests

  Binder 4

  Embezzlement	Eminent Domain	Employment Discrimination	Equity
  ERISA	Escheat (Revised 2016)	Escrows	Examining the Expert Witness
  Execution (Money Judgments)	Executors	Extradition	Family Medical Leave Act
  Federal Administrative Agencies	Federal Employer's Liability Act	Federal Estate and Gift Taxes	Federal Tort Claims Act
  Fictitious Names-Registration of	Forgery	Franchises	Fraudulent Conveyances
  Freedom Of Information Act	Funeral Establishments	Goods and Services Installment Sales Act	Governmental Immunity
  Guardian Ad Litem - Trustee Ad Litem	Guardians of Minors' Estates	Gun Control	Habeas Corpus
  Immigration and Naturalization	Incapacitated Persons' Estates

  Binder 5

  Indemnity	Industrial Development Loans	Informed Consent	Injunctions
  Insurance Fraud	Interpleader	Interstate Land Sales-Full Disclosure Act	Intervention
  Intestate Succession	Investigation-Personal Injury Cases	Joinder of Additional Parties	Joint and Several Liability
  Joint Venture	Judicial Sales	Juvenile Court Proceedings	Landlord and Tenant Act
  Land Sale Contracts	Letters of Credit	Libel and Slander	Limitation of Actions
  Limited Liability Company	Liquor and Malt Beverage Licenses	Living Trusts	Living Wills
  Long-Arm Statute in PA	Malicious Prosecution	Mandamus	Mechanic's Liens (Revised 2016)
  Medical Malpractice	Medical Records	Medicaid	Medicare
  Megan's Law	Minimum Wage-PA	Mobile Homes and Mobile Home Parks	Mortgage Foreclosure (Revised 2016)
  Motion for Continuance	Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings	Motion for Post-Trial Relief	Motion for Summary Judgment

  Binder 6

  Motor Vehicle Insurance	Motor Vehicle Sales Finance Act	No-Fault Motor Vehicle Insurance	Notary Public
  Novation	Nuisance	Nursing Homes	Occupational Diseases
  Occupational Safety and Health Act-OSHA	Opening and Striking Off Judgments	Opening and Vacating Streets and Roads	Orphans' Court Examiners
  Parental Liability	Parole, Probation & Pardon	Partition of Real Property	Partnerships-Dissolution of
  Partnerships-Formation of	Patents	Paternity Proceedings	Pension Reform Act of 1974 (ERISA)
  Perjury	Plain Language Act	Post Conviction Relief Act	Postnuptial Agreements
  Power of Attorney	Powers of Appointment	Preliminary Arraignment and Preliminary Hearing	Preliminary Objections
  Pretrial Conference	Privacy-Invasion of	Probate Guide For Executors and Administrators	Products Liability
  Professional Associations

  Binder 7

  Professional Liability-Lawyers'	Protection From Abuse Act	Public Utility Commission-ICC	Punitive Damages
  Quiet Title Actions	Quo Warranto	Racketeer Influenced and Corruption Act (RICO)	Real Estate Sales and Closings
  Real Estate Sale and Purchase Check List	Receivers	Receiving Stolen Property	Reformation of Instruments
  Registered Limited Liability Partnership	Releases-Negligence Cases	Rent Withholding Act (Revised 2016)	Replevin
  Residential Mortgages	Restrictive Covenants in Realty	Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act	Right To Know Act
  Safe Deposits (Revised 2016)	Safe Packaging	Search and Seizure	Secured Transactions
  Separation Agreements	Service of Process	Sexual Harassment	Shareholders' Derivative Suit

  Binder 8

  Sheriff's Interpleader	Small Claim Litigation	Small Estates-Settlement of by Petition	Social Security
  Sovereign Immunity	Specific Performance	Statute of Frauds	Stock Valuation Charts
  Structured Settlements	Subchapter S Corporations	Subdivision and Land Development (Revised 2016)	Subpoenas
  Subrogation	Summary Proceedings Under Vehicle Code	Sunshine Law	Suppression of Evidence
  Suretyship	Suspension and Revocation of Operatoring Privilege	Tax Sales (Revised 2016)	Tenancies
  Termination of Parental Rights	Trademarks	Trade Secrets	Transfers to Minors Act (Revised 2016)
  Trial by Jury	Trusts	Unemployment Compensation	Unincorporated Associations
  USA Patriot Act (The)	Voting Trusts	Wage Payment & Collection Law	Waiver of Conflict of Interest
  Warehouseman	Weights and Measures	Welfare Laws in PA	Will Contests (Revised 2016)
  Workers' Compensation	Writ of Prohibition	Wrongful Discharge of Employee	Zoning Appeals