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This text is an essential complement to Arthur Best’s casebook, Evidence: Practice, Problems, and Rules, Second Edition. The practice problems provide students with an opportunity to apply their knowledge of Evidence rules and doctrines in a variety of practice contexts. New to the 2020 Edition: Federal Rules of Evidence, as amended December 1, 2019 Text of newly-amended Rule 807 Text of amendments to Rule 404 (anticipated to become effective on December 1, 2020) Advisory Committee Notes and Legislative History Trial preparation problems that present particular evidence issues in seven different practice settings; they call for the drafting of motions or memos that lawyers would typically prepare to deal with them in advance of trial Extensive in-trial problems that follow the transcript of a hypothetical trial, with evidence issues arising in a somewhat unpredictable order that reflects actual trial practice