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When now Southern District Judge Katherine Forrest and I reviewed the first edition of this extraordinary treatise in 1998, we said that “if you knew everything in this six-volume treatise, you would have been at the top of your class in law school, you would have sailed through the bar exam and you would, most likely, have won more than your fair share of cases in federal court.”