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Addresses key topics in the evolving legal profession and the business of law. The book features chapters on the traditional law firm; the corporate client; the emergence of alternative legal services providers; legal technology; access to justice; employment and diversity in the legal profession; and legal education reform.

The new edition of this popular textbook for externship seminars has been revised and updated. It now includes several additional chapters written by contributing authors new to this edition, including a chapter on judicial externships, expanded material on ethical issues in externships, a chapter on creative problem solving, and a chapter on le...

This widely adopted book has become the preeminent advocacy text for law students and lawyers. The chapters comprehensively explore planning and preparation, procedures and motions, evidence and objections, direct and cross examinations, the use of exhibits, opening statements and summation, jury selection, and verdicts and appeals.

Perfect for an upper level seminar or course, this casebook traces the legal impacts of genetics across the legal spectrum--from family law to medical law to forensics.

This book explains fundamental lawyering skills, values, and relationships for students in skills, clinical, and related courses. The chapters thoroughly explore interviewing, counseling, negotiating, the business of lawyering, transactional work, investigations, pleadings, discovery, depositions, mediation, and dispute resolution planning.

With the deluge of corporate debacles during the last few years, a commonly-heard phrase is """"where were the lawyers?"""" The coursebook sets forth twelve separate scenarios in which business attorneys grapple with sensitive and difficult issues.

Forty new problems have been added to this edition. Many concern the range of issues created by the Supreme Court's new approach to confrontation in Crawford v. Washington. A number have been added for expert testimony and revisions have been made regarding DNA evidence.

The Third Edition of this pathbreaking text expands the principles of client-centered lawyering into areas not explored in previous editions.

This concise and highly readable legal ethics guide addresses the lawyer's obligation to represent clients zealously within the bounds of the law. It is designed for law students and other emerging lawyers working under the supervision of licensed lawyers both before and after they take a required professional responsibility course.

Intended for use as a text for a law school course in Partnership Taxation. Together with the accompanying problem set and teachers manual, this volume guides students through the conceptual framework of subchapter K, while thoroughly covering the many difficult technical matters in the statutes and regulations.

Offers insight into the transactional legal needs of the entrepreneur. The book is written to provide both business and law students with a foundational understanding of the doctrinal areas of the law that impact the entrepreneurial endeavour.

It is vital that every evidence or trial practice student, professor or litigator know how to introduce a business record, lay a foundation for expert testimony, or cross-examine a witness about his or her bias. This text cuts through the complexities of evidence and trial law to supply straight-forward advice on ways to get this done.

Written for a general audience, Paying for Tomorrow: Maintaining Our Quality of Life explores and explains the various financial strategies that could be used to preserve the quality of our lives. This book is about what we are going to have to pay for in order to maintain our quality of life in the foreseeable future.

Takes students behind the scenes of corporate taxation, examining the underlying structure and exploring the extent to which black-letter law conforms to that structure. The book's systematic approach, supplemented with numerous diagrams and examples, presents the most challenging concepts in an accessible manner.

Presents a set of exercises designed for Trial Advocacy courses. This new edition adds coverage of electronic evidence and confrontation clause issues. With special attention paid to the Rules of Evidence, these classroom simulations aim to cultivate students' skills at witness examination and arguing evidence objections and motions.

A practical legal analysis and writing handbook. Designed for first-year students, it is also a valuable refresher text for more advanced students, and for practitioners. This easy-to-read book features fundamental advice on how to communicate written and oral legal analysis from a problem-solving perspective. It features illustrative examples and templates.

Presents the most up-to-date legal analysis of a wide variety of cutting-edge sports law issues that have impacted the "Three Major Leagues" since the last edition was published. In particular, each chapter's updates, which are linked to an Appendix containing companion study guides, comprehensively analyse the most significant sports law developments over the past several years.

The fifth edition discusses all the newest material available to legal researchers, such as new sources of information on the Internet, including Congress.gov. New subscription databases are also covered, including ProQuest Legislative Insight. The fifth edition also features enlarged chapters on foreign and international law, as well as extensively updated material throughout the book.

Faculty who adopt this book will not need to create hypothetical assignments. Students read real cases and the real court documents filed in those cases. Students thus learn how lawyers and judges actually write and think, adding a dimension to their education that other books simply do not offer. This book makes it easier for students to learn and for their teachers to teach.

A multipurpose text that can be used in any class with a focus on comparative legal systems for corporations. This book contains cases, statutes, analysis and readings, the majority of which are from jurisdictions outside the US. It also has extensive notes and questions.

The approach employed in Evidence Law Mastery to improve a practicing attorney's knowledge and appreciation of modern evidence law in theory and practice is by capturing the significant advantages of the text and problem approach to the learning of evidence, an approach used extremely successfully in all bar preparation courses.