The ultimate cheat sheet to LLC success: Everything you need to know (minus the headaches)You've got the drive, the ambition, the killer business idea. But who has time to make sense of dense legal documents or navigate the ever-changing tax laws?But what if you had a shortcut? A clear, concise guide that gives you the exact steps to launch and grow your LLC, without the headaches and costly mistakes?That's where this book comes in— the blueprint that separates the dreamers from the doers, your personal roadmap to LLC mastery, written in plain English, not legalese.It's packed with insider tips, real-world examples, and actionable strategies that you won't find anywhere else.Inside, you'll discover:The 9-step system for launching your LLC with confidence and clarityThe secrets to shielding your personal assets from business risksProven tax strategies to maximize your profits and minimize your tax billThe art of creating a brand that doesn't just attract customers... it makes them loyal fansHow to develop an entrepreneurial mindset and cultivate the habits of highly successful business ownersReal-world case studies and success stories that will inspire you to dream bigger and push beyond your limitationsHow to leverage technology to streamline your operations and boost efficiency: Work smarter, not harder, with the latest digital toolsA comprehensive roadmap for scaling your LLC and expanding into new markets, complete with proven strategies and practical toolsAnd much more!Save yourself countless hours of frustration and expensive mistakes. Equip yourself with the knowledge and confidence to build, manage, and grow your LLC.Stop letting fear and confusion hold you back. Your dream of owning a successful LLC is within reach. Click “Add to Cart” now! Read more

Start Your Own Business: Protect Your Assets, Save on Taxes... and Build Your Success!⬇ Updated Edition with 2025 New Cover! Includes Free Digital Bonuses, Checklist, E-Books, and More!🏬 "A Limited Liability Company is a top choice for small business owners and entrepreneurs, offering the benefits of a Corporation, like protecting assets such as your bank account and home from legal actions or debt collectors, combined with the simplicity of a Sole Proprietorship."Forming an LLC has many advantages, but it can be difficult: you need to handle complex legal terms, navigate tax regulations, and make informed decisions. You may find yourself:Overwhelmed by legal jargon and endless paperwork.Struggling to navigate confusing tax regulations, fearing costly mistakes.Unsure how to protect your personal assets while keeping your business financially stable.Daunted by planning for growth and long-term success while juggling multiple responsibilities.📉 This is where many entrepreneurs get stuck, but what if you have a clear, easy-to-follow guide that simplifies every step of LLC management?⭐ Developed with advice from top experts in business, tax, and law, "LLC Beginner’s Step-by-Step Guide" by Finance Knights Publications is your roadmap to mastering LLC ownership. By the end of this guide, you will be able to set up your LLC, optimize taxes, stay compliant, and have the tools to confidently grow your business.What you'll find in the book:✅ The Ultimate Step-by-Step LLC Formation Guide: Master LLC principles, types, and structures, choose the right state, registered agent, an LLC name that attracts your clients and much more✅ Essential Documents & Free Templates: Clear explanations of required documents like Articles of Organization and Operating Agreement, plus free templates to streamline the process.✅ Simplified Taxation & Illustrated IRS Form Guides: Understand and plan your LLC taxes to pay less and remain compliant. Learn how to accurately complete IRS forms with illustrated examples, ensuring you're fully prepared when it’s time to file your taxes.✅ Future-Proof Your Business: Develop a post-creation action plan, and learn how to secure the essentials to protect your business and achieve long-term success.✅ Risk Management & Daily Operations: Implement solid accounting and bookkeeping practices. Avoid common mistakes like piercing the corporate veil, which could expose you to personal liability.✅ Growth and Financial Strategies: Discover strategies to fuel your LLC’s growth and explore financing options that will help expand your business while keeping it financially stable.✅ Common Mistakes, FAQs and Interactive Exercises: Learn from common mistakes, get answers to FAQs, apply lessons from real-world business examples, and engage with interactive exercises.✅ Exit Strategies: Plan a successful exit from your LLC, whether to profit from its success or minimize losses. Learn how to dissolve your LLC smoothly and compliantly.✅ Useful Tools: Schedule a free CPA consultation, access free tax filing services for incomes up to $79,000, and more.➡ And that's not all! Along with this comprehensive guide, you’ll also receive a printable LLC Checklist and 3 Bonus E-Books:📘 How to Deal with an IRS Audit📗 Business Credit Cards Beginner’s Guide📙 Escaping the Rat Race⏱Don’t let the complexity of forming and managing an LLC hold you back. Scroll up, click "Buy Now," and take control of your entrepreneurial journey! Read more

This primer provides an introduction to the Uniform Commercial Code ("UCC" or "Code") and discusses the provisions of its first article. It is based on the 2011 Official Text of the UCC. Although subsequent articles of the Code each focus on a different type of commercial transaction, Article 1 contains the general definitions and principles that guide the Code. The provisions of Article 1 apply whether the underlying commercial transaction is a sale of goods, a lease, or a transfer of a negotiable instrument. They also apply when the transaction involves a document of title, a secured transaction, or another arrangement governed by the Code. Here is what you can expect from the 2013 Edition of The ABCs of the UCC: Article 1: Compares and contrasts the provisions of former Article 1 with Revised Article 1;Indicates significant areas where enacting jurisdictions have not followed the Official Text;Refers to important recent case law; andContains practice tips.This 2013 Edition to Article 1 provides a convenient starting point for a person embarking on a study of the primary issues and concepts in the Code. Read more

Article 2 (Sales) was promulgated in 1957, and is one of the 10 substantive articles of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), developed by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) and the American Law Institute (ALI). This primer explains the structure and principles of UCC Article 2 as it applies to typical sales transactions providing readers with a coherent approach to analyzing issues encountered in a sale of goods transaction. Use this resource as a review of issues previously encountered or as an introduction to Article 2. Refer to the bibliography at the end of this book as a starting point for further research on this area. Since it was first proposed over seventy years ago, the Uniform Commercial Code has become both an indispensable part of the study of law and an essential part of legal practice. Adopted by all 50 states, the Code has been hailed as one of the great products of American law. Its impact is by no means limited to the United States. The Code has become an important U.S. export: other nations have modeled their laws after our Uniform Commercial Code. Many practitioners and students find the UCC difficult to master due to: sometimes appearing to have been written in its own shorthand; no single provision of the Code can truly be understood without an understanding of the other provisions of the Code; the Code may be uniform, but it is not comprehensive; and the Uniform Commercial Code itself is not law. Read more

This Understanding treatise provides students with an analysis of the underlying rationales of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, the federal Bankruptcy Code as it relates to Article 9, and other relevant state and federal legislation. Familiarity with these rationales is critical for a true understanding of the law of secured transactions. The organization of this text is largely based upon the traditional five-part approach to the law of secured transactions:Scope of the article;Attachment of security interests;Perfection of security interests;Priorities among competing claimants (including extensive treatment of the effects of bankruptcy on security interests); andEnforcement of security interests.In addition, this treatise explains in practical terms the essential elements of different types of secured transactions, giving students a perspective that is crucial to their ability to understand how Article 9 functions in the real world. For example, it describes the structure and use of financing arrangements that are made possible through such techniques as asset-based securitization, mortgage warehouse lending, terminal and field warehousing, financing of accounts, factoring of accounts, and floor planning, as well as other methods of transacting business. The Fifth Edition was necessitated by a significant set of amendments to revised Article 9 promulgated by the sponsors in 2010. The amendments have been enacted in over half the states, with a deferred effective date of July 1, 2013.Entries in the Table of Contents include a descriptive word phrase, along with relevant section numbers of the UCC and the Bankruptcy Code. The Table of Contents does not cite all the provisions that might be relevant, but only the most fundamental provisions relating to the particular topic. This approach should aid students using the book as a supplemental text by enabling them to find the relevant discussion based on either the subject or the basic statutory section numbers. The Index and the Table of Statutes and Authorities enable a more detailed search. Read more

Although licensing itself is an old tactic, organizations are implementing licensing brand extension strategies today in a much more comprehensive and brand-oriented manner. Major organizations such as Procter & Gamble, General Motors, Black & Decker, The Coca-Cola Company and TGI Fridays have each embraced licensing and developed licensing-driven marketing programs that have not only generated additional revenue (a secondary objective that used to be primary) but capitalized on brand equity, extending the marketing message broadly and authentically. Licensing has become a powerful marketing tool.As CEO of Beanstalk, a leading, New York City-based global brand licensing agency and part of the Omnicom Group (NYSE: OMC), author Michael Stone has worked with companies as diverse as HGTV, the Ford Motor Company, the Coca-Cola Company and AT&T to create highly ambitious and successful strategic licensing and brand extension programs for Beanstalk’s clients. At an increasing pace over the past decade, all types of organizations with strong brands have been clamoring for information and expertise about how to make a licensing-branding strategy work that is aligned with and supports their corporate goals and objectives. These companies recognize that their brands represent a hugely underutilized resource; that unprecedented opportunities exist to capitalize on the equity they have built in their brands over decades or longer. The Power of Licensing helps organizations and marketing professionals understand how to evaluate and maximize these opportunities with their famous brands.This is not a book about licensing a brand for t-shirts or hats. And it is not a legal primer on how to license. The Power of Licensing: Harnessing Brand Equity takes a look at exciting, new and emerging ways licensing can be used to achieve specific brand objectives, illustrated by stories of how some iconic brands have done it well. Read more

Essential 6 page laminated quick reference to secured transactions, designed for students of law and those already practicing to see the significance of the details within the larger scheme of the law. Reviewers say this is a must-have for class as well as the Bar Exam with sub-parts being clear, concise and consolidated in a way that sheds light on the big picture. BarCharts, Inc was founded on our law guides created by the owner as a daily refresher and exam review, because with so much to retain in law school and beyond this guide is the quick reference you need at an unmatched value. 6 page laminated guide includes: Scope of Article 9 Consignment, Leases & PledgesTerminology & DefinitionsProcedures for Creating a Security Interest Classification of CollateralCreating a Security InterestPerfection PurposeEffect of PerfectionMeans of PerfectionTools for Perfection: Financing statementPerfection by Filing a Financing Statement [9-310]Effectiveness of Filing a Financing StatementTime & Duration of Filing a Financing StatementPlace of Perfection in Multistate TransactionsTermination of PerfectionPerfection by Possession or Control (No Financing Statement)Perfection by PossessionPerfection by ControlAutomatic PerfectionPerfection of Goods Covered by a Certificate of TitlePerfection of Rights to ProceedsRules of Priority Basic Rule of PrioritySecured Parties vs Statutory Lien Holders: Basic Rule of PrioritySecured Parties vs Judicial Lien Creditors: Basic Rule of PrioritySpecial Priority Rules for FixturesSpecial Rules for PMSI PrioritySpecial Priority Rules for Buyers of Goods in Ordinary Course of Business [9-320]Special Priority Rules for AccessionsSpecial Priority Rules Regarding BankruptcyDefaultRepossession, Right to Redeem & Foreclosure Read more

Finally, the whole entire Uniform Commercial Code in paperback format for a reasonable price.This book includes Article 1-9. (Article 6 was repealed and is not included in the book.) Read more

Titles in Barron’s Business Review series are widely used as classroom supplements to college textbooks and often serve as a main textbook in business brush-up programs. Business Law focuses on the importance of legal theory in the everyday business world, explaining such subjects as tort responsibility, government regulations, contracts, environmental law, product liability, consumer protection, and international law, among many other topics. Also discussed in detail are the legal aspects of partnerships, franchises, and corporations, as well as special topics that include business crimes, property as a legal concept, intellectual property, and similar pertinent topics. A study aid labeled Key Terms appears at the beginning of each chapter, and You Should Remember summaries are strategically interspersed throughout the text. Read more

EAGER TO GROW YOUR LAW FIRM BUT CAN’T FIND RELIABLE AND TALENTED TEAM MEMBERS?STUCK AND FRUSTRATED BECAUSE YOU WANT MORE OUT OF BEING A LAWYER, A PARTNER, OR OWNING A FIRM?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Finding great people is the most important thing you can do for yourself, your clients, and your law firm. The Am Law 100 firms grew not because a few attorneys decided to work a little bit harder many years ago but because they hired well — from top attorneys to talented receptionists.While becoming an international firm may not be your ultimate goal, the principles of growth are the same as they have been for decades. You have to find great people. But recruiting, interviewing, hiring, and training is exhausting, right? And then what if they quit?Thankfully, there is a better way. Smart law firms around the country are embracing the addition of offshore team members to fill the seven key positions described in this book. In 24 Months to Freedom: How Modern Law Firms Use Smarter Staffing Solutions to Fast Track Their Way to Success, attorney, entrepreneur, and multiple Inc. 5000 honoree Brett Trembly takes you through the game plan to go from tired and exasperated to energized and fulfilled. In just 24 months, you'll shift from hustler to visionary and transform from overwhelmed to overjoyed. Brett and his team at Get Staffed Up have placed thousands of virtual team members with lawyers all across North America. These experiences helped Brett craft the 24-month game plan that this book thoroughly describes, complete with timelines and a roadmap. If you’re tired of working hard but remaining stuck on the hamster wheel year after year, or if you just started your law firm and want to save years of frustration, a new lifestyle is contained within this book and waiting for you in just 24 months.ABOUT THE AUTHORBrett Trembly is the founding Partner of Trembly Law Firm and Co-Founder of Get Staffed Up, Inc. 5000’s #67th fastest growing business in the United States in 2022. Trembly Law represents some of the largest businesses on the east coast,as well as many small and medium-sized businesses in South Florida. Brett’s passion is helping law firms and businesses grow. He lives in Miami, Florida, with his wife and three children. Read more

Unlock Your Potential: Master the Art of Contracting with Laura Frederick's Practical Tips on How to ContractAre you a lawyer or professional who feels overwhelmed by the complexities of drafting and negotiating contracts? Do you sometimes doubt your abilities and worry about protecting your company or clients effectively? You’re not alone, and it’s time to change that narrative.Why This Book is a Game-Changer:Transform Your Contracting Skills:322 Practical Tips: Gain access to Laura Frederick's treasure trove of actionable advice. She tells you exactly what to say, when to say it, and why it matters in your commercial contracts.Expert Insights: With over 25 years of experience in top law firms and companies like Tesla, Laura knows the ins and outs of contract law. Her strategies are tried, tested, and guaranteed to boost your confidence and expertise.Beat Imposter Syndrome:Relatable Advice: This isn’t just another dry legal book. Laura’s relatable tips and light-hearted humor make learning enjoyable and memorable.Real-World Examples: Benefit from Laura’s personal anecdotes and examples from her work with Fortune 500 companies. Learn how to handle amendments, choose the right contract templates, and navigate tricky terms like indemnification and limits of liability.Advance Your Career:Conflict Resolution Mastery: Equip yourself with techniques to prevent disputes and handle performance problems with ease. Understand the pros and cons of arbitration vs. litigation to make informed decisions.Tech-Savvy Contracts: Stay ahead of the curve with detailed guidance on SaaS contracts, software licenses, and IP assignments. Draft precise provisions for copyright, patent, and trademark licensing.Become a Valued Team Member:Client and Stakeholder Management: Learn how to prioritize client needs, understand their operations, and integrate seamlessly into your law firm or business team.Personal Growth: Beyond technical skills, Laura shares life-changing advice on overcoming self-doubt, achieving work-life balance, and finding happiness in your career.Why Wait? Start Your Transformation Today:Essential Desk Reference: This second edition is a must-have for every lawyer and contract professional. With over 320 tips, it’s your go-to guide for any contract scenario.Confidence Booster: Whether you’re new to contract negotiation or need a refresher, this book provides the reassurance and insight of a trusted mentor.Don’t Let Doubt Hold You Back: Imagine walking into your next negotiation with confidence, knowing exactly what to say and why. Picture yourself excelling in your role, advancing your career, and feeling proud of your expertise.Order Now and Begin Your Journey to Contract Mastery: Scroll up and click to buy Practical Tips on How to Contract today. Your future self will thank you. Read more

Master Business Law in Plain English: Advanced Legal English Guide to Company & Corporate Law: Covering Companies, Partnerships, Financing, Insolvency & Corporate Governance, with 200+ Expert Exercises and an ExtensiveMultilingual Glossary in Seven Key Legal Languages- Essential for Global Law Professionals & Students.From corporate governance to contract enforcement, from directors’ duties to dispute resolution — this book is your essential companion for mastering the legal mechanics of business.Clear. Practical. Professionally focused.No fluff. No filler. Just precise, expert guidance for tomorrow’s legal professionals.About This BookBusiness Law in Plain English provides a structured framework under which global law professionals and students can significantly improve their knowledge of company law, corporate law, and business law concepts, terms, and language. It covers company formation, partnerships, financing, insolvency, and corporate governance. Master key legal and business concepts with over 200 expert exercises and an extensive Multilingual Glossary in 7 Key Legal Languages.You will be taken through the key terms, concepts, and language in business law (company law and corporate law) and encouraged to master them through highly targeted and practical activities, which develop not only your lexical, recall skills, and conceptual skills, but also your confidence and general competence within international business and legal settings.At the end of this book, you will find an Extensive Multilingual Glossary in 7 Key Legal Languages, together with a Termination and insolvency Vocabulary Builder with definitions and exercises to perfect your mastery of this area of law. You will also find a link to sign up for FREE Training Emails, which include access to HUNDREDS of FREE legal emails, forms, and documents.Mastering the Language of Business & LawThis is an Advanced Legal English Guide to company and corporate law, covering company formation, partnerships, financing, insolvency, and corporate governance, with an Extensive Multilingual Glossary in Seven Key Legal Languages- essential for international lawyers, law professionals, and students.In this book, we focus on the language of business law, tailored specifically for lawyers and legal professionals. We aim to provide a clear, practical guide so you can quickly understand and use terms and concepts. We will not be covering Public Limited Companies (PLCs), as they constitute a distinct legal category that warrants separate treatment. The scope of this book is confined to privately held businesses only.Discover our unique Multilingual Business Law Glossary, covering seven key legal languages: German, Italian, Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese, and Brazilian Portuguese. This glossary doesn’t just list terms — it provides crucial contextual comparisons and approximations, aiding your understanding of complex legal concepts across diverse legal systems.Your Journey Through Language in Business LawIn the upcoming sections, you will start to master the legal terms and concepts of business law. Business law, particularly in the context of English-speaking countries, is a specialized subset of language used predominantly by legal professionals in commercial and corporate sectors. With its unique features and complexities, this specialized language can present challenges, even to those proficient in general English. Grasping the nuances of legal English in business law is pivotal for comprehending and drafting legal documents in the corporate world. Read more

Beyond the 9-to-5: Launch Your LLC and Create Your Own SuccessTired of the daily grind? Dreaming of building something that’s truly yours—but held back by the fear of starting your own business?If terms like “LLC,” “asset protection,” and “tax benefits” sound overwhelming, you’re not alone. Many aspiring entrepreneurs face these common worries:How do I protect my assets if something goes wrong?What’s the right structure for my business?How can I maximize tax benefits and save money?Where do I even start?This guide is your step-by-step roadmap to launching your LLC and gaining control of your financial future. It breaks down complex concepts into simple, actionable steps so you can confidently build, protect, and grow your business.Inside, you’ll discover:✅ LLC Formation Made Easy: Learn how to establish your LLC in simple, straightforward steps.✅ Smart Budgeting Tips: Understand the hidden costs and plan your finances with confidence.✅ Asset Protection Strategies: Safeguard your personal wealth and reduce your risk.✅ Avoid Costly Mistakes: Learn the pitfalls that trip up new business owners—and how to steer clear of them.✅ Tax-Saving Hacks: Maximize your tax benefits and keep more of your hard-earned money.✅ Bonus Insights: Real-world tips to simplify your business journey, even if you're starting from scratch.Why This Guide?Beginner-Friendly: Designed for first-time entrepreneurs with no prior experience.Comprehensive: Covers everything from startup essentials to long-term success strategies.Practical: Packed with actionable advice, examples, and checklists.Stop dreaming and start doing. Your journey to entrepreneurship begins here.Ready to take control of your future?Scroll up and click “Add to Cart” to launch your LLC today! Read more

This new Short & Happy Guide to Secured Transactions has been created by Professor Barnes to make important concepts from Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code plain and understandable to students. The complex topics are explained in a plain-spoken, straightforward way, to make the concepts as simple and accessible as possible. The important provisions of the Code are excerpted and edited for readability, and all concepts are explained with simple, narrative text, and accompanied by easy-to-understand examples which help students understand the Secured Transactions concepts. Look, we’re not going to sugar-coat this – Secured Transactions is difficult. This guide makes it much easier to understand, and get a great grade on your Secured Transactions exam. Read more

Mastering Negotiable Instruments (UCC Articles 3 and 4) and Other Payment Systems explains the essential concepts in the law governing payment systems. The book focuses primarily on the prototypical payment systems that for centuries have used negotiable instruments: notes, checks, and other types of drafts. It explores the rules and mechanisms that regulate transactions in negotiable instruments from issue to collection. Study of the rules starts with UCC Article 3 (governing negotiable instruments generally) and Article 4 (governing check collection), but also requires consideration of federal statutes such as the Expedited Funds Availability Act, the new Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act, and related federal regulations. The book also explores the largely federal law governing newer payment systems that have evolved from negotiable instruments, such as credit cards and debit cards. The second edition continues the successful format of the first, which was enthusiastically received by the law student and practitioner communities. It retains clear explanations and features updates and additions that reflect the new rules and institutions in this area of the law. Read more

“A bible for transactional lawyers and entrepreneurs who want to ensure both that the deal gets done and that their client or their company stays out of court, or at least the losing end of a business dispute. Clear and direct as the contract drafting he espouses, Swegle’s meticulous discussion of the law and practice of contracts and their drafting and negotiation is essential for new and seasoned lawyers, entrepreneurs, and anyone who cares about the art and craft of the business deal and its careful balancing of risks and rewards.” - Steven W. Bender, Professor and Associate Dean for Planning and Strategic Initiatives, Seattle University School of Law“Paul Swegle’s book is a comprehensive and highly readable guide to all the essential aspects of contract law. In addition, he combines that theory with excellent practical insights about related topics like drafting and negotiation. The book is written for the interested lay person, but I would recommend that my law students get a copy as well and use it as a handy reference when they enter practice and begin advising business clients.” - Daniel J. Morrissey, Professor of Law and Former Dean, Gonzaga University Law School"Every entrepreneur should read this book. Swegle does a wonderful job of making legal terminology and building blocks accessible to anybody - a rare accomplishment! The book presents simple guidance, logical reasoning and colorful examples for understanding the crucial components of any commercial agreement. A marvelous blueprint for creating successful business relationships and avoiding costly problems and liabilities." -Seaton Gras, Founder and CEO, SURF Incubator - a vibrant community for technology startups.DESCRIPTIONAuthor and attorney Paul Swegle has spent much of his career working closely with business colleagues in companies across several industries to negotiate and document commercial arrangements - contracts that have supported the design, development, launch, distribution and marketing of countless products and services.In doing so, Paul has witnessed and celebrated countless successful commercial relationships, some lasting more than a decade. He has also learned important lessons from myriad ill-fated relationships, tripped up by poorly written agreements, under-performing commercial partners and unexpected surprises of nearly every variety.Paul's book presents practical insights accumulated and shared with business colleagues over a 20-year period. Its purpose is to help business persons negotiate agreements that achieve their business goals without creating unexpected and unnecessary risks and liabilities. Paul’s guidance emphasizes mindfulness of the balance between protecting key interests while still getting important deals done.Paul has served as in-house general counsel to sixteen different companies across many industries. He is also the author of Startup Law and Fundraising for Entrepreneurs and Startup Advisors, a leading business law and finance text used in law and MBA schools across the U.S. Paul worked previously in the SEC’s Enforcement Division and its Division of Corporation Finance, and also served as a Special Assistant United States Attorney. Paul gives talks around the country on startup law and fundraising, guest lectures regularly at law and MBA schools, and writes on a range of law, governance and finance topics. Read more

Comprehensive Commercial Law 2024 Statutory Supplement includes the entire Uniform Commercial Code as of May 1, 2024, excluding Article 6, and also includes a selection of other federal statutes and regulations, uniform state laws, and Restatement provisions, aiming to include those items most commonly used in commercial law courses. This leads, among other things, to the inclusion of the Truth in Lending Act, Electronic Funds Transfer Act, the Federal Tax Lien Act, the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, excerpts from the CISG and from the ICC’s uniform rules for letters of credit. The Bankruptcy Code, as of April 1, 2024, is reproduced in full. Unlike the UCC, there are no official comments for the Bankruptcy Code, and the legislative history is spotty at best. As a result, only the Code is offered here. In addition, selections from Title 18 and Title 28 of the United States Code that are relevant to bankruptcy law are included. Read more

This book is the first among legal textbooks to examine a crucial component of real property practice: commercial lease law. Commercial leasing is the lifeblood of commercial real property development in the United States. Real property lawyers regularly represent landlords, tenants, and lenders in the leasing of commercial space. This is true in periods of booming real estate development, as well as in periods of economic downturn. Leasing practice is transactional and centers on a single negotiated document―the commercial lease. By the end of a course based on this book, students will have developed a genuine understanding of the major terms of the commercial office lease, the goals and objectives of parties to the transaction, and the skills crucial to effective representation.Professors Bogart, Hammond, and Marsh have crafted a book uniquely suited to teaching this important area of practice. The book utilizes a sophisticated commercial office lease form promulgated by the ABA. Each chapter focuses on a particular lease provision. Chapters pull apart contractual language and terms of art, reveal the motivations of the parties to the deal, and, finally, examine the underlying substantive law. In addition to presenting interesting case opinions, each chapter provides numerous challenging, real-world problems. Chapters typically conclude by asking students to apply what they have learned to provisions taken from the much-publicized "Killer Lease." The book also includes a chapter explicitly discussing professionalism, ethics, and negotiations, and contains a series of increasingly challenging drafting and negotiation exercises that force students to pull together skills and substantive law lessons. This third edition of Commercial Leasing improves on its predecessors in many and substantial ways. First and foremost, the authors welcome Professor Tanya Marsh of the Wake Forest School of Law as a co-author. Professor Marsh is an authority in Property Law and is a Reporter for the new ALI Restatement (Fourth) of Property project. Just as importantly, Professor Marsh is a nationally recognized and sophisticated commercial leasing attorney who focused her attention on several specific areas of this text, particularly retail leasing. The text now includes a richer presentation of retail leasing issues, tied to true-to-life problems as well as documents and materials used in practice. In the time following publication of the second edition of Commercial Leasing, law professors and administrators have been confronted with the ABA's revised learning outcomes and assessment requirements. A commercial leasing course built on this text will meet many of these ABA requirements. This commercial leasing course presents substantive law and ties this law to actual documentation and transactions. The course permits teachers to analyze the law in a sophisticated manner and trains students to write in a legal context. The course directly confronts ethical issues that regularly arise in practicen and the written assignments effectively simulate legal practice, providing an opportunity for formative assessment of student learning. Finally, the course is experiential in nature and should satisfy the ABA experiential learning requirements. Real estate, property, and transactional law professors who want to help students to develop a real understanding of a transactions-based practice will enjoy Commercial Leasing. This book will form the basis of an exciting elective real estate transactions course. Read more

'Bainbridge and Henderson have given us one of the most important books on one of the most important contemporary legal issues, the liability of individual and corporate shareholders for corporate debts. There is no issue in corporate law more subject to uncertainty and no issue more likely to be litigated. No single book has ever attempted, much less carried off, the complete historical, international, economic and legal theoretical exegesis of limited liability, which these two authors do with range, depth, confidence and even a bit of panache. This monograph, of crucial interest both to scholars and practitioners, will become an instant classic and an immediate authority.'- Stephen B. Presser, Northwestern University and author of Piercing the Corporate Veil The modern corporation has become central to our society. The key feature of the corporation that makes it such an attractive form of human collaboration is its limited liability. This book explores how, by allowing those who form the corporation to limit their downside risk and personal liability to only the amount they invest, there is the opportunity for more risks taken at a lower cost.This comprehensive economic analysis of the policy debate surrounding the laws governing limited liability examines not only in an American context, but also internationally, as the authors consider issues of limited liability in Britain, Europe, and Asia. Stephen M. Bainbridge and M. Todd Henderson begin with an exploration of the history and theory of limited liability, delve into an extended analysis of corporate veil piercing and related doctrines, and conclude with thoughts on possible future reforms. Limited liability in unincorporated entities, reverse veil piercing and enterprise liability are also addressed. This comprehensive book will be of great interest to students and scholars of corporate law. The book will also be an invaluable resource for judges and practitioners. Read more

Learn the UCC from a master teacher. Professor Paula A. Franzese, featured in What the Best Law Teachers Do (Harvard University Press), is the ten-time recipient of the Professor of the Year Award and the creator and editor of the Short and Happy Guide series. This efficient and concise volume sets forth clear rules and techniques for mastering the elements of contract formation, content, performance, breach and remedies. Complex topics such as the battle of the forms, the statute of frauds, the parol evidence rule, excuse doctrine, warranties, buyer's remedies and seller's remedies are presented in straightforward, easy to understand terms. The examples are fun and engaging, and the checklists and summaries contained at the beginning and end of each chapter are priceless study tools. Read this book and become a Code connoisseur and legal ninja! Read more