ABA/AARP Checklist for Family Caregivers: A Guide to Making it Manageable
Caregiving is inevitably fraught with complex issues—emotional as well as medical, financial, and legal. The ABA/AARP Checklist for Family Caregivers by Sally Balch Hurme can help organize the responsibilities that caregivers face. In one place, you’ll be able to record and update the myriad details you need to keep track of. And if you don’t know where to …
How to Start & Build a Law Practice (Career Series / American Bar Association)
A classic ABA bestseller, How to Start and Build a Law Practice has been used by tens of thousands of lawyers as the comprehensive guide to planning, launching, and growing a successful practice. Author Jay G Foonberg, now in his fifth decade of practicing law, has always been dedicated to giving other lawyers the benefit of his …
A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting, Third Edition is a uniquely in-depth survey of the building blocks of contract language. First published in 2004, it offers those who draft, review, negotiate, or interpret contracts an alternative to the dysfunction of traditional contract language and the flawed conventional wisdom that perpetuates it. This manual has become a vital …
Lay Words for Lawyers: Analogies and Key Words to Advance Your Case and Communicate with Clients
The key words and analogies featured in the book are intended to elicit strong mental-but particularly strong emotional-images or memories in the hearer, to stimulate in the listener a flood of associations with these words in order to effectively communicate with clients, witnesses, and jurors. Each category highlights words that may be unfamiliar to the lawyer and then …
More than four decades after it was enacted, the Clean Air Act remains one of the most significant and sweeping pieces of environmental legislation in the country’s history. This established resource provides a broad and balanced perspective of the statute and the EPA’s implementing regulations and policy guidance. Combining the experience and knowledge of 31 private and public …
Handbook of Practical Planning for Art Collectors and Their Advisors
Art is an asset of passion, as author Ramsay H. Slugg begins this invaluable resource, yet it has unique and not unimportant financial characteristics. These elements make art possibly the most difficult asset to incorporate into an overall estate and financial plan. Handbook of Practical Planning for Art Collectors and Their Advisors addresses two essential elements of art …
A Practical Guide to Commercial Real Estate Transactions: From Contract to Closing
Make sure the real estate deal is handled correctly each step of the way. This comprehensive guide covers all aspects of a commercial real estate transaction and offers advice, commentary, and forms to expertly negotiate and close the deal. This revised edition features new forms and covers recent changes in law and practice, including the USA Patriot Act, …
Written for family lawyers, judges, and plan administrators, this is a comprehensive resource for handling QDROs and working with the parties involved in this complex process. It provides basic knowledge of the substantive law of QDROs, step-by-step guidance and advanced techniques for the drafting and approval process, sample language and clauses with commentary, other forms including letters, forms, …
More than ever, new and aspiring lawyers must both internalize those professional values and qualities that build resilience in an era of seismic professional change, and be exposed early and broadly to the lawyer skill sets and habits that engender professional success. This essential resource addresses a widely observed gap in legal education and professionalism materials on professional …
A Guide to International Estate Planning: Drafting, Compliance, and Administration Strategies
With the explosive growth in international investments, more and more lawyers and financial advisors realize the acute need to properly address critical issues of international estate planning for their clients. Whether you are counseling a foreign national or an American citizen, whether your practice is in the U.S. or abroad, whether you want to develop a general expertise …