Create a nonprofit in your state without pricey attorneys’ fees! The process of becoming a tax-exempt organization may appear intimidating, but with How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation, you can do it quickly, easily, and with confidence. This bestselling book includes complete instructions for obtaining federal 501(c)(3) tax exemption and for qualifying for public charity status …
With expanded coverage in this new edition, The Elements of Legal Style features additional sections, many more examples, and a thoroughly researched appendix that contains 80 major statements on prose style–what it is and how to attain it.Inspired by Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style, this book clearly (often wittily) explains the full range of what legal …
Comprehensive yet easy to understand, the third edition of LEGAL RESEARCH, ANALYSIS, AND WRITING teaches the fundamentals in a hands-on, step-by-step format that is designed to build confidence. With coverage of key topics such as research analytical principles, legal research, legal analysis, and legal writing, this popular book covers the information readers need to know in order to …
Apply important legal concepts and skills you need to succeed Get educated, land a job, and start making money now! Want a new career as a paralegal but don’t know where to start? Relax! Paralegal Career For Dummies is the practical, hands-on guide to all the basics — from getting certified to landing a …
Developed by the National Association of Legal Assistants (NALA), this trusted self-study guide helps you master the format and content of the CP Exams and prepare for certification success. The CP STUDY GUIDE AND MOCK EXAMINATION, Fifth Edition, includes detailed tips and proven techniques to help you sharpen your test-taking skills, as well as a series of self-tests …
In selecting materials for this anthology, Professor Metzloff sought to focus on a critical examination of the adversarial process. In addition to law review articles, this anthology also includes ethics opinions and other secondary sources such as the MacCrate report and historical materials such as David Hoffman’s 1836 Resolutions of Professional Deportment. Another goal of this anthology is …
Solo by Choice, Second Edition: How to Be the Lawyer You Always Wanted to Be
Solo by Choice / Second Edition is a print-on-demand re-issue originally published in October 2011. It is dedicated to every lawyer who ever wanted to run the show, but worried that going solo was career suicide … to every lawyer who wanted to solo but didn’t know how to set up the office and make it work … …
This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s. In time the lectures became a restatement of his theory of justice as fairness, revised in light of his more recent papers and his treatise Political Liberalism (1993). As Rawls writes in the preface, the restatement presents “in …
Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement
In the past few years, a new generation of progressive intellectuals has dramatically transformed how law, race, and racial power are understood and discussed in America. Questioning the old assumptions of both liberals and conservatives with respect to the goals and the means of traditional civil rights reform, critical race theorists have presented new paradigms for understanding racial …
Learn how to look good on cross, even when the witness is not cooperating. Learn how to manage and effectively minimize the witness’s involvement, without appearing controlling, extracting, and insulting. Filled with illustrative cross examinations from actual cases, this book is your key to employing these proven techniques in your own practice. Using the three themes that run …