Product Description: This book contains a summary of the laws that govern business associations and are designed to help accountants spot potential problems their clients may encounter. The author, an attorney and environmental consultant, divided the material into three parts: corporations, partnerships, and agencies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The Corporation in Perspective; Unincorporated Business Forms; Formation of Corporations; Limited Role of Ultra Vires; Preincorporation Transactions; Piercing the Corporate Veil and Related Problems; Financing the Corporation; Distribution of Powers Within a Corporation; Special Problems; Shares and Shareholders; Directors; Officers; Closely Held Corporation; Publicly Held Corporation; Duties of Directors, Shareholders and Officers; Indemnification and Insurance; Shareholder's Suits; Class Action Suits; Dividends, Distributions and Redemptions; Inspection of Books and Records; Organic Changes; Amendments, Mergers and Dissolution.

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Product Description: Best Practices for General Counsel provides an authoritative, insider's perspective on successfully navigating the ins and outs of the general counsel's role in a corporation. Featuring experienced partners from law firms across the nation, these experts guide the reader through key strategies for helping a company achieve its goals and maintain its reputation, and describe ways to mitigate risk through staff education and training...read more

Product Description: Between Citizen and State is an intrepid and readable introduction to, and insightful commentary on, the role of the corporation in the modern world. Corporate actors have typical motivations, opportunities, temptations - they are characters, and their interactions follow familiar plotlines...read more

Product Description: What makes Business Law and Organizations for Paralegals incredibly different than the other books in this field is that it covers a large variety of subjects important to corporate law, as well as the basics of corporate law, while doing so in a manageable number of pages and at an affordable price...read more

Product Description: Corporation law -- United States. Trade regulation -- United States. Disclosure of information -- Law and legislation -- United States.

Book by Bouchoux, Deborah E.

Product Description: This title is a part of our CasebookPlus™ offering as ISBN 9781634601610. Learn more at CasebookPlus.com.This book is designed for a corporations or business organizations course that introduces fundamental entity concepts in the context of legal planning challenges and through exercises that develop analytical, problem-solving, writing, and communication skills...read more

Now a casebook covers the business forms instructors actually teach not only corporations, but agency, partnerships, and LLCs. BUSINESS ENTITIES provides everything you need to give your students a comprehensive and current examination of the field. When you review this brand-new offering, be sure to notice: its comprehensive, succinct coverage of corporations, LLCs, partnerships, and agency in a concise text specifically designed for the three- or four-hour single-term course the completely up-to-date content; 95% of the cases are from the 1990s or 2000s (over half were decided after 1996) and all references are to Restatement 3rd of Agency (2006) the enriched, accessible content and approach, using a student-friendly writing style and a real-world, practical focus in examples, notes, and problems the expertise of distinguished author Eric A. Chiappinelli, who has received numerous teaching awards and has taught, written, and practiced extensively in business entities, M&A, securities regulation, and civil procedure Unique pedagogical features make the book distinctly flexible: 'You Draft It' exercises are taken directly from the documents at issue in the case to guide students in thinking through the legal implications of the drafters' original language 'Current Setting' sections introduce core legal principles, while 'Background and Context' sections allow deeper exploration an innovative note structure includes 'Reality Check,' 'Suppose,' and 'What Do You Think' sections, allowing students to test and extend their understanding as they explore the nature and implications of the principles at issue

Product Description: <p> <b>Cases and Materials on Corporations</b> has long been the choice of instructors who want a rich and challenging casebook with in-depth coverage of both public and closely held corporations. Now in its seventh edition, this traditionally organized casebook continues to prove itself to be an invaluable teaching tool...read more

<p> <b>Cases and Materials on Corporations</b> has long been the choice of instructors who want a rich and challenging casebook with in-depth coverage of both public and closely held corporations. Now in its seventh edition, this traditionally organized casebook continues to prove itself to be an invaluable teaching tool. </p> <p> <b>Time and classroom tested and authored by leading thinkers in corporate law, Cases and Materials on Corporations offers:</b> </p> <ul> <li> <b>Traditional casebook pedagogy</b>—text notes, statutory material, excerpted commentary, problems, questions, and edited cases—all meticulously chosen and edited by this outstanding author team. </li> <li> <b>Richness and depth</b>—a range of thoroughly developed topics allows instructors to delve into topics with as much depth as they wish. </li> <li> <b>A strong introductory chapter that develops the underpinnings for the course</b> —the authors expertly delineate the significant characteristics of a corporation: limited liability, perpetual existence, free transferability, and centralized management. </li> <li> <b>A framework that examines corporate responsibility</b>—the authors scrutinize corporate law in the context of the corporation’s responsibilities to its own constituents and investors, as well as to society. </li> </ul> <p> <b>New to the Seventh Edition:</b> </p> <ul> <li> A number of <b>new main cases</b> that have been recently decided, including <ul> <li> <i>In re Walt Disney Co. Derivative Litigation </i> </li> <li> <i>Stone v. Ritter.</i> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p> Effectively used to teach generations of law students, <b>Cases and Materials on Corporations, Seventh Edition</b>, remains the choice for instructors who want a sophisticated, in-depth presentation of corporate law. </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>

Product Description: Updated throughout, the Third Edition of Commentaries and Cases on the Law of Business Organization continues to provide a refreshingly accessible economic analysis perspective. The distinguished team of authors introduces and explains economic concepts in a way that makes this sophisticated book clear and engaging for students...read more

Product Description: Book by Baldwin, Fred D.