This legal biography of the California cattle company Miller &amp; Lux illuminates the relationship between law, economic change, and the distribution of wealth and power. It examines law in an environment undergoing rapid development, where the rules governing resources, especially water, were in contention. From the 1870s through the 1930s, Miller &amp; Lux looked to the law to mediate its place amid change. This entailed the hiring of corporate counsel, a new concept for late-nineteenth-century America, and the creative development and use of new legal doctrines. The actions of its lawyers and managers and those of the opponents and judges it faced reveal the complex, dialectical interplay between legal and economic power.
Impressively researched from a labyrinth of primary source, Flooding the Courtrooms is an absorbing history of Miller &amp; Lux and its influence in the shaping of the West.

Flooding the Courtrooms: Law and Water in the Far West (Law in the American West)

Miller, M. Catherine

Environmental & Natural Resources Law

University Of Nebraska Press

Healthy, well-performing pensions are possible.\nIt’s time for a modern, transformational approach to the future pension market: one in which there is an agreement about what will mitigate risk and keep our people, our organizations, and our global society safe and secure.\nPension Clarity shows you how to address insufficiencies and opportunities in pension planning for the future, and how to build effective, secure, and reliable pension plans that mitigate risk. You’ll learn how to design pensions for financial security, how to assess existing benefit plans to minimize costs and maximize value, how to create pension plans that are designed to benefit individuals, and how to engage employees in the pension process. You’ll also find out how to build responsiveness into your business environment by embracing new solutions that empower executives with up-to-date information and projections.\nThe fact is, pension management is not only about one business and one set of employees, but also about how we manage the steps we take towards the future. In an ever-evolving world, we can make a difference through strategic pension management. But actualizing the future we want to see depends wholly on our ability to lead.

Pension Clarity: The Leader’s Guide to Smarter Planning for Our Future

Business & Money

Finance

Page Two Press

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