This edition is designed to accommodate either a focus on individual documents one at a time or a focus on transferable skills. Revised and expanded chapters on the skills of using clients and documents as resources; drafting with flexible language; avoiding inadvertent ambiguity; defining terms and naming concepts; and making stylistic choices.

Drafting Legal Documents Principles and Practices (American Casebook)

Child, Barbara

Legal Education

West Academic

In-depth, expert discussion of the rules and principles of estates in land and future interests. Text illustrates concepts with examples to enhance understanding of the subject. On-point coverage will be useful to the estates and future-interests components of real-property issues.

Estates in Land and Future Interests in a Nutshell (Nutshell Series)

Waggoner, Lawrence W.

Tax Law

Material retains famous traditional cases and uses notes to introduce recent torts scholarship law, economics, and philosophy. Text also Includes strict liability vs. negligence, intentional torts, and defense of real property. The authors follow this with a discussion of duty from affirmative acts, special relationships for the protection of those involved and others. They then look at breach of duty, the Learned Hand formula, strict liability for compliance errors, and reasonable foresight.

Torts, Cases and Materials on

Grady, Mark F.

Business

Designed as the "main text" in a seminar on the Supreme Court or as supplemental reading for any course in constitutional law, American history, American government, or any course that encompasses a political science or history curriculum. Covers important Supreme Court topics, together with critical analytical commentary by thoughtful, experienced students of the Court.

Supreme Court Politics: The Institution and Its Procedure

Krattenmaker, Thomas G.

Bloch, Susan L.

Rules & Procedures

Designed to help law students master the course in wills and trusts. Authoritative text answers questions such as what property does an heir receive when there is no will; what are the rights of the spouse and children when there is no will; what are the requirements necessary to make or change a will; how and what are beneficiaries entitled to receive; and how to create and administer trusts. Includes extensive coverage on anti-lapse and pretermission.

Wills and Trusts in a Nutshell (Nutshell Series)

Mennell, Robert L.

Provides a historical perspective on government involvement in agriculture. Overview begins with Depression-era programs and continues on to discuss current assistance programs and the issues surrounding their administration. Specifics include coverage on financial institutions and programs, storage and marketing of crops, insolvent warehouses and buyers, agricultural cooperatives, farmland preservation law, lease of agricultural land, crop and livestock financing, animals, agricultural employment law, and soil and water management.

Agricultural Law in a Nutshell (Nutshell Ser.))

Pedersen, Donald B.

What is a tort? Should I join a study group? Should I work during the first year of law school? Burkhart and Stein answer many of the questions students have about law school as they begin their studies. Furthermore, they offer concrete and practical advice on preparing for law school and exams.

How to Study the Law and Take Law Exams (Nutshell Series)

Burkhart, Ann M.

Stein, Robert A.

Cases and Materials on Professional Responsibility for Lawyers (American Casebook Series) [Hardcover]John Floyd Sutton (Author), John S. Dzienkowski (Author)

Cases and Materials on Professional Responsibility for Lawyers (American Casebook Series)

Dzienkowski, John S.

Sutton, John Floyd

Ethics & Professional Responsibility

Designed for use in courses that focus on deferred compensation plans and that offer a combined overview of pension and welfare benefit regulation. The organization of the chapter on health plans parallels the treatment of deferred compensation issues covered in other chapters. This structure highlights similarities and differences between ERISA's (Employee Retirement Income Security Act) limited regulation of welfare benefit plans and its far more extensive pension controls.

Cases and Materials on Employee Benefits (American Casebook Series)

Wiedenbeck, Peter J.

Osgood, Russell K.

Overall, the book is designed to promote student appreciation of the interaction in the white collar field of legal doctrines. The material exposes students to how legal transactions involved in a single white collar crime case can require consideration of substantive criminal law, criminal procedure, administrative procedure, corporate law, evidence, civil procedure, sentencing law, and highly specialized regulatory law. The book also allows students to appreciate the influence of administrative policies and the influence of the basic "culture" of white collar criminal practice. Provides a unique combination of traditional materials (cases and statutes) and not-so-traditional materials (e.g., newspaper articles, forms, and practice manuals).

White Collar Crime: Law and Practice (American Casebook Series)

Israel, Jerold H.

Podgor, Ellen S.

Borman, Paul D.

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