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Whether you are just starting your law career or even near retirement, The Lawyer Millionaire will help you make all the right maneuvers and take advantage of every opportunity available to you to maximize the growth of your wealth and accelerate your pathway to financial independence.

The Valuation of Monetary Damages is a practical, thorough, and process-oriented guide to evaluate injury damages, applying methods grounded in sound principles of vocational rehabilitation and life care planning.

Together Unbroken explores the response of the child welfare system to families experiencing domestic violence. This book presents substantive analysis alongside narratives from the lives of people impacted by the intersection of domestic violence and child welfare.

The Lawyer's Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies: Smart Ways to Work Together, Work from Home Edition helps legal organizations and legal professionals stay abreast of developments in the vital area of collaboration technology, and the profound effects of COVID on the need for the legal profession to collaborate. The book offers tactics, practical tips, and dozens of collaboration tools to help legal professionals future-proof their practices and careers through better collaboration with clients, colleagues and others.

There is a growing recognition that people with dementia become involved with the criminal justice system. Representing People With Dementia is a practical, easily digestible guide for lawyers working with this non-traditional type of criminal defendant.

A practical guide for insurance brokers, underwriters, risk managers and businesses as each of these constituencies work with each other to choose the right cyber insurance product for commercial businesses.

Cost-Effective Child-Custody Litigation is an invaluable guide for family law attorneys looking for cost saving tips to help advocate for clients.

This manual analyzes each paragraph from the point of view of all stakeholders in a commercial real estate lease transaction, describing and analyzing typical lease paragraphs for office, retail, and industrial/warehouse leases.

A practical and quick guide to the basic concepts of real estate finance, this book also provides valuable techniques and issues to consider in order to successfully deal with these loan provisions when they are engaged to represent borrowers in closing such loans.

ANDA patent litigations and strategies are complex, requiring that the patent professional can explain complex technical and legal issues to lay persons, both within the organization and to judges and juries. Now completely updated, this compendium provides lawyers with authoritative, in-depth information, tactics, and advice so that any pharmaceutical litigant wanting to increase market share, whether as an innovator or a generic, can plan early and be prepared to alter plans as new events occur.

Whether through the use of new technology or improved techniques, using innovative legal service applications can make a huge difference in your practice's success.

Practical and authoritative, this guide is a valuable tool to help decipher the complexities of executive compensation. By providing an overview of many key topics, this book highlights opportunities and pitfalls that are common in this area of the law. The book covers an introduction to executive compensation, tax aspects, ERISA, compensation and equity plans, partnerships and LLCs, and much more.

This book is an indispensable reference tool for experienced and entry level claim professionals and practitioners, as well as for general practitioners who can use this publication as an initial source from which to learn this complex area of law.

Fundamentally useful to both the executive compensation practitioner and the more general benefits practitioner, Section 409A Handbook, Third Edition is the how to guide for designing and modifying compensation arrangements to comply with Section 409A.

Understand title insurance coverage and how to secure optimum coverage for your clients. This updated and expanded edition provides practical tools and essential information about this critical aspect of a real estate transaction.

To help understand the differences in each state's laws, The Law of Class Action: Fifty-State Survey 2022 contains an up-to-date analysis of class action law in each of the fifty states.

Whether you are a practicing attorney or a serious collector, this book explains the legal aspects of buying and selling art and collectibles.

To help you decipher the complexities of banking law, this user-friendly guide provides a basic understanding to this specialty area. From outlining what is a bank to identifying your clients, this primer helps you understand "just the basics." Included is a comprehensive appendix of acronyms, lingo, and jargon that is easily accessible and includes banking terms, legal references, definitions, and more.

Authored by standards experts from across industry, academia and private practice, this book serves as a resource for standards development organizations (SDOs), the lawyers who advise them and other participants involved in the process.

This book teaches law professionals and laypeople how to talk about mental health, be accessible to people with diverse needs, and address challenging behaviors without stigmatizing mental illness.

With the growing volume and sophistication of cyberattacks, it is important to ensure you are protected. The new third edition published by the ABA Cybersecurity Legal Task Force addresses the current overarching threat, describes how the technology works, outlines key legal requirements and ethical issues, and highlights special considerations for lawyers and practitioners of all types.

This classic reference explains how to use the 1040 return as a discovery tool in divorce cases, showing where to start a review and how to discover cash flow and the existence of assets. A line-by-line analysis of a hypothetical couple's federal tax form and its schedules provides guidance for drafting a detailed and effective discovery plan for assets and income.

Winner of the 2023 EIFLE(Excellence in Financial Literacy Education) Award for Adults’ Book of theYear: Investing & Retirement Planning “A clear, concise, and wise guideto retirement planning.” – Kirkus ReviewsThe Discerning Investor addressesthe critical time in your investor life cycle: your transition into retirement.Never having retired before, you may continue managing your investmentsas you did in your 40s and 50s, not realizing that handling finances inretirement calls for a completely different approach, one that secures 30 yearswith no paycheck.     The Discerning Investor lays out the framework for conceptualizinga retirement portfolio, with an emphasis on anticipating and thusavoiding mistakes such as misjudging risk. Part I of the book starts with basic principles, introducing personal portfolio managementand examining how to manage uncertainty, which is part of every investor'slife.Part II focuses on the “personal” part of portfolio management,helping you understand your “numbers” and needs, including how to calculateyour retirement income gap, how to judge the source of cash flow to fuelwithdrawals, how to project future needs and how to set investment objectivesand monitor progress.Part III provides insights and tools for understanding theexperts who offer retirement portfolio management services, as well as forcomparing firms based on their service models, with a special focus onconflicts of interest that get in the way of unbiased advice. The author’sunique perspective and expertise are particularly apparent in her detailedoverview of Form CRS, a disclosure document mandated by the SEC that was rolledout in June 2020. Form CRS can help you to quickly grasp what your clientexperience might be like with a given brokerage or investment advisory firm.Part IV returns to personalization and offers self-assessmenttools to help you flesh out your investment strategy and move from planning toaction. An innovative assessment tool (Know Your Representative Rule), modeledon the brokerage industry’s Know Your Customer Rule, helps you put things intoperspective based on your own personal views.The Discerning Investor gives you insights and aframework upon which to shape your own way of managing your retirementportfolio. Kirkus Reviews concludes: “Jason’spresentation is intellectually rigorous—instead of self-help-style nostrums,she furnishes concrete, actionable advice substantiated with empirical data.Moreover, despite necessary excursions into technicality, this is a thoroughlyreadable book that will be entirely accessible to those with a limitedunderstanding of investment strategy.“Another ofits virtues is that it never dispenses hyperbolic promises and unflinchinglyconfronts the reality of risk: ‘In my experience, the most satisfied investorsare those who embrace the investor’s dilemma, understanding that risk(uncertainty) and reward (high returns) are forever and always intertwined.’“Overall, this is animpressively informative book that attests to the author’s 30-plus years ofexperience in the financial industry.”

This practical guide for corporate directors and their counsel offers a "point in time" snapshot of intelligence and current thinking about the intersection of governance and sustainability. Written by practice leaders, this book provides insight on ESG matters including discussions on the role of the board, ESG landscape, litigation and risk management, corporate culture and governance, and more.

This book is a practical guide for anyone with questions about what ombuds programs are and how they operate. Part I presents the author's expert responses to common questions and concerns about ombuds programs, and Part II uses real-world examples to illustrate the unique value that ombuds programs provide.

Trademark and Deceptive Advertising Surveys: Law, Science, and Design, Second Edition offers practical tools for recognizing and appreciating good survey methodology and distinguishing valuable evidence from its counterpart.

The Legal Guide to Affordable Housing Development, Third Edition puts together the essential pieces of providing quality affordable housing: a development concept responsive to community needs, suitable land, permissive land use regulations, adequate government funding programs, and creative public-private partnerships.

Author, blogger, and 3x general counsel Sterling Miller takes on the challenge facing legal departments today ¿ how to respond when the business asks the department to show its value. In clear, humorous, and practical style, he takes readers through the evolution of the in-house legal department to show the importance and the value in-house lawyers bring to the business day in and day out.

This book provides an overview of some of the most common legal issues that arise in the world of blockchain-based assets.

This book is a comprehensive guide to using online technologies to conduct virtual litigation practices.