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This book examines the wide range of criminal justice topics that fall within the scope of the Sixth Amendment. It offers fascinating historical perspective, modern interpretations, and insight on this critical component of the U.S. Constitution.

When you do it right, starting your own law firm can give you flexibility, financial independence, and a thriving career. Following the path of an attorney who achieved her goal of setting up her own successful law practice, this clearly written, easy-to-follow guide walks you through every step of starting a law firm--the right way, and without breaking the bank.

In the past 25 years, there has been a revolution in the legal profession. General Counsel and other inside lawyers have risen in quality, responsibility, power and status. Once second class citizens in corporations and the legal profession, they have become core members of top corporate management, equaling in importance the Chief Financial Officer and the finance function. Benjamin W. Heineman, Jr. has led that revolution in his nearly 20 years as the top lawyer at GE. In this analytic and prescriptive book, he describes the essence of that transformation and the modern role of inside counsel: the key functions, relationships, issues, problems and dilemmas, and argues for the role of inside counsel as lawyer-statesman, motivated not just by the desire for income but by broader values of integrity and corporate citizenship.

Books, movies, TV shows, and comic books often inspire a passionate response in fans, often in the form of fan fiction, fan art, film, and cosplay. Useful for lawyers and scholars as well as content creators, this unique book covers the intersection of fan-created content and intellectual property law, examining potential copyright and trademark infringement, right-of-publicity violations, fair use, and related legal issues.

Whether you are a defendant, family member, criminal defense attorney, prosecutor, judge, law enforcement officer, academic, or mental health professional, this book provides much-needed information about a pervasive phenomenon¿¿suicide in the criminal justice system.

This book introduces young lawyers to the art of trial advocacy. The author provides a historical context and shares engaging stories of exemplary trial lawyers throughout history. He then walks the reader through the role and qualities of the trial lawyer and presents an in-depth primer on rhetoric and persuasion. Each stage of the trial is considered in depth with examples from real cases.

This guide explores innovations and the legal and technological questions presented in the banking and payment systems industry. Written by experts in the field, this book provides a topical discussion of the principal electronic payment systems utilized today and how they are ever changing to keep current with changes in technology.

This revised and updated edition creates a useful guide for those who are new to HIPAA, as well as providing updates for seasoned veterans.

The Lawyer's Guide to Family Business Succession Planning: A Step-by-Step Approach for Lawyers, Business Owners, and Advisors provides lawyers with step-by-step guidance on how to lead family business owners through the process to produce an effective family business succession plan that is tailored to the unique circumstances and objectives of the owners and their successors. From initial meeting through completion, this resource offers expert guidance and practical tips to help meet your clients' needs.

Courts often must consider out-of-state Uniform Trade Secrets Act cases in state UTSA actions and in federal actions under the Defend Trade Secrets Act. This treatise makes UTSA cases readily accessible by analyzing all state and federal UTSA published cases (1979-2018) from the 49 UTSA adopting states. Analysis is accompanied by a synthesis of the UTSA case law determining the key trade secret issues as well as online access to 7,500+ pages of synopses of each UTSA case.

This primer provides an introduction to the Uniform Commercial Code and discusses the provisions of its first article. It is based on the 2011 Official Text of the UCC. The ABCs of the UCC: Article 1: -Compares and contrasts the provisions of former Article 1 with Revised Article 1; -Indicates significant areas where enacting jurisdictions have not followed the Official Text; -Refers to important recent case law; and -Contains practice tips.

Published with Harvard's Program on Negotiation, this book provides an analysis of understanding conflict and offers a way to work together to make decisions that resolve disputes. The authors explain how to meet conflict itself in an effort to understand how individuals can relate to it, and use it effectively in mediation. Divided into four parts-choosing to mediate, deepening understanding of the process, challenges in working together, and devising a resolution.

Learn how to manage and effectively minimize witness involvement, without appearing controlling, and discover how to use effective short statements and make the witness affirm everything they say.

Whose Choice Is It? Abortion, Medicine, and the Law, 7th Edition is the definitive book that addresses every aspect of reproductive health and abortion in the United States and worldwide. It also addresses contraceptive and abortion practices, how the world is changing in those regards, and what the future likely holds. No other source provides the comprehensive medical, ethical, and legal analyses in this book. Counsel advising a client about reproductive health or abortion will find the book an invaluable resource that can be used either to learn about specific topics in depth, or as a quick reference guide. Constitutional law in the United States and Canada is explained in depth, and the chapter on comparative law is a unique treatment of applicable laws ΓÇô both historically and presently ΓÇô around the world.The contributing authors are experts in their fields, making this edition the ΓÇ£must haveΓÇ¥ book for anyone with any interest in these subjects.

This book is a must read for new law graduates before they start to take on the issues of their clients. It stresses the critical behavioral qualities that will help or hinder their ability to credibly undertake the client¿s issues, separate and apart from all of the psychological baggage that they have accumulated over the years. Hiring partners of firms will also find this book useful in helping their new hires to get off on the right foot as they undertake whatever form of mentoring provided. Finally, with the mastery of these interpersonal skills and an understanding of the issues discussed in this book, a rewarding career and personal contribution to a viable road for enhanced civility must follow.

In Flexible Trusts and Estates for Uncertain Times, Fifth Edition, Jerry Horn defines estate planning objectives, describes the climate of uncertainty, identifies planning problems, and suggests solutions. The completely update fifth edition confronts a purported lull after a period of unprecedented instability and now covers:The repeal in 2010 of the estate tax and the generation-skipping tax and the reversion of the taxes, the exemptions and the rates to status quo anteThe restoration of the estate tax and the generation-skipping tax as of the beginning of 2011 and reduced rates and increased exemptions for the gift tax, the estate tax and the generation-skipping taxthe reversion of the exemptions and rates that were in effect before the advent of EGTRRAFor 2011 and 2012 a system of portability of the unused portion of the estate tax exemption of a predeceasing spouse and provided for it to sunset at the end of 2012The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 which became law on January 2, 2013Draft estate plans to anticipate and withstand the drastic changes in the law, including the 2010 repeal and 2011 restoration of the estate tax and the generation-skipping tax and the implementation and repeal of a system of carryover basis for income tax purposesIn addition to these timely updates, you'll find complete, up-to-date information on a wealth of day-to-day situations including how to:Facilitate increases in income tax basesRearrange ownership of assets to permit use of exemptionsSalvage otherwise-unusable exemptionsChoose and change powers, interests and trustees to accommodate different and changing situationsOptimize the use of independent and nonindependent trusteesMaximize flexibility in selection and succession of trusteesAllocate investment duties among trustees and others consistently with the prudent investor ruleUnderstand and create inter vivos QTIP trustsApportion death costs consistently with tax efficiency and preservation of preferred assetsBenefit disabled persons and protect against creditors, and much, much moreWith more than 155 sample forms (and many alternative variables) and 19 complete documents including wills, revocable trusts, trust and estates law documents, irrevocable trusts, powers of attorney for property management and for health care and beneficiary designations, this one-of-a-kind guide will be an indispensable asset to any trust and estates lawyer.

Law practice is a business. Like every other industry, it is affected by improvements in technology and general changes in society. If you plan to practice law in the next ten to 40 years, you must be prepared to adapt to the changing landscape while meeting your ethical obligations.Braving evolution and working to adapt within a staid profession can be frightening, but it is also exciting. With guidelines on topics from ethics to office management, changes in payment technologies, managing client expectations, and gaining competence in new practice areas, this book will prepare you to stare down any fears and prepare you for lawyering in today''s world and in tomorrow''s.

Beyond the Work Product will prepare business attorneys (and particularly law students and new attorneys) for a successful law practice by providing a framework for effective and efficient lawyering. It emphasizes building relationships and trust with clients so that, despite the existence of less costly alternatives, they will keep coming back for more.The approach is process-focused rather than outcome-focused; it emphasizes every step of the lawyering process, not simply delivering the best work product possible. Whether you are at a big firm, a small firm, or a solo practice, approaching lawyering as a relationship-driven job will help you build a sustainable practice and even increase your enjoyment of your work.

As a criminal defense trial lawyer, and especially a public defender, your task is enormous. You represent people who are in many ways "unrepresentable." The jury doesn''t like them and doesn''t understand why you represent them. As such, your clients do not need a lawyer, they need a warrior. More than that, they need someone who believes in them as human beings with value. Failure is not an option.By reading this manual, you have chosen not to fail. By choosing not to fail, you are seeing yourself as a trial lawyer. This is a practical, hands-on trial practice manual that explains in step-by-step detail how to represent a person charged with a crime, from initial receipt of the case and client interview through post-trial. This book will make you a true warrior for your client. By following the methods set forth in this book, you may not always win, but you will never fail.

Automated vehicle law is a growing and rapidly changing area of law. Currently the industry has limited current commercial activity, but many people expect the industry to grow and be vibrant. It will be one of the legal community's first significant encounters with artificial intelligence and its effects on existing doctrines. As the automated vehicle industry shifts from research and development to commercialization, attorneys will have a significant role in shaping policy, design, and deployment; suing or defending crashes of automated vehicles; protecting privacy rights and data collection; and prosecuting or defending persons who use these vehicles.This book is framed around five areas of automated vehicle law:Background on automated vehiclesThe regulation of automated vehiclesCivil liability for automated vehicle crashesData security and privacyCriminal lawThis book is a reference guide for automated vehicle law and will provide you with legal authority and context to apply the law to the new factual situations created by automated vehicles.