The Lawyer's Guide to Buying, Selling, Merging, and Closing a Law Practice


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This book is a valuable resource for information on things to consider before and during the process of buying, selling, closing, and merging a law practice. The guide provides advice and tips on: the advantages of buying and selling a law practice; the ethical aspects of acquiring a law practice; valuation of a law firm; tax consequences of retiring a partner's interest in a law firm taxed as a partnership; merging law firms; selling a niche practice; business responsibilities in closing a law practice; the ethical aspects of winding down a law practice; file preservation; and ending client and employee relationships. The guide includes handy checklists, forms, and sample letters as well as several Rules from the ABA's Model Rules of Professional Conduct.




The IALL International Handbook of Legal Information Management


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Around the world, legal information managers, law librarians and other legal information specialists work in many settings: law schools, private law firms, courts, government, and public law libraries of various types. They are characterized by their expertise in working with legal information in its many forms, and by their work supporting legal professionals, scholars, or students training to become lawyers. In an ever-shrinking world and a time of unprecedented technological change, the work of legal information managers is challenging and exciting, calling on specialized knowledge and skills, regardless of where in the world they practice their profession. Their role within legal systems contributes substantially to the administration of justice and the rule of law. This International Handbook addresses the policy and strategic issues with which legal information managers and law librarians need to engage in the context of the diverse legal environments in which they work. It provides resources, analysis, and considered studies on an international basis for seasoned professionals, those about to enter the field, and anyone interested in the evolution of legal information in the twenty-first century.




A Layperson's Guide to Legal Research and Self-Help Law Books


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An essential guide to legal self-help literature by a leading authority in the field.With no previous legal background, you will be able to find books to answer your most frequently asked legalquestions. Many matters can be handled without hiring a lawyer, and this book will lead you to sources of expert advice on doing just that, and save you money in the process. It also weighs the pros and cons of hiring an attorney vs. representing oneself.Nearly 800 substantive reviews of self-help books and secondary sources. Each of the more than 85 legal specialty bibliographies contained in this unique reference tool is preceded by an invaluable introduction which lays out the nature of the law in that field and the sources of that law, whether constitutional, statutory, common law based, or regulatory, or some combination of these. Links to relevant web sites and research sites are also included, as well as a complete directory of public law libraries around the country.




Legal Information Buyer's Guide and Reference Manual 2015


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The nation's leading guide to the purchase of legal information in all formats, the Legal Information Buyer's Guide & Reference Manual is the recipient of the American Association of Law Libraries' highest award for legal bibliography. It was also cited by Legal Information Alert (September 2004) as one of the top 20 innovations in the field of legal information in the past ten years. This annual 850-page, soft cover compendium provides detailed information about thousands of print, CD-ROM, and online legal information products, accompanied by critical cost-saving advice and strategies. Unlike standard bibliographies, it provides complete cost and supplementation cost information to help customers avoid financial pitfalls, including a detailed spreadsheet of more than 1,400 legal specialty titles with five year's supplementation cost data. An absolutely essential tool for any lawyer, law firm, or law library buying legal information from the highly concentrated legal publishing industry. The author, a former state law librarian, is the country's leading authority on cost-effective law library acquisitions. Guaranteed to save any lawyer thousands of dollars over the course of his or her legal career. Annual editions published in June.




Model Rules of Professional Conduct


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The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.




AALL Directory and Handbook


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