Books from Thomson/West
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Lawyering and Ethics for the Business Attorney
By Marc I. SteinbergThis book is a timely and useful supplement to such basic courses as Professional Responsibility, business enterprises, and even commercial law. It may also be assigned in such classes as...
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An Introduction to the Anglo-American Legal System: Readings and Cases
By John Bilyeu Oakley, Edgar Bodenheimer, Jean C. LoveThe authors have retained most of the original text with revisions to reflect new developments, while adding edited reports of many new cases. The new cases emphasize recent decisions of...
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Legal Writing--getting it Right and Getting it Written
By Mary Barnard Ray, Jill J. RamsfieldThe class desktop reference for legal writers, Legal Writing: Getting It Right and Getting It Written provides quick, reliable answers with reference material and guidance on improving one's legal writing....
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Consumer Law: Cases and Materials
By John A. SpanogleThe Third Edition has been completely updated to include current and emerging issues in Consumer Law. The text covers a range of topics, including advertising and marketing, consumer credit regulation,...
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Fundamental Pretrial Advocacy: A Strategic Guide to Effective Litigation
By Charles H. Rose, James M. Underwood"This text helps students master the skills necessary to fully represent a client during all stages of the pretrial process. It holistically covers the applicable law, the pertinent skill involved,...
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Impeccable Research: A Concise Guide to Mastering Legal Research Skills
By Mark K. OsbeckUnlike conventional legal research books that teach students how to find and access the various sources of law, this book stresses a systematic, problem-solving approach to legal research. It sets...
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Legal Research in a Nutshell
By Kent C. Olson, Morris L. CohenServing as both a text for beginning law students and a reference for experienced researchers, Legal Research in a Nutshell provides an overview of basic research methods. The expert authors...
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Federal Wealth Transfer Taxation
By Jeffrey N. PennellThis book is the successor to Kahn, Waggoner, and Pennell's Federal Taxation of Gifts, Trusts and Estates, 3rd Edition. Professor Pennell has completely updated this time-honored treatment of the wealth...
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Secured Transactions: Teaching Materials
By James J. WhiteThe book deals with some of the most complex and interesting modern transactions such as "repos" and "securitization." To offset the complexities of the subject matter, however, Professor White has...
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Cases and Materials on California Community Property
By Gail Boreman BirdTraces the historical development of the community property concept. Also introduces basic classification principles, including limitations on the classification process. The remaining chapters deal with the consequences flowing from the...
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Torts in a Nutshell
By Edward J. Kionka"This Nutshell provides a comprehensive explanation of the basic principles and rules of American tort law as it exists today. This Nutshell has been used for over twenty-five years by...
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International Litigation and Arbitration
By Andreas F. LowenfeldPreface Acknowledgments Table of Cases Chapter Public Law and the Conflict of Laws The Public Law Taboo The Revenue Rule Reconsidered Jurisdiction to Prescribe A First Look at Extraterritoriality The...
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Accounting and Finance for Lawyers in a Nutshell
By Charles H. MeyerThe need for an understanding of accounting is now even more critical than ever for lawyers practicing in many areas including securities and corporate law and litigation. In addition, over...
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Corporate Finance: Cases and Materials
By Thomas Lee Hazen, Jerry W. MarkhamThis casebook contains sections on accounting basics, the time value of money, short and long term debt, preferred stock, dividends, stock subscriptions, merger financing, government securities, structured finance, derivative instruments,...
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Principles of Federal Income Taxation of Individuals
By Donald B. Tobin, Daniel Q. PosinIn clear language, Posin and Tobin's Principles of Federal Income Taxation explores exotic Wall Street techniques employed to avoid capital gains. It includes analysis of cases and concepts of the...
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Adjudication of Criminal Justice: Cases and Problems
By Ronald L. Carlson, Susan Crump, Darryl K. BrownCarlson, Brown and Crump's Adjudication of Criminal Justice, Cases and Problems is organized around a series of criminal procedure problems based on a major homicide case, which appears in the...
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Estates and Future Interests in a Nutshell
By Thomas P. Gallanis, Lawrence W. WaggonerIn-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...
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Wills, Trusts, and Estates: Including Taxation and Future Interests
By William M. McGovern, Sheldon F. KurtzProvides an overview of federal gift, estate, and generation-skipping transfer tax laws for the law student or practitioner. Grantor trust rules affecting the wealth disposition process is also addressed. Other...
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Elder Law in a Nutshell
By Lawrence A. Frolik, Richard L. KaplanElder Law in a Nutshell, 4th ed. updates the previous edition to reflect the fast pace of legal change in this area of the law. Special attention is paid to...
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Federal Rules of Evidence in a Nutshell
By Michael H. GrahamThis comprehensive guide presents each federal rule of evidence in the order it appears. Each rule is followed by expert commentary explaining the concepts underlying the rule. The relationship between...