American Bar Association (ABA)

The American Bar Association's 100 Plus Pointers on Business Development offers insightful tips to guide you through the maze of business development.

The ABA has developed 100 Plus Pointers for New Lawyers on Adjusting to Your Job to help guide lawyers and law students through everything they need to know, from how to work with a new boss to how to keep the copy machine working.

Learn the tips and techniques that leading family lawyers have developed to help make their legal practice more effective.

Guide to Protecting and Litigating Trade Secrets focuses on several large jurisdictions in which trade secret cases are heavily litigated to illustrate the concepts, but the analysis also includes other jurisdictions to demonstrate the differing approaches to the treatment of trade secrets. In addition to a broader, more academic look at trade secret law, the book also draws on current, real-life examples of trade secret nightmares and the litigation experience of its primary authors to provide practical advice to the business owner, small legal department or firm, and solo practitioner.

Designed as a quick and accessible reference, this book helps lawyers understand and address the array of mental health expert issues they will encounter in their cases.

The proper antitrust treatment of monopolizing conduct is an area of perennial uncertainty and debate. The Monopolization and Dominance Handbook aims to give the reader an overview of the treatment of such conduct in the United States, with particular attention to areas of ambiguity and uncertainty, together with comparative discussion of approaches to such issues in jurisdictions outside the United States. The Monopolization and Dominance Handbook addresses the antitrust rules and principles that govern unilateral business conduct by firms with substantial market positions, referred to in the United States as the law of monopolization. In addition, the Handbook compares and contrasts the approaches of courts and enforcers in the United States in this area of the law with those of counterparts in other jurisdictions.

In this important resource, author Chris Scott Graham explores the questions of trade secret identification, protection, and economic value from the standpoint of what executives, the board of directors, and the general counsel must consider when faced with the prospect of trade secret litigation. While the main focus is on the trade secret owner, due consideration is given throughout the text to corresponding issues facing an alleged misappropriator.

Forensic accounting can help family lawyers win case and help their clients keep money which might otherwise be taken from them by the difficult and confusing divorce process. To help you understand the practice of forensic accounting and business valuation and apply it to your family law cases, The Forensic Accounting Deskbook provides a basic introduction to the core financial concepts in divorce, such as asset identification, classification, and valuation, income determination, and expenses.

Producing and maintaining quality affordable housing is not an intractable social problem but one that requires putting together the essential pieces of the puzzle -- a development concept responsive to community needs, suitable land, permissive land use regulations, adequate government funding programs, and creative public-private partnerships.

Contains expert analysis regarding issues in a Section 1983 case.