Treatises

Reductions in Force provides practical, legally grounded guidance for implementing layoffs while minimizing risk and cost. This updated edition explains how to plan and execute workforce reductions in compliance with federal and state laws, helping employers avoid costly litigation, including class actions. Drawing on extensive real-world experience, it offers a pragmatic roadmap for managing group layoffs effectively.

Representing Start-Ups & Emerging Companies delivers essential legal guidance across the business lifecycle, from entity formation and early-stage financing to public reporting, employment, IP, data privacy, and compliance. It helps legal counsel and entrepreneurs make informed decisions, manage risk, and support sustainable growth.

Rhode Island Criminal Jury Instructions provides an authoritative array of instructions for criminal actions. Analysis concerning the instructions includes directions for their use and their relation to other instructions. Analysis also includes citations to relevant Rhode Island statutes, Rules of Court and cases.

Make sure you know the law related to litigation abuse, as well as the latest changes that affect your practice, with the new edition of Sanctions: The Federal Law of Litigation Abuse - which has been described by the Eighth Circuit as: “The leading authority on sanctions law.” Greg Joseph, one of the nation's most effective and experienced commercial litigators, sheds light on these difficult subjects for you by clarifying the issues and conducting a detailed, step-by-step analysis and survey of sanctions law and its ramifications.

Securitization in the U.S. is a practical, introductory treatise explaining the legal and structural foundations of securitization transactions. Designed for legal and financial professionals, it clarifies the securitization process, key participants, and governing law while providing context for major securitized products and emerging market developments.

Shareholder Derivative Lawsuits delivers a clear, practice oriented examination of shareholder derivative litigation, explaining the doctrine, procedure and strategic considerations that shape these actions. With focused discussion of Delaware law, the business judgment rule and core procedural requirements, this treatise helps practitioners understand how derivative suits function within modern corporate governance.

South Carolina Estate Planning and Will Drafting with Forms is a practical resource for South Carolina attorneys handling estate planning, will drafting and estate administration.