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Negotiating and Drafting Contract Boilerplate

Edited and co-authored by Tina L. Stark
Educates lawyers and business professionals about the underlying rationale and importance of boilerplate language. Each chapter tackles a different contractual provision and analyzes why it is important, what the key legal and business issues are, what is negotiable and what is not, and how best to draft the provision to suit a particular transaction.

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Chapter 1 - Introduction

Chapter 2 - Drafting Boilerplate Provisions

On Trial: Lessons from a lifetime in the courtroom

by Henry G. Miller
On Trial: Lessons from a Lifetime in the Courtroom is a book that even the busiest lawyer should take time to read. Written by a distinguished trial attorney and based on essays that first appeared in the New York Law Journal, it distills the author?s forty years of courtroom experience into a highly readable trove of wisdom and common-sense advice on the art of advocacy.

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Full Disclosure: The New Lawyer?s Must-Read Career Guide

by?Christen?Civiletto Carey
Finally, there is a practical mentoring guide containing all the things lawyers wish they had known at the beginning of their careers. Topics include: creative job hunting strategies; interviewing techniques; summer associate programs; law firm economics; life as an associate; working with colleagues and support staff; gender issues; alternative work arrangements; boutique firms; practicing in-house; and more. You?ll find contact information for recruiters from over 475 law firms and law departments and many invaluable sample forms.

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The Essential Guide to the Best (and Worst) Legal Sites on the Web, Second Edition

by?Robert J. ?Ambrogi, Esq.
Every second spent on the Internet searching for the right resource is time away from critical work. The revised and expanded Second Edition of The Essential Guide to the Best (and Worst) Legal Sites on the Web has sifted through thousands of legal Web sites to tell you which ones are worth your time, which ones aren?t?and why. Written for both lawyers and nonlawyers, this encyclopedic yet easy-to-use work is organized by areas of practice, from administrative law to torts.

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The Practice of Law School: Getting In and Making the Most of Your Legal Education

by?Christen?Civiletto Carey &?Kristen David?Adams Written for anyone with hands-on involvement in negotiating and drafting joint ventures and strategic alliances, this complete reference provides extensive guidance on drafting agreements. Detailed chapters examine special issues in: financial services and real estate joint ventures; minority strategic investments; integrating, retaining and providing benefits and incentives to joint venture employees; and intellectual property law considerations. Includes checklists, clauses and forms (also provided on CD-ROM) that you can tailor to your own deals.

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Maximizing Law Firm Profitability: Hiring, Training and Developing Productive Lawyers

By Susan G. Manch and Marcia Pennington Shannon
This book shows you how to manage your own practice and how to develop the potential of the people reporting to you. It covers subjects such as: enhancing attorney skills and increasing profits through development of practical in-house training programs; choosing CLE programs wisely; recruiting and keeping ?top-notch? lawyers; benchmarking; grasping the basics of legal writing; teaching the essentials of negotiating, client relations and ?people? skills; giving associates effective supervision and feedback; making the evaluation process productive; and instilling law firm loyalty.

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