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Focuses on making the key concepts of contract law, and the relationship among those concepts, easier to understand and retain. The book sets forth understandable techniques for mastering the law governing each critical aspect of the contract relationship, including, contract formation, enforcement, interpretation, performance, breach, and remedies.

This concise guide explains Administrative Law concepts in accessible language. It follows a logical sequence of topics, starting with the constitutional foundations of the administrative state, through to procedural requirements for agency rulemaking, the rules governing judicial review of agency action, and agency control over information.

An ideal subject for self-study, this guide covers all key parts of the Rule, including problems for self-testing. It presents the Rule in its historical context but in a fun, engaging, and accessible way that is simple and clear for students to use.

The need to network has been preached to exhaustion while simultaneously made incomprehensible. This Short & Happy Guide eliminates the hoopla around a behavior that is as old as our society. It cuts through the clutter and outlines how everyone can build relationships in a way that is not only comfortable but enjoyable.

Legal research can be costly for students and practitioners in both time and money. This guide identifies available free and fee-based legal research options as good, cheap and/or fast. This book can streamline the process of legal research involving any subject matter and during any stage of civil litigation.

This Short and Happy Guide makes the law about police practices and criminal trial proceedings accessible and easy to remember.

In this updated version of his concise book, Professor Schechter has balanced brevity and humour with a clear, crisp, and accessible review of basic Torts doctrine. His comprehensive survey includes not only thorough coverage of core topics, but also an overview of economic and dignitary torts, damages issues, and vicarious liability.

A Short & Happy Guide to Evidence takes a challenging subject and breaks it into manageable pieces that are easy to understand and digest. Using practical examples and humor, this book takes you through the most difficult, and most often tested, rules.

Bankruptcy is a complicated subject that covers a lot of ground. Bankruptcy lawyers can be found on Main Street and Wall Street. This efficient and effective guide to Bankruptcy will help you see the big picture. The authors focus on explaining the key concepts or building blocks that apply in any type of bankruptcy case, and then help you see those concepts in action.

Offers a concise and entertaining tour of some basic lawyering skills for law students and new lawyers. The authors - two experienced law professors - use humour and apt quotes to introduce (or refresh) readers in many of the basic competencies that lawyers need to acquire.

Provides a template for analysing any question on Agency & Partnership you might encounter on your final exam or on the bar. Essentially, the book provides you a roadmap to an A. (It is not intended to replace class preparation, but it will certainly suffice in a pinch).

If the phrase ""in other words"" is your favorite part of class, then this is the book for you. This book takes the complicated subject of Employment Discrimination and breaks it down to easily understood pieces. The Big Three statutes! The theories of liability! Defenses! Remedies! Procedures! It's all here.

Corporate taxation is widely considered one of the more difficult courses in the law school curriculum. The purpose of the book is to make the subject matter slightly less daunting by familiarizing the student with some of the core concepts of corporate taxation.

Updated to take into account the current economic situation the United States and the world finds itself in because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The book uses colourful characters like Lively Law Student, Learned Lawyer, Published Poet, Scattered Secretary and Seattle Businessman to explain money management in a simplified, yet humorous manner.

This student guide is different. It is written to help you understand your prof's final exam questions - to get you through a 3 or 4 hour exam. Rather than teaching you how cases and concepts are applied in the real world, this book teaches you how cases and concepts need to be applied in the ""unreal"" world of law school exams.

Provides an essential introduction to the privacy fundamentals and security essentials that make up the modern economy. The book provides a concise overview of privacy from its origins in constitutional and common law through the most important changes in US laws and laws that impact the US from abroad.

A solid grasp of civics will benefit most people, among them law students and people who work in the legal profession, in government, or in businesses affected by law and government. This book covers the Rule of Law; the US Constitution and other types of laws; and the powers and functions of the US government's branches.

Provides newcomers to criminal law with what they need most: key concepts they can remember! Mastery of the fundamental concepts is the key to success. Remembering these concepts is made easier by a ""forest before the trees"" organization and the use of quirky, often funny examples that stick the concepts to the reader's memory.

In a concise and easily digestible format, this book gives students, entrepreneurs, lawyers, policymakers, and anyone curious about blockchain and crypto, an introduction to what has become the most valuable innovation of the 21st century. It also offers a handy field guide to blockchain technologies and crypto.

This efficient guide will help you see how the various pieces of arbitration law and practice fit together. Focusing on key concepts and doctrines while keeping things playful and fun, the guide will give law students, lawyers, and anyone else interested in arbitration a firm foundation for thinking more deeply about the subject.

Takes the complex subject matter of Constitutional Law and makes it easier to understand and digest. Professor Mark Alexander carefully explains the key concepts involved in Con Law and also brings it home with straightforward explanations of why you are reading and discussing the cases you are assigned every day.

A one-source resource for what you need to maximize your performance on the MEE - not a generic essay writing guide, but a treasury of information, issue identification, and subject area frameworks tailored specifically for the MEE.

Provides a pleasant stroll through the thickets of the basic law school income tax course. Newman addresses all of the usual suspects, including income, deductions, capital gains, and timing.

Takes you through the history, meaning, and purpose of legal writing in the American law. You will learn the essential form and substance necessary to craft an inter-office legal memo, helpful ideas for persuasive brief-writing, and tips for excelling in legal writing.

Makes important concepts from Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code plain and understandable to students. The complex topics are explained in a plain-spoken, straightforward way, to make them as simple and accessible as possible. The important provisions of the Code are excerpted and edited for readability.

From finding opportunities, to your online and offline search, to your cover letter, your resume, interview questions, networking, and offer negotiation, this book covers underlying principles that will accelerate your job search. Put your worries aside and pick up this book.