Business Fundamentals For Lawyers

"This book is designed to assist law students and practitioners learn the basics of business. Specifically, in addition to narrative explanations of business concepts, unlike many other books on this subject, this book also will provide case studies and problem sets to enable law students to experientially learn how to identify legal risk and potential legal issues from analyzing a company's business issues and corporate financial statements. Accountants, not lawyers, create financial statements, so this book teaches law students how to read and analyze financial statements as users, not creators of those documents. With this book, law students should finish the course with an ability to (i) read and analyze three of the four main corporate financial statements, (ii) understand the legal and business differences between the different types of capital, (iii) understand and perform basic time value of money calculations, (iv) articulate the process by which a corporation accesses capital in the private and publicly traded financial markets, (v) conceptualize different means of calculating a corporation's stock, debt and overall corporate value, and (vi) identify legal risks and means of mitigating those risks on behalf of their clients through the analysis of a client's business issues and financial statements. This book is inclusively written for use by students interested in business and non-business practice areas whether in family law, medical malpractice, corporate transactions, or litigation"--

Most law students have never had formal coursework in accounting or finance, yet these areas are integral to so many law school courses including: Business Associations, Securities Regulations, Corporate Finance, Taxation, Banking Law, Financial Regulation, and Business Planning. With math no more difficult than high school algebra, Essential Concepts of Business for Lawyers, Third Edition fills in those gaps with an accessible and interactive presentation of accounting, finance, and financial markets. Each stand-alone chapter provides a complete lesson that will shed light on business courses in law school, as well as business situations in legal practice. New to the Third Edition: Updates for and addition of new cases that illustrate the business concepts Addition of more examples, including information related to more companies such as Google and Uber Addition of new materials on the basic microeconomic concept of supply and demand Professors and students will benefit from: A self-contained course book that supports a 2-credit course on an overview of business concepts, including accounting, finance, valuation, financial instruments, and business strategy Lessons that go beyond the definitions of terms of art and business terminology A book written at an accessible level Edited appellate cases that connect business concepts to the law and legal practice Knowledge of the basic and most essential concepts of business Materials presented in an accessible way including the use of many examples to illustrate difficult concepts Clear explanations of difficult materials and foreign concepts

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A useful resource for attorneys practicing in the business, commercial and corporate areas, covering such topics as: business formation and organization; business valuation; corporate securities; dividends and distribution; mergers and takeovers; and, S corporation formations and related tax rules.

Fundamentals of Modern Business is an essential resource for attorneys practicing in the business, commercial and corporate areas, covering such essential topics as: business formation and organizationbusiness valuationcorporate securitiesdividends and distributionmergers and takeoversS corporation formations and related tax rules

The book specifically designed to familiarize law students with such business concepts as accounting, economics, real estate, tax, business organizations and finance, fully revised for its Third Edition. This concise volume provides a solid foundation in the basic mechanics, concepts, and legal contest of important business topics. Business Basics for Law Students is tailored To The needs of lawyers who lack a business background: the authors draw on their experience as a casebook author and legal scholar to achieve the proper level of discussion straightforward explanations demystify the subject generous use of examples to convey ideas and applications a hepful list of New Terms in the Appendix is conveniently keyed To The pages in the text where they are used and explained frequent visual aids (reproduced documents, tables, and graphs) reinforce the text lists of topics at the beginning of each chapter uses bold type to speed identification of key terms and concepts, and presentation of many helpful lists clearly enumerate points and examples the Third Edition responds to used feedback while it reflects changes in the field: new and expanded coverage of residential real estate transactions, mortgages, bankruptcy, and insolvency more emphasis on valuing stock new and improved examples throughout the text, especially for real estate financing and tax benefits increased coverage of basic economic principles

When you start a business, legal issues can seem complex, even scary. Business Law Basics will help you ask smart questions and get the right advice. This simple guide will show you everything you need to know about: How to choose an attorney. Contract essentials, including patents and copyrights. What you need to protect (such as processes or intellectual property). How to reorganize or restructure your business. You’ll also learn the basics of partnership and corporate structures, license and regulation essentials, employment issues, legal aspects of buying and selling, common pitfalls, international business issues—and more. Each of the books in the Crash Course for Entrepreneurs series offers a high-level overview of the critical things you need to know and do if you want to survive and thrive in our super-competitive world. Of course, there’s much more to learn about each topic, but what you’ll read here will give you the framework for learning the rest. Also, the co-authors’ website, expertbusinessadvice.com, offers expanded support for entrepreneurs and is updated daily. Among them, Scott L. Girard, Jr., Michael F. O'Keefe, Marc A. Price, and Mark R. Moon, Esq. have successfully started 20 companies in a wide variety of fields. Their individual experiences are just as varied. Scott, a combat veteran who has served in Iraq and Afghanistan, was formerly vice president of Pinpoint Holdings Group, Inc. Mike founded O’Keefe Motor Sports in 2004 and grew it into the largest database of aftermarket automotive components in the world. As vice president for marketing of Bracemasters International, he grew his company’s website viewership by 17,000% in two years. Marc has launched seven companies of his own and has collaborated with the Federal government, U.S. military, major nonprofits, and some of the largest corporations in America. Business Law Basics is also coauthored by Mark R. Moon, Esq., a founding and currently the managing partner of the Moon Law Group, P.L., in Tampa Bay, Florida.