American Bar Association: 312 books
by Rebecca C. Morgan, Roberta K. Flowers
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Ethical issues can occur at any point when representing elderly clients. Offering clear guidance on the most common issues, this book offers a framework for recognizing and analyzing the situation. The authors, both authorities in elder law, discuss the most common ethical situations and how to anticipate...
by Cecil C. Kuhne III
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
This title examines where the law, and hunting and fishing have intersected, often with intriguing results. You'll find cases involving personal injuries, product liability, intellectual property, and freedom of religion that will provide hours of compelling reading. This book takes a light-hearted look...
Going to Court
An Introduction to the U.S. Justice System
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Going to Court provides a younger generation with an in-depth look at the processes of the U.S. Justice System. This middle grade textbook is a user-friendly, kid-friendly version of a law book to understand civil and criminal trials. It provides a fun and interactive learning process highlighting different...
by James Grippando
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
Ryan Coolidge hates middle school and is in the worst kind of trouble-trouble with the law. The one person who can help Ryan is a mysterious old lawyer named Hezekiah. Hezekiah may have magical powers, or he may have the most elaborate computerized law library ever conceived. Either way, together, Ryan...
Representing Parents in Child Welfare Cases
Advice and Guidance for Family Defenders
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2015
Representing parents in child welfare cases can be a lonely job. Natural biases against an accused parent can create substantial obstacles. This book is a practical step-by-step guide for attorneys representing parents accused of parental unfitness due to abuse or neglect. Leading experts provide...
Challenging Conflict
Mediation Through Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
Published with Harvard's Program on Negotiation, this book provides an analysis of understanding conflict and offers a way to work together to make decisions that resolve disputes. The authors explain how to meet conflict itself in an effort to understand how individuals can relate to it, and use it...
Blindfolds Off
Judges On How They Decide
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Remarkably little is known to the general public, or even to the practicing legal profession, about judges—how they decide cases, how they allocate work between staff and themselves, their work ethic, their psychology, the extralegal influences that play on them. This important new book penetrates...
by Ursula Furi-Perry
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Holidays are deeply personal and emotional times, and as such have a way of provoking strong feelings in just about everyone over just about any issue. And then we liberally mix in booze, sugary foods, and wild parties. In twelve chapters—one for each month—The Little Book of Holiday Law covers...
by Viggo Boserup, Brian Parmelee, Jerry P. Roscoe
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Alternative dispute resolution, or ADR, is the practice of resolving disputes through processes other than litigation. The most common forms of ADR are mediation and arbitration, but many other forms exist in the Health Care arena to address specific types of disputes and their need for tailored processes...
The Privilege of Silence
Fifth Amendment Protections Against Self Incrimination
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
The U.S. Constitution provides that "no person shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself." While this portion of the Fifth Amendment contains only fifteen words, its application can be deceptively complex. Using the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination is dependent...
Preparing Witnesses
A Practical Guide for Lawyers and Their Clients
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
This completely revised and updated fourth edition of Preparing Witnesses: A Practical Guide for Lawyers and Their Clients, will improve witness preparation skills.This book is an invaluable aid in refining skills for delivering witness testimony with an impact.
Jiu Jitsu Jurisprudence
A Guide to Balancing Your Law Practice and Your Life Practice through the Art of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Jiu Jitsu Jurisprudence introduces something new into your life that will revolutionize every aspect of your being: your body, your mind, and your soul. It will help you find purpose outside of the office and beyond the courtroom. You will feel better, think clearer, be happier, and above all, find...
Broken Scales
Reflections on Injustice
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
However rare, some injustices are “objectively” determined, often through DNA evidence, which allows us to squarely establish innocence despite a conviction. But the stories selected for this book represent a cross-section: some are such that (almost) every reader will see and acknowledge the...
In-House
A Lawyer's Guide to Getting a Corporate Legal Position
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
In-House: A Lawyer's Guide to Getting a Corporate Legal Position is the "must-have" career book on finding, securing, and thriving in the fiercely competitive in-house legal market. Author David J. Parnell takes the in-house-bound attorney by the hand, leading him or her through the maze...