Global climate change and u.s. law, third edition

The legal landscape around climate change is complex, unstable, and expanding. Scientists continue to publish new findings, policy makers regularly adopt new regulations, and petitioners file new litigation, nationwide and around the world. Hence the need for this third edition. Most of it is com...

Artificial intelligence

An essential and practical guide to navigate the rapidly evolving laws and policies of Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming our world at a breakneck pace, including the practice of law. The recent rapid development of generative AI, which produces new outputs bas...

Trauma-informed law

Trauma-Informed Law discusses the many intersections of trauma and law where it is often denied, ignored, covered up, or avoided. The book is intended for lawyers, law students, legal educators, and judges, as well as decision-makers, administrators, staff, and anyone impacted by the court.It is ...

Environmental aspects of real estate and commercial transactions

International practitioner's deskbook series

International Litigation Strategies and Practice, Third Edition, is intended as a helpful desk reference for practitioners, both those steeped in international practice and those who have only occasional exposure to the field. It assists them in navigating complex and evolving subject areas, spot...

Mastering voir dire and jury selection

Zen and the art of persuasive writing

Why is legal prose so hard to read? One reason is obvious: Legal writers rarely think about their audience. When legal writers account for the preferences and expectations of their readers, legal writing can be sublime. Lucid. Easy to navigate and simple to understand. This species of legal writi...

Mazie's amazing journey

The amazing true story of US Senator Mazie Hirono will inspire young readers to believe in the American dream.Come journey with 8-year-old Mazie as she leaves her home country of Japan to make a new life in Hawaii. As an immigrant, she faces the challenges of learning a new language, making frien...

Legal writing

"Effective legal writing calls not only for artistry but also for scientific understanding." In this synthesis of his experience on the bench and his own research into the science and art of written communications, Robert E. Bacharach, a federal court judge, shares his insights on ways language c...

Chinese family law and practice

Chinese Family Law and Practice provides the most up-to-date information about statutes, court rules, and reported cases relevant to issues arising from the day-to-day practice of Chinese family law. It is a much-needed reference guide of Chinese family law for attorneys and judges around the glo...

The deadly force script

How many times have you read a news story about someone being shot by the police while reaching for their waistband? Or about an officer who testified at trial that the person he shot during a physical struggle had superhuman strength or a thousand-yard stare in his eyes? And how many times have ...

Women's voices

Women's Voices: Global Perspectives on the Right to Vote is a special global collection of essays, published as a companion to personal stories about the importance of the right to vote by women in several countries captured on video and produced with the assistance of LexisNexis and the Internat...

Advancing equity at the intersection of race, mental illness, and criminal justice involvement

Mental illness and racial inequity are prevalent within the criminal justice system. This book provides key concepts necessary for attorneys to develop their own personal equity framework and approaches to their legal practice.

Transforming the global supply chain

Watch the author describe his take on critical supply chain threats in his most current NBC/WPXI-Pittsburgh interview. The global supply chain is broken. Because COVID-19 brought this issue to the forefront, many assume that the pandemic is the reason for the collapse. It is not. Instead, four Ma...

Ip protection in china, second edition

Before China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Chinese IP regime was out-of-step with international standards. China has made rapid progress since then. To obtain approval for entry, it made all the necessary amendments to its Patent Law, Copyright Law, and the Trademark Law, a...

Impact investing and social enterprises

This guide focuses on key issues in impact investing, including legal structure, measurement and reporting, forming an impact investment fund, and doing the deal. It also examines regional and country coverage using the comparative approach and drawing on the expertise of local experts across mul...

Representing people with mental disabilities

Representing People with Mental Disabilities is a practical, accessible guide for criminal defense lawyers who work with clients navigating mental health challenges—whether visible or hidden. From white-collar professionals with undiagnosed conditions to individuals on the autism spectrum facing...

The rule-out method of criminal defense

THE STRATEGY EVERY CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYER NEEDS TO SUCCEED. “This book is a game changer.” —Richard S. Jaffe. Jaffe, Hanle, Whisonant & Knight, P.C., Founding and Senior Partner The Rule-Out method of criminal defense, easily learned, gets most jurors to want to decide verdicts based solely ...

The foreign corrupt practices act handbook

Winner of American Book Fest’s 2024 Best Book Award - Law CategoryNow in its sixth edition, American Bar Association’s best-selling anticorruption handbook, The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Handbook is the preferred reference guide for both “law students beginning their careers and the seasoned ...

A guide to human rights due diligence for lawyers

Business clients are increasingly seeking their lawyers’ advice and assistance with human rights due diligence (HRDD). Their clients must navigate compliance with a growing array of legal  requirements and soft law standards defining the expectations of governments, investors, and  society that b...

The case for eyewitness identification reform

The Case for Eyewitness Identification Reform is divided into five chapters. Chapter 1 lays out the existing eyewitness identification practice in most jurisdictions. Chapter 2 sets forth the law governing eyewitness identification admissibility, as embodied primarily by Manson v. Brathwaite, and...

Sentence, paragraph, argument, brief

Sentence, Paragraph, Argument, Brief is a fresh, comprehensive, and above all practical guide to writing briefs, informed by decades of working and teaching at one of the nation’s foremost law firms. The book organizes itself around a single theme: good briefs reflect careful attention to the seq...

Roadmap

What do you say when a potential employer asks, "Tell me about a project that you have managed and what you learned from that experience; tell me specifically about how you handled a difficult team member in implementing the project?" If you are like most law students, the slightest mention of "p...

A manual of style for contract drafting, fifth edition

With A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting, Kenneth A. Adams has created a uniquely in-depth survey of the building blocks of contract language. First published in 2004, it offers those who draft, review, negotiate, or interpret contracts an alternative to the dysfunction of traditional contrac...

The keys to banking law

The Keys to Banking Law guides you through today’s system of financial regulation that is unlike anything else in the world. To that end, the guide: explores the history of banking law in the U.S. to provide context for the complexities of the law examines the bank family, with special emphasis o...

The paralegal's guide to professional responsibility, sixth edition

Professional responsibility is at the core of delivering effective legal services. Paralegals are expected to obey the ethics rules by which their lawyer employers are bound. To help paralegals stay on top of ethics issues, the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility has updated The Paralegal'...

An estate planner's guide to buy-sell agreements for the closely held business, fourth edition

An Estate Planner's Guide to Buy-Sell Agreements for the Closely Held Business is a comprehensive guide to buy-sell agreements for estate planning attorneys and other professionals who advise closely held businesses and their owners. It includes a detailed discussion of the objectives of a buy-se...

The new science of trial advocacy

Careers in business law

If you are considering a career in business law, seeking a new practice area, or contemplating a shift in your legal career, this new guide provides practical advice, valuable insights, and actionable strategies that you can employ to prepare for a successful and fulfilling career in business law...

Health law essentials

The field of health law is broad, complex, and exciting, but it can also be overwhelming to young health care lawyers or those new to the field. Written by seasoned experts, this comprehensive resource covers organizational and operational issues that impact health care stakeholders, physician le...

Model witness examinations, fifth edition

The book demonstrates how to offer testimony on direct examination, how to cross-examine and impeach various types of witnesses, and how to use discovery in the examination of witnesses. The authors illustrate model examinations and offer citations to rules and cases that can be relied upon by an...

Championship mock trial

Rule the rules of workplace wellness programs, second edition

The tech contracts handbook

Written in a clear, plain-English style and updated and expanded for an everchanging world, The Tech Contracts Handbook is a complete resource for lawyers, contract managers, and anyone responsible for getting IT deals done.Author David W. Tollen, one of the industry's leading authorities on tech...

The flourishing lawyer

The Flourishing Lawyer offers an empathetic guide for members of the legal profession to cultivate their personal and professional well-being, identify and develop their individual strengths, and define success on their own terms. Drawing from lessons and research from the fields of psychology, h...

Crimes and punishments: entering the mind of a sentencing judge

Contract drafting: powerful prose in transactional practice, third edition

A practical guide to commercial real estate transactions

Food law

Design professional's guide to construction law

Construction law, second edition

Government contract law

The inclusive leader

Equine law and horse sense

Cannabis law

Effectively representing your client before the irs, 8th edition