The 12th edition of Black’s Law Dictionary is the new standard — the most comprehensive English-language law dictionary ever compiled, with more than 70,000 entries containing precise definitions and more than 4,800 scholarly and judicial quotations on legal terminology. Every page has been supplemented and revised.

There’s a good reason why Black’s is the dictionary of record in American law and renowned worldwide: it’s the most extensive, accurate, clearly drafted, and authoritative dictionary ever written for the legal profession and for anyone else needing legal definitions. When you use this dictionary, you’re using a trusted and respected resource.

American Law of Zoningz provides attorneys, planners, policy decision makers, and other land use professionals with a fundamental overview of the history and development of zoning in the United States. The text:

• Reviews the current state of zoning, planning, and subdivision control policy

• Examines sources of zoning, legislative limitations, and legitimate objectives to zoning

• Discusses regulations, constitutional issues, and judicial reviews of zoning and planning decisions

The author provides important caselaw updates and analysis of such developments as:

• Administrative relief from zoning regulations – special permits and variances

• The power to zone – constitutional issues

• Regulation of uses for profit – agriculture, commerce, and industry

• Judicial review of zoning and planning decisions – appeal and certiorari

Director and Officer Liability: Indemnification and Insurance provides strategies for limiting corporate management liability and demonstrates how to react to each challenge using court-proven methods and techniques. This title discusses:

• The value of indemnification

• Directors'' and officers'' insurance

• Funding alternatives to insurance

• Trends in federal regulation and state law, including the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Crime Control Act on federal depository institutions and holding companies, and the Penny Stock Reform Act of 1990

• The special needs of nonprofit corporations

Examples of indemnity agreements and insurance policies are included.

 This all new second edition of Law of Corporate Officers and Directors: Indemnification and Insurance has been rewritten, reorganized, modernized, and consolidated by its new author, an attorney specializing in the field of director and officer liability insurance and indemnification. The second edition provides a comprehensive, concise, and authoritative analysis of the law of director and officer indemnification and insurance. New topics added to the second edition include:

Use Punitive Damages: Law and Practice to determine up front whether your case warrants a request for punitive damages and the extent of a possible award. This must-have, two-volume work explains national and state-specific law, allowing you to carefully prepare every element of your case with background, precedent, and in-depth analysis of relevant cases. You''ll find:

• Discussion of the function and intent of the concept of punitive damages
• A complete survey of the law of each state and the District of Columbia concerning punitive damage awards

• Consideration of punitive damage issues not generally encountered in routine practice, as well as conflict of law issues, vicarious liability of corporations, and insurability

• Comprehensive coverage of recent reform proposals at the state and federal level

• Discussion of the variability in state court interpretations and applications, with charts that analyze punitive damages state by state

• Practical suggestions regarding discovery techniques, trial strategy, presenting proof, evidence, and precedents

• Forms that you can customize to the facts of your case

• A detailed chart providing the status of punitive damages in a particular state at a glance

• Discovery techniques, trial strategy, and pleadings

Considered by many to be the top NEPA resource, and cited as an authority by a unanimous Supreme Court in the Methow Valley decision, NEPA Law and Litigation provides expert guidance on the latest legislative, regulatory, and caselaw developments interpreting NEPA. Use this treatise to discover or understand:

• When NEPA applies
• Major NEPA compliance requirements
• Complex NEPA litigation
• Citizens’ suits
• The environmental review process
• When to prepare an environmental impact statement
• The effect of NEPA on federal agencies
• Environmental assessment in Europe and Canada
• When courts should dissolve injunctions after NEPA violations are cured
• California limitations of climate change requirements
• Council on Environmental Quality guidance for the application of NEPA
• Terrorist risk and global climate change as environmental impacts

Black’s Law Dictionary, Pocket Edition is the top-selling paperback law dictionary for good reason. With more than 19,000 definitions from the industry-standard Black’s Law Dictionary 10^th, it is an essential reference tool for legal terms in a compact format.  

• Essential: More than 13,000 terms and 19,000 definitions
• Trusted: Definitions from Black’s 10^th, the most cited law dictionary
• Convenient: One compact volume for ease of use

Designed for patent practitioners or researchers, Modern Patent Law Precedent: Dictionary of Key Terms and Concepts provides you with a resource to turn to for a quick, up-to-date, on-point reference to developments in the growing body of patent law. Topics covered include:

• Infringement/inducement
• Proof of invalidity
• Statutory notes
• Obviousness

The Rights of Publicity and Privacy focuses on the important and evolving field of publicity and privacy rights, whether based on state, common, federal, or foreign law. It explains and comments on the types of claims that may be made against the use of the identity of real people in advertising and sales, as well as in literary works and entertainment. The Copyright Law Journal praised it as an “outstanding work that will … become the definitive work in the field.”

The author provides answers to questions of who or what is protected by privacy rights and examines the claims and positions of:

• Celebrities and political figures
• Corporations and groups
• Personal names and nicknames
• Voices and sounds
• Objects

Topics discussed include:
• The reasons for privacy and publicity rights
• Elements of infringements
• Defenses
• Procedures for asserting rights
• Remedies
• Constitutional issues
• Postmortem right of publicity
• Assignments and licenses
• Trademarks, false advertising, copyright, misappropriation, defamation, and other related torts

Up-to-date caselaw and commentary keep you current on trends and developments, and an appendix, table of cases, and index help you quickly locate needed information. 
 

For more than 25 years, Real Estate Review has provided authoritative guidance and on-target strategies dealing with the modern real estate market. Discusses the most recent developments, taking a "how to" approach towards important issues, including: low-income housing, redevelopment, and tax planning. Offers informed advice on dealing with transactions, risk, agreements, capital expenditure, consultancies, investors, dealers, and environmental issues. Provides regular up-to-date information on REITs and investor advisors.
 

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•Provides regular, up-to-date information
•Provides authoritative guidance, and on-target strategies
 

The Law of Electronic Surveillance provides objective analysis of issues related to the government''s gathering of evidence through electronic devices. Providing more than 2,500 case citations, it covers major developments and important cases. Key topics include:

•Challenging court-ordered wiretaps
•Electronic search warrants
•Foreign intelligence surveillance
•Suppression of evidence obtained
•Voice exemplars and other identification evidence
•Electronic surveillance of a defendant''s attorney
•Legal uses that may be made of evidence obtained from electronic surveillance
•Confronting and challenging electronic surveillance
•Executing an electronic search
•Criminal penalties and civil remedies for illegal electronic surveillance
•Electronic surveillance types and legal developments prior to 1968
•Title III
 

Nowak and Rotunda''s Treatise on Constitutional Law: Substance and Procedure provides scholars, practitioners, judges, and officials with an up-to-date analysis and synthesis of federal constitutional law. Focus is primarily on the Supreme Court and incorporates the political, historical, and economic background of court decisions.

The text analyzes constitutional questions in terms of precedent, political science theory, economics, and American history, making the leading cases understandable concerning both their overall significance and the precise legal rules they establish.

Provides concise, current information ensuring that no area of concern is overlooked in securing and maintaining patent protection, or in answering a question about an existing arrangement. Each section of the text serves as a fundamental checklist of steps that must be considered in the particular country covered. Experts from around the world have contributed advice and information to this work, which covers more than 160 countries and territories. Divided into Digests, summarizing significant features of laws; Conventions, containing text and summaries of important international patent agreements; and a Professional Directory for referrals.

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•Consists of digests summarizing the significant features of laws in more than 180 jurisdictions
•Includes complete texts of most international agreements now in force in appendix

Here is a comprehensive, practice-oriented guide to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure written by Professor Steven Gensler, a leading expert and former member of the Civil Rules Advisory Committee. For each rule, Professor Gensler explains in detail what the rule covers, how it works, and how it has been interpreted and applied by the courts. Each commentary is organized to clearly highlight and analyze the practical issues most important to lawyers and judges applying the rule. Updated annually, new rule amendments, the latest caselaw, and emerging trends and issues are integrated into the analysis to provide the most up-to-date and user-friendly guidance available. Extensive citations to current caselaw and the best foundational precedents allows users to quickly find relevant cases to determine local practice and interpretation. Coverage emphasizes the rules and issues lawyers and judges confront most often, but includes analysis and citations for literally thousands of less common issues and questions that can defy research efforts and that otherwise might escape notice altogether. Includes complete coverage of the 2015 Amendments, with extensive analysis of the specific changes, the reasoning behind them, and their expected impact.

Offering the latest practice-proven, court-tested litigation methods and techniques with expert commentary on all stages of the trial process, Lane Goldstein Trial Technique is an extensive resource aimed at the development and refinement of trial technique for attorneys. It provides step-by-step advice and a wealth of “how-to” information, addressing topics sequentially for easy reference. The text examines the communicative process, admission of evidence, settlement negotiation, and redirect examination, providing detailed strategies and illustrations.

This set streamlines legal work, with useful interview sheets, motions, pleadings, and checklists. Section titles include:

• Preparation for Trial
• Pretrial
• Jury Selection
• Opening Statements
• Examination of Witnesses
• Closing Argument
• Appellate Practice

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•Includes interview sheets, motions, pleadings, and checklists
•Detailed strategies and illustrations
•Allows fast, easy, and informed research
•Step-by-step advice, and "how-to" information
•Includes interview sheets, motions, pleadings, and checklists
•Allows fast, easy, and informed research
•Step-by-step advice, and "how-to" information
•Detailed strategies and illustrations

Federal Civil Procedure Before Trial – National Edition serves as an authoritative procedural guide on pretrial practice in federal courts. It comprehensively covers federal court jurisdiction with a focus on removal and remand, pleadings, motion practice and discovery, and all other pretrial stages of a lawsuit. Key citations to federal statutes, rules, and cases are included, plus court-tested forms and practice pointers that reflect years of litigation experience. Contents include:

•Subject matter jurisdiction
•Personal jurisdiction
•Venue
•Service of process
•Defaults
•Parties
•Pleadings
•Attacking the pleadings
•Actions with special procedural requirements
•Discovery
•Motion practice
•Injunctions
•Summary judgment
•Pretrial conference and settlement procedures
•Other motions and procedures
•Sanctions

Director and Officer Liability: Indemnification and Insurance provides strategies for limiting corporate management liability and demonstrates how to react to each challenge using court-proven methods and techniques. This title discusses:

• The value of indemnification
• Directors'' and officers'' insurance
• Funding alternatives to insurance
• Trends in federal regulation and state law, including the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Crime Control Act on federal depository institutions and holding companies, and the Penny Stock Reform Act of 1990
• The special needs of nonprofit corporations

Designs and Utility Models Throughout the World provides clear, current information about the protection of designs and utility models from more than 160 countries. It offers:

• Consistent, time-saving headings and concise summation of each country''s law, procedures, and documentary requirements
• International and national classifications of designs and utility models
• Relevant international treaties and regulations
• Step-by-step procedural guidance on filing, classification particularities, time limits, possibility of secrecy, and appeals

Industrial models are also discussed.

Intellectual Property Litigation Guide: Patents and Trade Secrets covers procedural and evidentiary issues that arise in patent and trade secret disputes and litigation. The author provides an in-depth discussion and, when possible, includes the latest cases, statutes, and rules – information otherwise available only through extensive computer database searching. The text contains:

• Topical article digest lists and synopses of law review articles
• Comprehensive analysis of recent patent, trademark, and copyright law developments
• Sound criticism and projections for future directions
• An introductory survey that provides a context for topics covered

Litigation of International Disputes in U.S. Courts analyzes issues pertinent to the expanding field of transnational litigation. With nearly 1,000 pages of revised content, it examines nuts-and-bolts issues and immunity doctrines such as:

• Personal jurisdiction
• Service of process
• Extraterritorial discovery
• Forum non conveniens
• The Convention on the International Sale of Goods
• Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act
• Immunity of officials
• Act-of-state doctrine

You''ll find examinations of both systemic and theoretical issues, such as international torts (customary international law), treaties, federal common law, and the political-question doctrine. 
 
  
 

Structure of M&A Contracts offers a detailed and practical account of the function of the different categories of provisions in a mergers-and-acquisitions contract and the interplay among them. These are important topics and a slight change of phrasing in one part of a contract can have important implications for other parts of the contract. And issues relating to contract structure arise routinely in M&A negotiations.

The author applies to this subject the innovative approach he has brought to bear in his writings on contract drafting. He specifies what wording you should use in a given context and what you should avoid. And some analysis is presented in a series of figures, so as to make it easier to understand. This book is a valuable resource to anyone involved in M&A transactions. 

 Designs and Utility Models Throughout the World provides clear, current information about the protection of designs and utility models from more than 160 countries. It offers:

• Consistent, time-saving headings and concise summation of each country''s law, procedures, and documentary requirements

• International and national classifications of designs and utility models

• Relevant international treaties and regulations

• Step-by-step procedural guidance on filing, classification particularities, time limits, possibility of secrecy, and appeals

Industrial models are also discussed.

Designed for both plaintiff''s attorneys and defense counsel, Federal Trial Handbook, Civil, is a practical guide to the preparation and conduct of trials in federal courts. This take-it-to-court reference provides reliable, quick answers to civil trials. It provides detailed guidance on all major procedural and evidentiary issues, including admission and exclusion of evidence.

This set offers:

•Guidance for preparing posttrial motions and appeals
•Procedures and checklists
•In-depth research on virtually any legal question related to federal trials
•Practice tips from an experienced trial attorney and former trial judge
 

Federal Civil Judicial Procedure and Rules allows you to quickly and easily check exact rules, make an objection, and appropriately respond to an opponent's objection. This compact guide helps you minimize your time researching updated amendments, and Advisory Committee Notes are used to explain rule amendments.

This convenient guide provides up-to-date revisions of the:

•Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
•Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure
•Rules of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
•Rules Governing Habeas Corpus Cases
•Rules Governing Motions Attacking Sentences
•Federal Rules of Evidence
•U.S. Supreme Court Rules
•Title 28 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the United States Code Annotated

It also contains useful research tools, including the Constitution of the United States and editorial, historical, and statutory note enhancements.

Handbook of Federal Civil Discovery and Disclosure provides in-depth, authoritative analysis of the relevant law, rules, and procedures of federal civil discovery and disclosure. The main volume includes nearly 1,200 pages, replete with practice tips, checklists, and highlighted notations of particularly important principles and techniques.

The second volume is dedicated to one of the hottest topics in litigation today: e-discovery. In some law firms, the growth of electronic discovery has spawned special departments and staff attorney positions to handle the activity. This volume provides an expanded, comprehensive, and practical guide to all e-discovery aspects.

Smolla & Nimmer on Freedom of Speech provides in-depth coverage and expert analysis of free speech and free press First Amendment issues, including history, theory, doctrine, and insights into cases and decisions. Includes cross-references within the text and in footnotes, which contain full citations and parallel citations to other materials. This set covers:

• The distinction between content-neutral and content-based regulation of expression
• Various forms of heightened scrutiny
• Captive audience
• Vagueness and overbreadth
• Right/privilege distinction
• Public form doctrines
• Violent and imminent lawless action
• Symbolic speech and expressive conduct
• Hate speech
• Free speech and civil rights enforcement
• Obscene and pornographic speech
• Intellectual property
• Defamation
• Privacy and related torts
• Broadcast regulation
• Cable television
• Online communication and other electronic media

Includes a table of cases and detailed index.

Covering both domestic and foreign commercial arbitration, Domke on Commercial Arbitration includes references to federal statutes and arbitration rules and caselaw. It encompasses:

• Alternative dispute resolution
• Statutes and rules
• Arbitration agreement
• Initiating arbitration
• The arbitrator
• Arbitrability
• Court''s jurisdiction and directives
• Pre-hearing matters
• Evidence
• Hearing
• Award
• Re-opening or re-hearing
• Modifying or correcting award
• Confirming and enforcing award and agreement
• Intrastate enforcement of award
• Enforcement of agreements, awards and judgments in international transactions
• Enforcement of foreign awards in the U.S. and enforcement abroad of U.S. awards and judgments

This easy-to-use guide contains arbitration and litigation forms, checklists, illustrated examples and procedural outlines, American Arbitration Association rules, customs, practice tips, and procedures.

One of the most comprehensive texts in its subject area, Information Law completely analyzes the legal issues pertaining to the treatment of information assets in modern commerce. By integrating commercial and intellectual property laws, this work answers questions about information rights, liabilities, and transactional issues. It also:

• Examines major issues relating to intellectual property, copyright law, FCC regulation, the First Amendment, privacy, and data protection
• Analyzes the convergence of industries and law brought about by the digital revolution
• Discusses the latest caselaw and regulations for online privacy

This all new second edition of Law of Corporate Officers and Directors: Indemnification and Insurance has been rewritten, reorganized, modernized, and consolidated by its new author, an attorney specializing in the field of director and officer liability insurance and indemnification. The second edition provides a comprehensive, concise, and authoritative analysis of the law of director and officer indemnification and insurance. New topics added to the second edition include:
• New laws affecting officer and director liability, including the JOBS Act and Dodd-Frank Act
• New theories of potential liability, including the “responsible corporate officer doctrine” and the “public welfare offense doctrine”
• New areas of potential liability, including employment practices liability and environmental impairment liability
• New insurance products to meet the demands of the new liabilities
• Older types of insurance products that have been changed to meet the demands of the new liabilities

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•Inspires confidence that you have expert sources for dealing with problems of indemnification and insurance against liability
•Inspires confidence that you have expert sources for dealing with problems of indemnification and insurance against liability

Co-published by the Library of Congress and Thomson Reuters, Magna Carta: Muse & Mentor is an illustrated collection of essays by renowned legal scholars. The Magna Carta was sealed under oath 800 years ago in 1215 and is widely known to be an important part of the historical process that led to the rule of constitutional law in England and beyond. Magna Carta: Muse & Mentor was published in conjunction with a Library of Congress exhibition of the same name that commemorates both the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, as well as the Library''s role in preserving the Lincoln Cathedral copy of the Magna Carta during WWII. This book features:

• A foreword by U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, Jr.
• An article by Justice Sandra Day O''Connor
• Articles by internationally distinguished jurists and professors on subjects ranging from the rule of law and trial by jury to the Magna Carta in America''s mind and its influence in pop culture

Recognized as the foremost authority on evidence law today, McCormick on Evidence offers comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the rules and theory of evidence, covering:
•The Federal Rules of Evidence, as well as state law in jurisdictions not conforming to the federal rules
•Accepted practice and theory, current issues, and leading caselaw
•An in-depth examination of character and similar-act evidence in civil and criminal cases
•The principles governing the admissibility of scientific evidence, along with a survey of major scientific tests or concepts encountered in physics, chemistry, psychology, and statistics
•A thorough examination of the hearsay rule as well as its relationship to the Confrontation Clause
•The evidentiary problems of authentication caused by rapid developments in technology
•Questions surrounding constitutional, common law, and statutory privileges
 

When there are specific questions of evidence for which a jurisdiction has no precedent, this treatise provides both general theories that may be argued to suggest the answer and varying views from other jurisdictions. Like the Dean McCormick''s original text, the Seventh Edition continues to provide a pragmatic approach to the law of evidence.

In this groundbreaking book, Scalia and Garner systematically explain all the most important principles of constitutional, statutory, and contractual interpretation in an engaging and informative style – with hundreds of illustrations from actual cases.

Is a burrito a sandwich? Is a corporation entitled to personal privacy? If you trade a gun for drugs, are you “using a gun” in a drug transaction? The authors grapple with these and dozens of equally curious questions while explaining the most principled, lucid, and reliable techniques for deriving meaning from authoritative texts. Meanwhile, the book takes up some of the most controversial issues in modern jurisprudence. The authors write with a well-argued point of view that is definitive yet nuanced, straightforward yet sophisticated.

This book presents every important idea about judicial persuasion in a fresh, entertaining way. It is a guide for novice and experienced litigators alike. It covers the essentials of sound legal reasoning, including how to develop the syllogism that underlies any argument. From there the authors explain the art of brief-writing, especially what to include and what to omit, so that you can induce the judge to focus closely on your arguments. Finally, they show what it takes to succeed in oral argument.