This guide demystifies valuation methodologies, explains intricate fee structures and carried interest, and offers practical guidance on interpreting valuation reports effectively. It equips attorneys with essential tools for conducting comprehensive discovery, navigating complex valuation concepts specific to these entities, and developing persuasive strategies. The detailed explanations and illustrative examples are tailored specifically to enhance attorney effectiveness when dealing wit...

Expert direction on interpretation and application of standards of valueWritten by Jay Fishman, Shannon Pratt, and William Morrison—three renowned valuation practitioners—Standards of Value, Second Edition discusses the interaction between valuation theory and its judicial and regulatory application. This insightful book addresses standards of value (SOV) as applied in four distinct contexts: estate and gift taxation; shareholder dissent and oppression; di...

A comprehensive examination of the law as it affects insurance contracts and provisions.Compiled from the best sources available on contract law, this textbook will teach you in layman language the intricacies of insurance contract law, from general principles to agency, from privacy to constitutional issues.Objectives• Learn contract law in depth, from structure and source of law to landmark insurance law enactments such as the McCarran Act.• Develop basic sk...

Business Valuation Discounts and PremiumsSECOND EDITIONDiscounts and premiums do not just affect the value of a company; they play a crucial role in influencing a host of other factors and conditions that can make or break a deal. When it comes to business valuations, it's the business appraiser's responsibility to be intimately knowledgeable with every aspect of discounts and premiums: the different types, the situations when they may or m...

This accessible and innovative textbook adopts a practical, transactions-centered approach to contract law by using contract clauses to explain doctrinal concepts. While reading this book, students will gain a working knowledge of important contract provisions and learn how to use contracts to prevent problems, reduce risks, and add value to transactions.This textbook contains unique features including reflection prompts, case highlights, and ''applying what you learned'' exercises...

Self-Help Guides to the Law™ explain the law in clear, concise terms to a popular audience of non-lawyers. Summarizing the key areas of the law with which readers are most likely to come into contact, the Guides broadly outline the statutes and cases that govern landlord-tenant relations, personal injury, contracts, family law, criminal law and constitutional law and procedure.With detailed references to sources for readers wishing to delve deeper, the Guides

#1 Florida Probate BookSIMPLIFY SETTLING AN ESTATESettling a loved one's estate - whether a will is present or not - is not difficult, but it is filled with legal technicalities you have to know. Probate and Settle an Estate in Florida clarifies all of these rules and takes you through the process in an easy-to-understand fashion. Let it help you put this trying time behind you .LEARN HOW TO:Navigate Through the Probate...

Legal Aspects of Real Estate in California covers the entire field of legal aspects of real estate and offers additional in-depth analysis of deeds of trust, deposit receipts, listing agreements, leases, and drafting problems. Deals with damages for breach of contract, and provides an introduction to environmental law problems. This comprehensive textbook and course workbook – approved by the California Department of Real Estate for qualification for a California Real Estate Broker License...

Unhappy clients bring thousands of legal malpractice claims every year, against mega law firms and solo practitioners, for simple errors or egregious misconduct, and for losses than can reach $100 million or more. This in an industry, legal services, generating nearly $300 billion a year in revenue and touching every facet of American society. Yet, scant if any scholarly attention has been paid to the questions and consequences of lawyers’ professional liability. This book is the first to ...

The legal implications of - and the laws that govern - agent or broker conduct.Gain a lawyer's perspective in the principles of agency; agency powers and limitations; waiver and estoppel; misrepresentations and warranties by agents or companies, and hundreds of other laws that serve to protect the interests of the insurance-buying public.Objectives• Learn to spot unethical behavior by unscrupulous insurance companies or agents.• Develop basic skills in properl...

'Bainbridge and Henderson have given us one of the most important books on one of the most important contemporary legal issues, the liability of individual and corporate shareholders for corporate debts. There is no issue in corporate law more subject to uncertainty and no issue more likely to be litigated. No single book has ever attempted, much less carried off, the complete historical, international, economic and legal theoretical exegesis of limited liability, which these two autho...

Self-Help Guides to the Law™ explain the law in clear, concise terms to a popular audience of non-lawyers. Summarizing the key areas of the law with which readers are most likely to come into contact, the Guides broadly outline the statutes and cases that govern landlord-tenant relations, personal injury, contracts, family law, criminal law and constitutional law and procedure.With detailed references to sources for readers wishing to delve deeper, the Guides