This book brings together the expertise and insights of the country’s leading scholars and practitioners in the field of ocean and coastal law. Covering the full array of issues in ocean and coastal law from maritime jurisdiction and boundaries to water quality protection to fisheries management and marine mammal protection to offshore energy development and climate change. Ocean and Coastal Law and Policy provides an authoritative yet practical resource for practitioners, government officials, and scholars to understand and build upon the current legal framework of our ocean and coastal policies.

Each year more and more Americans find themselves in some sort of legal bind and in need of obtaining counsel. The first steps may seem daunting, but authors, Lawrence J. Fox and Susan R. Martyn in How to Deal with Your Lawyer: Answers to Commonly Asked Questions offer an accessible resource to guide you through the entire process.

If you plan to retire and start your own business then this book is for you. A comprehensive, step-by-step guide, Retire — And Start Your Own Business is packed with practical, hands-on tools (including a CD-ROM) to help entrepreneurs like you pick and run a perfect business.

This guide follows the structure and format of the authors’ casebook, Children and the Law: Doctrine, Policy and Practice. The authors have devoted entire chapters to the meaning of parent, abuse and neglect, the foster care system, adoption, medical decision making, support and other financial responsibilities, protective legislation, and delinquency. Representation of children is also covered throughout the book, as are several relevant international law issues, including the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, international child labor, and U.S. tobacco exports to children overseas.

This newly updated edition of The Law of Environmental Justice comprehensively examines the sources of environmental justice law and how evolving regulations and important court decisions impact projects around the country.

Completely updated, this edition provides your state’s latest laws, current estate and gift tax rules, new rules for inherited retirement plans, plus more information on leaving real estate without probate.

Legal Guide to AIA Documents, Fifth Edition is a current, comprehensive, and practical resource to help you master and use the construction industry contract terms set forth by the various agreements between owners, contractors and architects.

The Qualified Domestic Relations Order Answer Book’s timesaving question-and-answer format cuts through the complexities of preparing, reviewing and administering QDROs and QMCSOs. For over 800 QDRO-related questions, you receive instant, authoritative answers and insights that clearly identify: the latest laws and regulations and how they apply to QDROs, covering 401(k), ESOP, Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution Plans, and many other plans, specific provisions of QDROs and their effects on plan participants, alternate payees and plan administrators, and more.

Ed Imwinkelried’s Evidentiary Foundations covers all major evidentiary doctrines, providing for each doctrine: a brief description of the pertinent Federal Rules of Evidence and the most recent leading cases construing the Rules, a list of foundational elements-the events and facts you need to lay a complete foundation, an illustrative foundation showing how each question relates to a particular element of the foundation.  The revised 7th edition features an analysis of statutory developments.  The other new material discusses the presentation of hard copy exhibits in court using document cameras and the presentation of digital exhibits using monitors or projection screens.

This book is an introduction to the emerging and fascinating world of virtual law. It examines current cases and legislation impacting virtual world providers and users, and makes predictions about the future application of current law. It addresses the application of intellectual property law (copyright, trademark, and patent), criminal law, property law, contract law, securities law, tax law, and civil procedure. The author provides clear and practical advice on how to create a virtual world presence for your practice or for your clients with virtual world connections.