This title provides useful guidance, practical advice, relevant statutes, and case law for addressing school security and safety issues. Topics include interviewing children, identifying volatile situations, and techniques for intervention. Additional administrative tools include expertly drafted checklists on issues from hiring procedures and attendance to addressing bomb threats, making this title an all-in-one resource for attorneys, teachers, principals, sheriffs, superintendents, school board members, and anyone else dedicated to making their schools safer.

This treatise helps you interpret the “piercing the veil” doctrine in any state jurisdiction or federal court. It examines differences among piercing doctrines in various state and federal courts and analyzes each state’s leading case law.  Also includes common law topics and reviews issues related to limited liability companies; examines veil-piercing laws of several foreign countries.

The book covers the essentials of American Indian law with emphasis on the governmental policies underlying it. It includes chapters on Indian gaming and Alaska native law. The guide does not cover specialized problems of Oklahoma and New York Indians, urban Indians, or native Hawaiians.

The book is organized by jurisdiction and addresses how state common law and statutes address misrepresentations in the life, health, and disability insurance application context. In addition, there is a chapter for each federal circuit that provides an overview of misrepresentations in the context of an employee welfare benefit plan governed by ERISA.

This book explains the contours of the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination in practice, providing a guide for both the civil litigator who may encounter it infrequently, as well as the criminal lawyer who seeks to advance his or her client’s interests through the use of the Fifth Amendment.

The advancement of technology in the past decade has catapulted the prominence of electronic evidence. It is not only making discovery faster, easier and less expensive for practitioners and their end-clients, but it is opening the doors of possibility toward a path of substantially reducing the total cost of litigation. This book provides up-to-date and practical information regarding both the legal and the technological aspects of the e-discovery process in the real world.

This book begins with a brief overview of the important events of the 20th century that have shaped modern China. It examines all major legal institutions in China, including the lawmaking organs, courts, police, and the legal profession. It also provides an overview of the major areas of procedural and substantive law in China, with a focus on foreign investment and intellectual property law.

If you run your own business, you’ve probably heard about limited liability companies. Business owners who operate LLCs aren’t personally liable for business debts, so their personal assets are never at risk. But is an LLC right for you?  Practical, concise and easy to read, the 5th edition of Nolo’s Quick LLC provides the latest facts, figures and updated tax information you’ll need to know about this structure for your small business.

The declining U.S. economy has forced many homeowners to make tough decisions about their property. If you’re one of the millions of Americans affected by the credit crisis, struggling to make your mortgage payments, and are considering renting out your home to make ends meet, you’ll need to learn the basics of being a landlord.  Let First-Time Landlord show you how to start your landlording business and maintain it in your spare time.

The Lawyer’s Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies: 2009 CD-ROM Supplement (in Acrobat PDF Format) contains the most recent updates and latest developments in collaboration tools. Expanding on the content of The Lawyer’s Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies: Smart Ways to Work Together, this first-of-its-kind publication for the legal profession shows you how to use standard technology you already have and the latest “Web 2.0″ resources and other tech tools, like Google Docs, Microsoft Office and SharePoint, and Adobe Acrobat.