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Member of the Board
You’ve been invited to join a board of directors of a publicly
listed company. Should you accept? Do you know why the board extended
the invitation? What are the board’s expectations?To find
out how to evaluate the risks and the rewards of becoming a member
of a Board of Directors, read
on.
Excerpted from Corporate Director’s Guidebook, Fifth
Edition
 Surviving
as a New Associate in Corporate, Securities, and M&A Law
As a junior associate in a law firm, you are asked to serve as
primary contact for a corporate client. Do you know how to conduct
a due diligence investigation? What are the main components of
an acquisition agreement? These are just a few situations you may
come across. To find out more about how an attorney can prepare
for the basic tasks that remain unlearned in law school, read
on.
Excerpted from The Corporate, Securities, and M & A Lawyer's
Job: A Survival Guide
Direct
Grants and Charitable Gift Planning
When is a private foundation’s grant distribution a qualified
distribution under the Pension Protection Act of 2006? Read
on.
Excerpted from Charitable Gift Planning: A Practical Guide
for the Estate Planner, Second Edition
 Tips
for Getting the Most Out of Your Podcasts
Law firms are ideal candidates for exploiting podcasts for marketing
purposes. Consider the audio content that your lawyers produce
every year: CLE conferences, bar meetings, conference calls, radio
and TV interviews, etc. With little additional effort, you could
easily store those discussions as MP3 files and make them subscribable
to interested users. Read
on.
Excerpted from The Lawyer’s Guide to Marketing on the
Internet, Third Edition
Evaluating
the Title Insurance Risk
How is the method of evaluating or “underwriting” the
title insurance risk different from the evaluation undertaken by
other lines of insurance? Read
on.
Excerpted from Title Insurance: A Comprehensive Overview,
Third Edition
 Creating
Developmentally Appropriate Parenting Plans
How does the attorney develop an appropriate parenting plan for
children ages 6 to 11? A variety of options can be explored when
developing this parenting-plan schedule, but the block-schedule
method is strongly recommended because it balances consistency
with flexibility. At this age, children may be engaged in
discussing their comfort level with the parenting-time schedule
and to make sure that it includes allowances for the children’s
activities and school schedules. Read
on.
Excerpted from Creating Effective Parenting Plans: A
Developmental Approach for Lawyers and Divorce Professionals
Challenges
of Global Climate Law
Addressing global climate changes presents unique challenges, especially
for international law, which already is complicated to negotiate
and difficult to enforce. The climate change issue has a truly
global reach, exceeding the ability of any one country to fully
address. Ultimately, mitigating climate change risks will require
engagement of the major countries of the developing world. Read
on to learn more about global climate law.
Excerpted from Global Climate Change and U.S. Law |
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