A Short and Happy Guide to Business Contracts

A Short and Happy Guide to Business Contracts

Author: RACHEL J. BARNETT

Publisher: West Academic Publishing

Published: 2021-03-04

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9781647086008

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Contracts play a large part in advising companies as they transact business in today's unique environment. This book modernizes the teaching of contract law by providing a current perspective on negotiating contracts, thoughtfully explaining complex legal concepts and providing useful practitioner tips and insights based on decades of hands-on experience. Written by an experienced General Counsel and lecturer at Columbia Law School, A Short & Happy Guide to Business Contracts empowers readers to learn the main terms found in nearly all business contracts. The newly released updated version explores in greater depth contract clauses that have become particularly relevant in recent times, such as force majeure clauses and data security and privacy terms, as well as many other key provisions that have become a focal point during these unique and unprecedented times. A Short & Happy Guide to Business Contracts is a must read for anyone who wants to truly understand how practitioners negotiate business contracts and avoid common pitfalls. It will be an essential playbook that will be kept on your desk and referenced frequently when learning how to draft effective business contracts.


A Short and Happy Guide to Contracts

A Short and Happy Guide to Contracts

Author: David G. Epstein

Publisher: West Academic Publishing

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780314277930

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This efficient and exceedingly effective guide to Contracts will help you see the big picture. The authors focus on making the key concepts of contract law, and the relationship among those concepts, easier to understand and retain. The authors have also infused the book with humor, believing there is nothing inconsistent between a rigorous academic experience and having a little fun. Each of the authors is nationally-renowned law teacher who has taught Contracts for decades. Based on that experience, in this book they have set forth understandable techniques for mastering the law governing each critical aspect of the contract relationship, including, contract formation (offer and acceptance), enforcement (consideration and defenses), interpretation, performance, breach, and remedies.


A Short & Happy Guide to Property

A Short & Happy Guide to Property

Author: Paula Ann Franzese

Publisher: West Academic Publishing

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780314282415

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This efficient and effective Second Edition takes difficult subject matter and makes it understandable, enjoyable and easy to remember. Professor Franzese provides an immensely accessible framework and invaluable techniques for mastering the top ten themes of Property law, adverse possession, the rule of capture, the law of finders, estates and future interests including the dreaded rule against perpetuities), concurrent estates, landlord-tenant law, servitudes, land transactions, the recording system, zoning and eminent domain. This indispensable book also includes helpful exam-taking techniques and some healthy perspectives on converting peace of mind while in law school. Learn from this nine-time recipient of the Professor of the Year Award and nationally acclaimed teacher and become a Property connoisseur! Book jacket.


A Short & Happy Guide to Civil Procedure

A Short & Happy Guide to Civil Procedure

Author: Richard D. Freer

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9781684677238

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"This book unlocks civil procedure by explaining doctrine and rules and placing them in context - showing what each doctrine is doing and how each doctrine relates to the others. It includes a chapter on how law school differs from college and what that means for class- and exam-preparation. It provides concrete analytical frameworks for resolving exam questions. And throughout, scores of examples allow you to apply the law to fact patterns."--


Contracts for Your Business

Contracts for Your Business

Author: Charles Boundy

Publisher: Harriman House Limited

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 1

ISBN-13: 1908003219

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When running your own business, it can be easy to believe that contracts can wait. But getting the best (or avoiding the worst) from contracts is often a major factor in how well and how quickly a business succeeds. This book, from legal expert and entrepreneur Charles Boundy, provides business owners and managers with everything they need to stay on top of contracts and avoid getting bogged down in legalese. The book gives an easy-to-follow overview of: how to make or avoid making a contract; what to include and what to look for in contracts; how to have a contract achieve what you want at the price you have agreed; how to identify and manage major contract risks; how to approach the negotiation of key issues; how to draft and manage a contract to best effect; what to do (and not do) if things go wrong. A focused guide for the time-pressed, this is an indispensable tool for all businesses. Read it and stay successfully on top of the many contractual issues that businesses face every week.


Business Contracts Terminology (Speedy Study Guide)

Business Contracts Terminology (Speedy Study Guide)

Author: Speedy Publishing

Publisher: Speedy Publishing LLC

Published: 2014-11-26

Total Pages: 6

ISBN-13: 1635011817

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Studying from your notes is an excellent way to prepare for an exam, but your notes can never comprehensive enough to cover everything that will be on a test. When it comes to business contracts terminology, it is best to use a study guide to make sure you are studying all of the terms - not just the ones you had the time and focus to write down. We all have a natural bias towards information that can exclude certain types from our attention. Using a Business Contracts Terminology Study guide makes sure you can overcome this natural bias, and pass the exam.