NJSBA members can purchase many ABA practice and law office management books at a 35% discount off the list price. Everything from fees, billing and collection to compensation, organizational agreements and how to market the law firm are offered for solo practitioners, law firms of all sizes and legal administrators. Guidelines for creating staff manuals and training new employees, for establishing procedures for Internet use and e-mail privacy, and how to successfully lead a law firm are also among the topics. Many books on substantive areas of law are also available.
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The Portable Bankruptcy Code and Rules, 2003 Edition
By Sally M. Henry
A handy pocket reference guide for quick and easy access to Bankruptcy Code and Rule provisions--including all the new changes approved through December 2002.
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NJSBA Discount Price: $22.75 List Price: $34.95
Annual Review of Developments in Business and Corporate Litigation
By the Committee on Business and Corporate Litigation
Leading authorities in 19 specialized areas review and comment on key issues nationwide, with detailed outlines and summaries of cases, legislation, trends and developments.
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NJSBA Discount Price: $78.00 List Price: $119.95
The Portable UCC, Third Edition
Corinne Cooper, Editor
This compact volume puts the complete text of the UCC--including Revised Article 9 and its conforming amendments to other articles--right at your fingertips.
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NJSBA Discount Price: $22.75 List Price: $34.95
Truth in Lending
By Ralph J. Rohner and Fredd H. Miller; Robert A. Cook, Alvin C. Harrell and Elizabeth Huber, Editor
Organized for quick and easy reference, this book details the TIL Act provisions creditors need to follow to ensure compliance in all types of consumer transactions.
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NJSBA Discount Price: $91.65 List Price: $140.95
Commercial Arbitration at its Best: Successful Strategies for Business Users
Thomas J. Stipanowich and Peter H. Kaskell, Editors
This step-by-step guide follows the chronology of the dispute resolution process, with each chapter focusing on a key phase of arbitration, addressing the critical issues that parties using or contemplating ADR need to consider.
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NJSBA Discount Price: $81.90 List Price: $125.95
Model Business Corporate Act, 2002
By the Committee on Corporate Laws ABA Section of Business Law
The complete text of the Model Business Corporation Act in a single, portable volume, including all amendments approved through 2002.
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NJSBA Discount Price: $94.90 List Price: $145.95
Construction and Public Contract Law
Sticks and Bricks: A Practical Guide to Construction Systems and Technology
Christopher C. Whitney, Robert J. MacPherson, and James Duffy O'Connor, Editors
Fundamentals of Construction Law
Carina Y. Enhada, Cheri Turnage Gatlin, Fred D. Wilshusen, Editors
This book is unique among construction treatises, in that it explains the perspectives of the various "players" as well as discussing key contract provisions.
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NJSBA Discount Price: $84.50 List Price: $129.95
The Construction Lawyer's Guide to Labor and Employment Law
Charles F. Seemann III, Edward F. Hennessey, and Richard Craig Cooper, Editors
A practical guide designed to help the construction practitioner understand the often complex area of labor and employment issues that frequently arise in construction law.
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NJSBA Discount Price: $55.25 List Price: $84.95
The Design/Build Deskbook: A Complete Guide to Design/Build Contracting, Licensing, Insurance and Procurement Requirements in the 50 States and Canada, Second Edition
John R. Heisse II, Editor
This book comprehensively outlines both statutory provisions and relevant case law addressing legal requirements for design/build contracts.
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NJSBA Discount Price: $91.00 List Price: $139.95
Criminal Law
The Criminal Lawyer's Guide to Immigration Law: Questions and Answers
By Robert James McWhirter, Assistant Federal Public Defender (District of Arizona)
Temporarily out of stock--new edition coming in 2005.
Set up in a unique question and answer format, this concise guide focuses on the criminal lawyer's most common questions about immigration law and representing non-citizens.
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NJSBA Discount Price: $65.00 List Price: $99.95
The Fourth Amendment Handbook--A Chronological Survey of Supreme Court Decisions, Second Edition
By William W. Greenhalgh
The Supreme Court and Its Justices: An Anthology of ABA Journal Articles on the U.S. Supreme Court
Jesse H. Choper, Editor
How much do you really know about the Supreme Court? Get the inside view of the Court, its Justices and its landmark decisions.
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NJSBA Discount Price: $25.35 List Price: $39.00
Elder Law
Advance Health Care Directives: A Handbook for Professionals
By Carol Krohm, MD and Scott K. Summers
This volume deals with the difficult and sensitive issues faced by professionals in helping clients and patients plan, write, execute and implement essential "personal contingency plans" for health care decision-making.
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NJSBA Discount Price: $65.00 List Price: $99.95
Understanding Elder Law: Issues in Estate Planning, Medicaid, and Long-Term Care Benefits
By L. Rush Hunt, Patricia Day and Michael McCauley
The practice of elder law is unique because it includes key elements of several specialties, but only as they relate to the needs of the older client.
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NJSBA Discount Price: $78.00 List Price: $119.95
Family Law
Collaborative Law: Achieving Effective Resolution in Divorce Without Litigation
By Pauline H. Tesler
This unique volume covers all aspects of collaborative representation, the philosophy as well as the practice. It offers a structured, step-by-step orientation to how collaborative law works and how to begin developing the skills, attitudes and behaviors to begin this type of practice.
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NJSBA Discount Price: $78.00 List Price: $119.95
The 1040 Handbook: A Guide to Income and Asset Discovery, Fourth Edition
By the Section on Family Law
A classic reference manual for using the 1040 return as a discovery tool in divorce cases, this newly updated edition is a line-by-line guide through a hypothetical couple's tax return.
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NJSBA Discount Price: $58.50 List Price: $89.95
The Complete QDRO Handbook: Dividing ERISA, Military, and Civil Service Pensions and Collecting Child Support from Employee Benefit Plans
By David Clayton Carrad
Covering all aspects of the substantive law of QDROs, this handbook offers practical how-to guidance through all stages of the drafting process as well as explaining advanced techniques.
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NJSBA Discount Price: $78.00 List Price: $119.95
The Family Lawyer's Guide to Bankruptcy: Forms, Tips and Strategies
By Shayna M. Steinfeld and Bruce R. Steinfeld
Providing a comprehensive yet summarized version of how a bankruptcy action can affect a divorce action, this book offers the family lawyer the knowledge to protect a client from the risks of a pending or future bankruptcy.
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NJSBA Discount Price: $65.00 List Price: $99.95
Attacking and Defending Marital Agreements
By Laura W. Morgan and Brett R. Turner
Written by professional research attorneys who focus on family law, this is an in-depth examination of the questions of validity and construction of separation, antenuptial, and postnuptial agreements.
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NJSBA Discount Price: $94.25 List Price: $144.95
The Family Lawyer's Guide to Building Successful Client Relationships
By Sanford M. Portnoy
This unique book presents a step-by-step program for learning how to create successful relationships with your clients--from showing how to effectively manage the lawyer-client relationship to explaining the various emotions and personality disorders that may be magnified in the divorce process to illustrating effective methods of assessment, connection and containment.
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NJSBA Discount Price: $42.25 List Price: $64.95
International Law
Careers in International Law, Second Edition
Mark W. Janis and Salli A. Swartz, Editors
This book shows you that being an international lawyer represents wide-ranging possibilities and not just one single job description.
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NJSBA Discount Price: $42.25 List Price: $64.95
ABA Guide to International Business Negotiations: A Comparison of Cross Cultural Issues and Successful Approaches, Second Edition
James R. Silkenat and Jeffrey M. Aresty, Editors
This revised and expanded edition shows you how the art of negotiation can be applied across cultural and national boundaries
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NJSBA Discount Price: $94.25 List Price: $144.95
Negotiating and Structuring International and Commercial Transactions, Second Edition
Mark. R. Sandstrom and David N. Goldsweig, Editors
This new and expanded edition covers the wide range of issues that may arise when negotiating nad managing international business relationships
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NJSBA Discount Price: $97.50 List Price: $149.95
China Law Deskbooks: A Legal Guide for Foreign-Invested Enterprises
By James M. Zimmerman
This guide opens with a thoughtful survey of the historical development of China's contemporary legal system to put those laws in context, and includes a summary of Chinese legislative and regulatory institutions and functions.
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Law Office Management
Winning Alternatives to the Billable Hour: Strategies that Work, Second Edition
Editors, James A. Calloway and Mark A. Robertson
Is it possible to change from an hourly based billing system to a system that recognizes your legal expertise, as well as your efficiency--and deliver winning billable solutions--for your and your client?
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NJSBA Discount Price: $97.50 List Price: $149.95
Making Partner: A Guide for Law Firm Associates, Second Edition
By John R. Sapp
Many factors come into play in achieving the goal of making partner: the quality of your work; how you relate to your superiors, fellow associates and staff; how you entertain your clients; your choice of outside activities; even publications you read.
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NJSBA Discount Price: $32.50 List Price: $49.95
The Essential Formbook: Comprehensive Management Tools for Lawyers
Volume I: Partnership and Organizational Agreements/Client Intake and Fee Agreements
By Gary A. Munneke and Anthony E. Davis
Collectively, these volumes will help you establish profitable, affirmative client relationships so you can avoid unnecessary risks associated with
malpractice and disciplinary complaints
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NJSBA Discount Price: $129.97 List Price: $199.95
The Essential Formbook Comprehensive Management Tools for Lawyers
Volume II: Human Resources/Fees, Billing and Collection
By Gary A. Munneke and Anthony E. Davis
Collectively, these volumes will help you establish profitable, affirmative client relationships so you can avoid unnecessary risks associated with malpractice and disciplinary copmlaints.
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NJSBA Discount Price: $129.97 List Price: $199.95
Managing Partner 101: A Guide to Successful Law Firm Leadership, Second Edition
By Lawrence G. Green
The book will shorten the learning curve for mastering successful management techniques for the new or experienced managing partner.
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NJSBA Discount Price: $32.47 List Price: $49.95
Law Office Policy and Procedures Manual, 2004 Edition
Edited by Robert C. Wert and Howard I. Hatoff
Everything you need to create a complete, customized staff manual that can serve as a reference guide for employees.
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NJSBA Discount Price: $85.00 List Price: $129.95
Compensation Plans for Law Firms, Fourth Edition
Edited by James D. Cotterman of Altman Weil, Inc.
This Fourth Edition examines law firm compensation plans in detail and guides you to the best plan for your firm.
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NJSBA Discount Price: $62.00 List Price: $94.95
How to Start and Build a Law Practice, Fifth Edition
By Jay G. Foonberg
Inside this classic ABA bestseller, you'll find 128 chapters---including 30 new ones---packed with techniques to start and build a law practice.
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NJSBA Discount Price: $45.47 List Price: $69.95
The Lawyer's Guide to Marketing Your Law Practice, Second Edition
Edited by Deborah McMurray and James A. Durham
Filled with dozens of fresh and innovative ideas, The Lawyer's Guide to Marketing Your Law Practice features the strategies and insights from the country's top legal marketers.
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NJSBA Discount Price: $58.47 List Price: $89.95
Law Office Procedures Manual for Solos and Small Law Firms, Second Edition
By Demetrios Dimitriou
Law Office Procedures Manual for Solos and Small Firms provides everything you need to set policies and establish procedures that will keep your office operating efficiently and productively.
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Flying Solo: A Survival Guide for Lawyers, 4th. Edition
Edited by Jeffrey R. Simmons
This entirely updated and expanded fourth edition contains first-hand, practical information from 40 contributors who are successful solo practitioners, respected consultants, law school professors and law practice management advisors.
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NJSBA Discount Price: $65.00 List Price: $99.95
Effective Yellow Pages Advertising for Lawyers: The Complete Guide to Creating Winning Ads
By Kerry Randall
This book is written to give you the important tools needed to attract new business to your practice by creating advertising that gets attention, holds attention, and most importantly, gets potential clients to call.
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NJSBA Discount Price: $35.75 List Price: $54.95
Through the Client's Eyes: New Approaches to Get Clients to Hire You Again and Again, Second Edition
By Henry W. Ewalt
Client retention can be one of the most important skills your firm can possess. In this book, author and seasoned practitioner Henry Ewalt shares practical advice on building relationships and trust.
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NJSBA Discount Price: $52.00 List Price: $79.95
Letters for Litigators
By Daniel I. Small and Robin Page West
As electronic communication via quick emails and voice mail becomes the norm, and paper letters the exception, it becomes increasingly important not to lose sight of the importance of documenting the file and maintaining a professional tone. These letters simplify and expedite this effort, whether they are sent in paper form or via email. All letters are included on CD-Rom in Word and Wordperfect formats.
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NJSBA Discount Price: $52.00 List Price: $80.00
Letters for Lawyers
By Thomas E. Kane
The legal industry continues to change dramatically and client demands on professional service providers continue to put pressure on lawyers to be more responsive to their clients' needs. Frequent, effective written communication is vital to the successful practice of law. This book will ease the task of communicating with clieents, prospects, referral sources, employees, the media and others. All letters are included on CD-Rom in Word and Wordperfect formats.
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NJSBA Discount Price: $52.00 List Price: $80.00
The Lawyer's Guide to Fact Finding on the Internet
By Carole A. Levitt and Mark E. Rosch
Finding what you're looking for on the Internet can be tough. There are over 170 million host computers connected to the World Wide Web, providing 2-3 billion content pages. Now, Mark E. Rosch and Carole A. Levitt, two nationally acclaimed Internet research trainers, provide you with their best personal recommendations and strategies in this book.
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NJSBA Discount Price: $55.00 List Price: $79.95
The Essential Formbook: Comprehensive Management Tools for Lawyers
Volume IV - Disaster Planning and Recovery
Risk Management and Professional Liability Insurance
Gary A. Munneke, Anthony E. Davis
Guidebook for Directors of Nonprofit Corporations, Second Edition
Committee on Nonprofit Corporations, ABA Section of Business Law
This book was written by the Committee on Nonprofit Corporations ABA Section of Business Law. A new edition of the ABA s most popular title, this accessible guidebook is designed for directors and prospective directors of all types of nonprofit corporations.
The Guidebook, written in plain-English commentary, addresses general legal principles and corporate governance issues to provide nonprofit directors with a comprehensive under standing of their roles.
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NJSBA Discount Price: $16.25 List Price: $24.95
The ABCs of Non-Profit Corporations
By Lisa Runquist
Written for practitioners and nonprofit organizations, this guidebook offers a basic introduction to what a nonprofit corporation is; how it is formed, options for organizational structure; operating the corporation; basic tax; and much more.
The book is written in an example format with a practitioner advising a client on the key steps for establishing a nonprofit corporations. A related bibliography is included plus a sample form for an organization addressing a policy on "conflict of interest".
A Practical Guide to Commercial Real Estate Transactions: From Contract to Closing
By Gregory M. Stein, Morton P. Fisher, Jr. and Gail M. Stern
Describing the day-to-day tasks that commercial real estate lawyers are likely to encounter, this book offers a practical introduction to transactional real estate law.
The book follows each of the steps of a transaction in the order in which they generally arise along with detailed analysis on how to handle each step.
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