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"Admirably clear, concise, down-to-earth, and powerful-all too often, legal writing embodies none of these qualities. Its reputation for obscurity and needless legalese is widespread. Since 2001, Bryan A. Garner's Legal Writing in Plain English has helped address this problem by providing lawyers, judges, paralegals, law students, and legal scholars with sound advice and practical tools for improving their written work. Now the leading guide to clear...
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Nolo
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2023.
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This book is for current and aspiring entrepreneurs, as well as managers and other critical small business employees, who want practical and comprehensive guidance on business laws--without paying a lot in legal fees. The book helps owners and managers successfully begin and run a small business, covering topics like raising start-up money, protecting personal assets, negotiating leases and contracts, and more.
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc
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[2024]
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Small business owners in the US face enough challenges without overpaying tax. Despite this, millions of small businesses miss out on crucial deductions, tax credits, and tax-saving moves every year, resulting in higher-than-necessary tax bills. In J.K. Lasser's Small Business Taxes 2024: Your Complete Guide to a Better Bottom Line, renowned attorney and small business advocate Barbara Weltman offers a thorough and exhaustively researched roadmap...
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Get your arms around wills, trusts, probate, inheritance taxes, and other important estate planning essentials
Estate Planning For Dummies teaches you the ins and outs of estate planning. It's all about drafting wills, dealing with probate, assigning powers of attorney, establishing living trusts, and beyond. Think you don't have enough assets to merit estate planning? Think again. This everyone-friendly guide walks you through
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The New Press
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2023.
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"A legendary lawyer and a legal scholar reveal the structural failures that undermine justice in our criminal courts. The Fear of Too Much Justice offers a timely, trenchant, firsthand critique of our criminal courts and points the way toward a more just future"--
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Nolo
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[2023]
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Whether you’re approaching retirement, changing jobs, or simply looking to borrow money from your 401(k), IRAs, 401(k)s & Other Retirement Plans will guide you through the minefield of IRS rules that govern distributions from retirement plans.--Provided by publisher.
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Nearly a century ago, famed liberal attorney Clarence Darrow defended schoolteacher John Scopes in a blockbuster legal proceeding that brought the attention of the entire country to the small town of Dayton, Tennessee. Darrow's seminal defense of freedom of speech helped form the legal bedrock on which our civil liberties depend today. Expertly researched, eye-opening, and stirring, The Trial of the Century calls upon our past to unite Americans in...
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El libro documenta un hecho histórico nunca antes revelado en sus detalles: la estrategia que determinó la extradición del expresidente Alberto Fujimori al Perú. El relato se ubica entre los años 2005 y 2006, periodo en que Fujimori abandonó territorio japonés luego de casi cinco años de permanencia, para aterrizar intempestivamente en Chile el 6 de noviembre de 2005.
Al dejar su cómoda residencia en Japón, el entonces prófugo Fujimori...
15) Confronting Underground Justice: Reinventing Plea Bargaining for Effective Criminal Justice Reform
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Plea negotiation is rife with due process concerns, including a heightened risk of coerced pleas, ignoring mens rea, serious questions about assistance of counsel, limited discovery and little litigation of the evidence, the conviction of innocent defendants and significant questions about fairness and equity. Plea negotiation is also the fast track to criminal conviction, tough punishment, and mass incarceration. From the perspective of public policy,...
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Erbschaft-/Schenkungsteuer fällt immer an, wenn Vermögen ohne Gegenleistung übertragen wird und der Wert des Vermögens bestimmte Freibeträge übersteigt. Diese Beträge hängen vom Verwandtschaftsverhältnis zwischen Schenker und Beschenktem ab.
In diesem Beitrag lesen Sie u.a.:
- welche Vermögensübertragungen besteuert werden;
- welche Übertragungen steuerfrei bleiben;
- wie hoch die persönlichen Freibeträge abhängig vom Verwandtschaftsverhältnis...
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With the popularity of crime dramas like CSI focusing on forensic science, and increasing numbers of police and prosecutors making wide-spread use of DNA, high-tech science seems to have become the handmaiden of law enforcement. But this is a myth,asserts law professor and nationally known expert on police profiling David A. Harris. In fact, most of law enforcement does not embrace science-it rejects it instead, resisting it vigorously. The question...
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The author of “Ill-Gotten Gains” uses philosophy and psychology to examine how human behavior can be questioned under criminal law.
Henri plans a trek through the desert. Alphonse, intending to kill Henri, puts poison into his canteen. Gaston also intends to kill Henri but has no idea what Alphonse has been up to. He puncture's Henri's canteen, and Henri dies of thirst. Who has caused Henri's death? Was it Alphonse? Gaston? Or neither?
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Catear Derecho Constitucional en la educación superior es una experiencia capaz de hacerte llorar a moco tendido, pero tras una breve lectura puedes terminar cogiéndole aprecio a dicha asignatura, hasta cariño si me apuras.
Mediante una combinación de anécdotas personales, teoría resumida que te resultaría un auténtico tostón si la tuvieras que estudiar en un manual jurídico, y respuestas a cuestiones de actualidad utilizando nuestra Constitución...
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Busted! is a funny, smart, subversive worst-case scenario guide for casual drug users and their tolerant friends.
It's the Bible on how not to get busted and what to do if you are. Using celebrity busts, outrageous everyman busts, and the author's professional experience, Busted! is everything you need to know about the criminal justice system, Drug War style, before it's too late. Like a Law & Order episode, the book takes the reader through a...
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