Business Organizations for Paralegals

Business Organizations for Paralegals, now in its Fourth Edition, continues to be the comprehensive, easy-reading, real-world text for students, and resource for paralegals. This definitive resource combines both up-to-date knowledge with student-friendly features for the highest retention: coverage of all types of Business Organizations, providing both a basic and thorough understanding, without overwhelming students clear presentation designed for the paralegal studentcomprehensive chapters, including tasks performed by paralegals, a guide to both conventional and Internet resources for additional materials and forms, discussion questions, and summary of key features thorough discussions of each of the forms of Business Organizations, including the nature of the entity, its advantages and disadvantages, the relative ease with which it may be formed, its dissolution, and tax consequenceseasy-on-the-eye exhibits and charts which highlight important topics sample forms integrated with the textual discussionweb resources on forming businesses, directions to various forms, and web addresses for each states Secretary of State key terms in annotations for easy referencea complete ancillary package, including an instructors manual with a test bank, and PowerPoint slides New to the Fourth Edition: forms updated to 2006 updated text throughout case summaries illustrating core principles in each chapter "Net Worth" sections in each chapter, listing Internet sites to locate pertinent information Practice Tips which provide useful and pragmatic suggestions for business and corporate practicea discussion of cooperative associationsenhanced discussion of the 2001 Uniform Limited Partnership Act and of limited liability limited partnershipsdiscussion of entity domestications (changing the state of organization) and entity conversions (changing the form of a business entity)discussion of new and emerging trends in corporate governance, shareholder activism, and corporate reformenhanced discussion of the key provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002discussion of new Bankruptcy provisions effective in 2005 An author website to support classroom instruction using this title is available at http://www.aspenlawschool.com/bouchoux_busorg4Bouchoux, Deborah E. is the author of 'Business Organizations for Paralegals' with ISBN 9780735557505 and ISBN 0735557500.