Archive for September, 2011
A Young Lawyer’s Jungle Book: A Survival Guide
The Young Lawyer’s Jungle Book is a survival guide for the new attorney, with in-depth advice on law office life, including working with senior attorneys, legal research, memos, drafting, mistakes, grammar, email, workload, timesheets, reviews, teamwork, deportment, attitude, perspective, working with clients (and dissatisfied clients), working with office staff, using office tools, and, well, not just surviving but thriving in a new career. The Young Lawyer’s Jungle Book is written for all law graduates, for any law office: a firm–large, medium, or small–agency, corporation, or the military.
The Law and Business of International Project Finance: A Resource for Governments, Sponsors, Lawyers, and Project Participants
Project finance is used to build projects such as large-scale energy, infrastructure, toll roads, ethanol, and recycling projects, as well as many others. Project finance requires careful analysis and structuring of a wide variety of risks. This completely updated third edition addresses these risks and their resolution, and details the necessary elements of a successful project financing. Mirroring the structure of an actual project finance deal, this all-in-one handbook examines each step of the process.
Michael Rhoades, Attorney with Kovitz Shifrin Nesbit
Mike concentrates his practice in estate planning for high net worth clients, which includes the preparation and coordination of estate plan documents; the implementation of business succession planning strategies through the use of family limited partnerships, sales and gifting programs; the negotiation of premarital agreements; the coordination of clients’ charitable goals by use of gift annuities, charitable remainder trusts, gifts of fractional interests in real estate and gifts of closely held stock; and the preparation of gift and estate tax returns.