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Titles in Barron's Business Review series are widely used as classroom supplements to college textbooks and often serve as a main textbook in business brush-up programs. Business Law focuses on the importance of legal theory in the everyday business world, explaining such subjects as tort responsibility, government regulations, contracts, environmental law, product liability, consumer protection, and international law, among many other topics.

Also discussed in detail are the legal aspects of partnerships, franchises, and corporations, as well as special topics that include business crimes, property as a legal concept, intellectual property, and similar pertinent topics. A study aid labeled Key Terms appears at the beginning of each chapter, and You Should Remember summaries are strategically interspersed throughout the text.

How a flexible and creative approach to intellectual property can help an organization accomplish goals ranging from building market share to expanding an industry.

Most managers leave intellectual property issues to the legal department, unaware that an organization's intellectual property can help accomplish a range of management goals, from accessing new markets to improving existing products to generating new revenue streams. In this book, intellectual property expert and Harvard Law School professor John Palfrey offers a short briefing on intellectual property strategy for corporate managers and nonprofit administrators. Palfrey argues for strategies that go beyond the traditional highly restrictive sword and shield approach, suggesting that flexibility and creativity are essential to a profitable long-term intellectual property strategy--especially in an era of changing attitudes about media.

Intellectual property, writes Palfrey, should be considered a key strategic asset class. Almost every organization has an intellectual property portfolio of some value and therefore the need for an intellectual property strategy. A brand, for example, is an important form of intellectual property, as is any information managed and produced by an organization. Palfrey identifies the essential areas of intellectual property--patent, copyright, trademark, and trade secret--and describes strategic approaches to each in a variety of organizational contexts, based on four basic steps.

The most innovative organizations employ multiple intellectual property approaches, depending on the situation, asking hard, context-specific questions. By doing so, they achieve both short- and long-term benefits while positioning themselves for success in the global information economy.

A proxy statement prepares shareholders with essential information needed to for decision making before an upcoming shareholder meeting.

In response to increased criticism of high levels of executive compensation, in 2006 the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) set disclosure rules to clearly present the compensation of the principal executive officer (PEO), principal financial officer (PFO) and the top three highest paid executives for publicly traded companies. Many enhancements have been made over the years in response to legislation and to provide more

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- Summary compensation table

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The 4^th edition of Business Law for the Entrepreneur and Manager introduces the reader to fundamental principles of the laws regulating business as well as their practical application in the United States. The various chapters cover such topics as the law and the basic legal principles impacting entrepreneurs and managers, the foundational business laws that entrepreneurs and managers in the United States must become aware of and understand, as well as other important legal topics such as constitutional law, administrative law, torts, products liability, crimes, contract law, sales and agency laws, commercial paper, various forms of business organizations, and debtors and creditors laws. The study of this legal material will be very beneficial to entrepreneurs, managers, and human resources professionals.

This edition to this book seeks to make the reader more legally knowledgeable and astute. The book attempts to identify as many legal challenges as possible in establishing, operating, and managing a business in today's very competitive global business environment. The book recommends strategies and tactics to overcome these challenges and to achieve a successful business in a lawful and moral manner. Yet overcoming business law challenges is not the only goal of this book. The authors naturally want the reader to be able to more clearly foresee legal problems so as to avoid them; but the authors also want the reader to learn how to use the law and the legal system to more effectively establish, manage, and develop the business. Accordingly, an important objective of this edition of this book is to focus on preventative law, that is, making the business person aware of the law, its applicability to business, and the legal consequences of business decision-making. The goal is to proactively avoid legal problems before they materialize, as opposed to the trials and tribulations (and trials perhaps literally) of reactively dealing with them when they occur. One major purpose of this book, therefore, is to help business people recognize legal risks and thus avoid legal liability.

The authors are most grateful for all the support and encouragement to publish the 4^th edition and particularly for the many most helpful suggestions for improving the book from colleagues, managers, human resources professionals, students, friends, and readers from across the globe. Furthermore, by using this book, you are contributing to the Business Ethics and Global Social Responsibility Scholarship, which has been established at the Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship at Nova Southeastern University to support scholarly research and coursework by students, which will advance the fields of business ethics and global social responsibility. This scholarship was conceived and created by the authors of this book, and Huizenga Business College professors, Dr. Frank J. Cavico, J.D., LL.M., Professor Emeritus of Business Law and Ethics, and Dr. Bahaudin G. Mujtaba, M.B.A. / D.B.A., Professor of Management and Human Resources. Professors Cavico and Mujtaba are co-funded this academic scholarship initiative with the support of the H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship and Nova Southeastern University. Thank you for exploring and leading discussions, and advancing knowledge on legality, morality and ethics, as well as social responsibility, in the world of management, entrepreneurship, and leadership

Titles in Barron's Business Review series are widely used as classroom supplements to college textbooks and often serve as a main textbook in business brush-up programs. Business Law, Seventh Edition focuses on the importance of legal theory in the everyday business world, explaining such subjects as tort responsibility, government regulations, contracts, environmental law, product liability, consumer protection, and international law, among many other topics.

Also discussed in detail are the legal aspects of partnerships, franchises, and corporations, as well as special topics that include business crimes, property as a legal concept, intellectual property, and similar pertinent topics. A study aid labeled Key Terms appears at the beginning of each chapter, and You Should Remember summaries are strategically interspersed throughout the text.

There's no better time than now to start a new business and tap into the power of the LLC

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Are you earning a business degree? Then you'll take business law. In Business Law Made Simple, you'll learn the major principles, phrases, and real life implications of business law just as I teach them in my undergraduate and graduate business law courses. This book has the principles distilled to their core concepts with examples to help give shape to the ideas. Let's face it, a survey business law course skims the surface of the topics. Contracts? You might spent a week or two on them in business law. In law school, contracts is a two semester course! Employment law will get a day or two in your business law course instead of a full semester. What you need to survive and thrive in the class is someone to help you understand the key principles without layers of detail. That's where this book can help you.

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WINNERS AND LOSERS IN THE AMERICAN CAPITALISTIC ECONOMY: A PRIMER

Economists generally agree that the new global economy has raised living standards for people around the world. But they also acknowledge that it has suppressed the incomes of low-skilled workers in rich countries such as the United States. Indeed, some economists blame income inequality for the rise of the terrorist organization ISIS and for the increase in suicides among middle class white Americans. And the diminishing economic status of the American middle class is fueling voter unrest during the 2016 presidential primaries. These issues--propelled by arguments concerning the appropriate role of government in providing a remedy--will undoubtedly continue well beyond the 2016 presidential elections.

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The author of this book, Professor W. Sherman Rogers, is Professor of Law at the Howard University School of Law School in Washington, D.C. Professor Rogers is licensed to practice law in state and federal courts including the United States Supreme Court. He is also a registered stockbroker, general securities principal, and has life and health insurance licenses. His multi-disciplined background as a law professor, practicing attorney, stockbroker, and life and health insurance agent has provided him with a great deal of practical and theoretical knowledge in the area of law and economics.

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The Offshore World can be fascinating. It can allow you to reduce your taxes or to not pay taxes at all, protect your assets against creditors or in case of bankruptcy reduce the assets lost or keep the assets that you put into your asset protection vehicle, increase your freedom of mobility by obtaining a second citizenship or registering your boat with the flag of your choice, being able to access markets or business opportunities that would be restricted or prohibited if the company was to be formed in another jurisdictions, avoid capital controls, open a bank account in a more politically and economically stable jurisdictions, and much more.
But in order to profit from the benefit(s) you need, you must take into consideration several factors depending on, of course, the purpose of going offshore. If you want to profit from the tax and privacy benefits, you consider your country of tax residency tax laws, the offshore jurisdiction features, formation, management, and yearly maintenance requirements and costs, etc., including predictability, as the Offshore World is constantly changing.
Tax havens may change some features that might have been attractive to you when you initially set up your company, like they might go from 0% tax to X%, they might change their privacy laws and start disclosing company the director or company member/shareholder, might start requiring you to submit financial accounts, sign up an information sharing agreement with a new country, etc. Tax haven might engage into these changes due to pressure imposed by a specific country or multilateral organizations like the OECD, European Union, etc.
On the other hand, Multilateral Organizations are adding or subtracting jurisdictions to blacklists, grey list, etc., and labeling them as non-cooperative to motivate or force them to make changed to their tax, corporate, or privacy laws.
If you objective is asset protection, you must plan ahead and transfer your assets to an asset protection trust at least 2 years before a lawsuit is filed against you or bankruptcy is foreseeable, otherwise you may fall illegal conveyance of assets (illegal transmission) with the purpose to deceit creditors. If you want extra protection, you should form the trust in an offshore jurisdiction that does not recognize foreign judgements. You also have to check your country of residency or where the suit is filed laws, as if under these laws the settlor has control over the trust, the trust can be deemed invalid before the eyes of that jurisdiction.
Tax Havens and the Offshore World can help anyone, regardless if the person has low income or if it is billionaire, from a country under development or a highly developed one, without distinction in line of business.
Tax havens are used for a lot of legal purposes, but can also be used for illegal means. Herein we will also cover they ways tax havens can be used for illegal purposes so you can differentiate between a legal and an illegal use of offshore vehicles.
This book is written by an international tax lawyer to help you and guide you, so you can feel more secure and confident when going offshore, by understanding as much as possible about these topics.
If you are a lawyer, this book can also help you understand how tax havens and international tax laws, and the offshore world works.