Business Law Drafting Business Contracts: Principles, Techniques & Forms
California Franchise Law and Practice 2011
This guide to modern usage helps ensure that your contracts are effective, readable, and clear. • Drafting principles, preliminary considerations • Recitals, representations, and warranties • Consideration, covenants, conditions • Risk allocation • Legal opinions • Assignment, delegations, and third-party beneficiaries • Events of default, remedies, and ADR • Execution and signatures • Electronic contracting • Amendments and modifications • Special purpose agreements: letters of intent, promissory notes, guaranties, powers of attorney, software license agreements
The only book on California franchise law and practice, this guide enables attorneys to advise clients who are interested in offering, selling, or purchasing California franchises or who are engaged in California franchise-related litigation. Selected forms are integrated with the text. • Counseling prospective franchisees • Drafting franchise agreements (and related documents) in California • Drafting a franchise disclosure document under the FTC’s Amended Franchise Rule • Filings required with the California Department of Corporations (DoC) • Representing franchisor clients in DoC enforcement actions • Representing franchisee clients in litigation against the franchisor • State Bar Certified Specialty in Franchise and Distribution Law
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Forming and Advising Businesses
Selecting and Forming Business Entities, 2d Ed. Learn how to: choose the best California business entity for your client; set it up; and operate it under the applicable laws and operating agreements. • Evaluating entity choices • General partnerships • Limited partnerships • Limited liability partnerships • S and C corporations • Close corporations • Professional corporations • Limited liability companies • Converting an existing entity to a limited liability company $259, BU33310-7107Z, 2 looseleaf volumes, updated annually add Forms CD, BU23314-7107Z, $54.95 add OnLAW, BU94310-7107Z, $95 • OnLAW only, $259
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