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Contracts: The Essential Business Desk Reference
By Richard Stim
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Understand virtually any contract and sign on the dotted line with confidence.
Contracts are a part of everyday life now -- you can't download a piece of software or accept an employment offer without having to click "I agree" or sign at least one piece of paper. But very few of us are able to decipher the legalese in these documents, leading most people to hesitate before committing to a contract's terms.
Contracts: The Essential Business Desk Reference is the first book to explain contract terms in language for the layperson. This indispensable A to Z guide covers:
definitions of common terms found in contracts
how to decipher the language of contracts
which clauses are important and which aren't
how to change contracts
Contracts: The Essential Business Desk Reference will help you save money by coaching you on which clauses are important so that you can avoid a pricey professional review by a lawyer. Written in plain English, this book is especially useful for law students and business owners, but still contains enough detail to have a place on nearly any lawyer's bookshelf.
Contracts are a part of everyday life now -- you can't download a piece of software or accept an employment offer without having to click "I agree" or sign at least one piece of paper. But very few of us are able to decipher the legalese in these documents, leading most people to hesitate before committing to a contract's terms.
Contracts: The Essential Business Desk Reference is the first book to explain contract terms in language for the layperson. This indispensable A to Z guide covers:
Contracts: The Essential Business Desk Reference will help you save money by coaching you on which clauses are important so that you can avoid a pricey professional review by a lawyer. Written in plain English, this book is especially useful for law students and business owners, but still contains enough detail to have a place on nearly any lawyer's bookshelf.
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Richard Stim
Attorney Richard Stim specializes in small business, copyright, patents, and trademark issues. He is the author of many Nolo books, including Music Law: How to Run Your Band's Business, Patent, Copyright & Trademark: An Intellectual Property Desk Reference, and Profit From Your Idea. Stim regularly answers readers' intellectual property questions at Dear Rich: An Intellectual Property Blog.
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Reviews for Contracts
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In "Contracts - The Essential Business Desk Reference", Nolo Press has published a high quality dictionary/encyclopædia of legal contract terms. A book like this will not make one a lawyer, but rather, make one more confident when reading a contract or discussing contract terms with an attorney. It is well written and gives the reader confidence of authority. The book has a little heft for a paperback. The arrangement is alphabetical as one expects in a dictionary or encyclopædia and the page edges are marked, visibly indexed alphabetically; a helpful feature in any reference book. It is handsome and should be considered for inclusion by all public libraries and school libraries above high school.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The book is a valuable primer on the subject, but I would not rely solely on it for any but the simplest business situations and agreements. Otherwise, it is a guide to communicating intelligently with your attorney - to speak her specialized language, as it were - regarding contracts.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is an incredible source to reference legal terminology and popular contract terms and phrases for the layperson and expert alike - it is organized alphabetically, not topically, so for those looking for a 'how-to' book, you'll need a supplementary guide. For those taking on numerous contracts from a variety of contractors, this would make for a fantastic guide to terminology.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I will not sit down and read this book cover to cover but have skipped around reading various parts and find it to be easily understood. It is somewhat of a dictionary. I took it to work and as a business manager I actually found it useful on one occasion. Often with the internet being so easy to use we seldom crack open an old fashioned dictionary anymore. It is easy in this book to find a term very quickly.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Full disclosure: I'm a third-year law student and hopefully, a soon-to-be lawyer. During my first year of law school I had to wake up 2-3 times a week at 9:00AM for my contracts class. Despite having no interest whatsoever in the law of contracts I somehow managed to escape the class with a B+. Much like most things we learn in school, as soon as we are not required to know about a subject anymore it quickly leaves our brain. Contracts is no exception. I can probably recall the minimal basics of contracts but would be hard-pressed to examine a contract myself, or engage in contractual proceedings, and understand whether I'm getting a fair shake or if what's happening is actually legally binding. While I'm reviewing this book with a slight background knowledge of contracts and understanding of legalese, I'm still just a regular guy who wants a book that will give me some straightforward information on contracts. At the outset it's important to note that this is a "reference" book and not a "how-to" or "primer" on contracts. What that means is that this book is not going to walk you through the basics of a contract much like a textbook or a how-to guide would. No, this book is essentially an explanatory dictionary.The book is arranged in a dictionary format with various terms organized from A-Z. In your day-to-day life if you come across a contract term that you are unfamiliar with then it will be easy to look it up in this book. But if you want to know if that contract you were just forced into is legally valid then it's going to take a little more legwork to find your answer in this book. Depending on your need, that may be a positive or negative aspect of this book. As someone who has some familiarity with contract terms, being able to flip to a word in order to get a refresher is more beneficial than having to wade through a whole section on a topic I don't need to know everything about. It's difficult for me to evaluate how useful this book would be to someone who knows nothing about contracts, but the book does do an excellent job of breaking down the terms into plain-English. So anyone could look up a contract term and quickly be able to understand what it means. Additionally, the book provides frequent examples which help to flesh out the meaning of the terms and help give the meaning some context. Take the term "amortization" for example. This is a term I knew dealt with loans but couldn't tell you anything more than that. The book right off the bat gave a short, simple understanding of the term. The book then gave a little history on how amortization loans developed which helped me understand why an amortized payment plan would be beneficial. The history wasn't necessary to explain or understand the meaning of the word but it did provide context to the meaning which is sometimes just as important. The book also provided an example of amortization which was easy to understand. Lastly, the book provided some related terms to amortization which was a nice addition. All of this was contained in just one page but it would be enough to get anyone started. Overall, NOLO always takes an easy to understand approach when it comes to explaining the law and making it practical. This book follows that same winning approach. As mentioned above, this is not a primer on contract law so if that is what you are looking for then this book is not for you. However, for those who encounter contracts regularly, or even just wants to know what the heck all those terms means, this book is a definite buy. Given that I don't anticipate practicing commercial law, I won't be needing a more indepth look at contracts law. However, having a handy reference guide will definitely be useful as a general matter. This will surely be one book I keep on my bookshelf when I become a practicing attorney because while I may never intend on practicing commercial law, a contracts issue will inevitably confront me at some point in my legal career; or even in my personal life. 4 1/2 stars.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a contract dictionary, but when it describes a term or phrase or some aspect of business contracts, it goes into a fair amaount of depth and includes stories to illustrate the points.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Typical high quality Nolo Press work, but a reader should understand its structure and contents before purchasing.This work is a one volume encyclopedia explaining American legal terminology regarding contracts. Arrangement is a straight forward A-Z listing of terminology from "acceleration clause" to "yellow-dog contract." Entries vary in length from single sentences (e.g., "An illegal contract (or contract provision) - in which an employee agrees not to join or form a union while employed.") to several pages (e.g., "negotiation" runs about 7 pages).This work contains no general overview of contracts and contract law. A user would most likely use this book to look up an unfamiliar term for its definition and an explanation. In that context, this is probably most useful as a reference to understanding existing contracts. The book contains a smattering of legal forms, mostly used as exposition, and should not be considered for someone looking for compilations of sample contracts or contract forms. Works such as Nolo's "Legal Forms for Starting and Running a Small Business," and the like, should be acquired for that purpose.I would recommend this as a purchase by libraries, both public and academic first. Small businesses can easily benefit from having this on the shelf as well.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is an incredible source to reference legal terminology and popular contract terms and phrases for the layperson and expert alike - it is organized alphabetically, not topically, so for those looking for a 'how-to' book, you'll need a supplementary guide. For those taking on numerous contracts from a variety of contractors, this would make for a fantastic guide to terminology.