Legal Expense Defense: How to Control Your Business' Legal Costs and Problems (PSI Successful Business Library) [Paperback]

Dennis Powers (Author), Linda Pinkham (Editor)

Book Description

Series: PSI Successful Business Library | Publication Date: November 1995

Learn in plain English how to control and manage your company's legal expenses and how to avoid costly, unnecessary litigation. Based on the sheer number of lawsuits filed today, especially in matters of employment, most small to medium-sized businesses can expect to be involved in a legal dispute of some kind in the coming year. This book will prepare you for legal surprises and allow you to take care of problems before they occur.

Most business owners don't realize that fierce competition has forced attorneys to change the way they do business. Legal Expense Defense makes the role of attorneys and the complexities of the law - including courtroom procedures - easy to understand. As a result, you'll be able to deal with your law firm the way you would any other supplier.

Legal Expense Defense will help you:
* Negotiate equitable, value-billing fee structures with your attorney
* Prevent business problems from becoming legal problems
* Do more of your own legal work using in-house staff
* Save money by cutting down on your attorney's time
* Use alternative dispute resolution (ADR) techniques instead of going to court

Smaller companies with 1-25 employees that are concerned about legal costs can save money by using the more than 75 letter, contract and notice models found in the book. These forms allow a business to handle much of its own legal correspondence, such as corporate minutes, promissory notes, and options to purchase. Companies that have recently been sued will benefit from knowledge of the many cost-effective options available in defending a lawsuit.

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From the Publisher

Written in plain English and specifically designed to help businesses regain control of legal costs and functions. Topics include: how to find the right attorney, when to take legal work in-house, what can be controlled in litigation, the use of mediation, and other consumer rights when dealing with lawyers. Save up to 75% of your company's legal expenses and learn ways to keep problems from becoming legal disputes.

About the Author

Dennis Powers, B.A., J.D., M.B.A., is a practicing attorney with more than 20 years of experience in advising business clients on how to solve legal problems cost-effectively. He's the author of a business and real estate legal-forms series, as well as the books Legal Street Smarts: How To Survive in a World, and Beating The Tough Times: How To Win Your Personal and Financial Battles. Mr. Powers is a graduate of the University of Denver Law School and the Harvard Business School, and is currently a professor of Business Law at Southern Oregon University.

Product Details

• Paperback: 326 pages
• Publisher: Oasis Press (November 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1555713483
• ISBN-13: 978-1555713485
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,829,655 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Whether fishing for salmon, white-water kayaking, or wilderness hiking, my passion is with the outdoors. My love for the sea dates back to waterskiing in the Atlantic Ocean off New Jersey (when growing up) and sailing in regattas. When I headed to the West Coast after my education, I bodysurfed from the California coast to Hawaii.

Early on, my librarian mother would bring home her favorite books for me to read, and I found new worlds of adventures and different civilizations. From selling shirts to hauling lumber, I worked at different jobs to earn my education. I received a BA from the University of Colorado, a J.D. from the University of Denver Law School (J.D.), and then an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. While working for large corporations in the financial fields, I dreamed about adventure and writing books. I finally took the plunge by moving to Santa Barbara, California, and later forming a law practice'all to have the time to write. I started writing poetry, newspaper and magazine articles, fiction, and nonfiction works, earning my keep during the day while writing at night.

Deciding that teaching would give me more time to write, I joined the faculty in 1995 at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon, and taught business law. My first books were in the financial and legal fields, as I learned the publishing world. In 1999, the publisher selected my non-fiction work, THE OFFICE ROMANCE, to be that year's lead book and I headed out on a national book tour.

But my love has always been with the sea, and I continued researching maritime subjects. In 2005, my book THE RAGING SEA, about the 1964 devastating tsunami that crashed down the U.S. West Coast, was published. My next book TREASURE SHIP came out one year later, which describes the search and final locating, over 125-years later, of a long-lost, gold-bearing, steamship. SENTINEL OF THE SEAS, which is about the most dangerous, expensive, and remote lighthouse built in this country, came about in 2007. Next, TAKING THE Sea--or a book about the old-time wreckers, or salvagers, using the experiences of one of the most talked about, Captain T.P.H. Whitelaw--was brought out. In 2010, I was very pleased that my book, TALES OF THE SEVEN SEAS: THE ESCAPADES OF CAPTAIN DYNAMITE JOHNNY O'BRIEN--was published. This book reaches through the life of a very charismatic sea captain of old to show what traveling was really like over the oceans of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. For more on these books, see WWW.DENNISPOWERSBOOKS.COM.

My interest in the sea is more than about the ocean's awesome power, effects, and maritime history. It is about common folks like all of us who are forced to reach to uncommon levels of courage in order to survive and under challenges that most find daunting. It is also about the times those people lived--and about life over the seaven seas.