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Managers and the Legal Environment: Strategies for the 21st Century

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This book is amongst others used at the Stanford MBA course as an introduction to legal issues that may arise for managers in a variety of business situations. It is comprehensive and is well illustrated with landmark case studies and relevant hypotheticals. Constance Bagley takes out most of the cumbersome legalistic language and makes the complexities of US corporate and civil law understandable.

For the benefit of all the people who cannot take her course, Prof. Connie Bagley has written this book that has the same title as her course (she teaches a quarter each at the Stanford and Harvard Business Schools). It is an extremely very well thought out and well written book. Throughout the book Prof. Bagley has kept in mind the reader's background and organized and written content in a way that will be of maximum benefit to the reader.

This book is one of the best investments that any person can make. While almost everyone will benefit from this book, I feel this book will be indispensable to the following readers: 1. Any person in a Business Administration/Management role, especially Executives and Managers in large corporations, Investment Professionals and Management Consultants. 2. Professionals associated with legal matters who want a refresher and a quick reference book that covers key aspects of all the important laws. 3. Any person who wants to gain a knowledge of the legal environment, especially the environment in which business is conducted.

Unlike a law book intended for specialist lawyers, this book is readable by people who are not lawyers. After reading this book or using it as a reference one can get a good understanding of the legal process (how the entire legal system works) and several important areas of law such as Contracts, Torts, Product Liability, Intellectual Property, Labor, Environmental, Antitrust, Real Estate, Consumer protection, Securities, and International Business. The legal topics discussed are on the leading edge of business regulation. They include the World Trade Organization, employer liability for sexual harassment, compensation and liability act, and HIV in the workplace.

In keeping with the Internet age, Prof. Bagley analyzes the implications of the Internet and Information Technology to several laws (such as copyright law in the cyberspace), and also gives several Internet sources for the reader to conduct further research.

It is remarkable that the book covers each of the topics perfectly to the extent required - nothing more and nothing less. The book has around 1050 pages and the time invested in each page is worth the rewards.

As Prof. Bagley says, the purpose of the book is to provide you a good understanding of the legal system, how the laws work, removal of any fear of laws, how to avoid legal mistakes, how to protect yourself, when to take what legal action and, most importantly, make you smart enough to know when to go to your lawyer. You cannot expect to practice law after reading this book but you definitely will know when to seek legal help, and how to communicate effectively with your legal advisors.

Prof. Bagley has also written another book "The Entrepreneur's Guide to Business Law". If only every entrepreneur read this book before starting out, the number of failures caused by legal blunders will be close to zero.

Both her books are extremely very well thought out and well written. I was fortunate to get into Prof. Connie Bagley's high demand "Managers and the Legal Environment" course at Stanford Graduate School of Business. The course is an absolute gem of a course. While this course is a high demand course, her other course "Legal Challenges in Entrepreneurship" is usually multiply over subscribed with around 150 students wanting to get into a class of 66! Prof. Bagley is a wonderful teacher and an amazing person. Her class was a wonderful learning experience for me and I thank her for that. I'm sure that after reading the book you too will thank her for having written this book.

This digital edition is just like the hard copy. I am using it for my MBA program because it is so much easier to carry than the behemoth of a text book. My only fault with it, and the reason for 4 stars, is that it is a Print Replica and not a full Kindle Edition. Print Replica means that you see the actual book pages on the screen and cannot select font size. This makes it very easy to follow page directions as given in class but some of the printing in the book is like an eye chart. you can zoom in on the page but then you are left scrolling through the pages to read them. Overall not too bad but annoying. If I had the option of 4.5 stars i would give it.

I highly recommend strictly for the ease of carry.

The course this was required for (Legal Issues in Business) was challenging, but the textbook provided a clear understand of the subject matter and gave students the opportunity to excel in the beginnings of a business or legal degree.

As there is always room for improvement, the things that could make this book even better are a price drop and additional international law examples/differences. Most of the content is U.S. in nature, although there are a few EU-related cases plus a smattering from elsewhere around the globe.

Got to me in a timely manor and in excelent condition....im a short and simple kind of person but they say i have to write twenty more words so ill just ramble

I could be a little to picky but I would not have rated the book as almost new when it had at least three previous owners. Pink highlight, blue pen in margins and black underline that is almost underline. The book came on time and the cover is in good shape and so far has all its pages.

I still would buy from this vendor again. So maybe I am too picky.

I am not the type of person who generally likes to read text books, but after reading this book, there may be some textbooks that are helpful. This books goes over almost everything that managers would encounter in the business world, and it explains the subjects in great detail. What I really liked about the book was that after explaining the material, the book would use real world experiences or cases to explain the application of the law. This is very helpful for someone who is not as familiar with how the law works.

The book gets dry at times and u may go unconscious, but overall, it does address legal doctrine from a business point of view. Other chapters are well written and engaging. There are ups and downs, but worth it in the end.

I ordered this book for a business law class. It was delivered in a reasonable amount of time and was exactly what I needed.

This book was no more or no less expensive than what I saw at other places, but it was in really good condition for being used. It was also delivered earlier than I expected, which was a good thing because I had procrastinated in ordering it for school and needed it pretty quickly.

The seller was very responsive to my emails as well -- I really appreciated that.