Business Organizations for Paralegals

By Deborah E. Bouchoux

Book Overview

BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS FOR PARALEGALS carefully guides students through each form of business enterprise - complementing the presentation with simple and practical tips on forming and maintaining businesses. Author of the highly successful Legal Research and Writing for Paralegals and a respected paralegal educator, Deborah E. Bouchoux not only provides students with a detailed overview of the subject area, but also give them a firm understanding of its terms and concepts. Business Organizations for Paralegals clearly explains the tasks required of paralegals in services involving formation, tax planning, combination, dissolution, and other business activities; the advantages and disadvantages of each form of organization, including limited liability companies; how business is conducted, with terms and concepts defined as they arise in context; principles of employee compensation and employment agreements; business ethics and other special topics in business law...and much more. For each of the five major types of organization, The book includes a section on the paralegal's role, sample forms with tips for preparing documents, resource guides, and discussion questions that challenge students to apply concepts to fact patterns. Appendices include: statutes from which business organization concepts are derived; Secretary of State listings for all 50 states; samples of bylaws; a consent in lieu of meeting form; and a shareholder buy-sell agreement. A comprehensive glossary helps explain new terms and concepts to students.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1567064841
• ISBN13: 9781567064841
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Aspen Pub
• Length: 700 Pages
• Weight: 3.19 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Dependable and relevant

Bouchoux provides a thorough explanation of the major issues and concepts relating to business organizations. She provides relevant cases and examples to exemplify the topics covered. The author offers a dependable textbook on the subject highlighting issues that are relevant today.

I got a steal!

Although everyone in my class has the next edition of this book, I saved over $100 purchasing this one. We are at Chapter 10 and I have yet to run any problems. This book has exactly the same information, the only difference is the review questions at the end of each chapter.

Good General Overview

This book is required reading in a class I'm taking. I've been through several chapters at this point and one quiz. The book provides a good foundation for later business classes. It takes you step by step through various types of business structures and includes a good bit of detail about nuances that are present in each state. I am business illiterate, and I am finding this book a good primer. It is a bit dry and written from an outline, but I've read much worse. I would definitely recommend this to anybody who doesn't know much about businesses and their organization and needs a good introduction. There is not much about law or about paralegals tasks, mostly just sidebars stating that a paralegal will probably be filling out the forms and info on where to get the forms.