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Commercial Law Resources from Lexisnexis® Commercial Law Resources from LexisNexis® Commercial Law Resources from LexisNexis® As a commercial attorney, how do you help your clients succeed? Research, Draft, Litigate CONTENTS From primary law to the practical tools needed to comply Matthew Bender® publications are synonymous with authority, expert analysis, and practical guidance. with the law, your commercial law library from LexisNexis And for decades, our established business and commercial law resources have been the go-to staples of COMMERCIAL Matthew Bender provides the needed resources: commercial law practices across the country. CONTRACTS LAW 2 • Complete UCC coverage from the text of statutes, to LexisNexis® has taken a readily accessible, topical approach to our commercial analytic offering, with analytical treatment of the articles COMMERCIAL AND dedicated treatises that provide complete coverage of the major and most researched commercial topics. CONSUMER FINANCE LAW 3 Generations of lawyers have relied on the guidance available in the heralded: • Case law throughout: The collection also includes the reliable UCC Reporter Digest SECURED TRANSACTIONS 5 • Forms and drafting instructions: You’ll find commercial- • Corbin on Contracts specific national and state forms and jury instructions— COMMERCIAL LITIGATION 6 • Negotiable Instruments Under the UCC including the popular Modern UCC Litigation Forms and • Letters of Credit Forms & Procedures Under the UCC - • Asset Based Financing STATE SPECIFIC • Forms and Pleadings throughout the collection COMMERCIAL TITLES 7 • Commercial Law and Practice Guide • Extensive practice checklists, tips, surveys and pointers • Consumer Credit Law Manual where relevant The collection also includes jurisdictional guidance found in: • Online content: Subscribe to the Commercial or UCC Area ® • The new New York Commercial Litigation Guide of Law Pages at lexis.com for a complete aggregation of • Anderson’s Ohio Consumer Credit Law Manual analytical sources, codes, cases and more • Florida Creditors’ Rights Manual • LexisNexis communities: Access the largest collection of • As well as Unclaimed Property Law and Reporting Forms with a statutory summary legal blogs written by leading legal professionals, view top for each state, to name a few cases, get caught up with emerging issues We invite you to review the following pages replete with books designed to enhance your practice in the commercial arena. 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Perillo, editor; John E. Murray, Jr., supplement author; and contributing authors shipped by air, sea, rail or truck. This all-inclusive treatise contains all that you need, Uniform Commercial Code can get complicated including legal analysis, forms, and relevant statutory, regulatory and international and unwieldy. With this widely respected treatise, Cited in the opinions of federal and state courts literally thousands of times, this exhaustive exposition of all the treaty material, in one central source. Comprehensive coverage includes: you get complete coverage of relevant issues, in rules of contract law has, for more than half a century, helped lawyers understand what the rules of contract mean a practical format that includes coverage of sales and how they can be used in daily practice. It provides a detailed analysis of all aspects of contract law in the U.S., • The transportation and bulk sales transactions, complete analysis covering the common law (as manifested in the decisions of the state courts), the Restatements of Contracts, and industry worldwide of reported decisions in this area of the law, and the applicable provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code. Every nuance of contract law is addressed. • Cargo security • Bills of lading alternative drafting and litigation strategies for More than 25 percent of all civil cases filed in the federal district courts involve contract disputes. What causes • Connecting carriage both buyers and sellers. these disputes? Can your clients avoid them? How do you make contracts do what you want them to do? You can and geographic scope The following practical applications are find guidance in one of the most authoritative treatises on the topic. 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Murray, Jr. intermediaries • Indemnity actions revisions to Article 1 (General Provisions) An effective starting point for an attorney who drafts contracts, as well as anyone in any field who must familiarize • Negotiation of settlement • Freight, rates, and demurrage and Article 9 (Secured Transactions) themselves quickly with contract principles. Updating the classic Corbin on Contracts full treatise, this Desk Edition also • Jurisdiction and venue • Liens of carriers upon cargo • Analysis of computer information serves as the “gateway” to the master treatise at lexis.com®. • C.O.D. shipments transactions and the interplay between Article 2 and the Uniform Computer $ 349 NS PRINT • 1 volume, softbound, Pub. #01534, ISBN 9781422477434 Included in this source is an appendix of forms and the full text of relevant statutes, Information Transactions Act (UCITA) eBOOK • eISBN 9781579118419 regulations, and international treaties. 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