Study Guide - Softcover

Bixby, Michael

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ISBN 10: 0130199087 ISBN 13: 9780130199089

Publisher: Pearson, 2000

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As any businessperson will confirm, practicing business today provides ample opportunity to get eaten up by legal problems. Tomorrows managers will undoubtedly encounter situations calling for some practical understanding of the law. Equip your students with the knowledge that enables them to recognize and speak intelligently about legal problems, to avoid them when possible, and when unavoidable, to effectively participate in their solution. Our new text, The Legal Environment of Business, emphasizes students acquiring practical knowledge, not just memorizing concepts never to be used again. Our goal is to provide a book that students and professors will enjoy reading - a book that shows the relevancy of the law to current and future businesspeople. *In Consultation The book contains ten scenarios based on contemporary legal issues in business, featuring detailed conversations between a manager and the firms lawyer about the legal problem the business is facing. *A Memo From Your Lawyer Several times in each chapter the authors give practical advice directly to the students concerning a legal issue examined in the chapter. *Practical Exercises Each chapter concludes with a situa

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About the Author:

MICHAEL B. BIXBY is a Professor of Legal Studies in Business at Boise State University, where he has been honored twice in the past six years as "Outstanding Teacher of the Year" in the College of Business. Before joining the Boise State faculty, Professor Bixby practiced law for 11 years. Since then, in addition to writing and presenting more than 25 papers at academic conferences, he has authored 11 articles concerning various legal issues in business for The Oregon Law Review, Willamette Law Review, American Business Law Journal, Idaho Law Review, and the Journal of Public Policy an Marketing. Professor Bixby is the past president of the Pacific Northwest Business Law Association of Legal Studies in Business. Bixby's undergraduate and law degrees are from the University of Michigan.

CARYN L. BECK-DUDLEY is a Professor of Legal Studies in Business at Utah State University. She has also been a Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan School of Business and the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. Professor Beck-Dudley is a past president of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business and is currently chair of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business Task Force on Assessment. She has articles in the American Business Law Journal, Journal of Business Ethics, Employee Rights and Responsibilities, Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, Journal of Energy Law and Policy, as well as several others. She is a recipient of the Holmes/Cardozo award and Ralph C. Hoeber Award from the Academy of Legal Studies in Business for her research. She was named the College of Business Professor of the Year in 1988.

PATRICK J. CIHON is an Associate Professor of Law and Public Policy at Syracuse University School of Management. He was with the Ontario Ministry of Labour before joining the Syracuse faculty. He received a BA from Pennsylvania State University, a LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School of York University in Toronto, and a LL.M. from Yale Law School. He was voted Outstanding Faculty Member by the Syracuse University Association of Graduate Business Students and by the Syracuse Chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma undergraduate honor society. His research interests are in the areas of employment law, labor relations, and employment discrimination law, and he has authored or co-authored a number of books and articles in those fields.

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Our new text, "The Legal Environment of Business," emphasizes students acquiring practical knowledge, not just memorizing concepts never to be used again. Our goal is to provide a book that students and professors will enjoy reading -- a book that shows the relevancy of the law to current and future businesspeople.

In Consultation
The book contains ten scenarios based on contemporary legal issues in business, featuring detailed conversations between a manager and the firm's lawyer about the legal problem the business is facing.
A Memo From Your Lawyer
Several times in each chapter the authors give practical advice directly to the students concerning a legal issue examined in the chapter.
Practical Exercises
Each chapter concludes with a situation that calls for students to prepare a written memo in response, using legal terms and concepts explained in the chapter.
Social/Ethical Issues
Every chapter contains boxes asking the students to critically analyze the ethical, social, and public policy implications of certain legal principles and issues discussed in the chapter.
Excerpted Cases
Three or four court cases are excerpted in each chapter that deal with relevant legal issues. These cases have been carefully edited to remove previously undefined legal terminology.

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