CBFL Resource Guide

A successful business lawyer must be familiar with the basic concepts and ongoing developments in the worlds of law, business, and finance. This Resources Guide will help you in that goal. NYLS students should sign up for free accounts with Bloomberg Law and the Practical Law Company to be able to access all of the resources below.

Background

Investopedia

William Ackman: Everything You Need to Know About Finance and Investing (Video)

Business Basics for Law Students

Robert Rhee, Essential Concepts of Business for Lawyers (2012).

The Wall Street Journal Complete Money and Investing Guidebook

Michael Singer, Pocket MBA: Everything an Attorney Needs to Know About Finance (Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 from Bloomberg Law)

What it Means to Be a Business (Divorce) Lawyer

Most Innovative Business and Financial Lawyers of 2011

CEO, Esq.

Kendyl Hanks, Developing Your Practice, 13 The Young Lawyer (2008).

NYT: Basics of Accounting Are Vital to Survival for Entrepreneurs

  

General Legal

Business Law Currents 

My Corporate Resource (law firm memos)

NYLS’ Financial Law Updates

Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation

Corporate Counsel.net

Delaware Corporate and Commercial Litigation Blog 

Delaware Business Litigation Report

Business Law Today

The Business Lawyer (ABA membership required; may be available on Lexis or Westlaw)

NY Business Law Journal

Delaware General Corporation Law

Model Business Corporations Act

   

Public Company Financial Statements

SEC's EDGAR database of company financial statements

Footnoted.org (financial statement analysis blog)

  

Professional Development

Students: How to email to your Professor, employer, and professional peers

LinkedIn Mistakes: Top 5 Ways to Kill Your Credibility 

Business and Finance News

Wall Street Journal U.S. Business News

New York Times DealBook

Deal Journal

Financial Times Company News

The Deal

Private Equity Hub 

Venture Beat 

Venture Capital Dispatch

Secured Lender

Reuters Deal news

International Financing Review blog

Leveraged Loan.com

Distressed Debt Investing

ABF Journal (subscription required)

CFO.com

Accounting Today

Going Concern: News for Accountants and CFO

  

Transactional Law

Carolyn E.C. Paris, Drafting for Corporate Finance (2007) (Bloomberg Law version)

Charles M. Fox, Working With Contracts: What Law School Doesn't Teach You (2008) (Bloomberg Law version)

Thomas S. Hemmendinger, Hillman on Commercial Loan Documentation (June 2012) (Bloomberg Law version).

Lending Law Report

Transactional Lawyering Resource Guide

Bloomberg Law: Transactional Law & Drafting Treatises and other Transactional Resources

Bloomberg Law: Transactional Law Current Awareness deal news

FindLaw Sample Business Contracts

Docracy

One CLE Sample Business Contracts

RealDocs (subscription required

Uniform Commercial Code (New York)

Restatment (Second) of Contracts

 

Institutional Investor Issues

Council of Institutional Investors

GMI Ratings

Risk Metrics Corporate Governance and Securities Law Blog

Pom Talk Blog for Institutional Investors

 

 

  

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