Business and Financial Law Resources
A successful business lawyer must be familiar with the basic concepts and ongoing developments in the worlds of law, business, and finance. The resources below will help you in that goal.
Background
Investopedia
Business Basics for Law
Students
The Wall Street Journal
Complete Money and Investing Guidebook
What is Means to Be a Business (Divorce) Lawyer
Most Innovative Business and Financial Lawyers of 2011
Business and Finance Sites
Wall Street Journal U.S. Business News
Financial Times’ Alphaville blog
Secured Lender magazine
International Financing Review blog
ABF Journal magazine (subscription required)
Legal Resources
My Corporate
Resource (corporate law firm memos)
Corporate Counsel.net (includes numerous other blogs in left hand column)
Transactional Lawyering Resource Guide
Delaware Corporate and Commercial Litigation Blog
Delaware Business Litigation Report
Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation
The Business Lawyer (ABA membership required; may be available on Lexis or Westlaw)
Bloomberg Law (free membership for NYLS students; DealMaker function has searchable contracts)
Delaware General Corporation
Law
Model Business Corporations
Act
FindLaw Sample Business Contracts
One CLE Sample Business Contracts
RealDocs (subscription required)
Public Company Financial Statements
SEC's EDGAR database of company financial statements
Footnoted.org (financial statement analysis blog)
Finance and Accounting
Going Concern: News for Accountants and CFO
Basics of Accounting Are Vital to Survival for Entreprenuers
Institutional Investor Issues
Risk Metrics Corporate Governance and Securities Law Blog
Pom Talk Blog for Institutional Investors
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