Links and Other Resources
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
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 is Means to Be a Business (Divorce) Lawyer
Most Innovative Business and Financial Lawyers of 2011
Kendyl Hanks, Developing Your Practice, 13 The Young Lawyer (2008).
Business and Finance Sites
Wall Street Journal U.S. Business News
Secured Lender magazine
International Financing Review blog
ABF Journal magazine (subscription required)
Legal Resources
My Corporate
Resource (law firm memos)
Corporate Counsel.net (includes numerous other blogs in left hand column)
Transactional Lawyering Resource Guide
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).
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)
Bloomberg Law's Transactional Law & Drafting Treatises and other Transactional Resources
Bloomberg Law's Transactional Law Current Awareness deal news
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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