Based on the best-selling West's Business Law, this text maintains its most popular features and continues to offer flexibility for different teaching philosophies. While focusing on public law issues such as ethics, government regulation, and administrative law, it also provides a good balance of private law topics such as contracts and sales. Selected cases begin with either a "Historical and Social Setting" or a "Company Profile" and address the AACSB's curriculum requirements by focusing on global, political, ethical, social, environmental, technological, and cultural diversity issues.

This best-selling comprehensive book integrates edited cases in an accessible format. The 6th edition contains chapters on court procedures, employment law, and comparative international law. A new feature, Emerging Trends in Business Law, emphasizes policy issues. Focus on Ethics appear at the end of each unit and Ethical Considerations follow selected cases. Concept Summaries provide concise reviews of important material. Exhibits graphically illustrate important aspects of law.

The Fifth Edition of this popular text offers complete coverage of business law and its environment in a non-technical, straightforward style. (Coverage is less technical than that in Smith and Roberson, Ninth Edition.) Cases are summarized and integrated into the chapters. Legal issues and court decisions are carefully explained with a minimum of legal jargon. Essentials covers all required business law topics for the CPA exam. The Fifth Edition includes a chapter on environmental law and features The Law and You, Ethical Dilemmas, and Law in the News.

A convenient single source for primary family law and related matters in Illinois. Among the laws available for quick reference are: Criminal Code and Offenses; Codes of Criminal and Civil Procedure; Public Aid Code and State Supreme Court rules. Topics discussed in this volume include: Marriage; Divorce; Dissolution and invalidity records; Children; Aging; Abortion; Domestic violence and Parental rights.

This popular text combines a traditional case focus with clear and concise coverage of a wide range of up-to-date topics. Cases are edited, with over 40% new to this edition. New JurisPrudence? feature highlights humorous or odd cases and legal events related to the subject at hand. Internet resources and citations have been incorporated; most chapters conclude with an optional Internet research assignment. New chapters include Alternative Dispute Resolution (Ch. 4); Property (Ch. 9); Debtor/Creditor Relations (Ch. 12); and Business Torts (Ch. 8). The case-holding section has been eliminated from each case, and the number of end-of-chapter case questions has been doubled.