"Work of the Family Lawyer [Connected eBook with Study Center] (Aspen Casebook)


Buy a new version of this textbook and receive access to the Connected eBook with Study Center on CasebookConnect, including: lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities practice questions from your favorite study aids an outline tool and other helpful resources. Connected eBooks provide what you need most to be successful in your law school classes.Work of the Family Lawyer, Fifth Edition is more concise and practice-focused than traditional casebooks. It integrates the study of fundamental family law principles with exploration of the policy dilemmas and practical problems faced by today8217s family lawyers. The flexible design makes the book an effective learning tool for traditional classrooms, blended and online learning environments, simulated courses, and clinical settings. Its problem-based approach encourages the development of critical thinking, participation, debate, and dialogue.New to the Fifth Edition:Surveys the impact of 
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"Work Law: Cases and Materials


To view or download the 2022 Supplement to this book, click here.The law of work has evolved as a patchwork of legal interventions in the labor market, sometimes by statute, and sometimes through the common law of judicial decisions. Most law school curricula divide the law of work into three topical areas8213Labor Law, Employment Law, and Employment Discrimination8213and offer separate courses in each area. Labor law in the United States is understood to encompass the study of the National Labor Relations Act, the law governing union organizing and collective bargaining. It is the law of collective rights at work. Employment law refers to the statutes and common law governing individual rights at work. It ranges from minimum standards legislation to judicially created doctrines based in tort and contract law. Employment discrimination law deals with the statutes and interpretative case law advancing the antidiscrimination norm in the workplace. These statutes address the problem of 
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"Woods Cop: Thirty-four Years A State Game Warden


The author served as a Pennsylvania State Game Warden for 34 years, where he patrolled 450 square miles of rugged mountain terrain. Throughout his career, he investigated thousands of game law violations and arrested many violent, hardcore poachers. This fascinating, true-life book focuses on some of the most dangerous and unpredictable men Wasserman encountered during his long years as a game warden in north central Pennsylvania. Woods Cop is an intense, well written account about a true wildlife warrior and his fight against the criminals who plunder our natural resources. Wasserman8217s encounters with hostile, armed poachers in the backwoods of Pennsylvania is sure to keep you turning pages until the last chapter has been read. It's a book that will make you think about it long after you put it down. A book about a thin green line of dedicated game wardens, vastly outnumbered, who risk their lives on a daily basis in order to protect our wildlife for future generations to come.In 
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"Women, Divorce and Money: Taking Control of Your Finances and Your Future


Navigating the stress in divorce is difficult enough, but in the middle of it, you are also expected to make critical financial decisions about your future. Your friends are telling you what you should do, your attorney is asking what you want to do, and you might not know what you need to do. To make good financial decisions, you also need to feel good about yourself! Your new financial life and your new outlook on life must work together.In Women, Divorce and Money: Taking Control of Your Finances and Your Future, CPA Dave Stolz shows you what to expect before, during, and after your divorce. He combines his experience of helping women with the financial aspects of divorce with stories from women who have been through it. This book is a combination of information and motivation8212information about the process of divorce and basic financial planning, and the motivation to power through all the stuff that is heading your way.The difficult road of your divorce can lead to a beautiful 
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"Women Rainmakers' Best Marketing Tips


Success depends on innovative planning, but brainstorming for new ideas takes valuable time. In one quick read you can get dynamic, creative, and practical ideas that can work for you and your practice. Women Rainmakers Best Marketing Tips, Third Edition, is the updated collection of easy-to-read helpful hints and strategies from Theda Snyder, one of the recognized leaders of women rainmakers nationwide, and the ABA Women Rainmakers of the ABA Law Practice Management Section.
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"Women and the Law: Stories


Softbound - New, softbound print book.
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"Women and Criminal Justice (Aspen College Series)


Women and Criminal Justice provides a comprehensive view of how gender, race, and class affect the status of women in the context of policing, courts, and corrections. Systematic and engaging, Hsieh and McShane integrate the perspectives and experiences of women who are employed in the criminal justice system, as well as those who are offenders or victims of crime. Written specifically for the undergraduate course, Women and Criminal Justice opens a window onto the historical and contemporary landscape of the criminal justice system from the perspective of women. New to the Second Edition: A fresh approach to topical themes:The challenges of measuring risk of rape and human traffickingSocial learning as an explanation of batteringMotherhood on trialFemale parolee/probationer needs and experiencesFactors leading to increased system involvementWhen women work in men8217s criminal justice arenaThe Metoo Movement and its impactThe changing complexion of American culture Professors and 
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"Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain


A daring and magnificent historical narrative nonfiction account of Iceland's most famous female sea captain who constantly fought for women's rights and equality8213and who also solved one of the country's most notorious robberies.Every day was a fight for survival, equality, and justice for Iceland's most renowned female fishing captain of the 19th century.History would have us believe the sea has always been a male realm, the idea of female captains almost unthinkable. But there is one exception, so notable she defies any expectation.This is her remarkable story.Captain Thur237dur, born in Iceland in 1777, lived a life that was both controversial and unconventional. Her first time fishing, on the open unprotected rowboats of her time, was at age 11. Soon after, she audaciously began wearing trousers. She later became an acclaimed fishing captain brilliant at weather-reading and seacraft and consistently brought in the largest catches. In the Arctic seas where drownings occurred 
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"Woes Of The Rich


The rich have woes. They are not simple and they deserve attention.70% of wealthy families do not manage to transfer their wealth properly to the next generation. But why not? The answer to this question is fascinating and doesn8217t necessarily have to do with finance.Woes of the Rich tries to decipher what happens in the intergenerational transfer, and suggests a series of solutions for preserving family wealth.This book provides practical and theoretical tools 8211 economic principles, case studies and solutions that guide families to communicate amongst themselves and to cope with internal friction before it becomes too late and regrettably expensive.Philippe Weil brings to this book all his vast experience in working with families, managing financial portfolios and private banking, providing the reader with advice for successfully handing down both personal values and economic assets to subsequent generations.
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"Witsec: Inside the Federal Witness Protection Program


For decades no law enforcement program has been as cloaked in controversy and mystery as the Federal Witness Protection Program. Now, for the first time, Gerald Shur, the man credited with the creation of WITSEC, teams with acclaimed investigative journalist Pete Earley to tell the inside story of turncoats, crime-fighters, killers, and ordinary human beings caught up in a life-and-death game of deception in the name of justice.WITSECInside the Federal Witness Protection ProgramWhen the government was losing the war on organized crime in the early 1960s, Gerald Shur, a young attorney in the Justice Department8217s Organized Crime and Racketeering Section, urged the department to entice mobsters into breaking their code of silence with promises of protection and relocation. But as high-ranking mob figures came into the program, Shur discovered that keeping his witnesses alive in the face of death threats involved more than eradicating old identities and creating new ones. It also 
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