This comprehensive Business Organizations For Paralegals textbook guides students through each legally recognized form of business enterprise and offers simple, yet enlightening, tips on the laws governing the creation and operation of businesses. Special features facilitate learning:;
 Clear presentation designed for the paralegal student - each chapter includes an introduction, a complete discussion of the topic, a section devoted to the tasks performed by paralegals, a guide to both conventional and internet resources for locating additional materials and forms, discussion questions, and a summary of key features;
For each form of business organization, the author reviews the nature of the entity, its advantages and disadvantages, the relative ease with which it may be formed, its dissolution, and tax consequences;
Treatment is both thorough and up-to-date (for example, full discussions of both limited liability partnerships and limited liability companies);
Web resources in each chapter include references to websites on forming businesses, directions to various forms, and web addresses for each state's Secretary of State;
Review of conversions and mergers of general partnerships;
Deeper treatment of corporate governance and responsibility, in light of the accounting frauds and scandals and Enron, Tyco, WorldCom, and others;
Updated internet references new forms and charts, and new discussion questions.
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