For the first time, the TriBar Opinion Committee and ABA Committee on Legal Opinions reports (1994-2004) are now available in a single, convenient, portable volume. These influential reports simplify and clarify the score and content of legal opinions in third-party transactions.

The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

Providing the guidance that law schools and most law firms don't offer, Legal Opinions in Business Transactions is the first practical, tool-filled guide to the step-by-step preparation of third-party closing opinions.Emphasizing how legal opinions reduce the risk of delays, disputes, and lawsuits in business deals, this unique resource shows you how to quickly and easily draft acceptable opinions using guidelines developed through custom and sanctioned by the TriBar Opinion Committee and ABA Business Section Opinion Committee. Packed with dozens of ready-to-insert opinion clauses and sample opinion letters, Legal Opinions in Business Transactions gives you a firm grasp of the:. Rights, obligations, and expectations of opinion givers, preparers, and recipients.. Customary terms, components, and structure of third-party opinion letters including how the law, documents, and factual assumptions are used.. Many types of interrelated opinions that form closing opinions including remedies opinions.. Perils of departing from customary opinion practice including the danger of botched transactions and even lawsuits.

Since the first edition of this invaluable book in 2012, third-party funding has become more mainstream in international arbitration practice. However, since even the existence of a third-party funding agreement in a dispute is often kept secret, it can be difficult to glean the specifics of successful funding agreements. This welcome book, now updated, expertly reveals the nuances of third-party funding in international arbitration, examines the phenomenon in key jurisdictions, and provides a reliable resource for users and potential users that may wish to tap into and make use of this distinctive funding tool. Focusing on Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, and South Africa, the authors analyze and assess the legal regime based upon legislation, judicial opinions, ethics opinions, and practitioner anecdotes describing the state of third-party funding in each jurisdiction. In addition to updating summaries of the law of the various jurisdictions, the second edition includes a new chapter addressing third-party funding in investor-state arbitration. Among the issues raised and examined are the following: · payment of adverse costs; · “Before-the-Event” (BTE) and “After-the-Event” (ATE) insurance; · attorney financing: pro bono representation, contingency representation, conditional fee arrangements; · loans; · ethical doctrines affecting the third-party funding industry; · possible future bundling, securitization, and trading of legal claims; · risk that the funder may put its own interests ahead of the client’s interests; and · whether the existence of a funding agreement must or should be disclosed to the decision maker. The second edition also includes discussion of recent institutional developments as they relate to third-party funding, including the work of the ICCA-Queen Mary Task Force on Third-Party Funding and how third-party funding is being incorporated into arbitral rules and investment treaties. Ably providing a thorough understanding of what third-party funding entails and what legal parameters exist, this book will be of compelling interest to parties aiming to take advantage of the high values, speed, reduced evidentiary costs, outcome predictability, industry expertise, and high award enforceability characteristic of the third-party funding arrangements available in international arbitration.