For the past 17 years, legal and business professionals in the construction industry have eagerly anticipated the annual release of this best-selling guide. The Construction Law Update, chronicles and communicates changes in the construction industry. Comprised of 14 informative chapters -- each written by an expert or experts in the field -- the 2009 Edition offers these contributing authors' timely, practical analysis on many current issues in the construction industry. Construction Law Update brings you up-to-date with new developments impacting six major geographical regions of the United States: Southeast, Northeast, Southwest, West, Northwest, and Midwest. For these regions, you'll discover what's happening in vital areas like: New legislation affecting payment obligations Bidding rights and obligations Contractual rights and obligations Bonds and liens Insurance and sureties Building Code issues Arbitration And more!...

Licensing Update 2009 is the definitive one-volume handbook covering the year's most significant cases and developments in licensing . It identifies critical trends that licensing professionals and practitioners must understand thoroughly in this rapidly evolving area. Up-to-date, incisive, analytical, and essential, this valuable manual helps you keep up with the explosive pace of licensing with guidance from licensing experts in their area of specialty. You'll find in-depth insights and valuable analysis on recent developments and important trends of licensing issues from leading practitioners who are experts in their field. Licensing Update 2009 is organized as a handy quick reference" to help you save time in structuring stronger agreements to protect your licensing interest. You'll get extensive coverage of developments in audit and accounting practices, tax considerations, antitrust concerns and many of the bottom-line issues that you need to address to ensure day-to-day profitability of your license agreements....