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PA Keystone, Lawyer's Desk Library of Practice |
By Burton R. Laub
AUTHORSHIP:
Current supplementation and revisions by LISA STEFANONI
Supplementation 1969-2004 by W. EDWARD SELL
Published: 1964-2012
Most recent supplement/update: 2012 supplement & 10 textlets; released 4/12; $179.50
(Current Subscriber's Price: $179.50)
ISBN: 1-887024-57-3
8 VOLUMES, LOOSE-LEAF, PRICE: $495.00
Judge Laub's KEYSTONE is the one unique Pennsylvania work designed to give you fast, accurate answers in daily procedure. Two Hundred Seventy-Two (272) separate topics are presently covered across a broad spectrum of practice, and will be expanded as new areas come into focus. (Click here to view sample topic)
Here is a launching pad for the many steps a busy lawyer must take each day in the pursuit of a general practice. Not only will it provide a fresh approach each time a specific problem appears, but it will stimulate your memory, cut down research time and reduce the number of interviews with your client.
PURPOSE
A quick approach to the initiation of legal actions, drafting of instruments, and the taking of both aggressive and protective steps in the course of litigation.
PLAN
Guides the Pennsylvania lawyer through the important channels, indicating possible courses of action and raising the red flag of danger by appropriate caveats; everything from the conduct of the interview with your client to the conclusion of the matter.
ARRANGEMENT
Step-by-step arrangement which includes: Basic text, important citations, appropriate sources for research, check lists, location of legal forms required and appropriate rules pinpointed.
SUMMARY OF CONTENTS
Binder 1
| Absentees and Presumed Decedents | Abuse of Process | Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition Program (ARD) | Accounting |
| Accounting Fundamentals for Lawyers | Acknowledgments | Administrators | Admiralty |
| Adoption | Adulterated Foods | Adverse Possession | Age Discrimination |
| Alienation of Affections | Alternate Dispute Resolution | Amusement Rides | Anatomical Gifts |
| Annulment of Marriage | Antenuptial Contracts | Appeal and Certiorari | Appearance & Withdrawal |
| Arbitration | Attachment-Garnishment | Attorney Fees | Attorney Representation Agreements |
| Auction Sales and Auctioneers | Automobile Lemon Law | Bail | Bailments |
| Bankruptcy |
Binder 2
| Bingo and Other Small Games of Chance | Boating Laws | Breach of The Peace | Bulk Transfers |
| Burial Grounds and Cemeteries | Business Records | Business Trusts | Camping Laws |
| Change of Name By Individuals | Charitable Solicitations | Charitable Trusts | Child Support (Revised 2012) |
| Civil Action | Class Actions | Collection of Commercial Claims | Collective Bargaining |
| Commitments of The Mentally Disabled and Alcoholics | Common Law Marriage | Comparative Negligence | Computer Crime |
| Condominiums | Confession of Judgment | Consolidation & Severance | Consumer Credit (Truth In Lending) |
| Consumer Discount Company Act | Consumer Protection | Contempt | Contraband Forfeitures |
| Contracts In General | Contribution | Conversion-Equitable (Revised 2012) | Conversion-Tortious |
| Copyrights | Corporations-Amendment of Articles of Business Corporation | Corporations-Amendment of Articles of Nonprofit Corporation | Corporations-Bylaws of Business |
| Corporations-Bylaws of Nonprofit | Corporations-Dissolution of Business | Corporations-Dissolution of Nonprofit | Corporations-Formation of Business Corporations |
| Corporations-Formation of Nonprofit | Corporations-Professional | Corporations-Qualification of Foreign Business | Corporations-Statutory Close |
Binder 3
| Corrupt Organizations (PA. RICO) | Costs-Taxation of | Counterclaims | Covenants Not To Compete |
| Credit Cards | Criminal Law Checklists | Child Custody (Revised 2012) | Dead Man's Act |
| Death Actions | Decedent's Estate-Settlement of With Assets Over $10,000 | Declaratory Judgments | Dedication |
| Deeds Conveying Real Estate | Default Judgment | Deficiency Judgment | Delay Damages |
| Dependent and Delinquent Child Adjudication | Dependent Children | Depositions and Discovery | Desertion & Non-Support |
| District Justice-Civil Actions | Divestiture of Liens | Divorce and Alimony | Domicile |
| Driving Under Influence (Revised 2012) | Easements | Ejectment | Election Recounts and Election Contests |
Binder 4
| Embezzlement | Eminent Domain | Employment Discrimination | Equity |
| ERISA | Escheat (Revised 2012) | Escrows | Examining the Expert Witness |
| Execution | Executors | Extradition | Family Medical Leave Act |
| Federal Administrative Agencies | Federal Employer's Liability Act | Federal Estate and Gift Taxes | Federal Tort Claims Act |
| Fictitious Names-Registration of | Forgery | Franchises | Fraudulent Conveyances |
| Freedom Of Information Act | Funeral Establishments | Goods and Services Installment Sales Act | Governmental Immunity |
| Guardian Ad Litem - Trustee Ad Litem | Guardians of Minors' Estates | Gun Control | Habeas Corpus |
| Immigration and Naturalization | Incapacitated Persons' Estates |
Binder 5
| Indemnity | Industrial Development Loans | Informed Consent | Injunctions |
| Insurance Fraud | Interpleader | Interstate Land Sales-Full Disclosure Act | Intervention |
| Intestate Succession | Investigation-Personal Injury Cases | Joinder of Additional Parties | Joint and Several Liability |
| Joint Venture | Judicial Sales | Juvenile Court Proceedings | Landlord and Tenant Act |
| Land Sale Contracts | Letters of Credit | Libel and Slander | Limitation of Actions |
| Limited Liability Company | Liquor and Malt Beverage Licenses | Living Trusts | Living Wills |
| Long-Arm Statute in PA | Malicious Prosecution | Mandamus | Malpractice Law in PA |
| Mechanic's Liens | Medical Records | Medicaid | Medicare |
| Megan's Law | Minimum Wage-PA | Mobile Homes and Mobile Home Parks | Mortgage Foreclosure |
| Motion for Continuance (Revised 2012) | Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings | Motion for Post-Trial Relief | Motion for Summary Judgment |
Binder 6
| Motor Vehicle Insurance | Motor Vehicle Sales Finance Act | No-Fault Motor Vehicle Insurance | Notary Public |
| Novation | Nuisance | Nursing Homes | Occupational Diseases |
| Occupational Safety and Health Act-OSHA | Opening and Striking Off Judgments | Opening and Vacating Streets and Roads | Orphans' Court Examiners |
| Parental Liability | Parole, Probation & Pardon | Partition of Real Property | Partnerships-Dissolution of |
| Partnerships-Formation of | Patents | Paternity Proceedings | Pension Reform Act of 1974 (ERISA) |
| Perjury | Plain Language Act | Post Conviction Relief Act | Postnuptial Agreements |
| Power of Attorney | Powers of Appointment | Preliminary Arraignment and Preliminary Hearing | Preliminary Objections |
| Pretrial Conference | Privacy-Invasion of | Probate Guide For Executors and Administrators | Products Liability |
| Professional Associations |
Binder 7
| Professional Liability-Lawyers' | Protection From Abuse Act | Public Utility Commission-ICC | Punitive Damages |
| Quiet Title Actions | Quo Warranto | Racketeer Influenced and Corruption Act (RICO) | Real Estate Sales and Closings (Revised 2012) |
| Real Estate Sale and Purchase Check List | Receivers | Receiving Stolen Property (Revised 2012) | Reformation of Instruments |
| Registered Limited Liability Partnership | Releases-Negligence Cases | Rent Withholding Act | Replevin |
| Residential Mortgages | Restrictive Covenants in Realty | Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act | Right To Know Act |
| Safe Packaging | Safe-Deposits | Search and Seizure | Secured Transactions |
| Separation Agreements | Service of Process (Revised 2012) | Sexual Harassment | Shareholders' Derivative Suit |
Binder 8
| Sheriff's Interpleader | Small Claim Litigation | Small Estates-Settlement of by Petition | Social Security |
| Sovereign Immunity | Specific Performance | Statute of Frauds | Stock Valuation Charts |
| Structured Settlements | Subchapter S Corporations | Subdivision and Land Development | Subpoenas |
| Subrogation | Summary Proceedings Under Vehicle Code | Sunshine Law | Suppression of Evidence |
| Suretyship | Suspension and Revocation of Operatoring Privilege (Revised 2012) | Tax Sales-PA | Tenancies |
| Termination of Parental Rights | Trademarks | Trade Secrets | Transfers to Minors |
| Trial by Jury | Trusts | Unemployment Compensation | Unincorporated Associations |
| USA Patriot Act (The) | Voting Trusts | Wage Payment & Collection Law | Waiver of Conflict of Interest |
| Warehouseman | Weights and Measures | Welfare Laws in PA | Will Contests |
| Workers' Compensation | Writ of Prohibition | Wrongful Discharge of Employee | Zoning Appeals |
Also available on the Bisel-Link CD-ROM!
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