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From economics Nobel Laureate Gary Becker and historian Guity Nashat Becker comes this collection of the economist's popular BusinessWeek columns These 138 essays have fueled numerous debates, touching on hot-button issues from crime to organization of sports. The Beckers' surprising--and uncompromising--positions on drugs ("legalize them"), immigration ("auction off immigration slots"), welfare ("curtail it sharply"), and other topics provide a provocative commentary on our times..
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Grandparent rights in reality are about a child's right to maintain an ongoing relationship with loving grandparents with whom they have formed an attachment Grandparents play a significant role in the lives of children, it is a unique and separate relationship therefore family dynamics should not pose a threat to the bond that has developed. Law reform as a deterrent for denied access and a means to furthur rights of grandparents and grandchildren is coincidently the focus and accomplishment of one individual grandmother, who happens to be the author. This ia true story of an ordinary individual who turned an adverse situation, that of a disenfranchised grandparent, into an opportunity, changing a law and helping others. The book weaves personal experiences and stories into practical advice for seeking balance during tumultuous times. Encouragement to become an active advocate on behalf of children's emotional security is the primary message..
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Community-Based Health Organizations presents the basic principles and practical design and management elements that are needed to create an effective community-based health organization Once in place, these institutions provide a viable health delivery alternative to traditional, mainstream health care organizations. This important resource includes a historical and theoretical overview of the development of community-based health care organizations and offers guidance for developing the structure and capacity of CBHOs to effectively meet the health needs within their communities. Filled with illustrative examples and case studies, Community-Based Health Organizations is designed to be a practical resource. The authors show how to develop leadership and strategic plans, strengthen management, leverage and maximize resources, evaluate programs, and position a CBHO in a changing and competitive health care environment..
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A collection of 18 essays addressing the policy and politics of educating English language learners. Subjects include demographic change and its educational implications, American responses to language diversity, public controversies over bilingual education, high-stakes testing and its impact on English language learners, and the precarious status of language rights in the USA..
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This book is designed for a clinical program or pro bono program that assists low income taxpayers with federal income tax controversies. It draws from four main areas: lawyering skills of interviewing and counseling; ethics; federal tax practice and procedure; and federal tax litigation. Appendices with examples of documents and letters are included to provide practical material. Basic information in the four areas is presented through a combination of commentary, cases, excerpts from federal tax law and procedure, and questions for discussion Appendices provide sample documents that compliment the topics. Unlike other law school case books, the cases have not been extensively edited because the book is meant to provide students and practitioners the opportunity to fully explore and understand the facts and holdings of the cases. Generally, footnotes in reprinted cases and other materials are numbered as in the original. The student who completes a course using this book should have a firm grounding in tax practice and procedure common to tax controversies of individual taxpayers. Practitioners who use this book will be prepared to assist low income taxpayers pro bono, be part of volunteer work with a low income taxpayer clinic or bar association program. While the organization of the book is based on an ideal of how material should be presented, professors can rearrange the reading based on the topics presented in current clinic cases. Practitioners can pick and choose the chapters applicable to their cases, but should not skip the chapters on lawyering skills. Future editions will add chapters on the holistic representation of low income taxpayers (including social and other legal issues that may arise in legal representation), tax issues of importance to immigrants and federal tax crime issues. About the Author: Diana Leyden, Clinical Professor, University of Connecticut School of Law. She joined the School of Law faculty in 1999 to create and teach the Tax Clinic, one then 34 low income taxpayer clinics supported by IRS grants. She holds a B.A. from Union College, a J.D. from University of Connecticut School of Law, and an LLM in Taxation from Georgetown University. She clerked as a law clerk to Hon. Herbert Chabot, United States Tax Court from 1982-1984. Prior to joining the faculty of the School of Law, she was in private practice, specializing in transactional tax planning and tax litigation, in Boston and Washington, DC and worked for tax revenue departments in Massachusetts and Connecticut in the areas of corporate and state income tax. She is frequent lecturer at the ABA Tax Section and served as the chair of the ABA Tax Section Low Income Taxpayer Committee and Vice Chair of the Pro Bono Committee. She was the 2005 recipient of the ABA Section on Taxation Pro Bono Award. She also served as ABA Tax Section liaison to the Renaissance on Idealism of Legal Profession and on the Blue Ribbon Commission to Study the Independence of the IRS Appeals Division. She is frequent lecturer to Low Income Taxpayer Clinic conferences. She has worked on training issues for the IRS and the National Taxpayer Advocate Service. She was also a former member of the Internal Revenue Service Advisory Council and testified before the IRS Oversight Board on recommendations for improvements in customer service..
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Recipient of 2004 Book Award of the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution.

Surprisingly little has been written on how to represent clients in mediation as a problem-solving forum. In this groundbreaking book, Hal Abramson offers a bold, new methodology for problem-solving advocacy—the skills that lawyers are most likely to need in their legal practice.

During mediation, Abramson says, you should negotiate using a creative problem-solving approach to achieve the two goals of meeting your client’s interests and overcoming any impediments to settlement. Your negotiation strategy should take specific advantage of the presence of a mediator at each of the six key junctures in the mediation process.

This mediation formula, Abramson points out, provides a framework for answering such persistent mediation representation questions as: What types of cases are suitable for mediation? How do you approach the other attorney about using mediation without looking weak or desperate? How do you prepare your case and client for mediation?

Abramson begins by discussing how to be an effective negotiator. Mediation, he reminds us, is simply a continuation of the ongoing negotiation. He then explores the mediation process from the vantage point of an advocate, focusing on the different stages of mediation, the function of opening statements, the use of joint sessions and caucuses, and the various approaches and techniques of mediators. The next five chapters cover the knowledge and skills needed to effectively perform four specific roles in mediation representation: advising your clients about the mediation option, negotiating an agreement to mediate with other attorneys, preparing cases and clients for the mediation session, and appearing in the pre-mediation conferences, mediation sessions, and post-sessions. The final chapter presents alternative processes for resolving any remaining issues in the event that the mediation does not result in settling all the issues.

The book is filled with handy checklists and appendices including samples of a briefing paper, opening statements, agreements to mediate, a confidentiality agreement, mediation rules, and a detailed explanation of how to use decision trees..
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Readers will benefit from practical advice on how to better serve the client in person, launch a fund-raising campaign, work with the media, market programs, organize programs around historical events, train and successfully use volunteers, and avoid the most common public relations errors by planning..
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Tens of thousands of children in the United States alone are waiting in foster care for parents, and many Americans, single and married, want to open their hearts and homes to these children who wait. A landmark 1980 federal law made adopting and raising special needs children affordable even for people of limited means. What could be easier than matching these kids to these families? The reality is that many prospective adopters never complete the adoption process because of red tape, regulations, and institutional lethargy. Among the adults who complete a homestudy or placement, lack of support services and advocacy training sometimes leads to heartbreak and adoption failure--not a happy ending. Adopting and Advocating for the Special Needs Child bridges the gap between the desire to help a waiting child and the reality of America's special needs adoption system. It is designed to be used by adoption professionals and adoptive parents, to help them get started, keep going, and locate whatever additional information and support they need. The authors are adoption professionals, long-time support volunteers, child advocates, and mothers of a total of 23 children, 14 of them adopted children with special needs..
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