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Recent Nolo Author, Book and Software Mentions
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Best do-It-Yourself Legal Advice
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You don’t need to hire a lawyer to handle many routine legal matters. All you need is Nolo (www.nolo.com), a publisher of self-help legal fare that counsels you on writing a will or a living trust, buying real estate, or minimizing estate taxes. Nolo’s 140 paperbacks are edited by lawyers, and many come with CDs containing downloadable forms. They’re authoritative—and yet they clearly explain when your situation calls for hiring a lawyer.
Kiplinger’s Personal Finance – November 2006
Your Little Legal Companion: Helpful Advice for Life’s Big Events
…guides you through 50 of life’s key events that almost always come with legal implications...Your Little Legal Companion is a fine gift book, it’s a good book for sharing, it’s a cocktail table book for a little cocktail table, it’s a book for growing up, and it’s a book for getting out. Carry it in your cargo pants’ pocket, put it in your gear jacket or pop it in the case with your laptop. Sooner or later one of life’s events will send you search and your answer will be only a page flip away.
Realtytimes.com– October 8, 2006
Plan Your Estate and 8 Ways to Avoid Probate
Plan Your Estate, by attorneys Denis Clifford and Cora Jordan, includes a brief summary of state probate laws. You'll find more complete details for each state in Nolo's 8 Ways to Avoid Probate by Mary Randolph.
Los AngelesTimes– October 7, 2006
Work Less Live More: The New Way to Retire Early and Working for Yourself: Law & Taxes for Independent Contractors, Freelancers & Consultants
For the nuts and bolts, you can’t beat Working for Yourself: Law & Taxes for Contractors, Freelancers & Consultants, by Stephen Fishman. Whatever you do, don’t look like you're retired. “If you sit down with clients looking tanned and related, it can work against you,” says Bob Clyatt, author of Work Less, Live More: The New Way to Retire Early. “You don’t want to make this look like a hobby, or like you’re just puttering around.” Even if that’s what you’re really doing.
BusinessWeek – October 6, 2006
Your Little Legal Companion: Helpful Advice for Life’s Big Events
To avoid the negative financial consequences of making poor life decisions, read Your Little Legal Companion: Helpful Advice for Life’s Big Events. Organized around 50 common circumstances—such as quitting a job, becoming a landlord, getting a traffic ticket, and going to small claims court—the book offers 10 key pieces of advice for each situation with authority, brevity, and humor…Tips like these are gems for anyone who needs practical legal advice.
Written by the editors of Nolo, known for its do-it-yourself legal books, Your Little Legal Companion (Nolo Books; $9.95) is a useful reference for just about anyone, at every stage of life, including teenagers and retirees. But it is an excellent choice for those fresh out of high school or college, who could use a ready reference to deal with the often intimidating and confusing mysteries of adulthood. (I ordered copies for each of my kids, who range in age from 14 to23). A quick and easy read, with less than 200 pages of bite-sized advice, Your[Little] Legal Companion can be consumed in an afternoon…it’s hard to imagine a single more valuable source of useful information.
Black Enterprise Magazine – October 2006
Every Landlord’s Guide to Finding Great Tenants
Hounded by worrisome details, landlords often dread the task of finding new tenants. Every Landlord's Guide to Finding Great Tenants by Janet Portman offers balanced advice on the topic, shedding light on both the legal and practical aspects of finding great tenants.
Los AngelesTimes – August 13, 2006
Neighbor Law: Fences, Trees, Boundaries & Noise
…if you have problems with the neighbors, this is your bible. Now in its new-and-improved fifth edition and written by Cora Jordan, a Mississippi-based attorney, Neighbor Law (Nolo, 352 pages, $26.99) intelligently and calmly advises readers on how to handle all sorts of trouble—from water issues such as runoff and flooding, to barking dogs, unclear boundary lines and even the case of overzealous Christmas lights. This new edition includes new problems, such as secondhand smoke in apartments and condos, and a new chapter on using the Internet to research law, particularly local laws. Jordan, who is also a mediator, isn’t quick to send people a-suing. With each major category of conflict, she offers more neighborly ways to settle the dispute before advancing to court.
ChicagoTribune – August 7, 2006
Your Little Legal Companion: Helpful Advice for Life’s Big Events
Wouldn't it be nice to have a simple, trusted guidebook for the many financial dilemmas we often face? I'm not talking about an A-to-Z tome on all things financial and legal -- just something that would offer basic tips to get you started. Well, I've found just such a book. It's Your Little Legal Companion: Helpful Advice for Life's Big Events, written by editors at Nolo. This is my choice for the Color of Money Book Club selection for August.
WashingtonPost – August 6, 2006
Get It Together: Organize Your Records so Your Family Won’t Have To
Putting your letter of final instructions in a safe deposit box isn't a good idea, says Melanie Cullen, author of Get It Together: Organize Your Records So Your Family Won't Have To, by Nolo Press. If you die on a weekend or a holiday, your family may not be able to get to your safe deposit box until the bank opens. In some states, opening the safe deposit box could take weeks.
Attaching your letter of final instructions to your will isn't wise, either, because your will might not be found and read until several weeks after your death. Instead, consider storing your instructions in a home safe, and make sure your executor or someone else you trust knows where to find it, Cullen says.
USAToday – July 28, 2006
Your Little Legal Companion: Helpful Advice for Life’s Big Events
… presents 50 scenarios (renting an apartment, investing money, surviving a natural disaster) and then a list of legal tactics and practical advice on you to deal with the situation.
SacramentoBee – July 27, 2006
The Executor’s Guide: Settling a Loved One’s Estate or Trust and Quicken WillMaker Plus 2006
Worrying about estate taxes when you don't have a will is like fretting about contracting African sleeping sickness while you smoke a pack of Camels. If you die without a will, your state will distribute your assets, based on what's known as "intestate succession" laws, says Mary Randolph, author of The Executor's GuidebyNoloPress…[One] option is a do-it-yourself will… Quicken WillMaker Plus, a software program from Nolo Press, includes a long list of documents, from a basic will to a living trust.
USA Today– June 13, 2006
Investors in Your Backyard: How to Raise Business Capital from the People You Know
Plenty of books explain how to snag venture capital funding, though most entrepreneurs will never do so. But about half of small business owners do raise startup funds from family members. Asheesh Advani’s Investors in Your Backyard: How to Raise Business Capital from the People You Know is the book for that half. It’s a step-by-step, example-laden, form-filled tome on how to secure scratch from your acquaintances, without annoying or bamboozling them.
BusinessWeek Small Biz – Summer 2006
Every Landlord’s Legal Guide
I read your letter to Janet Portman, attorney and author of Every Landlord's Legal Guide (Nolo, 2006)…Whatever you do, don't just put [the bad tenant’s] stuff on the lawn and change the locks, no matter how tempting. Even the world's worst tenants have rights.
ChicagoTribune – May 12, 2006
The New Bankruptcy: Will It Work For You
It's true that filing for bankruptcy has gotten more complicated and expensive since Oct. 17, when bankruptcy reform went into effect, but it's still possible for most filers to get relief from their debts…read a book published by Nolo called The New Bankruptcy: Will It Work for You?
Los AngelesTimes – April 9, 2006
The Executor’s Guide: Settling a Loved One’s Estate or Trust and Parent Savvy: Straight Answers to Your Family’s Financial, Legal & Practical Questions
“There’s a lot you can do before someone does die to make things easier,” says Mary Randolph, author of The Executor’s Guide: Settling a Loved One’s Estate or Trust. Becoming a guardian is a life-changing responsibility…Nihara Choudhri, a lawyer and author of Parent Savvy, recommends that parents leave money directly to the guardian to help defray extra household costs, perhaps through a simple trust or an inexpensive term life insurance policy with the guardian named as beneficiary.
Money– April, 2006
Tax Savvy for Small Business
Gene Fairbrother, president of Dallas-based MBA Consulting Inc., directs the ShopTalk 800 program of the National Association for the Self-Employed… The following is a selecting of what he considers some great resources for getting your finances in order…Tax Savvy for Small Business: Year-Round Tax Strategies to Save You Money, By Frederick W. Daily: One of the most common mistakes small-business owners make is thinking that they can just turn all their financial matters over to a bookkeeper or accountant. However, the first rule of business financial is that nobody, absolutely nobody, is going to have as much concern for your money as you will! This book is one of the best plain-language books on small-business taxes.
The Wall Street Journal – March 27, 2006
Investors in Your Backyard: How to Raise Business Capital From the People You Know
Written documentations is one of the most important things you can have when receiving private investment in your business, according to Asheesh Advani, in his book Investors in Your Backyard
Orange County Register– February 27, 2006
Divorce & Money: How to Make the Best Financial Decisions During Divorce
It’s relatively easy to part ways, creditwise. Nolo’s no-frills Divorce & Money lays out…options for allocation marital debt.
Motley Fool – February 7, 2006
Parent Savvy: Straight Answers to Your Family’s Financial, Legal & Practical Questions
…the number one criterion is to choose someone who’s going to act the way you would act in any given situation, according to Nihara K. Choudhri, a lawyer and author of Parent Savvy…which contains a comprehensive chapter on choosing guardians
WashingtonPost– January 29, 2006
Work Less, Live More: The New Way to Retire Early
… offers intelligent and practical tips on systematic savings, sensible spending and rational investing to make retirement money, even if it’s not a fortune, last a lifetime.
Tribune Media Services– January 8, 2006
Whoops! I’m in Business: A Crash Course in Business Basics
Readers who savor life one dream at a time will bury their noses in this guidebook for people who hadn't really planned to go into business for themselves but suddenly find one growing and growing in their garages.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel – January 1, 2006
Press Quotes
"Nolo is always there in a jam as the nation's premier publisher of do-it-yourself legal books."
-- Newsweek
"The most prominent U.S. publisher of self-help legal aids."
-- Time Magazine
"The masters of personal law software."
-- Fortune
"When it comes to self-help legal stuff, nobody does a better job than Nolo."
-- USA Today
"Nolo is a pioneer in both consumer and business self-help books and software."
-- Los Angeles Times
"Legal self-help books from Nolo are the best available."
-- Dallas Morning News
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-- The New York Times
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-- Barron's
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