A Comprehensive reference and treatise, Advising Minnesota Corporations and Other Business Organizations examines thoroughly, with detailed commentary and analysis, the issues confronting a business, from initial promotion and start-up, through governance, financial distress, confrontation and litigation, to dissolution. It answers the most critical questions that arise at a board meeting, discussing internal corporation decisions, and offers advice on external legal issues including advertising, labor and employment, international trade, copyright and intellectual property, bankruptcy, and domestic relations. Written by two leading authorities and boasting over 30 contributing authors who practice variously at large full-service law firms, "in house," and in smaller specialized firms; Advising Minnesota Corporations and Other Business Organizations is a required resource and reference work for every Minnesota lawyer. Business lawyers and general counsel will find this work indispensable, and lawyers in every area of practice will use this treatise to address common problems arising in the context of the business lives of their clients. Value Package

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Why “wealth bias” is a holdover from a pre-democratic past—and how to restore a healthier balance of power: “Thought-provoking . . . well-documented and readable.” —Library Journal Wealth inequality, corporate welfare, and industrial pollution are symptoms—the fevers and chills of the economy. The underlying illness, says Business Ethics magazine founder Marjorie Kelly, is shareholder primacy: the corporate drive to make profits for shareholders no matter who pays the cost. In The Divine Right of Capital, Kelly argues that focusing on the interests of stockholders to the exclusion of everyone else’s interests is a form of discrimination based on property or wealth. She shows how this bias is held by our institutional structures, much as they once held biases against African Americans and women. The Divine Right of Capital exposes six aristocratic principles that corporations are built on, principles that we would never accept in our modern democratic society but which we accept unquestioningly in our economy. Wealth bias is a holdover from our pre-democratic past. It has enabled shareholders to become a kind of economic aristocracy. Kelly shows how to design more equitable alternatives—new property rights, new forms of corporate governance, new ways of looking at corporate performance—that build on both free-market and democratic principles. We think of shareholder primacy as the natural law of the free market, much as our forebears thought of monarchy as the most natural form of government. But in The Divine Right of Capital, Kelly brilliantly demonstrates that it is no more “natural” than any other human creation. People designed this system and people can change it. We need a change of mind as profound as that of the American Revolution—and this book provides practical guidance to help employees and communities change corporate governance and unfetter the genius of the free market.