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"Prepared by experienced Florida practitioners, this substantive and practical guide covers all the vital litigation and non-litigation matters associated with Florida tort law. The only in-depth, comprehensive treatment of this area, this multi-volume work analyzes case and statutory law, highlights developing trends, and provides numerous forms, including sample complaints, discovery motions, checklists, and settlement agreements, to help the attorney handle all aspects of the case."

"The LexisNexis Practice Guide: Florida Business Torts gives you step-by-step guidance on how to litigate business torts cases in Florida. The task-based format provides practice tips created by expert Florida practitioners and judges, including strategic points, warnings, judicial notes, and traps, on topics ranging from identifying actionable unfair trade practices to selecting remedies for fraud claims to defending against cybersquatting. Other features include checklists, core cases for important points of law, and extensive forms, including sample complaints."

"These models accurately and impartially present the elements and critical definitions of business torts law in language that is understandable and familiar to the average juror. Chapter introductions give overviews of the current state of the law, including the major recent cases in most jurisdictions, with discussions of the practical issues you might have to consider. Individual instructions are followed by commentary that includes discussion of the cases from which the instruction was derived, as well as how and when to adapt the instruction to particular cases, to the laws of particular states, to the requirements of particular jurisdictions, or in the light of inconsistent authority."

"This publication covers a variety of important business torts, including: Breach of fiduciary duty, including directors' and officers' liability -- Unjust dismissal and employment covenants not to compete -- Actions to recover for third party interference with contract relations, prospective advantage, lawful business and employment relations -- Commercial defamation and deceptive advertising -- Private RICO actions in the commercial context -- Trademark, copyright and patent infringement"

"This edition of Business Torts and Unfair Competition Handbook revises, updates, and greatly expands the second edition to serve as a practical guide to the substantive and procedural issues that arise at the intersection of antitrust and business tort and unfair competition law. It makes this developing and ever-changing area of law more accessible to antitrust and non-antitrust practitioners alike."

In-depth legal and policy analyses of compensatory and punitive damages in personal injury, wrongful death, and property damage cases.