07/30/2010

An uncasebook about estate planning?

Law professors are finding creative ways to use Deborah L. Jacobs’s new book, Estate Planning Smarts: A Practical, User-Friendly, Action-Oriented Guide in their classrooms. Planning ahead for Fall and Spring courses, they are adopting Estate Planning Smarts as an alternative or complement to a traditional casebook.

Widely praised for its plain English approach, this book has another virtue while the estate tax is in flux: Jacobs issues updates that can be downloaded from the book's Web site www.estateplanningsmarts.com, and tweets at http://twitter.com/djworking. Available through booksellers, including Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.

Full-time faculty and adjuncts scheduled to teach courses during the 2010-2011 academic year can request an examination copy from [email protected].

Jul 30, 2010 12:29:08 PM | Deborah L. Jacobs

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