The Big Idea
Owning your own business is one of the surest ways to establish financial security for you and your family. Whether you have been in business for a long time or not, it pays to know your rights as a businessperson, as well as the legal environment of business.

This book gives useful, practical, and down-to-earth information on everything you need to know about starting your own business to managing it effectively. It will teach you how to do things right the first time, and help you spot and resolve potential problems before they get big. Most of all, you will not find legal jargon and technicalities here ? just simple and straightforward discussions of how the law affects businesses everyday.

About the Author
Robert A. Stein - Robert A. Stein, Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer of the American Bar Association, is the former dean of the University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis. He has served as executive director since 1994.

Stein has overall management responsibility for staff operations at the Associations headquarters in Chicago and its Washington, D.C., office.

Overseeing a staff of more than 900 persons and budgets of more than $175 million, Stein also is responsible for the development and execution of strategic and tactical plans to implement the programs and policies adopted by the ABAs Board of Governors and House of Delegates.

Stein served as chair of the ABAs Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, as well as a member of the American Bar Foundation Board of Directors and the Minnesota State Bar Association Board of Governors prior to his appointment as executive director of the ABA.