Introduction to Business Organizations (2nd Edition)

In short, uncomplicated chapters, this volume walks readers through business organizations—sole proprietorships, partnerships, LLCs, and corporations (including not-for-profits)—from formation to dissolution. The essential elements of ways to do business are explored through examples of articles, agreements, resolutions and a state-specific chart of statutes. It includes drafting tips, checklists, and essentials of how to form, operate, maintain, merge or dissolve business organizations. Basic Concepts of Agency. Types of Business Organizations. The Sole Proprietorship. The General Proprietorship. The Limited Partnership. The Registered Limited Liability Partnership. The Corporation. Creation of the Corporation. Getting Underway. Shareholders and Shares. Directors and Officers. Operation of the Corporation. Dissolution of the Corporation. The Limited Liability Company. Changes in Corporate Structure. The Corporate Paralegal. Ethics.

Diane M. Baldwin, Esq., is an educator, attorney and literacy advocate in Dallas, Texas. She is a graduate of the University of Texas at Arlington and holds a J.D. from Southern Methodist University School of Law in Dallas. Baldwin is on the faculty of the Dallas public schools and teaches in the paralegal studies baccalaureate degree program at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas. She has written for the State Bar of Texas' Journal, the Dallas Bar Association's Headnotes, and The Paralegal Educator.

Frances Beall Whiteside is editor of the National Paralegal Reporter, published by the National Federation of Paralegal Associations. A practicing corporate paralegal from 1984-1998, she was president of her local professional association in Dallas, Texas, and named its 1994 Paralegal of the Year. She has taught in three paralegal studies programs and has been a speaker for numerous seminars around the nation on paralegal ethics and nontraditional careers for paralegals. She edits the study manual for PACE (Paralegal Advanced Competency Exam). Whiteside edits textbooks for and contributes to the newsletter of Pearson Publications Company. She holds M.L.A. and B.A. degrees from Southern Methodist University and a paralegal certificate from California State University at San Bernardino. Her email address is editor@paralegals.org.

Baldwin and Whiteside have co-authored articles for Legal Assistant Today and the National Paralegal Reporter. Their companion book, Introduction to Contracts, also published by Pearson, is in its fourth edition.