This book provides up to date and comprehensive in its coverage of legal and regulatory issues-and organized to permit instructors to tailor the materials to their particular approach. This book engages students by relating law to everyday events with which they are already familiar and by its clear, concise, and readable style. It also provides context and essential concepts across the entire range of legal issues with which managers and business executives must grapple. The text provides legal acumen necessary for business people to talk in an educated way to their customers, employees, suppliers, government officials-and to their own lawyers.