In order to assemble the vast quantity of statutes, cases, articles, and books that have become available since the fourth edition of this book was published, it was necessary to enlist the aid of numerous friends and colleagues. Their help is greatly appreciated, and some deserve special recognition. I would, therefore, like to express my sincere thanks to my collaborator Sarah J. Tugman, Esq., for her extraordinary help with this revision. She has sacrificed many evenings and weekends to bring this project to fruition.
Sarah and I would like to thank Greg Rogers of the accounting firm of Rogers Financial Services and Sean Kim of the accounting firm of Paxton, Miller & Kim CPAs, LLC, for their time and expertise in reviewing the tax chapters.
I would also like to thank Amanda-Ann Bryan Gomm, JD, Lewis & Clark College, 2017, for her valuable assistance in updating portions of this text.
I am indebted to Tad Crawford of Skyhorse Publishing and his staff for their help in publishing this volume.
We would also like to thank Megan Randall and Kiara Meyer for their help with some of the technical aspects of this revision. Thanks also to my paralegal Sara Cain for all of her assistance and numerous recommendations.
I am very grateful for the blurbs written by Valerie Plame, whose story is told in the movie Fair Game, as well as the blurbs written by New York Times bestsellers Jean Auel, Phillip Margolin, and Graham Salisbury.
I am grateful for the support of my children and grandchildren. My son Robert has been very helpful with technology issues, and my daughter Colleen has been extremely creative with her graphic design skills. Her husband Rudy, a soon-to-be lawyer who has recently joined our law firm, has been very helpful with research. I am also grateful to my grandson Brian for his personal assistance and to the newest member of my family, my granddaughter Athena, for her cheerfulness. I would also like to thank my brother Michael DuBoff, a New York attorney, for his valuable recommendations and suggestions.
My late sister, Candace DuBoff Jones, JD, Northwestern School of Law, Lewis & Clark College, 1977; my late father, Rueben R. DuBoff; and my late mother, Millicent Barbara DuBoff all provided me with the inspiration to create works such as this.
I valued my mother-in-law Cumi Elena Crawford’s faith, trust, and inspiration, which helped me create this project. Finally, I would like to express my sincere gratitude and acknowledge the contribution to this project by my partner in law and in life, Mary Ann Crawford DuBoff. Without her, this fifth edition of The Law (in Plain English)® for Writers would never have become a reality.
—Leonard D. DuBoff