5/04/07--The Practising Law Institute this week published Soderquist on Corporate Law and Practice (3d edition), with BC Law's Lawrence Cunningham joining Linda Smiddy of Vermont Law School for the first time in this newly revised and updated edition of a respected treatise.  Like its predecessor editions, by the late Larry Soderquist of Vanderbilt University Law School and the late A.A. Sommer, Jr. of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, the new edition provides a clear and readable introduction to the major areas of corporate law, with special focus on the Model Business Corporation Act and the Delaware corporation statutes, and aims to convey not only legal principles but also how corporate lawyers think and solve problems.

The Third Edition expands the treatment of accounting issues relevant to corporate practice, highlights the increasingly popularity of alternative business organization forms that offer limited liability, deals with the effects of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, adds new discussion of social enterprises, expands discussion of the duty of boards of directors to maintain systems of internal control, adds new material on contractual deal-protection devices in merger transactions and includes other updates throughout. 

This is Professor Cunningham's first book written for practicing lawyers, although it is his 10th published book altogether.  He has published two teaching books on Accounting plus teaching books in Corporations and Corporate Finance as well as four books for general audiences and a book featuring a collection of BC faculty scholarship.   He also has written some 35 full-length scholarly articles along with dozens of shorter pieces.  Cunningham's work tends to congregate around problems arising from the intersection between law and accounting, including corporate law and securities regulation as well as contracts and legal ethics among numerous other subjects.