Essentials of the Legal Environment of Business is a briefer, more focused version of the authors’ comprehensive Business Law and the Legal Environment textbook.This textbook covers all the key topics of business law but has a lighter coverage of business contracts and omits the chapters on sales and leases, banking and commercial paper, wills and estates, insurance, and accountancy. It is organized into three main sections: An Introduction to Law (introducing students to the main concepts of the legal environment of business, Black-Letter Law (covering the business law fundamentals of tort, contract, property, agency, and business organization), and Government Regulation (dealing with various aspects of government regulation of business, including regulation for a social safety net).