A Cure for Liticaphobia
Writing is not life,” wrote Stephen King in his book On Writing (2000), “but I think that sometimes it can be
a way back to life.” Truly, writing has immense restorative effects. Anguish quickly dissipates once the writer starts the first words of a letter or a book. Writing law books provides a unique cpportunity to expand the far reaches of the legal profession. Books should be written to make the law more appealing to readers, including. PT Barnum’s “myriad suckers,” H.L. Mencken’s “swarming booboisie,” and C. Wright Mills’s “power elite.” Beneath the dreary surface of conventional wisdom taught in law schools, there is a prodigious trove of iconoclastic teachings that are illuminating the past and signaling future legal trends. Students of the law should endeavor to have occasional upheavals of the mind that are akin to Cardozo’s “introspective searchings of the spirit,” and Calamandrei’s “expression of a soul-searching reappraisal.” Piero Calamandrei may have been right when he wrote about the “feeling” for the law that develops into a “a kind of clairvoyance” over years of practical experience at the bar.
Getting rich, God forbid. Common sense, which has remained uncommon, if you believe Voltaire. The subject is asset or property protection, not wealth acquisition. Exposition and survey of the legal techniques used by experts to protect assets by reducing your chances of being torn apart at the height of the litigation bedlam. Workers, small entrepreneurs, and those in the “middle class” may benefit from this book by learning how to guard their lifetime savings. Insulating legally acquired properties, not assets derived from unlawful activities. Asset protection may be just what the doctor ordered, the perfect cure for people who are suffering from lithographic (fear of lawsuits). Some secrets of the trade are revealed in this book to demystify the field of asset protection. In some parts, the discussion of the subject becomes downright technical. It cannot be helped. This is the nature of the beast. Asset protection is not just a statute but a combination of laws, a fusion of various doctrines and hodgepodge remedies found in other established branches of law rolled up into one field of legal specialty. Asset protection law is rough terrain indeed, a veritable rain forest in the boundless sphere of jurisprudence. It has been reported that the term “asset protection” became part of common lexicon when two lawyers from Denver, Colorado popularized the term in 1987 while conducting lectures on the offshore asset protection trust concept. Since then, this new field of law has continued to flourish, thanks largely to the boom of the Internet as an information dissemination medium.