New Book Provides Strategies On Organizing and Advising Start-Ups in Today's Evolving Economy.

Business/Technology Editors

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4, 2001

Boston Law Firm Gadsby Hannah LLP and MCLE Announce Availability of Text Book for Those Who Incorporate or Advise Growing and Emerging

Businesses

Gadsby Hannah LLP, a leading business and technology law firm, today announces the release of "Starting Up and Advising Emerging Massachusetts Businesses," a book edited by contributing author Lawrence H. Gennari Esq., partner at Gadsby Hannah LLP, chairman of the firm's Emerging Growth and Technology Practice and one of Greater Boston's top forty business and civic leaders under forty years of age, according to the Boston Business Journal. The book, issued by Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc. (MCLE), provides new ideas and strategies on organizing and advising growing and emerging businesses in today's evolving economy.

"Starting Up and Advising Emerging Massachusetts Businesses" is the latest title in MCLE's growing business and commercial practice library and covers initial issues of incorporation, including holding periods and stock issues; tax and non-tax impacts of the choice of business entity; organizational steps; employment; proprietary information and intellectual property that will comprise a businesses assets; financing and growing the business; and exit strategies. For those who incorporate and advise emerging businesses, this new textbook represents a practical and valuable investment in practical know-how.

"Helping a new business become successful is extremely challenging in today's chilly economic climate," said editor and contributing author Lawrence Gennari, chairman of the Emerging Growth & Technology Group, Gadsby Hannah LLP. "This book is a valuable guide for those whose expertise will be tapped to effectively meet these new and often difficult challenges, as it provides innovative, practical ideas and strategies designed to help a business through its entire life cycle."

In addition to Gadsby Hannah's Lawrence Gennari, other contributing authors include John M. McKelway, Esq., Gadsby Hannah LLP; Steven M. Carr, J.D., Jamie F. Gross, J.D., L.L.M. and Emmie D. Reed, J.D., M.S.T., Deloitte & Touche LLP; Jonathan D. Gworek, Esq., Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton, PC; John C. Michaelson, Needham & Company, Inc.; Leo R. Reynolds, Esq., Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, PC; Peter M. Rosenblum, Esq., Foley, Hoag & Eliot LLP; and Richard J. Testa, Esq., Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault LLP. Together, these authors touch on the most important issues facing the entrepreneurial community through real-world case studies, tutorials and issue analysis.

The new textbook can be purchased online at www.mcle.org for $125.00 or by calling toll-free at [phone].

About Gadsby Hannah LLP

Gadsby Hannah LLP is an eighty-attorney law firm concentrating on business and technology law. Since 1963, Gadsby Hannah has provided counsel to businesses and organizations with local, national and international interests, to private individuals, particularly those with an entrepreneurial focus, to public entities and government agencies and to investment firms and financial institutions.

About MCLE

MCLE's primary constituency is Massachusetts attorneys and its primary content emphasis is applied Massachusetts law. Spanning all experience levels, MCLE offers a progression of study to build, maintain and update knowledge and skills throughout a lawyer's career. To respond to the diverse needs of the bar, MCLE offers a curriculum of full-service multimedia CLE in various specialized practice concentrations for practitioners from a variety of practice situations at locations across the Commonwealth. Find out more about our mission here.