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The article focuses on basic provisions for estate planners of the securities laws that is applicable to the ownership of fund interests and stocks by irrevocable trusts created by fund managers. It mentions the need to maintain irrevocable trusts with a bank as a trustee. It also highlights need to posses knowledge of basic securities laws that is essential for any estate planner advising fund manager clients.

The article focuses on financial management for law students. It discusses several financial tools and advice that law students can use to limit their debt and to their benefit in the long term which include working with a financial planner, creating a budget and living within one's means. It also mentions the difference between good and bad debt, budgeting templates and benefits of taking tax deductions.

The article presents questions and answers related to financial advisors including what do they do, how do they charge for their service and on their selection.

This article focuses on financial planning and management for young couples who are into lawyering. Having a joint bank accounts is an important first step in financial planning. It is important that husband and wife to have equal spending power. The symbolic importance of financial unity is recognized by financial advisors but couples should also set common financial goals.

This explains that it is not easy for lawyers to get clients who receive large sums to accept financial advice. Chicago, Illinois lawyer Michael Cogan still remembers the unsettling call he received from his client, just months after settling a multimillion-dollar wrongful death case on the client's behalf. Cogan had pleaded with the young man to get professional money management advice, even enlisting the client's mother to talk some fiscal sense into her son. But to no avail. Cogan is far from the only lawyer who, after working hard to resolve a case, finds that a client has blown--or been conned out of--the money intended to help him care for himself or a relative.