Legal Capital

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By James J. Hanks Jr. ’64

Published Jan. 21, 2016

(Foundation Press) The fourth edition of Legal Capital explores the origin and evolution of the rules governing shareholders’ contributions to a corporation’s capital, and the corporation’s payment of dividends and other distributions to shareholders. This edition adds historical material and reviews recent case law in the U.S. and abroad. Hanks is a partner at Venerable LLP. 

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Terri Sewell ’86 at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, stands next to a portrait of civil rights leader John Lewis.
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