Stephen Elias (1941–2011)
Author of Legal Research: How to Find & Understand the Law
About the Author
Stephen Elias was a tireless attorney and the author or coauthor of many Nolo titles, including Trademark: Legal Care for Your Business Product Name, Special Needs Trusts: Protect Your Child's Financial Future and the bestselling How to File for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy. Nolo's legal editors provided show more topic-specific information. show less
Works by Stephen Elias
Patent Searching Made Easy: How to Do Patent Searches on the Internet & in the Library (1999) — Editor — 18 copies
The Foreclosure Survival Guide: Keep Your House or Walk Away With Money in Your Pocket (2009) 16 copies, 3 reviews
Trademark How Name Your Business (Trademark: Legal Care for Your Business & Product Name) (1992) 14 copies
Domain Names: How to Choose and Protect a Great Name for Your Website (Quick & Legal) (2000) 8 copies, 1 review
Nolo's intellectual property law dictionary (Patent, Copyright & Trademark: A Desk Reference to Intellectual Property La (1985) 2 copies
The Foreclosure Survival Guide : Keep Your House or Walk Away with Money in Your Pocket (2015) 2 copies
The Foreclosure Survival Guide: Keep Your House or Walk Away with Money in Your Pocket (2008) 2 copies
Nolo Law Form Kit: Loan Agreements : Borrow and Loan Money (Nolo's Law Form Kit: Loan Agreements) (1993) 1 copy
Make your own contract 1 copy
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Elias, Stephen
- Legal name
- Elias, Stephen Roger
- Birthdate
- 1941-07-06
- Date of death
- 2011-12-29
- Gender
- male
- Education
- University of California, Berkeley (BA, Chinese & Asian Studies)
Hastings College of Law (JD) - Occupations
- attorney
author - Relationships
- Jermany, Catherine Elias (wife)
- Short biography
- [excerpted from The Press Democrat online obituary]
Elias probably was best known outside of Lake County for the self-help legal manuals he produced for 30 years for Nolo.com. Formerly known as Nolo Press, the Berkeley publishing firm produces do-it-yourself legal books and software that reduce the need for people to hire lawyers for simple legal matters. He was instrumental in launching Nolo's WillMaker, a popular do-it-yourself computer program for wills. He and his wife, Catherine Elias Jermany, also ran an online business that helped guide people through the bankruptcy process. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Newsweek.
Within Lake County, he also was known as a community radio show host, advocate for the poor, political commentator and a man who was generous to the detriment of his own bank account. Elias and Jermany also offered classes throughout California to teach people how to provide low-cost legal assistance without becoming lawyers. - Cause of death
- heart attack
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Place of death
- Lakeport, California, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- California, USA
Members
Reviews
The Foreclosure Survival Guide: Keep Your House or Walk Away With Money in Your Pocket by Stephen Elias
I am not in foreclosure, but do have a relative who is. I approached this book as if I was that relative, knowing what she knows about the process. This easy to read guide answered questions, defined terms and even has a state specific appendix. When buying this, the reader will most likely skip around reading on a need-to-know manner. Again, this is very readable.
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.The Foreclosure Survival Guide: Keep Your House or Walk Away With Money in Your Pocket by Stephen Elias
Attorney Stephen Elias 's prioven ability to demystify law isused once again, this timein the Nolo book, The Foreclosure Survival Guide. "If you want to keep your home, your best option is to work something out with your mortgage lender; If, on the other hand, you are ready to leave your home, there are ways to follow that path that will leave you relatively flush rather than destitute," Mr Elias said as he begins with these wise words, in the forward of this timely book. He gives an show more overview of your options and follows with what he calls "the nuts andb bolts of foreclosure".
should you keep your house? Emotional as your answer can be, the economics are the reality of the situation. These economics issues, including using Chapter 7 or 13 bankruptcies to delay or stop the foreclosure, are expertly covered by the author. If your choice is to have the foreclosure to proceed, how long can you stay in the home for free? Again, the author covers this aspect of foreclosures and gives resources, which are time savers for all readers. I especially liked that individual state information is listed, citing many topics of interest and the state rule coveering said item.
I highly recommend this book to help someone looking agt foreclosure as a complete package of information to understand their options as homeowners. A webpage is accessable to readers for legal forms, updates, names of local real estaate lawyers and videols at nolo.com I personally plan to donate a copy of this book to my local library, as it is beneficial to many homeowners who may now be stressed financially. show less
should you keep your house? Emotional as your answer can be, the economics are the reality of the situation. These economics issues, including using Chapter 7 or 13 bankruptcies to delay or stop the foreclosure, are expertly covered by the author. If your choice is to have the foreclosure to proceed, how long can you stay in the home for free? Again, the author covers this aspect of foreclosures and gives resources, which are time savers for all readers. I especially liked that individual state information is listed, citing many topics of interest and the state rule coveering said item.
I highly recommend this book to help someone looking agt foreclosure as a complete package of information to understand their options as homeowners. A webpage is accessable to readers for legal forms, updates, names of local real estaate lawyers and videols at nolo.com I personally plan to donate a copy of this book to my local library, as it is beneficial to many homeowners who may now be stressed financially. show less
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.
Legal Research: Take the law into your own hands Do you have legal questions at home, at work, or as part of law-related course work? Legal Research provides everything you need, laying out easy-to-follow research methods that will help you find the right answers. Find out how to: locate and understand statutes, regulations, and cases make sure your research is 100% up to date, and organize your research results into a memorandum of law for use at school, at work, or in court. Completely show more updated for the 18th edition, Legal Research shows you how to find statutes, cases, background information, and answers to specific legal questions online. Even more important, you’ll be guided to the most reliable and user-friendly sites, so you won’t drown in an information flood. Lots of examples and easy-to-understand instructions teach you how to master all the basic legal research tools, including: online search engines reliable free legal websites legal encyclopedias, periodicals, and treatises annotated legal codes and statutes published reports of state and federal court cases case digests and Shepard’s Citations, and the best legal blogs. show less
The foreclosure survival guide : keep your house or walk away with money in your pocket by Stephen Elias
Very informative. I hope I never need to use this information but it's nice to be informed just in case.
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.You May Also Like
Associated Authors
Statistics
- Works
- 22
- Members
- 595
- Popularity
- #42,222
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
- 6
- ISBNs
- 186
