Mark S. Guralnick

Mark Steven Guralnick (born November 10, 1957), is an American lawyer, legal scholar, and prolific writer.
Guralnick is widely known for authoring a 20-chapter book on hydraulic fracturing, Fracking Law and Policy as well as Formula for Calculating Damages, a book that was later awarded a spot on the American Bar Association's Best Seller List.
Education
Mark S. Guralnick earned his bachelor's degree in journalism from Temple University in Philadelphia in January 1979. While at Temple University, Guralnick earned distinction as the young revolutionary editor-in-chief of the student newspaper. He converted the newspaper from a tabloid production to a daily broadsheet newspaper that covered the 1976 presidential race, dispatching reporters to Washington, D.C., Plains, Georgia, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and to Atlantic City, New Jersey. Guralnick earned kudos for his aggressive campus journalism, and earned himself a spot as a campus correspondent for the New York Times and other national newspapers and magazines.
Thereafter, Guralnick earned multiple master's degrees, along with a law degree. Although he began a master's degree in public administration (MPA) and a juris doctor (JD) law degree at Temple University, he ultimately completed both of these degrees at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1983 and 1984 respectively. Guralnick subsequently earned a master's of fine arts degree (MFA) in creative writing and literature at Bennington College in Vermont in 1996. He earned an advanced law degree, a master of laws (LLM) at the University of London in 2000, followed by dual master of business administration (MBA) degrees at Columbia Business School in New York and London Business School in England in 2005.
Guralnick also obtained his doctorate in political science, a Ph.D,, from Temple University in 1993. That degree culminated with the submission of a doctoral dissertation on a free speech subject entitled Status Versus Content: Dysfunctional Paradigms of the Constitutional Right to Free Press Based on a Six-Factor Classification Matrix in the American Law of Defamation. The dissertation won Guralnick the highest graduation award at Temple University, known as the Bernard C. Watson Award for outstanding dissertation in the social sciences, conferred in 1994.
Books and articles
Mark S. Guralnick is the author of Fracking Law and Policy, a 20-chapter treatise on hydraulic fracturing published by Wolters Kluwer in December 2015. At more than 1,700 pages, the book dissected the controversial subject of fracking which dominated discussions in the 2016 presidential election and raised many environmental law questions and public policy debates in the preceding years. Guralnick also authored Formulas for Calculating Damages, a popular book for trial lawyers published by the American Bar Association 2012, which found a spot on the ABA's Best Seller List that year. Spanning 18 chapters, the Formulas book applied financial and statistical approaches to calculating damages in fields as diverse as intellectual property, real estate law and environmental law. The book also sparked the idea for a blog authored by Guralnick entitled, The Calculating Lawyer, which offered up a menu of mathematical tips, statistical shortcuts and other calculating devices to assist attorneys in winning their cases or reaching settlements.
His eponymous family law book, Guralnick's New Jersey Family Law Annotated, first published in 1999 by Thomson Reuters (West Publishing), is updated annually, and was in its 17th edition by 2016. Widely recognized by lawyers, judges and legal citators, the New Jersey Family Law Annotated, at nearly 2000 pages, covers a range of state and federal material impacting the practice of family law while maintaining a single-volume product.
Guralnick's publications also include Employment Law, A Comprehensive Guide for the American Workplace, a two-volume set of books released by Specialty Technical Publishers.
This opus tackled the full range of hiring, recruitment, candidate selection, employee testing, performance appraisals, employee discipline, restrictive covenants, voluntary and involuntary termination from employments, layoffs, public employment versus private employment, documentation requirements, severance and separation agreements, intellectual property, unemployment compensation, compensation and benefits in general, employer liability, employment discrimination, and some 40 different federal employment statutes.
Earlier works by Mark S. Guralnick include the New Jersey Equitable Distribution Handbook, the New Jersey Alimony Handbook, the Portable Child Support Handbook, and the Portable Interstate Support Handbook, some of which were subsequently released in a second edition, and all of which were published by the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, based in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Guralnick's first book, Interstate Child Custody Litigation, Tools, Techniques and Tactics, was published by the American Bar Association in 1993. The book dealt with what is now known as the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act (UCCJEA) and contained both statutory guidelines and pre-trial discovery forms for attorneys practicing in this specialized family law area.

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