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Abstracts: Beyond timeslips: time & billing for the large firm. Multimedia legal CD-ROMs. Video: taking legal conferencing to another level
Abstracts: Bias barred in company health plans; all diseases, including AIDS, must be treated alike under EEOC's new rules
Abstracts: Bias cases strike at treaty shielding foreign business: the 5th Circuit rebuffs effort to pierce immunity from bias suits that Japanese-owned U.S. businesses enjoy
Abstracts: Biases can be predicted in medical products cases; focus groups and mock trials can help litigators identify jurors' predispositions toward drug and device manufacturers
Abstracts: Bias in jury selection continues: despite U.S. Supreme Court rulings, judges give lawyers wide latitude in using peremptories
Abstracts: BIDs fare well: the democratic accountability of business improvement districts. National League of Cities rising: how the Telecommunications Act of 1996 could expand Tenth Amendment jurisprudence
Abstracts: Bifurcation mitigates effect of damaging evidence; separate trials in products cases may curb the harmful effects of testimony on prior accidents and subsequent remedial measures
Abstracts: Big corporations are investing more in start-ups; start-ups can benefit, but risks may include change of strategy, conflicts of interest
Abstracts: Big-firm librarians to publishers: get your CD-ROM acts together. The sins of law firm Web sites: are ethical, dignified sites dull?
Abstracts: Big firms beef up; business keeps booming, but smaller firms struggle to make profits. Lawyers just want to have funds
Abstracts: Big-firm summer associate hiring up; growth and client consolidation drive numbers; pay is flat. Tech lawyers on a coaster ride; they predict shifts in their business if dot-com dip persists
Abstracts: Biggest little court in Texas; plaintiffs flock to Texarkana, with billion-dollar suits. Mississippi becomes a mecca for tort suits; Fayette, pop. 8,345, is a major venue for diet-drug litigation
Abstracts: Big gets bigger; the National Law Journal's annual survey of the year's largest jury verdicts finds juries in a generous mood
Abstracts: Big Mac bites back: English law and an experienced lawyer help burger giant win a case against small-fry environmentalists
Abstracts: Big objections to brief decisions; critics contend one-word appellate rulings give short shrift to justice. Much to do about ADR
Abstracts: Big pay day for new associates; competition from private industry pushes some starting salaries to $91,000. Big brother bar
Abstracts: Biker bar fights bias; these 'attorneys who ride' want respect for their motorcyclist clients. Ancillary businesses prospering quietly; the most successful subsidiaries are those that play on their firms' strengths, experts say
Abstracts: Bilateral investment treaties - applicable law - state responsibility - compensation standard. The decisions bridging the GATT 1947 and the WTO Agreement
Abstracts: Bill building: solo reveals tried-and-true secrets for creating bills clients happily pay. The art of getting paid: telephone reminders and credit card options can boost cash flow
Abstracts: Bill Gates addresses legal community: Microsoft chairman predicts future of law office computing at annual ALA convention
Abstracts: Bill in Congress could end the asbestos mess. Some employers will face wall-to-wall inspections, and others will be invited to adopt voluntary safety plans, under OSHA's Cooperative Compliance Program
Abstracts: BillQuick 2005 Version 6.0. Backup buddy. USB Memory Drive(32GB)
Abstracts: Bills to implement WIPO treaties ignite debate; congressional legislation has drawn fire over such issues as fair use and liability of OSPs
Abstracts: Bill to alter business bankruptcy under fire; critics say that the legislation will hurt small companies. Court limits securities law reach; stock appreciation rights not subject to Rule 10(b)
Abstracts: Biloxi trial tells a film-noir tale: featured are a dead judge, corrupt mayor, prison scam, lonely gays. Suit over stun belt clears its first bar; celebrity inmate Billy Wayne Sinclair argues his own case
Abstracts: Binding arbitration: federal v. private. Rules of evidence in labor arbitration. What arbitration agreement? Compelling non-signatories to arbitrate
Abstracts: Bingaman's antitrust era: the division's intensified enforcement and internalization agenda. Sense and nonsense on the minimum wage
Abstracts: Bingham Dana trains the deal-impaired. Blowing a whistle on client misdeeds; an ABA committee studies changing the confidentiality rule
Abstracts: Bioethics: the new frontier. Government as a market. Antitrust as frontier justice: is it time to retire the sheriff?
Abstracts: Biotech incites outcry; public policy debates arise over human-animal hybrid patents and germline gene therapy
Abstracts: Biotech licensor should know misuse doctrine; common biotech transfers are less likely to violate antitrust law now, but questions remain
Abstracts: Biotech patenting issues raise ethical concerns; strong patent regime for human genome research may balance public and private interests
Abstracts: Bitter pill for Wal-Mart? Salaried professionals sue: the giant retailer may have to pay pharmacists overtime. Corporate productivity pressures spur white-collar suits
Abstracts: Biz law is future of pro bono growth; public interest law is no longer the sole province of litigators, with nonprofits seeking corporate lawyers as volunteers
Abstracts: Black and white and running all over: as an NFL 'zebra,' this Phoenix litigator referees by the book. The blues personified: audiences love the way this Houston lawyer performs his second career
Abstracts: BlackBerry to the rescue: attorneys find BlackBerry handheld devices valuable tools during emergencies. Rulemaking on the Web: federal government makes civic participation easier with Web site
Abstracts: Black box car idea opens can of worms; litigation advantages seen. But privacy issues are big worry. Litigation on hold; terrorists did the deeds, but others could face suits
Abstracts: Black D.C. attorneys arrive; Whitewater puts African-American lawyers in spotlight as O.J. did before. Non-traditionals' surge in new legal market
Abstracts: Black dealmakers mine South Africa; black corporate lawyers find race is a bonus in post-apartheid era. What's hot ... what's not; today's marketplace for lawyers, as viewed by recruiters and partners
Abstracts: Black lawyer's life, suit told by a white author; new book by a WSJ editor tells of a Harvard Law grad who sued Katten Muchin
Abstracts: Blast rips the legal world; he was daydreaming at a partners' meeting; suddenly the windows blew out. The earth breathes fire, scorches lawyers: a year after a gas main blast in Edison, N.J., officials examine charges of client solicitation
Abstracts: Blast rips the legal world; he was daydreaming at a partners' meeting; suddenly the windows blew out. part 2 Graduate debt burden grows; of all professionals, law grads have compiled the worst loan default record
Abstracts: Bleeding heart: reflections on using the law to make social change. The moral rhetoric of legislation
Abstracts: Blinded by the debtor's headlights: Deer Park's liquidation of United States V. Energy Resources. Article III and Title 11: a constitutional collision
Abstracts: Blocking Beck: union dues and politics ten years after the decision. Graduate students unite?
Abstracts: Blowing smoke: lawyers are trained to push a jury's buttons almost any way they can. But now some members of the bar think they have gone too far - and society is the big loser
Abstracts: Blowing smoke: lawyers are trained to push a jury's buttons almost any way they can. But now some members of the bar think they have gone too far - and society is the big loser. part 2
Abstracts: Blown away? The Bill of Rights after Oklahoma City. Constitutional law - Congress imposes new restrictions on use of funds by the Legal Services Corporation
Abstracts: Blue sky laws and the recent Congressional preemption failure. The federal securities acts' one-year inquiry notice statute of limitations: are the scales tipped against fraud claimants?
Abstracts: Blue sky mysteries of the National Securities Markets Improvements Act. Some recent developments relating to the circumstances under which a "restricted" warrant holder can "tack" the holding periods of the warrant and the underlying stock for purposes of rules 144(d) and 144(k)
Abstracts: 'BMW' triggers cuts in punies; states are lenient, but federal courts interpret landmark ruling harshly. Maryland's highest court makes revolutionary changes in punies
Abstracts: BNA 706 Preparer for Windows speeds automated preparation of estate tax returns. NumberCruncher and IRS Factors Calculator perform sophisticated calculations easily and reliably
Abstracts: Boards adopt governance guidelines; General Motors took the lead in 1994; now, spurred by investors' pressure, every company seems to be doing it
Abstracts: Boards win in court, but new proxy battle looms; arbitrageur has proposed bylaw to permit shareholders to trump management who 'just said no' to a takeover bid
Abstracts: Body of evidence: when coroners and medical examiners fail to distinguish accidents from murders from suicides, a botched autopsy can be the death of a fair trial, an insurance settlement or a civil suit
Abstracts: Boies Schiller's big year; litigation boutique doubles size; now 100 lawyers in 10 offices. Tempting work; the status and number of temp lawyers are growing rapidly
Abstracts: Bold ads help firms position themselves; in the 'battle for the mind' of a potential client, effective position advertising can get a law firm the kind of notice it wants
Abstracts: Bombing spotlight turning to Nichols; lawyers in 2d Okla. City bomb trial learn lessons from McVeigh case, prepare for complications
Abstracts: Bomb trial ploy could self-destruct. Court to consider resale price ceilings, floors; the high court could overturn 'per se' law against maximum resale price maintenance
Abstracts: Bone screw suit places FDA in 4-way squeeze; agency's limited approval of medical device lets makers sell for wider uses; spine-tingling dispute
Abstracts: Book: despite its errors, the Warren Commission reached the right result. The legacy of Warren E. Burger
Abstracts: Book excerpts: memories of a lawyer's entry into corporate legal world. He's the accidental radio talk-show host: a lawyer winds up as 'Lionel,' king of N.Y. drive time. He says he still practices, in a way
Abstracts: Boom time for lawyers; demand is so heavy recruiters are hard put to find enough job-seekers to go around. NLJ annual guide to the legal search profession
Abstracts: Booth v. Comr. - the Tax Court reins in runaway multiple-employer welfare plans. Employer may not unilaterally change payout option selected by participant in top-hat plan upon termination of plan
Abstracts: Booth v. Comr. - the Tax Court reins in runaway multiple-employer welfare plans. part 2 Tax Court holds Prime Plan is a welfare plan but not a 10-or-more employer plan
Abstracts: Border crossing; responding to abductions that remove children from their home states. Away from home; children caught in middle by parental moves
Abstracts: Border farmers, water contamination, and the NAAEC environmental side accord to NAFTA. Two nations, one river: managing ecosystem conservation in the Colorado River delta
Abstracts: Border security in the Eastern neighborhood: where bio-politics and geopolitics meet. Security provider or security consumer? The European Union and conflict management
Abstracts: Border war; in a fight to dismantle the federal immigration service, the agency's best allies could be lawyers who fear what might replace it
Abstracts: Boston Harbor: a case study. Foreword: a report on the Bellagio Conference on U.S.-U.S.S.R. Environmental Protection Institutions
Abstracts: Botched sting leads to torture and a suit. NTSB hearing presages ValuJet strategy; plaintiffs say that they will focus on alleged 'extreme negligence.' (National Transportation Safety Board)
Abstracts: Both sides now; Beth Ann Faragher is a lawyer who is also a citation. The mix puts a new spin on how she sees her clients and her job
Abstracts: Bottom line disputes. Silver cloud' dark lining; amid largely rosy findings, crime report cites some ominous trends
Abstracts: Boycotts are busting out all over. The economics of entry lags: a theoretical and empirical overview. Refusing to cooperate with competitors: a theory of boycotts
Abstracts: Boy-killer says he can pick his sentence: convicted for the 1955 slaying of three boys, his lawyers say the lenient choice applies
Abstracts: Bracing for the millennium bug; consider liability coverage to protect businesses facing Y2K claims. Yes: consider chemical treatment
Abstracts: Bragdon v. Abbott: who's in? Who's out? Redrafted disability Code of Practice and Guidance issued. The Americans with Disabilities Act: are your wrists protected?
Abstracts: Brand loyalty, entry, and price competition in pharmaceuticals after the 1984 Drug Act. Gradual incorporation of information: pharmaceutical stocks and the evolution of President Clinton's health care reform
Abstracts: Brazil ceases its antipathy toward ADR; new law is government's acknowledgment that enforceabillity of arbitral awards is a prerequisite to raising foreign investment
Abstracts: Brazil courts investors for power sector; to sustain its economic growth, the nation opens its electricity industry to foreign investment
Abstracts: Breaking the deadlock. UNCITRAL's Model Law on international commercial conciliation. Bricks without straw: arbitration in Roman Britain
Abstracts: Breaking up is hard to do: liability risks lurk in the process of dissolving a law firm. Litigation: inside and out
Abstracts: Break-up fees paid to unsuccessful white knight held deductible as ordinary business expense or as abandonment loss
Abstracts: Breast Implants: The Cost of Vanity. Insurer liable for cost containment program: Wilson v. Blue Cross of Southern California
Abstracts: Bribe by any other name smells... Just compensation is by no means always just. Ol'-time religion meets new age
Abstracts: Briefs that sing: a winning argument is more than a stack of legal issues. Taking sides; what happens in the opening statement
Abstracts: Bring free trade home. A golden anniversary? The Administrative Procedures Act of 1946. Does administrative protection protect? A Reexamination of the U.S. Title VII and escape clause statutes
Abstracts: Bring free trade home. Unemployment compensation: the case for a free market alternative. Preserving the American common market: state and local governments in the United States Supreme Court
Abstracts: Bringing justice to the Wild East; reconstruction in the former GDR. The new Europe: an economic giant is born
Abstracts: Bringing litigation inside can help curb costs. When choosing among firms, look for efficiency. Making sure the virtuosi play
Abstracts: Bring on the battle: MSN prepares for the search engine wars. Defense draws on Video game technology
Abstracts: Briseno's attorney looks back at trial. High court to blame for police insulation. Perils of privatization; corporations that take on government functions may face liability for Sec.1983 violations
Abstracts: British re-nationalization and regulation: the government's liability to shareholders. Government intervention versus disclosure: the evolution of capital market regulation in Israel
Abstracts: Brit secret in Milbank coup: going native; U.S.-style headhunting is the key - no really money. Orrick still eyes N.Y. litigators; San Fran. firm's chairman says failed merger talks haven't cooled interest in Donovan Leisure laterals
Abstracts: Broadcasting violence; debate intensifies on whether media should be liable for school shootings. Dodging bullies; federal courts resist student-violence liability suits
Abstracts: Broadening access to financial services- Competing imperatives. Independence and accountability of the People's Bank of China: A legal perspective
Abstracts: Broad inquiry marks fair-use decisions. Market impact key to fair-use analysis. State, First Amendment clashed in 'Son of Sam.' (Supreme Court reversal of New York's 'Son of Sam' law)
Abstracts: Broken promises may bust budget; S&L's high court victory in 'Winstar' is cited by others to demand billions. Vet care case may have cost feds billions; career military say Uncle Sam broke free medical care promise
Abstracts: Brokering deals is a mainstay of her job. Employee issues are a top priority. Navigating AT&T's regulatory maze
Abstracts: 'Brookfield' sets standards on domain name rights; 9th Circuit made key rulings on intent to use doctrine and use of another's mark in metatags
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