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Abstracts: Derivative instruments: lessons for the regulatory state. Banking and insurance: before and after the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
Abstracts: Derivatives and dialectics: the evolution of the Chinese futures market. Canada's 2005 Federal Budget: moderate tax relief delivered under maximum pressure
Abstracts: Derivatives continue to present tax-planning opportunities for cross-border investments. NPCs and contingent debt instruments have the same economics, but different rules
Abstracts: Derivatives: market and regulatory dynamics. Betting the bank: how derivatives trading under conditions of uncertainty can increase risks and erode returns in financial markets
Abstracts: Derivatives regulation. Restricted stock: equity derivatives; background materials - selected comment letters regarding SEC release #337391
Abstracts: Deriving rules of statuatory interpretation from the Constitution. Textualism and the equity of the statute
Abstracts: Dershowitz goes after Bennett... and the president responds to the opinionated prof. Lawyers take center stage; but despite their key role in the national election drama, pols are the ones in charge
Abstracts: Desert dream; in which a Boston litigator leaves big-city lights for a new practice representing immigrants in Arizona
Abstracts: Designing deferred compensation plans for tax-exempt and governmental employers. Take care of your second most valuable asset
Abstracts: Designing more efficient markets: lessons from Los Angeles smog control. The lessons of law-and-development studies
Abstracts: Design patentees: don't get unglued by Elmer, or the single most important thing to know about the preparation of design patent applications
Abstracts: Design rights afford a basis for injunctive relief: an underutilized patent has become an important part of intellectual property protection
Abstracts: Desktop debate. 20 tips for moving from WordPerfect to Word. 21 tips for moving from WordPerfect to Word
Abstracts: Despite a recent case holding that refilling patented toner cartridges does not constitute infringement, manufacturer claims its 'single-use' patent is tenable
Abstracts: Despite debt and lure of firms, pro bono work is catching on. To raise bucks for pro bono, students resort to bake sales
Abstracts: Despite IRS disagreement, TC confirms approval of Crummey powers. What are limitations on conditional bequests?
Abstracts: Despite it all, rates rose at many firms; most were set early in 2001, before the real downturn of the economy; next year's increases are likely to be more modest
Abstracts: Despite prior ruling, Service states that loan guarantee was not taxable gift. Settlement in estate dispute held not to be taxable income
Abstracts: Despite the Supreme Court's 'Kodak' ruling, manufacturers continue to fend off ISO's claims of Sherman Act violations in aftermarkets for parts and service
Abstracts: Despite Title IX, double standard still persists. Cheering on women and girls in sports: using Title IX to fight gender role oppression
Abstracts: Destabilizing racial classifications based on insights gleaned from trademark law. Race, ethnicity, erasure: the salience of race to LatCrit theory
Abstracts: Determinants of public sector certification election outcomes: evidence from Ohio. An empirical examination of grievance resolution and filing rates in the public and private sectors
Abstracts: Determining how much joint property is in a spouse's estate. Economic performance rules contain elections for real estate developers
Abstracts: Determining voting power under section 1504(a)(2). Calculation of consolidated taxable income: the treatment of specified liability losses
Abstracts: Determining voting power under section 1504(a)(2). Determining E&P after a spin-off. Allocation of E&P in a spin-off by a consolidated group
Abstracts: Detoured to ADR; a new round of employment issues is coming to court as companies look to refine the wording of workers' contracts
Abstracts: Detroit Newspaper strike: NLRB chairman's opinion authorizing the General Counsel to seek a section 10(j) injunction
Abstracts: Detroit to offer marketing course; will other institutions follow suit? Chicago-Kent professor teaches the first no-book legal course
Abstracts: Developing a demutualization acquisition strategy for private equity firms. Equal justice for law firm partners
Abstracts: Developing countries and multilateral trade agreements: law and the promise of development. Multilateral resolution over unilateral retaliation: adjudicating the use of Section 301 before the WTO
Abstracts: Developing strategies for controversial cases; deference to paying clients can obscure a firm's pro bono vision
Abstracts: Developing vaccines against HIV: options for accelerated progress. A duty to care: sterile injection equipment and illicit-drug use
Abstracts: Development and international aviation: a transition in litigation of claims and potential future exposures. Alternative dispute resolution for airline/transportation and Y2K passenger claims
Abstracts: Development in the law: international criminal law. Almost private remedy: foreign party suits and the U.S. antitrust laws
Abstracts: Developments affecting contingent value rights, straddles, and redemptions. Recent developments address OID and dividends-received deduction
Abstracts: Developments in EC competition law in 2005: An overview. Rough justice? An analysis of the European Commission's new finding guidelines
Abstracts: Developments in labor-management cooperation: the codification of cooperative mechanisms. Application of conjoint measurement procedures to collective bargaining research in school personnel administration
Abstracts: Developments in securities law disclosure. Issues related to trading securities electronically. Securities litigation reform: the first year's experience
Abstracts: Developments in the law: employment discrimination. Toward reasonable equality: accommodating learning disabilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act
Abstracts: Developments in the law - legal responses to domestic violence. Sympathy as a legal structure
Abstracts: Developments in the law: the civil jury. Family law - Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court upholds Probate Court's exercise of equity power in granting visitation between a child and a lesbian de facto parent. - E.N.O. v. L.L.M
Abstracts: Developments in the reorganization of the Internal Revenue Service. Managing information privacy in the information age
Abstracts: Diallo family looks for its second act; after acquittals, civil lawyers, feds consider their legal options. Litigating the reach of RICO; can a statute aimed at the Mafia apply to foes of abortion?
Abstracts: Dictate from your pocket. Security: WipeDrive. Be the next PowerPoint idol
Abstracts: Did GM and its lawyers suborn perjury in Ga. case? Claim is lawyers knowingly let a GM witness give false pretrial testimony
Abstracts: Did high court make broad sweep in ERISA ruling? Pa. business court: proponents push for second attempt. High court asked to define 'willful violation' in ADEA
Abstracts: Did informer and sheriff plot a political revenge? Informer's lies trigger a tragedy: a DEA probe into a bungled raid points to broken rules and bad communication
Abstracts: Did RTC shake-up derail cases? Bank regulators await direction from Clinton team. RTC lawyers say politics rule; officials thwart suits?
Abstracts: Different definitions, different modeling decisions, and different interpretations: a rejoinder to Lauritsen. The reliability and validity of Grasmick et al.'s self-control scale: a comment on Longshore et al
Abstracts: Different facets of a strategic partnership: how the EU is viewed by political and business elites, civil society and the press in India
Abstracts: Different inventive entities under 35 U.S.C. 102(e) and affidavit practice under 37 C.F.R. 1.132. Affidavit or declaration practice guideline
Abstracts: Different jury different verdict? A rehearing on change of venue. Remedial ruling: a New York decision allowing damages for state constitutional violations could spur suits elsewhere
Abstracts: Digestion as infringement: the problem of pro-drugs. Piercing the corporate veil: is it the proper standard for determining personal liability for direct patent infringement?
Abstracts: Digital IDs for workers in the cards: anti-immigration fever spurs a move opponents fear will invade everyone's privacy
Abstracts: Digital innovations now challenge legal system: U.S. and foreign governments study the impact of digital technology on existing IP laws
Abstracts: Digital showdown. Hardware: ThinkPad X41 Tablet. Hardware: InFocus LP600 Projector
Abstracts: Digital video. Key to a hole in one. All in one binder
Abstracts: Dilemma of drugs on campus; do law students get quiet counseling - or reported to the bar? Spring brings experience, study to students around the country
Abstracts: Dilemma: who will teach associates? Squeezed by their clients' unwillingness to subsidize training, firms seek alternatives
Abstracts: Dilution is remedy for Internet mark misuse; new dilution statute has helped plaintiffs win suits over domain names, hyperlinks, metatags
Abstracts: Dilution legislation gains momentum but raises some concerns; a federal law might impair First Amendment rights
Abstracts: Direct ads may create liability dangers; consumer advertising by drug manufacturers has reopened the issue of expanded liability
Abstracts: Directive applied to transfer of assets of company in voluntary liquidation. UK's challenge to Working Time Directive set to fail
Abstracts: Director and advisor disinterestedness and independence under Delaware law. Overview of standards of review
Abstracts: Director behavior, shareholder protection, and corporate legal compliance. Fiduciary duties and disclosure obligations: resolving questrions after Malone v. Brincat
Abstracts: Director liability under the federal securities laws. Executive compensation and corporate governance; an academic perspective
Abstracts: Directors and officers insurance proceeds in bankruptcy: the impact on an estate and its claimants. The dischargeability of marital obligations: three justifications for the repeal of s. 523(a)(15)
Abstracts: Directors' and officers' liability for Y2K: a corporate governance litigation bear and a securities litigation bull?
Abstracts: Directors must delegate with care - throwing one's hands up in the air and saying "oops conflict" is not good enough
Abstracts: Directors' negligence liability to creditors: a comparative and critical view. Corporate predecessor liability for defective products
Abstracts: Directors under fire; corporate board members should approach their tasks with caution. A watchdog for the guardians
Abstracts: Directors under the spotlight: corporate governance update. Stock mergers in a volatile market. Three's a crowd - observations on the mating dance among announced merger partners and an unsolicited second bidder
Abstracts: Directory of law firm pro bono programs. Directory of law firm pro bono activities
Abstracts: Direct taxation under scrutiny: Case C-403/03, Egon Schempp v. Finanzamt Munchen [2005] ECR I-6421. Freedom of services and abolition of tax barriers
Abstracts: Disabilities Act: firms not ready; many offices have not adapted to handicapped. Solid, conservative and growing; Milwaukee firms expand - mostly outside home offices
Abstracts: Disability Discrimination Act 1995. Disability Discrimination Act 1995: filling out the details. Disability Discrimination Bill
Abstracts: Disability insurance fills a need for buy-sell agreements. Self-cancelling installment notes maintain estate planning usefulness
Abstracts: Disability insurance update. A discussion of Risk Based Capital. Estate planning update
Abstracts: Disability Rights Commission bill. Schizophrenia sufferer was disabled person under DDA. Subsequent losses need not be foreseen
Abstracts: Disabled kids win back their SSI benefits; attorneys recruited by bar associations and firms have restored disability benefits to thousands of poor children nationwide
Abstracts: Disablement of software risks and potential liabilities. Acquiring rights in software documentation and databases
Abstracts: Disaffection and downturns spur retooling trend; increasingly, lawyers find they need to learn new skills to remain in firms
Abstracts: Disaggregation of antitrust damages. How manufacturers deal with the price-cutting retailer: when are vertical restraints efficient?
Abstracts: Disappearance of low-cost term plans stalled. Most low-cost term plans will soon disappear. Impact of Triple X on term insurance in the millennium
Abstracts: Disappearing data; that CD-ROM may self-destruct if you don't check the expiration date. Passing the torch
Abstracts: Disaster coverage may vary; few precedents. Insurance liability woes are exported worldwide: reinsurance is a globalized risk-shifting game wherein a spiraling loss can level the likes of Lloyd's
Abstracts: Disaster in Durban: the United Nations World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance
Abstracts: Disaster planning; achieving long-term benefits from disability insurance. Shopping for malpractice insurance; there is more than cost to consider
Abstracts: Disaster planning: appropriate insurance coverage will help businesses minimize losses. Precision-guided munitions demonstrated their pinpoint accuracy in Desert Storm; but is a country obligated to use precision technology to minimize collateral civilian injury and damage?
Abstracts: Disaster; when it strikes, ADR can come to the rescue in resolving mass-tort claims. Integrating ADR: a matter of legal practice
Abstracts: Disciplinary rules: the relevance of disciplinary rules to the fairness of dismissal. Contractual and employment protection issues
Abstracts: Discipline on the ABA's agenda. Quayle spices up ABA meeting; discipline, finances also are on the agenda. Lawyer discipline to open up; public process supported
Abstracts: Disclaimer of father's estate by son was upheld by CA-10. Time for filing disclaimer begins on date of death, concludes CA-7
Abstracts: "Disclose, disclose, disclose ... and then disclose some more!" (life insurance sales) Risks involved in the sale of life insurance to multiple employer welfare benefit plans
Abstracts: Disclosing "lobbying" activities: a critical examination of the Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act and the Byrd Amendment
Abstracts: Disclosure between agent and client. A plan for all ages. Estate plan tune up for business owners
Abstracts: Disclosure, not censorship: the case for proxy reform. Proxy reform: the case for increased shareholder communication
Abstracts: Disclosure sets a time limit on IRS gift revaluation. Save transfer taxes with family limited partnerships. Avoid tripping on family limited partnership trap
Abstracts: Disclosures to analysts are risky. The suitability doctrine revisited: can Orange County sue its broker for recommending the purchase of unsuitable securities for its fund?
Abstracts: Discount available when property was held partly outright and partly in QTIP trust. Securities law restrictions that lapsed at death were ignored in valuing stock
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