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Abstracts: Lawyers brace for countdown and out to 2000; clients seek ways to head off a 'paranoid frenzy' as computer D-Day nears
Abstracts: Lawyers buck downsizing trend; executive branch workforce being reduced as attorneys are added. Collection next step for Marcos victims
Abstracts: Lawyers can revive their profession's image by rededicating themselves to their basic mission. Jurors prefer lawyers who are well-prepared - and not arrogant
Abstracts: Lawyers debate tragedy's lessons; firms re-evaluate security, but aren't likely to adopt rigid precautions. Welcome to the new uncertainty
Abstracts: Lawyers' document toolkit: the key to overcoming formatting and security obstacles. Document conversion: Quick View Plus 6.0 versus Conversion Plus 6.0
Abstracts: Lawyers, friends pay tribute to 'Cat' Bennett. Evaluations of policies are crucial; what non-insurance lawyers need to know
Abstracts: Lawyers have not had a general duty to protect third parties from the bad acts of a client. An increasing number of federal courts have ADR procedures
Abstracts: Lawyers, heal thyselves. Enhancing client protection: lawyers need to demonstrate their trustworthiness, not worry about image
Abstracts: Lawyers help educate new citizens; in light of the political climate, advocates for immigration rights now view voter participation as the ultimate goal of citizenship
Abstracts: Lawyers in love ... and in conflict: when do romantic relationships get in the way of representing clients? When bonuses boomerang: rewards for nonlawyer staff, outside lawyers cannot be division of fees
Abstracts: Lawyers in the storm; ABA volunteers offer free advice to hurricane victims. How presentation changed a case; jury research tells lawyers at ABA mock trial to emphasize an affair, lost money
Abstracts: Lawyers meet in Texas to build new Ukraine; volunteers are working to help commercialize Ukraine quickly. Leaves of summer: books for lawyers at rest; a jug of wine, a loaf of bread and books to while a lazy day away - though some may choose to learn
Abstracts: Lawyers move to disqualify judges; torture allegations spark move in Ill. Hardball tactics slow the 'good guys;' lawyers, plaintiffs blink, settle for less in Alaska power cases
Abstracts: Lawyers need not be contingent-fee villains. 'Tis the season to be listful. Your right to counsel threatened
Abstracts: Lawyers need to heed title insurance fine print; a policy may include exclusions but also may contain provisions that greatly expand coverage
Abstracts: Lawyers of the year; teams Bush & Gore; 'you had power partners at major firms doing cite checks at 3 a.m.'(contested presidential election of 2000 pitting George W. Bush againstt Albert Gore Jr.)
Abstracts: Lawyers' paladin role gives way to a team effort; data explosion and complexity of cases require greater division of labor
Abstracts: Lawyers prepare for the year 2000. What accounting software features are most important to you? The VoIP Arena
Abstracts: Lawyers, programmers interface. Researcher sues Chiron over patent; scientist says he was a blood test co-inventor
Abstracts: Lawyers reject Bush for Clinton. Clinton's lawyer support solidifies; NLJ/West Poll finds that while Clinton retains lead, doubts on character linger
Abstracts: Lawyers reject Bush for Clinton. Watergate's failed promise; the scandal sparked powerful legal reforms. Is the law of unintended consequences even more powerful?
Abstracts: Lawyer's role in accidents called murder; prosecutor says lawyer took on allegedly staged incidents; his defense says there's no case
Abstracts: Lawyers' role in human rights; working to ensure a just rule of law worldwide is part of our goal. Of global strip malls
Abstracts: Lawyers' self-marketing can bolster their firms' promotional strategies. Attorneys must be salespeople: they don't tell you this in school, but getting ahead hangs on attracting clients
Abstracts: Lawyers should go for Olympic Gold, too! The Bluebook blues. Looking for a new place to practice? The 10 best cities for lawyers
Abstracts: Lawyers still wage uncivil war; civility codes are in vogue, but insults, threats, lies and hardball haven't stopped
Abstracts: Lawyers target poor security; juries punish property owners for crimes on their premises. Punish after acquittal? Yes!
Abstracts: Lawyers try to devise new strategy. Executive privilege finds a champion; Howrey & Simon partner, who extended right to president's advisers, is again asked to help
Abstracts: Layoff lessons; companies should provide all pay guaranteed by statute or contract and give notice when appropriate
Abstracts: LBOs, fraudulent transfers revisited. After MCorp, decisions favor regulators. Four recent decisions in the Orange County case attempt to balance state sovereignty interests and the goals of Chapter 9
Abstracts: Lead data inquiry: effect may be wide. Upjohn spars on Halcion papers; should they stay secret? The dangers of upholding legal ethics
Abstracts: Leading cases
Abstracts: Learning disabilities and employment: a comprehensive overview and proposal for uniformity. AIDS and employment: judicial and arbitral responses
Abstracts: Learning how to ad; corporate marketing pros are moving into law firms and bringing cutting edge sales techniques to the firm
Abstracts: Learning on the job in Silicon Alley. An FCC nemesis. BBC's Yank GC
Abstracts: Learning to use the mediation process - a guide for lawyers. Making commercial arbitration faster and more efficient
Abstracts: Leave Commission issues studies on FMLA. Clinton encourages worker friendly benefits. Managing employee absenteeism: interplay of the ADA, FMLA, and workers' compensation
Abstracts: Leave law still draws ire despite employer wins. Keeping employees quiet may exact a public price; following 'Astra,' regulators and lawyers disagree over the use of confidentiality provisions in settlements
Abstracts: Leave time for trouble; it's not too late to avoid a deadly sin of trial lawyers. The legal weasel trap; some lawyers think mendacity goes with the territory
Abstracts: Leaving expert systems to experts. Finding compatible partners makes a strong firm. Large pool of lawyers available; lateral moves
Abstracts: Leaving things undecided. Dueling sovereignties: U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton. Foreword: the justices of rules and standards
Abstracts: Legal aid lawyers roll dice with new lawsuit; LSC officials fear angry congressional reaction. Defeating Goliath; how Wen Ho Lee's lawyers took the DOJ to the woodshed
Abstracts: Legal Analysis of Current Regulatory Legislative and Judicial Developments. Legal Analysis of Current Regulatory, Legislative and Judicial Developments
Abstracts: Legal Analysis of Current Regulatory, Legislative and Judicial Developments. Legal Analysis of Current Regulatory Legislative and Judicial Developments
Abstracts: Legal Analysis of Current Regulatory Legislative and Judicial Developments. part 2 Legal Analysis of Current Regulatory, Legislative and Judical Developments
Abstracts: Legal and racial elements of public willingness to transfer juvenile offenders to adult court. Violence and drug use in juvenile institutions
Abstracts: Legal Center keeps pace with tragic domestic violence trend. State-owned UT stays near the top rung by awarding chairs
Abstracts: Legal defense funds are pols' latest perk. D.C.'s telecom ruling sets stage; court of appeals decides same issue facing 5th Circuit in pivotal case
Abstracts: Legal education makes service a low priority; students are often redirected from public-interest paths. CLE index
Abstracts: Legal education makes service a low priority; students are often redirected from public-interest paths. part 2
Abstracts: Legal guardian for the nation's health. The legal shoe fit, so he took the job. Banking on a merger's success
Abstracts: Legal implications of an Asia-Pacific economic grouping. Solange III: the German Federal Constitutional Court's decision on accession to the Maastricht Treaty on European Union
Abstracts: Legal marketing on the Information Superhighway; how to attract new business online without attracting controversy
Abstracts: Legal observers assess sex case. Infighting rips Pa. High Court. Sexual harassment net widens; court looks at arbitration
Abstracts: Legal pilot for the guy in the Cessna. His menu: unions, judges and food. He's legal MVP for the NBA's champs
Abstracts: Legal pilot weathers storms, flies high. Clorox top lawyer awash with work. A curator's tale of sex, art, fakes; an expert in drawings takes a dream Getty Museum job, but then things go wrong
Abstracts: Legal realism and the race question: some realism about realism on race relations. The new legal process, the synthesis of discourse, and the microanalysis of institutions
Abstracts: Legal reelism - is learning law and ethics from flicks a farce? At Arizona State, Washington, special curricula find niches
Abstracts: Legal research company to go public; consultants wonder whether investment would be a good buy. Bar chiefs protect the guild; a lobbying blitz engulfs an ABA panel on non-lawyer practice
Abstracts: Legal secretary of lawyer lite? Growing use of paralegals raises questions about their function. Ethics vs. accountability; attorney-client privilege at core of refusal to comply with LSC audit
Abstracts: Legal Services fights back; but lawyer for poor find responses to budget cuts and limits on activities are not enough
Abstracts: Legal spin control: ethics and advocacy in the court of public opinion. Moral pluck: legal ethics in popular culture
Abstracts: Legal tactic compels suspicion ... or else. Ambiguous proof of conspiracy burdens the courts. Tougher standard of proof needed for forfeiture
Abstracts: Legal technology. Critique of current congressional capital gains contentions. The legal authority of the Department of the Treasury to promulgate a regulation providing for indexation of capital gains
Abstracts: Legal-thriller author gives tips to wannabes; outline, rewrite and keep your butt in the desk chair. Grisham wannabes; getting your thriller published is a long shot - but possible
Abstracts: Legal traps in employee committees. What labor and management need to know about workplace smoking cases. Good faith: balancing the right to manage with the right to represent
Abstracts: Legislation introduced to resolve Harris Trust issues. DOL releases Prop. Regs. on insurance company general accounts
Abstracts: Legislative amendments. An assured's duty of disclosure. The test of materiality of facts at common law
Abstracts: Legislative Process Restored. Washington Items. House and Senate revenue reconciliation bills contain employee benefit provisions
Abstracts: Legislative prospects after the 1996 elections. Tax law changes under the 1998 'IRS restructuring' flag. Menus of legislative and administrative actions taking shape
Abstracts: Lender liability claims die in circuits. Post 'Amchem,' class action will live on. Two circuits reject mass tort classes; opinions by the 5th and 7th circuits and proposals to revise Rule 23 may signal an industry-protective stance by the courts
Abstracts: Lender liability: evaluating risk under CERCLA and the security interest exemption. EPA's CERCLA lender liability proposal: secured creditors "hit the jackpot."
Abstracts: Lending practices examined; new investigations target discrimination. Accuracy is goal of new model; age discrimination is difficult to assess
Abstracts: Lend me your ears: Nation's highest court finds its audio files at the center of Supreme Court project. PalmOne layoffs
Abstracts: Lesbianism at center of custody dispute: Va. Supreme Court denies mom's petition to raise her son in gay environment
Abstracts: Lessons learned and recommendations for coping with future scarcity. International Boundary and Water Commission: an institutional mismatch for resolving transboundary water problems
Abstracts: Lessons learned: an evaluation of the past and future of educational finance and administrative reform in Canada, Great Britain, and the United States
Abstracts: Less shock in stock-for-stock; hot financial techniques help parties cope with price unknowns in equity mergers
Abstracts: Let companies fund executive pensions. Code s. 162(m) deduction limitation does not apply to compensation paid to officers who resign before year-end
Abstracts: Lethal compassion: conflicting federal court rulings bring assisted-suicide issue to the forefront. ABA House backs affirmative action; at time of national debate, association takes first stand on issue
Abstracts: Let me entertain you ... affordably; if a luxury skybox is out of reach, stay local and use imagination to woo clients
Abstracts: Let seller beware: indemnification can cost big; the ubiquity of method patents increases risk of infringement; indemnifiers can be hit hard
Abstracts: Let's make a deal; cooperation, not litigation, is the newest way to clean up urban wastelands. Drug free
Abstracts: Letter Ruling 9508009 - busting a "B": why and how? Letter Ruling 9719036 - ruling letters rush in where opinion letters fear to tread
Abstracts: Letter Ruling 9535053: little ado about something? Continuity representation discontinued. LTR potpourri: old and cold; recast; no rule; inversion; voting trust
Abstracts: Letter Ruling 9720007 - the "risky business" business purpose and a bit more. Mysterious revocation under Section 304
Abstracts: Letters of credit: curbing bad-faith dishonor. Secured transactions in Poland: coping with the traditional thinking and the new challenges for Central and Eastern Europe
Abstracts: Let the record show: modifying appellate review procedures for errors of prejudicial nonverbal communication by trial judges
Abstracts: Letting down the law. For his activities, he improperly borrowed more than $1 million from clients. The court found that victim solicitation warranted a public reprimand
Abstracts: Let your fingers do the talking; electronic mail can help lawyers stay in touch with clients. Six mistakes lawyers make; misadventures in technoland that needn't happen
Abstracts: Let your keyboard do the shopping; make insurance comparisons on the Internet and cut through the clutter. Risk-avoidance payoffs
Abstracts: Leveraged leasing: perfecting a security interest in an owner trust. Mexico's secured lending reforms
Abstracts: Liability assumptions in spinoff transactions. Federal Circuit rules that allocation of earnings and profits in intra-group spin-off does not support increased basis
Abstracts: Liability for faulty earnings projections and optimistic statements. The selection of institutional investors as lead plaintiffs under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
Abstracts: Liability for injuries caused by the printed media. Looking at Europe for the difference between strict and fault-based liability
Abstracts: Liability for psychiatric illness. CBI launches EHS benchmarking tool. New workplace fire Regulations in place
Abstracts: Liability in surety bond claims for extracontractual allegations. Toxic mold: do insurers have a duty to warn policyholders or others of the potential health risks?
Abstracts: Liability of an insurer when settlement or claims-handling practices adversely affect financial interests of the insured
Abstracts: Liability watchdog. The hotel lawyer. A new mom who helps the world
Abstracts: Liberalismo contra democracia: recent judicial reform in Mexico. On extrajudicial constitutional interpretation
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