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Abstracts: 'Markman' precedent holds up patents; ruling intended to add predictability and speed fails to do so. Privacy or creditors: who holds the trump? E-bankruptcies raise question of destiny of data assets
Abstracts: Marks hard to break in '96 games; infringers will face high hurdles under sponsor-protection plan. Registering 3-D marks helps owner; if a configuration is registered, burden of proof is on infringers
Abstracts: Marriage traps in the workplace: nepotism rules make it harder for spouses to be colleagues in public sector. Greetings from independent Hawaii
Abstracts: Massive mergers may start to affect lawyers; so far, in-house jobs seem solid, but things could change as the hierarchy shakes out
Abstracts: Mass tort cases are swamping courts; several factors complicate the substantive and procedural issues in mass tort litigation
Abstracts: Mass tort makeover? (impact of lessons learned from class action lawsuits over silicone breast implants on chances for tort reform)
Abstracts: Mass torts: the Windsor decision and considerations for a coordinated defense. Discovery of litigation databases stored on the Internet: a basis for libel?
Abstracts: Mass transit commuting exclusion has mass appeal. Recent developments tinker with the research credit. Take the tax guesswork out of guaranteed payments
Abstracts: Master Metadata in WordPerfect: removing garbage from your documents. Disappearing data: Metadata Assistant and Workshare Metawall can make metadata a thing of the past
Abstracts: Matchmaker, matchmaker; while online client-finding services thrive, many lawyers question their worth. Getting the word out: brochures are a simple way to tell prospective clients what a lawyer can do
Abstracts: Material witnesses. Gatekeepers of expert testimony; federal courts are taking up the issue of whether amended Rule 702 departs from the meaning of 'Daubert' and 'Kumho Tire'
Abstracts: Matsushita and beyond: the role of state courts in class actions involving exclusive federal claims. Guidance from the Third Circuit's recent approval of the use of settlement classes: In re General Motors Corp. Pick-up Truck Fuel Tank Products Liability Litigation 55 F.3d 768 (3d Cir. 1995)
Abstracts: Matter management systems matter to most firms. Sore thumbs. PalmSource plans Linux push
Abstracts: Matters of timing: courts seek to sort out confusion over limitations periods in education act. Matters of life and death; debate grows over euthanasia
Abstracts: Maximizing collections and billing boosts profits; to increase profitability, firms must know their costs, have established billing rates and focus on revenues and profit margins
Abstracts: Maximizing the benefits of deducting an estate's debts and expenses. Estate planning strategies for owners of more than one business
Abstracts: Maximum 48-hour week is a statutorily implied term in all employment contracts. The contract of employment
Abstracts: May a lawyer deal away right to practice? Promise never to take on suits against NYMEX produces conflicting views
Abstracts: May a mandatory arbitration provision in an employment agreement encompass discrimination claims? Courts are split
Abstracts: May I have my balance please? Allocation of payments in bankruptcy cases. Lien stripping under Russian bankruptcy law: Is it fair?
Abstracts: MBA lawyer means business in-house. A reshaped staff signaled success. Managing his own lawyers' paper trail
Abstracts: McDonnell Douglas' prima facie case and the non-minority plaintiff: is modification required? Prima facie obviousness: time for a "facie" lift
Abstracts: Mchape: a wake-up call for AIDS control programs in Africa (a case history for Malawi). The "best proven therapeutic method" standard in clinical trials in technologically developing countries
Abstracts: McNamara's choice. Choice-of-law clause, often overlooked, can trip up counsel. Choice of role not injudicious
Abstracts: McNeil opened NFL antitrust door. Arbitrating overseas jeopardizes antitrust claims: Swiss panels will not grant relief under U.S. competition laws that contravenes local public policy
Abstracts: McVeigh is gone, and already forgotten; execution opponents see gains coming in Congress, high court. The best defense... rebuilding clients' lives to keep them from coming back
Abstracts: McVeigh's trial lean and trim; judge and prosecutors lauded, but defense gets mixed reviews. Impact in absentia: at-large bombing suspect John Doe No. 2 to figure in trial
Abstracts: McVeigh's trial lean and trim; judge and prosecutors lauded, but defense gets mixed reviews. part 2 Let us be 'officers of the court.'
Abstracts: MD&A audits: a new tool for boards of directors and underwriters. Corporate Web sites - business and financial information
Abstracts: MDL 'power grab': critics say transferee judges should not try multidistrict litigation. Mich. judge won't drop implant suits; relies on local rule to block their transfer to MDL guru
Abstracts: Me and my shadows; 'shadow juries' are helping litigators shape their cases - during trial. No small change
Abstracts: Measuring patent damages by the market value of inventions - the Grain Processing, Rite-Hite and Aro rules. Another estoppel: acquiescence in prosecution may cause patent forfeiture in litigation
Abstracts: Measuring Regulatory Changes in Employment Protection: Labour Standards in Australia 1979 to 2000. The Information and Consultation Directive of 11 March 2002 and its transposition into French law
Abstracts: Mediating disability employment discrimination claims. What's left after Wright? Do employees still have two bites of the apple?
Abstracts: Mediating employment disputes under the Disabilities Act. Mediating disputes between banks and small businesses
Abstracts: Mediation, arbitration square off; the majority of in-house counsel surveyed prefer mediation to binding arbitration, a significant change from three years ago
Abstracts: Mediation: are the proceedings really confidential? Protective orders and confidentiality agreements: a drafter's guide
Abstracts: Mediation as a settlement tool for employment disputes. Arbitrator impartiality and the burden of proof. Upstream effects from mediation of workplace disputes: some preliminary evidence from the USPS
Abstracts: Mediation can heal firms' rifts; airing disputes. Integrated approach has merits; firmwide plan. Setting up a strong referral network takes a consistent, firmwide effort
Abstracts: Mediation for the masses; pioneer of low-cost services rolls out ADR on the cheap in Southern California. Don't knock desk jobs; switching to administrative or managerial positions works for these lawyers
Abstracts: Mediation in divorce prevents bloody fights. Client input in case builds healthy relationships: when clients help make strategic decisions, feelings of mutual satisfaction are likely to follow
Abstracts: Mediation works ... with the least damage done to the parties' egos and pocketbooks. In the eye of the beholder: using perceptual errors to resolve employment disputes
Abstracts: Medicaid policies for home care and hospice care provided to Medicaid recipients with AIDS. Medicaid policies for the nursing facility care provided to medicaid recipients with AIDS
Abstracts: Medical marijuana unwelcome at work; state moves toward decriminalizing medical uses of marijuana give rise to conflicts between state and federal laws
Abstracts: Medical monitoring: will Buckley have an effect? The Americans with Disabilities Act and state workers' compensation laws in the hands of the courts
Abstracts: Medical rationing and the allocation of adjudicatory responsibility under comprehensive health care reform in the 103rd Congress: an administrative lawyer's postmortem
Abstracts: Medical savings accounts. Effective retirement planning seminars: painting by the DOL numbers. Managed care and quality
Abstracts: Medicare reform. Separation, divorce, and employee benefits. Looking beyond changes for opportunities
Abstracts: Meetings by video now can happen on desktop: law firms that want to use video conferencing can choose either a PC-based or a group system
Abstracts: Memoir on the founding of the Journal. Taft and Hartley vindicated: the curious history of review of labor arbitration awards
Abstracts: Memorandum regarding the adoption of amendments to regulation S under the Securities Act of 1993. Memorandum from Cravath, Swaine & Moore regarding sales of convertible securities of U.S. reporting companies under regulation S (August 24, 1998); re: sales of convertible securities of U.S. reporting companies under regulation S
Abstracts: Memos expose 'Project Rightsize;' Cadwalader papers are unsealed in ex-partner suit. Where firms found associates: a sampler of law schools that supplied the incoming class of '96
Abstracts: Memo to the Mafia: smuggle cigarettes. From cash crop to cash cow: how tobacco profits state governments. Battering big tobacco: nothing to lose but our liberty
Abstracts: Memphis lawyer delivers the world. Suing Microsoft: that's the ticket! Thinking out of the jury box; lawyer-juror on hung panel joins the defense for retrial
Abstracts: Mending judicial fences: commission suggests ways to dodge politics, bolster public support. Taking aim
Abstracts: Mental disabilities claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act and EEOC's guidelines. Employer rights and liability in regulating provocative dress in the workplace
Abstracts: Mental disabilities, the EEOC, and labor arbitration. Employee identity caucuses in Silicon Valley: can they transcend the boundaries of the firm?
Abstracts: Mentoring programs boost law firm loyalty; often, having a good role model is the most important factor in associate satisfaction
Abstracts: Menu for success. Be it ever so unusual ... finding odd spaces can ease the minds of lawyers and their clients
Abstracts: Merger in the District of Columbia dodges the funding-cut bullet. Financial aid officials discuss future of 'need-blind' admissions
Abstracts: Merger mania continues. The big push comes to legal publishing. More publishing mergers on the horizon
Abstracts: Merger, moving and division across national borders - When case law breaks through barriers and overtakes directives
Abstracts: Merger of two companies is change in ownership or control for one but not the other for golden parachute purposes
Abstracts: Mergers and acquisitions and takeover preparedness. Mergers and acquisitions and takeover preparedness: 1996 update
Abstracts: Merger's off; is it business as usual? Client memo embarrasses Dallas firm; Baron & Budd coaching of witness called improper
Abstracts: Merit moves on. Merit pay and grading at the BBC. Merit pay in education
Abstracts: Merrill deal paves way for new ADR; settlement sets three-step process to resolve disputes. Is ban on pay to donors killing urge to give? Law disallows incentive for organ donors to register, argue lawyers and lobbyists
Abstracts: Merrill: keep grand jury confidential; firm fights evidence release in Orange County matter. Bad PR spurs cave-ins; some companies are settling to contain harm from negative publicity
Abstracts: Merrill Lynch sues Manatt; brokerage accuses big L.A. firm of malpractice, fraud costing millions. Lawyers sue INS for access to aliens
Abstracts: Message bearers wanted; judiciary needs to expand effort to explain and bolster public perception of justice system
Abstracts: Metademocracy: the changing structure of legitimacy in statutory interpretation. Why Learned Hand would never consult legislative history today
Abstracts: Metanoia and the rule of law in the single market. Reforming product liability. The ECJ: a court with a mission?
Abstracts: Methodology of uniform contract law-the UNIDROIT principles as a source of law. An exercise in effectiveness?
Abstracts: Methods of forest law-making. The open door: will the right to die survive Washington v. Glucksberg and Vacco v. Quill?
Abstracts: Method to the merger madness: revisiting the '80s takeover boom. The politics of public lands
Abstracts: Metropolitan development and policing: the elephant in the living room. Federal child abuse and child neglect policy in the United States since 1974: a review and critique
Abstracts: Mexican Bar restricted despite free trade pact. Lawyers seek to gain from privatization law. Few privatizations in the East Bloc go very quickly
Abstracts: Mexican lawyers' advice: negotiate, si; litigate, no; peso troubles have derailed deals, but suits and threats to sue don't mean much in Mexico, Monterrey lawyers say
Abstracts: Mexico's Federal Economic Competition Law: the dawn of a new antitrust era. Recent and impending developments in copyright and antitrust
Abstracts: Miami lawyer is aiming to dismantle his city; while running his firm, he battles to dissolve the city his ancestors helped build
Abstracts: Miami's H.T. Smith puts black bar group in gear; a push for more judgeships and more government work for black lawyers is his ambitious agenda
Abstracts: Michigan drug law struck down; life without parole for cocaine possession violates state constitution, court rules
Abstracts: Michigan's single business tax not preempted by ERISA. IRS and Treasury release 1998 priorities list. Employer-provided outplacement services are nontaxable fringe benefits under Code s. 132
Abstracts: Mich. judge won't drop implant suits; relies on local rule to block their transfer to MDL guru. Breast implant suits: a bankruptcy matter? Dow Corning Mich. proceeding may be the magnet for most cases
Abstracts: Microsoft hopes firms will make Word association; in 'Word 95,' the software giant sees a window of opportunity to further invade the legal market
Abstracts: Microsoft investigators press ahead: the Justice Department's antitrust probe will continue after release of Windows 95
Abstracts: Microsoft is still in the crosshairs; threat of rare state AGs' suit is especially worrisome. Antitrust laws can hit high-tech targets, too
Abstracts: Microsoft judge gets decision 'roadmap;' proposed findings of fact in historic case have a few surprises. The great Gates photo op affair; insights on the Microsoft chairman's videotaped testimony - and other tales. (Bill Gates)
Abstracts: Microsoft Office tips. Time-saving techniques. Mastering the details: quick fixes for your Microsoft maladies
Abstracts: Microsoft patches up: a class action lawsuit prompts Microsoft to evaluate its patching strategy. DOJ chooses Redax; popularity of electronic document filing calls for safe redaction products
Abstracts: Mid-atlantic drift; of all the federal appeals courts, the Richmond, Va.-based 4th Circuit has the most conservative reputation
Abstracts: Middle Rio Grande regional water resource planning: the pitfalls and the promises. Transportation of transuranic nuclear waste to WIPP: a reconsideration of truck versus rail for two sites
Abstracts: Midland Bank: combined market and performance review for clericals. Clydesdale Bank: new agreement adds 4.95% to paybill
Abstracts: Mike's friendly Microsoft takeover; how one lawyer got control of all those M'soft class actions. Microsoft: judge vs. judge; the appellate opinion is a factor at final arguments
Abstracts: Military counsel fight command; up in arms over civilian putsch. Comp lawyer nets $450K fee in fear case; the matter's settled, but one lawyer and his allies vow to fight on
Abstracts: Military versus civilian judicial handling of sexual harassment cases. Employer liability for sexual harassment extends to schools and universities
Abstracts: Militias misinterpret Constitution. Militia claims baseless. Well-regulated militia: who calls the shots?
Abstracts: Milked to the bone. The bad harvest. Agriculture relief legislation in 1998: the bell tolls for reform
Abstracts: Milked to the bone. Thirteen steps to reconciliation
Abstracts: Miller v. California Pacific Medical Center: using the "capable of repetition yet evading review" exception to mootness in section 10(j) injunctions
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