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Abstracts: New portability for group term life plans. Tax-free benefits for the terminally ill ok'd. Living benefits riders provide access to life insurance proceeds for the terminally ill
Abstracts: New product liability bills; congressional effort to supplant state laws resumes. Hard time; mandatory minimum sentencing comes under congressional scrutiny
Abstracts: New proposal would break LSC into block grants; a Republican breaks ranks with party over measure, saying states wouldn't pick up the slack
Abstracts: New proposed regulations limit the deemed exercise rule for options under Section 382. Are expenses incurred in obtaining LBO loans deductible?
Abstracts: New prop. regs. challenge accelerated charitable remainder trusts. Prop. regs. clarify treating revocable trust as part of estate
Abstracts: New PTO guidelines to affect biotech inventions; they address requirements for utility and written description, stress patentability of DNA
Abstracts: New regulation helps small business. Excerpts: SEC commissioner floats new rules. Defending the SEC from 'deregulators.'
Abstracts: New reserve forces legislation. The constitutionality of punitive damage awards and recent proposed legislation
Abstracts: New risks surface from policy sales among insurers. Roundtable chafes at ALI's view on shareholder suits. Fears of liability spawn new focus on audit privilege
Abstracts: New rule in need of trial run. Don't split Circuit without a study. Alter U.S. civil law carefully
Abstracts: New rules concerning limitations on U.S. tax benefits from operations in restricted countries. Foreign tax credit limitation rules
Abstracts: New rules for new challenges. The issues concerning mandatory arbitration. Postponing arbitration: are parallel criminal proceedings a just cause?
Abstracts: New rules in the great patent race. Removing the 'fuel of interest' from the 'fire of genius': law and the employee-inventor, 1830-1930
Abstracts: New rules on auditor-client relationships; the SEC has released new independence requirements for auditing firms that perform myriad services for clients
Abstracts: New safety consultation rights for non-unionised workplaces. Electricity at work and the law - a live issue
Abstracts: New safety consultation rights for non-unionised workplaces. part 2 Bacon slams "regulation by accident." (Health and Safety Executive Director-General Jenny Bacon)(United Kingdom)
Abstracts: New safety law would protect under-18s. The enforcement record of the HSE's Field Operations Division. HSC launches DTI-inspired deregulation enforcement initiative with more red tape
Abstracts: New spy act to boost white-collar defense biz: enhanced enforcement of trade secret theft expected. New Japanese Trade Secret Act
Abstracts: New strategies add spice to retreat proceedings; organizers can use a variety of methods to capture attorneys' attention during firm retreats
Abstracts: New strategies for a new market: the electric industry's response to the Environmental Protection Agency's sulfur dioxide emission allowance trading program
Abstracts: New strategy in battering cases: about a third of jurisdictions prosecute even without victim's testimony. Jury deadlocks in Oswald mock trial; verdict based on "testimony" of actor-witnesses elicited by real-life lawyers
Abstracts: New TAM will likely lead to changes in tax results of collateral assignment split-dollar. Practical guidance for clients who are considering replacing a life insurance policy
Abstracts: New tax provisions could blitz lawyers with paper; provisions requiring business clients to report payments to attorneys may subject law firms to more paperwork and audits
Abstracts: New telecom law gets rough treatment in courts; three federal decisions strike key provisions of the telephone deregulation law
Abstracts: New term, big issues; a still-incomplete docket is relatively slim, but the court is squaring up to major matters
Abstracts: New to the law but not to life; older law school grads may find their best opportunities in the public sector
Abstracts: New trial for white supremacist? Defense claims retrial in 30-year-old murder case would be unconstitutional. The trial that failed; only a civil suit can hold a confessed murderer accountable
Abstracts: New U.S. enforcement policy is assessed. E.C.-U.S. Agreement on antitrust already had had impact on business. European regulations reviewed; joint ventures
Abstracts: New-value exception: still viable? Courts divided. Landlords may be left out in the cold. Bankruptcy flaws now minimized; the troubling real estate implications of the code, raised, for example, by the Deprizio rule, have been modified by new legislation
Abstracts: New version of EPLAN planning and administration software introduced by U.S. Trust. UST 706 709 SystemSM estate and gift tax return preparation software handles complex calculations easily
Abstracts: New view at Interior; planting seeds of consensus, Bruce Babbitt is still a fighter. A lame duck EPA issues compromise rules, proposals
Abstracts: New wine in old skins: interaction of new COBE regulations and the substantially all requirement. Outbound transfers of domestic stock and the substantiality requirement
Abstracts: New wings sprout on high court; conservatives divided by independent streak. The Court confounds observers; newest members pick their own paths
Abstracts: New York Court of Appeals adds new wrinkle to international taxation of estates. International trade legislation modifies taxation of some partnership distributions
Abstracts: New York lawyers gather for annual meeting. Medicaid counseling law struck in New York; federal judge says law could inhibit lawyers from giving advice to clients
Abstracts: New York's attorney general challenges the affiliation of two hospitals, claiming that their operating agreement is an attempt to fix prices and allocate markets
Abstracts: New York's first community court will open this summer to reclaim Broadway. This is what can happen when the court closes its constitutional doors
Abstracts: Next steps in proxy reform. The benefit of the Internet: the World Wide Web and teh securities law doctrine of truth-on-the-market
Abstracts: NHS trust in landmark prosecution. Smoky office breaches duty to protect welfare of employee. Employer's failure to assess pregnancy risks leads to maternity suspension
Abstracts: 'Niche' firms can target other firms; many law firms with specialized areas of expertise could benefit from approaching noncompeting firms as potential clients
Abstracts: Niche marketing helps firms reach new clients: a winning strategy will match the strengths of attorneys with the needs of a targeted market
Abstracts: Nine months after the enactment of securities litigation reform, courts are clarifying the new limitations set by the act
Abstracts: Ninth Circuit decisions focus on role of courts in reviewing plan administrators' decisions. Exhaustion of administrative remedies under qualified plan not required where plaintiff seeks to enforce statutory protections
Abstracts: Ninth Circuit reverses itself in Albertson's. Albertson's, Inc. seeks a second rehearing. National Office indicates new approach to taxing split-dollar life insurance
Abstracts: Nipping youth crime in the bud; lawyers help steer truants to the right side of the law through bar projects. Cops in the cross fire
Abstracts: NLJ founder looks back at profession's changes; he finds law firms and general counsel roles have changed dramatically in past 20 years
Abstracts: NLRB election delays: do they make a difference? Epilepsy Foundation of Northeast Ohio: NLRB's tripwire for nonunion employers
Abstracts: NLRB overrules 11-year election photograph ban; decision would allow a union, but not an employer, to take pictures or video of employees
Abstracts: NLRB to rule on unionizing temporary workers; NLRB's decision could affect survival strategies for unions, employers in global market
Abstracts: No: an eye on government. No: tabloid television does not belong at trial. Yes: cameras reflect the process, for better or worse
Abstracts: No backup system? Get one - today. Client on line 1 - and online. Lights, popcorn, remote - action!
Abstracts: No bad debt deduction for intercompany transfer. Adapt gift-giving strategies to fit certain circumstances. If activity is not a business, the loss is capital
Abstracts: No bad puns: a different approach to the problem of personal jurisdiction and the Internet. Certain issues of the work of the Sixth Committee at the Fifty-Sixth General Assembly
Abstracts: No bad puns: a different approach to the problem of personal jurisdiction and the Internet. part 2 Introduction to a special issue: Papers from the HIV/AIDS Law & Practice Conference 2004
Abstracts: No benefits for 'miracle' baby: suit by artificially inseminated mother seeks reversal. Stumped police turn to crime shows; law enforcement, viewers like "Most Wanted" and "Mysteries," both 5 years old
Abstracts: Nobody's victim: Sarah Buel left an abusive partner to save her life. Since then, she's been saving others. Treaty limits Title VII actions against foreign-owned companies
Abstracts: No breach of fiduciary duty in Unisys Executive Life GIC litigation; ERISA section 404(c) protection upheld. General Motors liable for fiduciary breach where automaker failed to reveal planned benefit changes to laid-off workers
Abstracts: No coattails; the Rodney King tape hasn't made it easier to sue for police brutality. Lawmaking by amateurs: initiatives drafted by kitchen-table legislators can have perverse results
Abstracts: No death sentence for abnormal killers. States deny treaty rights to foreign defendants; countries now are challenging convictions of foreign nationals denied assistance of consul
Abstracts: No escaping it; trade center's law department faces a legal 'nightmare.'(after World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks of 2001)
Abstracts: No excuses allowed; judge removed for punishing prospective jurors who claimed bias. Cigarette maker wins suit; plaintiff claimed cancer caused by Kent's former asbestos filter
Abstracts: No exit; Supreme Court finds no easy path to terminate structural injunctions. Advantage government; is it easier for the government to win in the Supreme Court?
Abstracts: No extradition to Hong Kong; real punisher seen as China, which has no U.S. extradition treaty. $29B - for billion - verdict; the case involves the CIA, the Marcoses and the theft of buried treasure
Abstracts: No-fault, fee-limit initiatives put on Calif. ballot; trial lawyers blast effort by coalition seeking 'loser pays' rule, reining in of fees
Abstracts: No flood of ADA suits - yet. A quiet birthday: after a year, little action under the Americans with Disabilities Act
Abstracts: No-frills approach proving costly; insurers' demands to economize are too much for some defense firms. Going for broke; soaring bankruptcies prompt calls for new repayment plan
Abstracts: No: goals are merely quotas in disguise. Making the grade; Ohio regents tie state law school subsidies to scholastic achievements of incoming students
Abstracts: No good dean goes unpunished; seven law deans were fired so far this year, despite raising funds, hiring legal stars, etc
Abstracts: No hermits for the jury. Keeping sports fans off the jury helps players score in salary litigation; James W. Quinn
Abstracts: Noh-go for Tokyo firms; after 10 years, few U.S. firms have made it in Japan. Early birds sit pretty: Chicago's Altheimer & Gray moves fast to gain East Europe business
Abstracts: Noisy hypocrisy and moments of silence. The bar must campaign for the independence of the judiciary - and of the legal profession itself
Abstracts: No: judge people by their abilities. Yes: don't second-guess the military. Colorado's Amendment 2 blocked; court says referendum barring gay-rights laws denies equal protection
Abstracts: No: keeping standards high protects the public. High cost of doing good; more law grads would enter public service with loan-forgiveness plan
Abstracts: No: lawyers always want to know what a judge is thinking. On independence, once and for all: future of the justice system depends on defense of federal judges
Abstracts: No legal holidays. Damage control: fire's aftermath is lesson in how lawyers can avoid problems with clients. Stress test; avoiding troublesome clients can make a lawyer's life easier
Abstracts: No longer news; the trial of the century that wasn't. Don't get trampled by media circus: basing our approach to court coverage on isolated trials only hurts the system
Abstracts: No longer your piece of the rock: the silent reorganization of mutual life insurance firms. Exploring collateral consequences: Koon v. United States, third party harm, and departures from Federal Sentencing Guidelines
Abstracts: No marital deduction for assets passing under settlement agreement. Transfer of assets to family partnership was not a taxable gift
Abstracts: Nominee's mettle will be tested soon; next term: abortion protests, civil rights. New trio stands up to Court's hard right
Abstracts: No more 'policy of the week;' put an end to staff uncertainty by assembling a manual of office guidelines. Launching into a new space; work style and personnel take over in office floor-plan design
Abstracts: Noncancellable disability insurance policies undergo sweeping changes as provisions are tightened. Opportunities and changes affecting life insurance that estate planners should expect in 1993
Abstracts: Noncompete clauses face uphill fight; firms test ethics rules in trying to box in ex-partners. Are noncompete clauses kaput? In an emerging trend, states may follow California's policy favoring open competition
Abstracts: Noncompetition agreements in bankruptcy: covenants (maybe) not to compete. Why it pays to file for bankruptcy: a critical look at the incentives under U.S. personal bankruptcy law and a proposal for change
Abstracts: No need to panic: creating a table of authorities is as easy as 1, 2, 3, 4. The thin redline
Abstracts: Non-exempt welfare fund held to the same non-reversion of assets requirement as VEBA trust. Transfer of surplus from terminated retiree life insurance plan to VEBA does not trigger excise tax
Abstracts: Nonformalistic law in time and space. Interpretation, empiricism, and the closure problem. Form and substance in law and morality
Abstracts: Nonmutual issue preclusion against states. The sovereign immunity "exception." (The Supreme Court, 1995 Term) Section 5 and the protection of nonsuspect classes after City of Boerne v. Flores
Abstracts: Non-philanthropic corporate involvement in community development. Community development banks: urban renewal that works
Abstracts: Nonprofit biz decisions become state AG's biz, too; growing trrend is for attorneys general to challenge hospital plans to downsize or close
Abstracts: Nonprofit hospital mergers and the exercise of market power. Fashion, styling, and the within-season decline in automobile prices
Abstracts: Non-profit hospitals show no mercy to creditors; in bankruptcy, their corporate structures allow them to 'cram down' plans of reorganization
Abstracts: Nonprofit organization providing self-funded ERISA disability plan taxable as insurance company. PSC may not deduct premiums paid on high limit disability policy insuring key employee and controlling shareholder
Abstracts: Non-profits use intent as defense; merging hospitals claimed they wouldn't abuse market power. When analyzing a potential merger, the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission now also examine its anti-competitive effects on innovation
Abstracts: Nonprofit-to-industry technology transfers grow; agreements licensing research from nonprofits to companies must be clear, comprehensive
Abstracts: Nonqualified deferred compensation plan reviewed for purposes of estate tax marital deduction. New York State Bar Association, Tax Section, Committee on Qualified Plans and Committee on Nonqualified Employee Benefits
Abstracts: Nontax aspects of planning for a family business. Newest developments in Alaska law encourage use of Alaska trusts
Abstracts: Non-traditionals' surge in new legal market. Where to go; a regional listing of job prospects for attorneys. Legal market: the good and the bad prospects for job hunters
Abstracts: No painless way to cut high costs. Costs to equality of hate speech. Court-reporting costs becoming less steep: new technology and the law of supply and demand have contributed to lower rates
Abstracts: No: prayer is not a crime. Stuck with a Lemon: a new test for Establishment Clause cases would help ease current confusion
Abstracts: No qualifying period for transfer dismissal claim. Male part-timer entitled to disapply qualifying hours thresholds
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