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Abstracts: On compliance with ethical standards in tax return preparation. Ethics and the accounting publishing process: author, reviewer, and editor issues
Abstracts: On compliance with ethical standards in tax return preparation. part 2 Communicating with employees: building on an ethical foundation
Abstracts: On damages, a jury is difficult to figure; jurors' deliberations rarely are irrational, but group interactions and their desire to compromise often yield surprising results
Abstracts: On drawing a bright line for covert operations. The power line plaintiff & the inverse condemnation alternative
Abstracts: One chief justice's political gumbo; add big business, mix in law school clinics to make re-election bid brouhaha
Abstracts: One for all and all for one: reforming manslaughter law. EC finally adopts Seveso II Directive. Prison looms for director after Jackson Transport is convicted of manslaughter
Abstracts: One for the books; local publishing contracts carefully for clients with the write stuff. An OK for IOLTA; legal-services funding scheme wins round in federal court
Abstracts: One franchisee lawyer's comments on Congressman LaFalce's proposed federal franchise legislation. LaFalce proposals challenge franchising
Abstracts: One good deed may go unpunished: do plan sponsors really increase fiduciary risk by offering third-party investment advice to participants?
Abstracts: One more legacy of Rodney King; U.S. Supreme Court ruling affirms trial court discretion in sentencing. Green law; Supreme Court's environmental law docket blossoms
Abstracts: One opinion, two controversies; 2nd Circuit limits copyright protection for software, approves court expert. Mood swings; D'Alemberte recalls presidential year of political ups and downs
Abstracts: One person's balm is another's felony; San Francisco's D.A., Calif. attorney general in standoff over marijuana crackdown
Abstracts: "One royalty strike and you're out!": a franchisor's independent right to terminate a franchise agreement for nonpayment of royalties and the remedies available under the Lanham Act
Abstracts: One small ethical issue arising in ethnographic research. HIV surveillance: what's hot, what's not. Analyzing proposed new public policies
Abstracts: One Starr subpoena awakens the defense bar. Report by Starr oversteps statutory authority. Starr abused his relationshiop with grand jury
Abstracts: One-stop directory rebuild. Virtual speeds up. Good things come in small packages
Abstracts: One, two, tort: the BMW and Tebbetts cases. Creating a market for tort claims. Fundamental reform of tort law
Abstracts: One type of tax-deferred savings bond is bound to beat inflation. Maximize after-tax returns on equity investments
Abstracts: Online CLE takes off: cost and convenience make Internet education alternatives attractive. Linux in the law office: part II
Abstracts: Online content providers search for protections; for now, creators must rely on a melange of technological self-help, contract clauses and law
Abstracts: On-line copyright issues, recent case law and legislative changes affecting Internet and other on-line publishers
Abstracts: Online docket information. 10 steps to a $600 Web site. Fear.com: someone might be tracking your moves on the Net
Abstracts: Online legal services: threat or opportunity? Four attorneys debunk, debate and discuss the myths and realities of the legal Internet Age
Abstracts: Online patent searching: a good news story, but not the whole story. Licensing technology: a financial look at the negotiational process
Abstracts: Online patent searching: a good news story, but not the whole story. part 2 The patent law of Hong Kong post-1997, after Hong Kong is reverted back to the People's Republic of China
Abstracts: Online pharmacies present a host of regulatory issues; particularly problematic are sites that prescribe as well as dispense drugs, and offshore sites that sell unapproved drugs
Abstracts: Online raids pose issue of firms' security; hijacked computers' owners could be sued by target sites. Nonlawyers running firms; COOs with strategic power replace administrators
Abstracts: Online services can ease company filing burdens; corporate secretaries now can access libraries containing the most up-to-date state forms
Abstracts: On misusing "revolution" and "reform": procedural due process and the new welfare act. The "Chief Executive" and the quiet constitutional revolution
Abstracts: On my honor. Why do good people make bad choices? Improve our actions to improve our image
Abstracts: On our failure to face the link between drug use and AIDS. HIV education and prevention in California: problems and progress
Abstracts: On-sale bar requires a more complete invention; the Federal Circuit narrows the definition of when an invention is put on sale, barring a patent
Abstracts: On target; McWilliams repeats plea for gun control after courthouse shooting. What clients want
Abstracts: On the economics of health care. Health is making economy sick. Benefit costs are slowing but they are not really falling
Abstracts: On the edge of chaos. Question & answer with Brian Hall. Filing with EDGAR Ease
Abstracts: On the inestimable value of the OGD. How to use the annual report: why publish an annual report on the global geopolitics of drugs
Abstracts: On the issue of support and enablement for claimed limitations as given by drawings. Perspectives on US classification
Abstracts: On the positive side: Using a foreign national's HIV-positive status in support of an application to remain in the United States
Abstracts: On the role of juries in patent litigation. The new provisional rights provision
Abstracts: On with the show. Virtual litigation. Make room for MakePDF
Abstracts: On writing the post-hearing arbitration brief. Using ADR methods to solve the dilemma when experts collide. When the hearing is over: writing arbitral awards in plain language
Abstracts: Open access in the power industry: competition, cooperation, and policy dilemmas. Measuring market power in electric generation
Abstracts: Open court? As courthouses rush to put filing online, easy access to court documents has many worrying about privacy rights
Abstracts: Opening closed doors? 9th Circuit rules Federal Arbitration Act doesn't apply to employment. Keeping the doors open; court upholds rights for aliens with criminal records
Abstracts: Opening doors; employers face adjustment period as ADA goes into effect. Who's the boss? Identifying employers can be a complicated matter under the ADA
Abstracts: Opening doors for diversity; TIPS and minority commission team up to expand awareness, opportunities. War games; an Indianapolis litigator fights Napoleonic battles
Abstracts: Opening Pandora's Box: The Panel's findings in the EC-Biotech Products dispute. The end of zeroing? Reflections following the WTO Appellate Body's latest missive
Abstracts: Opening the gates; recent rulings may spawn more litigation. No clear standard; defendants face barriers in habeas challenges to convictions
Abstracts: Operations and compliance under the new consumer provisions of Revised Article 9. Chattel paper financing and Revised Article 9: what's new and what's not
Abstracts: Opium problems: estimation of illegal crops and diversion of legal crops. Money laundering in the South: the modernity of tradition
Abstracts: Opportunities and problems in this decade. A decade of despair or of opportunity. Will these productivity gains be sustained?
Abstracts: Opportunities for profit beget horse breeding deductions. Contributions must be 'on account of' the tax year. Quitting a job does not make it temporary
Abstracts: 'Opt-in' class actions pose hard discovery issues; FLSA and ADEA plaintiffs often seek discovery of the names of all potential 'class' members
Abstracts: Order-flow payments get new scrutiny. The 5th Circuit's approval of a no-opt-out, mass tort settlement that forecloses the rights of future claimants raises basic due process issues
Abstracts: Order of Turkish court restraining payment of letter of credit by Turkish bank in New York not enforceable - independence principle revisited
Abstracts: Organic and mechanical metaphors in late eighteenth-century American political thought. Xenophilia in American courts
Abstracts: Organisation theory and the ethics of participation. Governance in the participative organisation: freedom, creativity and ethics
Abstracts: Organizational ethical standards and organizational commitment. Experiential ethics: a blueprint for personal and corporate ethics
Abstracts: Organizational freedom for banks: the case in support. "Gun-jumping" revisited: a proposal to prevent false starts in private offerings
Abstracts: Organizational justice as determinants of member satisfaction: a teachers' association experience. Perception of performance appraisal by employees and supervisors: self-serving bias and procedural justice
Abstracts: Organizational justice: recognizing and rewarding the good citizen corporation. Participatory management within a theory of the firm
Abstracts: Organizing patterns and certification success rates of left and non-left unions. Union shop authorization polls: an historical re-examination
Abstracts: Organizing worth its salt: the protected status of paid union organizers. Milking capitalism for all it's worth
Abstracts: Organ transplant market would save lives. Courts have set differing standards of proof for fear-of-aids lawsuits. Some demand actual or potential exposure; others don't require any exposure at all
Abstracts: Origins of modern international arbitration. International arbitration: the next growth industry. 10 techniques for managing arbitration hearings
Abstracts: Ornithopters, Orgasmatrons and the paperless office. Mission impossible: switching word processors. The ideal office computer: with the right components, you can build a powerful and functional PC
Abstracts: OSHA penalties up, but still below limits. Dallas toxic site still not listed. Federal legal policies still unknown; vacant spots mean Bush policies carry by default
Abstracts: OSHA penalties up, but still below limits. Insurer's workout is a test; professional fees come to $1 million a month
Abstracts: OSHA's ergonomics arm reaches farther than ever; new rules relating to injury prevention and accommodation have broad worker application
Abstracts: OSHA targets bridge painters. EPA: the enemy is us. Market masked regulation
Abstracts: Other remedies. Protection from Harrassment Act 1997. Sex discrimination
Abstracts: Other suit may benefit from Chiquita tapes; company fears use by ex-exporter in a federal malicious prosecution case
Abstracts: OTS' counsel resigns, reflects. U.S. firms to get British bailout; bankrupt insurers. Partner leverage changes; NLJ data shows more law firms reduced associate/partner ratios
Abstracts: Our cover
Abstracts: Our Eastern European challenge; providing technical assistance to struggling democracies. The politics of crime: or, the crime of politics
Abstracts: Our homes are not dumps: creating nuclear-free zones. Rebuttal to Natural Resources Journal environmental ethics manuscript by Noah Sachs
Abstracts: Our numbers keep growing; ABA membership is on the rise again, and services are constantly improving. Mission: membership; our strategies for retention and growth are working already
Abstracts: Our state-by-state products liability law works well. Courts hold government liable for cleanup costs; potentially responsible parties may pursue Superfund liability claims against U.S. entities
Abstracts: Ouster to affect Cipollone case? Cigarette judge removed. En banc dissent: no more asbestos punitives. Judge goes to seminar; lawyers want recusal
Abstracts: Outbound transfers of domestic stock and the substantiality requirement. Continuity in a split-off - why so strict?
Abstracts: Outcomes without trials: Supreme Court decisions add to rules on out-of-court case resolutions. Prisoner rights rebound; inmates score victories in recent Supreme Court decisions
Abstracts: Out of bounds: professional sports leagues and domestic violence. Racial violence against Asian Americans
Abstracts: Out of loss, a lesson for living; staking out personal time in a profession driven by billable hours is key. The secret of success; need balanced lives, not necessarily more billable hours
Abstracts: Out of the blue. The politics of choosing judges; despite power plays and litmus tests, judicial selection process is not so bad
Abstracts: Out of the extraordinary: Supreme Court creates key precedents even on 'routine' business issues. Race matters: new cases return a volatile issue to the top of the Supreme Court's agenda
Abstracts: Out of the soup; 'anything can happen to anybody,' says a health care lawyer charged in a case that arose from his work
Abstracts: Outsider or frontrunner? Recent developments under international and European Union in international organizations and treaty bodies
Abstracts: Outsmart the market; selling losing stocks to offset taxable gains on winners can be the right call. Night moves
Abstracts: Outsourced law library serves as a wake-up call; librarians who fail to show how they contribute to the bottom line may find themselves shelved
Abstracts: Outsourced programs: ownership issues arise; if freelancer retains copyright in software, patent title still may belong to commissioner
Abstracts: Outsourcing software overseas; foreign developers offer savings so long as risks are minimized. 1995 software compendium
Abstracts: Outstanding Service Award. An award for P.J. "Pat" Federico. Public use and on sale issues arising from clinical testing of medical devices
Abstracts: Overall, lawyers' pay tops other professions'; gap between big-firm attorneys and other lawyers is still huge
Abstracts: Over at K&E, Starr is fading. They're psych Ph.d.s and J.D.s; meet the new family law hybrids, loaded with credentials and empathy
Abstracts: Overcoming bad press, he beat back Exxon's foes. A lawyer who spins enthralling stories. Front-load effort and win your case; 'the voir dire is the most important part of the trial' because one bad juror can spoil your chance to win
Abstracts: Overseeing and overlooking: The US federal authorities' response to money laundering and other misconduct of BCCI
Abstracts: Overview of securities litigation reform. Underwriters' counsel in the current capital markets environment. Due diligence procedures of issuers' representatives in the modern underwriting environment
Abstracts: Overview of state whistleblower protection statutes. Ignoring the wisdom of Article III courts: a study in NLRB intransigence
Abstracts: Owner beware; lender liability and CERCLA. Regulation X; rule puts teeth into RESPA prohibitions against settlement process abuses
Abstracts: Owning assets in trust results in tax and nontax benefits. How to draft invasion clauses for marital and credit shelter trusts
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