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Abstracts: Painful lesson on peacekeeping. Hardball discovery.; for drama, the pre-trial in a claim of nicotine-spiked cigarettes could have been scripted for a movie. But these scenes are from real life
Abstracts: Paint suits a lead balloon (so far); plaintiff lawyers seek the 'new tobacco,' but it's slow going. Anthrax vaccine's liability issue; BioPort suits face a difficult road
Abstracts: "Palace revolt" by Nevada justices? Members of state high court spar over pace of decisions, chief's fitness. One opinion, two controversies; 2nd Circuit limits copyright protection for software, approves court expert
Abstracts: PalmOne Tungsten C Handheld. FlashTrax. Legal research: LawyerLinks
Abstracts: PalmOne Tungsten C Handheld. The OCR odyssey. talk to your computer ViaVoice
Abstracts: PalmSource and Microsoft duke it out: PalmSource works to keep up with emerging market trend. Jury selection made easy: software programming automates jury selection
Abstracts: Pan Am 103 is dissected by the experts. Cases against insurers may hang on diaries, tapes; did an insurer commit fraud in defending against airplane crash lawsuits?
Abstracts: Panel issues report on judicial selection gridlock. A rare consensus and clear conservatism characterized the court's 1997-98 term
Abstracts: Panel proposes class action changes. Some lawyers balk at lobbying limits for Clinton officials. Another paltry summer; the largest firms offer even fewer jobs
Abstracts: Panel raps Bush's order; president's effort to cut litigation called "no-brainer." (executive order requiring government lawyers to reduce court congestion and delay)
Abstracts: Panoply of laws applies to employees' addictions; employers face a myriad of legal hurdles in responding to workers' substance abuse
Abstracts: Paper-less in practice. 7 deadly sins of electronic discovery . To maximize your billable time
Abstracts: Paper protection and broken promises: the Airline Deregulation Act's Employee Protection Program. Opening Coase's other black box: why workers submit to vertical integration into firms
Abstracts: Paperwork redux: the (stronger) Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. Introduction
Abstracts: (Para) legal aid; what sort of assignments can you delegate to nonlawyer assistants? Partners - in rent only
Abstracts: Parallel district court and ITC patent infringement actions and PTO interferences. A critique of recent opinions in patent interferences
Abstracts: Parental consent; stringent Miss. law passes muster. On and on; will the new amendments cut Rule 11 litigation down to size?
Abstracts: Parent privilege; lawmakers seek to protect parent-child conversation. A treacherous path
Abstracts: Parents first; Supreme Court warns judges to be cautious when granting visitation rights to grandparents. Supreme stumpers; the next president could reshape the Court and the legal arena
Abstracts: Parents of young people in trouble. Harshest sentence is restititution. People talking about punishment
Abstracts: Parent-subsidiary communications and the attorney-client privilege. Antitrust divestiture in network industries
Abstracts: Parent trap; corporate mergers and acquisitions can create conflict of interest. Extended liability; when do you owe a duty to third parties?
Abstracts: Parole and prisoner reentry in the United States. Youth violence in America. American prisons at the beginning of the twenty-first century
Abstracts: Parole consultants under investigation for ethical violations. Have gavel, will travel; the 'wheels of justice' are spinning in Texas - literally
Abstracts: Parsing Pinter four years later: defining a statutory seller under section 12 of the Securities Act. Rule 144A and integration
Abstracts: Partial dischargeability of property in a divorce settlement: a call for an equitable remedy under Section 523(a)(15) of the Bankruptcy Code
Abstracts: Participant loans: a road map for practitioners. Senator Dole and Rep. Michel introduce pension security legislation
Abstracts: Participation and property rights. Codes of ethics as contractarian constraints on the abuse of authority within hierarchies: a perspective from the theory of the firm
Abstracts: Participation of nongovernmental parties in the World Trade Organization: extension of standing in World Trade Organization disputes to nongovernment third parties
Abstracts: Particular prenups ensure businesses stay in the family; 'family forms' protect family entities from in-law ownership
Abstracts: Parties, PACs, and campaign finance: preserving First Amendment parity. The ass atop the castle: competing strategies for using campaign donations to influence lawmaking
Abstracts: Partner accused, career damaged; associate implicates Altheimer & Gray lawyer, but bar drops matter. For reshaping privilege - plus; Clinton is leading lawyer in the sage, First Client and law professor-at-large
Abstracts: Partnering and the management of construction disputes. Resolving public sector disputes: a road of politics and potholes
Abstracts: Partnering: new dimensions in dispute prevention and resolution. Construction industry: building the case for mediation
Abstracts: Partner moves: modern courtship, still risky; when big-stakes players hop from firm to firm, both sides can find that silver linings are laced with gray financial clouds
Abstracts: Partners go to business school. Talking to your clients brings in new business. A pay plan curbs partner spats
Abstracts: Partnership in practice: the experience of two probation services. Consumer opinions of the probation service: advice, assistance, befriending and the reduction of crime
Abstracts: Partnership pact should cover personal adversity; a partner's death, bankruptcy or divorce can disrupt a firm, unless a written accord exists
Abstracts: Partnerships and LLCs. Valuing compensatory stock options. Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997
Abstracts: Part-timer refused leave to resuscitate claim. Redundancy selection was on ground of union activities. No joint liability under transfer regulations
Abstracts: Part-timer refused leave to resuscitate claim. When does early retirement amount to dismissal for redundancy? ACAS conciliation hits new high
Abstracts: Part-timers entitled to claim retrospective pension benefits. Pension rights excluded from transfers legislation
Abstracts: Part X arrangements: the fate of a creditors' meeting following the rejection of a debtor's proposal. An analysis of unfair preferences under the new avoidance regime
Abstracts: Passing marks for sex ed; courts reject constitutional challenges to school programs. Witnesses to tragedy; courts open door to more suits for negligent infliction of emotional distress
Abstracts: Passive activity losses and their effect on decedents, estates and trusts. Grandparents and gifting: an alternative approach
Abstracts: Pass-through income to S corporation shareholders not self-employment earnings for Keogh deduction purposes. Patterson v. Shumate & Keogh plans: should the retirement assets of a self-employed individual be included in the individual's bankruptcy estate?
Abstracts: Past-dependency, pragmatism, and critique of history in adjudication and legal scholarship. Bush v. Gore: prolegomenon to an assessment
Abstracts: Past investment performance is no measure of future returns. The political business cycle
Abstracts: Pastoral privilege debated; archdiocese and prosecutor battle over priest sexual abuse files. Walsh defends probe; urges ABA House to back renewal of special prosecutor law
Abstracts: Past, present, & future: building on 70 years of innovation - the AAA looks to the 21st century. AAA celebrates 75 years
Abstracts: Patentability issues relating to interference counts. U.S. GATT legislation changes patent term. Should the clear & convincing evidence standard for rebutting the presumption of validity apply when the challenger raises a substantial new question of patentability?
Abstracts: Patentability of algorithms after State Street Bank: the death of the physicality requirement. The experimental stage doctrine: the quiet death of an experimental use heresy
Abstracts: Patentability of computer related inventions in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Written description guidelines and utility guidelines
Abstracts: Patent and trade secret protection of computer technology. Obtaining and enforcing patents for software-related inventions: avoiding the pitfalls
Abstracts: Patent bar lobbied Bush for Rio stance. China patent boss predicts a great leap forward; chief of the Chinese patent office, in U.S. visit, says his country's approach may be a boon for the small investor
Abstracts: Patent due diligence helps ensure exclusivity; areas of inquiry should include inventorship status and rights assignments or reservations
Abstracts: Patent enforcement difficulties in Japan: are there any satisfactory solutions for the United States? Official Management v. reorganisation under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code: in defence of official management
Abstracts: Patent fee diversion crosses constitutional boundary. Address to American Inn of Court inaugural meeting, October 1, 1991
Abstracts: Patenting and ethics - a dubious connection. Written description after Enzo Biochem: can the real requirement step forward please?
Abstracts: Patenting around nuisance prior art. Patenting gene sequences. Patenting nucleotide and amino acid sequences in view of electronic sequence database searches
Abstracts: Patenting DNA - obviousness rejections. "Motivation" or "obvious to try" - is there a difference? Is it a proper test of obviousness?
Abstracts: Patenting of software - proposed guidelines and the magic dividing line that disappeared. Patenting medical and surgical procedures
Abstracts: Patent law; actual notice under S. 297(a). Determining rights through declaratory judgments; courts will adjudicate patent claims only if there is an actual controversy between parties
Abstracts: Patent law - a patient seeks a portion of the biotechnological patent profits. Patent infringement and the role of judge and jury in light of Markman and Hilton Davis
Abstracts: Patent law; examination guidelines. Patent law; business method patents. Intellectual Property Bankruptcy Act aids licensees; the act can assist those that license technology from bankrupt companies
Abstracts: Patent law ; lost-profits damages. Patent law; attorney-client privilege. Patent law; business methods
Abstracts: Patent law - pharmaceuticals - Federal Circuit upholds patents for AIDS treatment drug. - Burroughs Wellcome Co. v. Barr Laboratories, Inc
Abstracts: Patent law; standards abuse. Summary judgment of invalidity can aid defendant; Federal Circuit has increasingly affirmed rulings based on the on-sale bar and other grounds
Abstracts: Patent licensing under competitive and non-competitive conditions. Patent term guarantee overview
Abstracts: Patently permissive; PTO filings up after ruling expands protection for business and Net software. Dollars for downloads; ruling back music companies' rights to royalties for Webcast 'performances.'
Abstracts: Patent Marking Statute may need major overhaul; formal notice provisions put it at odds with laws protecting other IP
Abstracts: Patent misuse in franchise agreements: a ripple on the waters of franchise law. Recovering lost future royalties in a franchise termination case
Abstracts: Patent pools, cross licenses draw antitrust scrutiny; DOJ, however, is demonstrating consistency in its approach and flexibility in two review letters
Abstracts: Patent preemption of computer software contracts restricting reverse engineering: the last stand? What is an employer benefit plan? ERISA preemption of "any willing provider" law after Pegram
Abstracts: Patent protection and technology transfer in the developing world: the Thailand experience. Eighteen months to publication: should the United States join Europe and Japan by promptly publishing patent applications?
Abstracts: Patent protection provides long-term Net strategy; 'State Street' allows start-ups to protect business methods and defend marketing niches
Abstracts: Patents and antitrust: a rethinking in light of patent breadth and sequential innovation. Exclusive dealing, discrimination, and discounts under EC competition law
Abstracts: Patents pending? Lawyers, inventors battle over new technologies. Japanese still uneasy on patents; TV spots bash the U.S
Abstracts: Patent, trademark data bases to appear online; lawyers yawn. When lawyers hire consultants, complaints sound oddly familiar
Abstracts: Patent war pending; court to hear case that makes infringement claims more difficult. A holiday remembrance
Abstracts: Paternalism and corporate responsibility. Three realms of corporate responsibility: distinguishing legitimacy, morality and ethics
Abstracts: Paternalism is out; 9th Circuit cites ADA, says employers cannot refuse to hire workers in jobs that may pose a threat to them
Abstracts: Paternalism may excuse disability discrimination: when may an employer refuse to employ a disabled individual due to concerns for the individual's safety?
Abstracts: Paths less traveled: The Circuit Court tours the Net's back alleys. Voice of the future
Abstracts: Patriot movement has lawyers in its sights; the right-wing fringe hates the bar as well as the federal government
Abstracts: Patrolling the futures: regulators say Chicago's two big exchanges are slow to self-police. They say the feds are missing it
Abstracts: Patterns in disciplinary violations mark change. O'Quinn seeks help for alcohol abuse problem; Houston lawyer's discipline trial postponed while he gets treatment at hospital
Abstracts: Patterns of ADR use in corporate disputes. Y2K & ADR: get ready for midnight. Resolving disputes between physicians & nurses: how to get the most from ADR in the health care industry
Abstracts: Paul Weiss pact remains puzzling; what's unclear is exactly what it did to displease the RTC. Kaye Scholer's Lincoln woes
Abstracts: Pay awards hit 3% mark. 3% and holding: pay awards remain steady. Pay awards approach 3.5%
Abstracts: Pay awards hit 3% mark. Pay awards hold at 3% against inflationary forces. Pay awards rise to 2.7%
Abstracts: Pay awards hold fast at 3%. Pay awards steady at 3%. Pay awards hold at 3%
Abstracts: Pay awards undisturbed at 3%. Retail awards stable at 3% as majors settle. Pay awards hold at 3% against inflationary forces
Abstracts: Payers mold health care lawyering; market forces boost M&A, ERISA and fraud work. His hospital hope: avoid the legal ER
Abstracts: Pay for performance: corporate executive compensation in the 1990s. Shareholders, nonshareholders and corporate law: communitarianism and resource allocation
Abstracts: Pay for performance. The year of the proactive director: recent developments in the performance and compensation of outside directors
Abstracts: Paying student loans and still having a life; a sudden rush of income can become a gilded cage, so handle it sensibly
Abstracts: Paying the piper who protects our freedoms. Price of religious liberty is oddity. Gays, St. Patrick's Day and cultural war
Abstracts: Payments to ex-spouse under divorce agreement held deductible. Settlement in estate dispute held not to be taxable income
Abstracts: Pay pressures remain sedate. Settlements holding firm at 3%. 3% and holding: pay awards remain steady
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