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Abstracts: Recapturing short-term investments; venture capitalists should maximize their exit rights in good times as well as bad
Abstracts: Receipt of options under consulting agreement does not prevent qualification as outside director under s. 162(m)
Abstracts: Receivables can play a role in a region's recovery; securitizations could help many Asian countries if jurisdictions become friendly to the concept
Abstracts: Recent attorneys general have made it hard for independent counsels to function. Prosecutors have used criminal statutes to deter others from spreading AIDS
Abstracts: Recent band-name cases raise issues of ownership; two circuits tackled who can use the service marks for 'The Drifters' and 'Steppenwolf.'(Kassbaum v. Steppenwolf Productions, Inc. and Marshak v. Treadwell)(Intellectual Property)
Abstracts: Recent case finds no coverage for trademark wrong; 8th Circuit's decision in 'Callas' highlights need for clarity in definition of advertising injury
Abstracts: Recent case holds: e-mail is minimum contact; in 'Hall,' a California court held that electronic communication created personal jurisdiction
Abstracts: Recent cases brought under the Americans with Disabilities Act hinge upon interpretations of 'disability' as well as 'essential functions' of a particular job
Abstracts: Recent cases reinforce a client's right to receive accurate information about a case so that the risks of litigation and the value of settlement can be evaluated
Abstracts: Recent cases warn franchisors to be wary of 'Kodak' liability. Audits are preventive medicine for companies: a thorough inventory today can forestall litigation tomorrow
Abstracts: Recent changes in the tax laws affecting multinational corporations in certain trading partners of the United States
Abstracts: Recent court opinions affecting USPTO trademark practice: the year in review. Notable court decisions affecting PTO trademark practice
Abstracts: Recent decision may jeopardize joint defenses; magistrate judge disqualified all firms for insurers because of one's conflict of interest
Abstracts: Recent developments create concern for split-dollar life insurance. Troubled insurance companies - IRS rulings
Abstracts: Recent developments ease sales of tainted sites; the EPA's prospective purchaser agreements can allow buyers to avoid limitless cleanup liability
Abstracts: Recent developments in federal court application of the EEOC guidelines to English-only rules. Arbitral responses to the changing external law of discrimination
Abstracts: Recent developments in OSHA litigation. Square peg and round hole: forcing OSHA regulatory violations into the negligence per se framework
Abstracts: Recent developments in the arbitration of employment discrimination claims. Court review of arbitration: some practical observations
Abstracts: Recent developments in trademark law and practice. Noteworty PTO trademark decisions.(Patent and Trademark Office)
Abstracts: Recent developments relating to Section 482 and tax treaties. Tax Court rejects IRS sourcing rule for royalty income
Abstracts: Recent government policy changes, including relaxation of Superfund liability, might encourage more purchases of 'brownfields,' or contaminated properties
Abstracts: Recent private rulings highlight different ways to create an eligible S-corporation grantor trust. Think forward when drafting a QTIP trust
Abstracts: Recent SEC enforcement actions enhance efforts to narrow gap between municipal and corporate disclosure obligations
Abstracts: Recent S.E.C. enforcement cases. Recent SEC enforcement cases
Abstracts: Recent Supreme Court cases, along with newer economic theory, cast doubt on the continued viability of the concentration calculus used to evaluate mergers
Abstracts: Recent TAM focuses on three-year rule and inclusion of insurance proceeds in estate. A detailed analysis and reexamination of survivorship insurance use and planning
Abstracts: Recent Tax Court petitions of interest to practitioners. Surviving spouse benefits vested in employee's current spouse upon employee's retirement and thus could not be subject of later QDRO
Abstracts: Recent tobacco rulings give both sides the jitters: the anti-tobacco effort has suffered setbacks in West Virginia and Florida, but has advanced in Minnesota
Abstracts: Recession impressions: differing views on legal technology during a potential economic downturn. Know artificial ingredients; understanding really is half the battle
Abstracts: Reclaiming environmental law: a normative critique of comparative risk analysis. The summary of the report "Ideology and Ecology." (Soviet Union) (1991 Bellagio Conference on U.S.-U.S.S.R. Environmental Protection Institutions)
Abstracts: Recognition and enforcement of state contract awards in the United States: a restatement. The ILC's draft articles on state responsibility: toward completion of a second reading
Abstracts: Reconceptualizing American legal professionalism: a proposal for deliberative moral community. A lawyer's pledge; living up to the ideals of the profession takes work
Abstracts: Reconceptualizing American legal professionalism: a proposal for deliberative moral community. part 2 Sustaining the moral surge
Abstracts: Reconceptualizing the role of constructive waiver after Seminole. 42 U.S.C. s. 1983 - absolute immunity - Sixth Circuit holds that social worker is not absolutely immune from s. 1983 suit
Abstracts: Reconciling cost-benefit analysis with the principal that safety matters more than money. Seventy-fifth anniversary retrospective: most influential articles
Abstracts: Reconciling diverse authorities on sales of remainder interests. The Uniform Disclaimer of Property Interests Act: opportunities and pitfalls
Abstracts: Reconciling sections 365(c)(1) and (f)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code: should anti-assignment laws prohibit assumption of contracts by a debtor in possession?
Abstracts: Reconciling the right to vote with the Voting Rights Act. Title VII's antiretaliation provision: are employees protected after the employment relationship has ended?
Abstracts: Reconsidering the "lack of duty" defense to state auditor negligence claims. A comparative analysis of dramshop liability and a proposal for uniform legislation
Abstracts: Reconsidering the taxation of life insurance proceeds through the lens of current estate planning. Taxation of business rent
Abstracts: Recordal of other interests on the Trade Marks Register. Neural networks: here, there, and everywhere - an examination of available intellectual property protection for neural networks in Europe and the United States
Abstracts: Record companies want broader blocking rights; the industry seeks to prohibit artists from activities that may result in competing products
Abstracts: Recording your own CD-ROMs. Turning paper into bytes. EZ Drive vs. Zip drive: which is best?
Abstracts: Record state caseloads in 1990; but tort filings may be slowing because of reform legislation, report suggests
Abstracts: Recovering lost future royalties in a franchise termination case. Extraterritorial application of FTC rule
Abstracts: Recovery of benefits conferred pursuant to failed anticipated contracts - unjust enrichment, equitable estoppel or unjust sacrifice?
Abstracts: Recovery of unconstitutional taxes: a new approach. Section 304 and the limits of statutory law. Reexamining continuity of shareholder interest in corporate reorganizations
Abstracts: Recruiters turning to the Internet in bid to draw more applicants. Faced with a drop in applicants, some schools resort to hard sell
Abstracts: Redefining the boundaries of labor protest after Madsen v. Women's Health Center. Prohibition against certain offenders in the labor movement: a review of 29 U.S.C. 504
Abstracts: Rediscovering ethics: back to basics. Ethical awareness - not ethical reeducation. Insurance ethics: the right training at the right time
Abstracts: Rediscovering God in the Constitution. Should Employees Be Held Accountable for Acting on What They Discover? Yes: international law should not negate the Constitution
Abstracts: Red tape slows setup of China joint ventures: mastering the first stages of establishing a joint venture is essential to avoiding pitfalls
Abstracts: Reducing a company's risk over domain name disputes. Remarks of Q. Todd Dickinson at PTO Day Annual Conference on Patent & Trademark Office Law and Practice
Abstracts: Reducing firms' pro bono liabilities. Pro bono's not enough for the job. Lawyers help reform office of L.A. sheriff
Abstracts: Reducing legal risk and avoiding employment discrimination claims. The FTC rule and the PMPA: an uncertain alliance
Abstracts: Reducing upper limb disorders on the packing line. The Internet. Small firms, large problems?
Abstracts: Re-entering the mythical kingdom; numbers on the world's lawyers are hard to come by. Let firms buy and sell credit for pro bono
Abstracts: Reevaluating the grantor trust status of GRATs and QPRTs. Adult adoption may qualify one as a beneficiary. General powers of appointment may cause unexpected tax
Abstracts: Reevaluation of estate justifies equitable recoupment of income tax. Remainder interest excludable from gross estate
Abstracts: Re-examining the role of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regarding Title VII's foreign laws defense
Abstracts: Refining the law on assignment of rents. Assignments: unresolved issues remain. Assignments of leases and rents at issue
Abstracts: Reflections on the juvenile death penalty: contravention of precedent and public opinion. Mandatory reporting of domestic violence: an inappropriate response for New York health care professionals
Abstracts: Reflections on United States v. Helmsley: should the 'impossibility' be a defense to attempted income tax evasion?
Abstracts: Reform bill is dangerous electioneering. Chapter 11 retailers peril landlords. Regs on claims trading may fall short
Abstracts: Reforming jury practice in patent cases: suggestions towards learning to love using an eighteenth century system while approaching the twenty-first century
Abstracts: Reforming SLAPP reform: New York's anti-SLAPP statute. Equal access or free speech: the constitutionality of public accommodations laws
Abstracts: Reforming the Immigrant Investor Program of the Immigration Act of 1990. China's equity joint venture law: a standing invitation to the West for foreign investment?
Abstracts: Reforming the new confirmation process: replacing "despise and resent" with "advise and consent". Burying Caesar: replacement of the veterans appeals process is needed to provide fairness to claimants
Abstracts: Reforming the shareholder proposal process. The new shareholder proposal rules. Developments under section 16
Abstracts: Reform of the control machinery under the European Convention on Human Rights: Protocol No. 11. The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Abstracts: Refounding Granada. Pay pressures set to weaken. Pay awards approach 3.5%
Abstracts: Refugee law still needs fix. It's cosy in the castle with the drawbridge up. Anti-immigrant bill flouts U.N. agreement
Abstracts: Refusals to license intellectual property rights: the impact of RTE v. EC Commission (Magill) on Australian and New Zealand competition law
Abstracts: Regaining the balance of Hatch-Waxman in the FDA generic approval process: an equitable remedy to the thirty-month stay
Abstracts: "Regarded as" disabilities under the ADA. Every breath you take: employee privacy rights in the workplace - an Orwellian prophecy come true?
Abstracts: Regional earnings for 1994. Pay awards rise to 2.7%. Gone but not forgotten: pay setting after the wages council
Abstracts: Regional earnings for 1996. New Earnings Survey 1996: earnings growth rises. Skills-based pay: a survey
Abstracts: Registration of deferred compensation obligations under the Securities Act of 1933. DOL withdraws top-hat regulations project
Abstracts: Regs clarify one-owner LLC tax; the 'check the box' rules eliminate areas of uncertainty and create new tax planning opportunities for single-member entities
Abstracts: Regs clarify one-owner LLC tax; the 'check the box' rules eliminate areas of uncertainty and create new tax planning opportunities for single-member entities. part 2
Abstracts: Regulating cyberspace. Inbox infatuation. Is the Web the message or the medium?
Abstracts: Regulating electronic commerce. External relations. Agenda 2000: a blueprint for enlargement
Abstracts: Regulating employer use of permanent striker replacements: empirical analysis of NLRA and RLA strikes 1935-1991
Abstracts: Regulating gene data; U.S. and E.U. may implement restrictions on patent rights and statutues to protect privacy
Abstracts: Regulating nanotechnology in the European Union. Including aviation into the European Union's Emissions trading scheme
Abstracts: Regulations issued pursuant to the 1994 Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act are designed to encourage commercial entities to compete for public contracts
Abstracts: Regulations, new codes may dictate changes in firms' phone systems; ADA compliance may necessitate upgrades. Integrating phone, fax and E-mail
Abstracts: Regulatory experts. Keep on learning. A century of rule of law
Abstracts: Regulatory reform and the economics of contract confidentiality: the economics of natural gas pipelines. USA
Abstracts: Regulatory reform in transition: the dismantling of the Glass-Steagall Act. Campaign finance: the impact on the legislative and regulatory process
Abstracts: Regulatory reform in transition: the telecommunications industry and MFJ regulation. The shape of competition under Title VII of the Energy Policy Act of 1992
Abstracts: Rehabilitating public forum doctrine: in defense of categories. The changing faces of First Amendment neutrality: R.A.V. v. St. Paul, Rust v. Sullivan, and the problem of content-based underinclusion
Abstracts: Rehabilitation; different ways to climb out of a hole. Helping the witness; techniques for keeping witnesses out of trouble
Abstracts: Rehabilitation plan of Mutual Benefit receives agreement of regulators and guarantee funds. Life companies report surplus increase
Abstracts: Reinsurance of declaratory judgment action expenses in environmental coverage actions: arguments and case law
Abstracts: Reintroducing the Mexican wolf: will the public share the costs, or will the burden be borne by a few? The future of probation: reintroducing the spiritual dimension into correctional practice
Abstracts: Reinventing the regulatory state. Behavioral analysis of law. Free speech now
Abstracts: Relationship marketing in China: Guanxi, favouritism and adaptation. Attempting to institutionalize ethics: case studies from Japan
Abstracts: Relationships between school labor relations practitioners' personal and social beliefs and their propensity toward using an interest-based negotiations model in the public schools
Abstracts: Relaxing the regulatory stranglehold on communications. The Bay Bridge blunder. Clearing the air: EPA's self-assessment of clean-air policy
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