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Abstracts: Safeguarding VAT revenue via actual cost taxation with collection at source. part 2 ECJ allows application of German thin cap rules to interest paid to non-EU shareholder
Abstracts: Safe landings in client suits; checking insurance for litigation coverage helps avoid breach of duty. Look before you leap; mobile lawyers need to check policy coverage when changing firms
Abstracts: Safety lock. ADVANTAGELAW, INC. Flawless functionality
Abstracts: Safety team laws may collide with the NLRA; pressure is mounting in Congress to pass legislation aimed at resolving this issue
Abstracts: Safety victimisation: the view from the tribunals. Implementation league table highlights European safety law north-south divide
Abstracts: Safety violations: how to stop them. Risk pricing: an alternative to workplace safety legislation? Changing behavior: improving safety
Abstracts: Safety violations: how to stop them. Roving safety representatives. PRISM at Yorkshire Water
Abstracts: Sailing solo: making the right tech choices when starting a solo or small-firm practice. Do-it-yorself knowledge management: 10 practical KM tips for attorneys
Abstracts: Salary wars waning; law firms hold the line on starting associate pay, opt for bonuses. Dictionary trademark wars; Random House's use of 'Webster's' and 'College' on cover an infringement
Abstracts: Sale of life insurance to welfare benefit plans and VEBAs. Credit shelter trusts as potential purchasers of life insurance
Abstracts: Sale of stock to ESOP that was established and merged into another as part of a single plan qualifies under s. 1042
Abstracts: Salute to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, 1907-1995; two controversial opinions helped maintain liberty. A transitional chief justice with a contradictory record
Abstracts: Salvaged water: the failed critical assumption underlying the Pecos River Compact. A-LP lite: a compromise project that fulfills the United States' trust responsibility in an environmentally responsible manner
Abstracts: Salvation outside the church: judicial protection in the Third Pillar after the pupino and segi judgments. Interim measures in community courts: recent trends
Abstracts: 'Samara' expands trade dress protection for clothes; the 2d Circuit found the overall design of several nondistinctive features inherently distinctive
Abstracts: Same-gender sexual harassment: the Supreme Court allows coverage under Title VII. Sexual harassment: the Supreme Court couldn't really have meant "and"
Abstracts: Same ills, different solutions; tale of two cities. Seeking clarity on fines for polluting agencies. Industry, insurers at odds: at stake: who will pay for Superfund cleanups?
Abstracts: Same old tune: legal enforcement has merit, but could damage future development of promising technology. Firms face Sarbanes-Oxley; a new financial management market emerges
Abstracts: Same old tune: legal enforcement has merit, but could damage future development of promising technology. part 2
Abstracts: Same-sex harassers get equal time; after 'Oncale,' employers should consider implementing sexual harassment policies that deal with same-gender perpetrators
Abstracts: Same-sex harassment suits on rise; 8th Circuit Title VII ruling in man-vs.-man case spawns a lower-court following
Abstracts: Same test for indirect discrimination under UK and EC law. No compensation for unintentional indirect discrimination
Abstracts: Sample the smorgasbord of tax-favored benefit options. Select 401(k) plan options that meet company objectives
Abstracts: Sanction goes on trial. Trial presentation Visionary. Animated solution: Chronologia offers a simple approach to timeline creation for presentations
Abstracts: Sanctions asked in Pan Am suits. Grand jury looks at Flight 103; Pan Am's insurer at issue. Civil liability trial on Flight 103 to start
Abstracts: San Diego assistant dean wins $1 million wrongful firing award. Yale's dean Calabresi attempts a wider definition of diversity
Abstracts: San Francisco Bay Area boatyards: a case study in regulating small polluters. Ecological disaster area: the Chernobyl case study
Abstracts: Satellites expand your orbit; multiple offices offer convenience for clients and name recognition for solos. Best prepaid plans can go awry; but they offer a steady stream of clients with whom to build relationships
Abstracts: Satisfaction or your money back; ruling says fees may be forfeited if client is unhappy with attorney conduct
Abstracts: Save the whales; among the many worthy causes, let's also save the profession. Dan Quayle was right; too many lawyers focusing on fees, not clients
Abstracts: Saving the green: who should pay for environmental cleanup costs? Allocating environmental liabilities in acquisitions
Abstracts: Say the right thing. O'Connor receives ABA medal: first woman on Supreme Court carves out influential niche among justices
Abstracts: Scan alone. Assemble like the pros. Discovering data: Prevail and ElectronicDataViewer pave the way for electronic discovery
Abstracts: Scandal embarrasses Virginia's Hunton; proud firm defends its reputation, sullied by a vanished ex-partner's outside deals
Abstracts: Scarlet letter sentences: as convicts who are ordered to shovel manure and post warning signs have learned, shame is making a comeback
Abstracts: Scary tales from the tobacco wars. Tobacco docs archive revealed; boxes of potentially damaging data arrive each month in N.Y
Abstracts: Scenic landscape protection under the police power. Easing the credit crunch: a "functional" approach to lender control liability under CERCLA
Abstracts: 'Schatz' ruling errs on legal, moral basis. Internal management controls tend to assure the quality of legal services
Abstracts: School danger zones: courts reject efforts to hold schools liable to student shooting victims. Around the ABA; new group will coordinate ABA's efforts in bioethics
Abstracts: School desegregation cases linger quietly. Unlikely lobby asks for changes in Superfund. Superfund studies begin to fill hole in data-dry field
Abstracts: School finance in the courts. Policy implications of increased high school graduation expectations. Equity v. autonomy: the problems of private donations to public schools
Abstracts: School reform - charter schools - Connecticut and South Carolina pass charter school statutes. - Conn. Gen. Stat. ss. 10-66aa-ff (1997); S.C. Code Ann. ss. 59-40-10 to -190 (Law. Co-op. Supp. 1996)
Abstracts: School rules blues; 'zero tolerance' leads in injustice for pupils, advocates say. A twist of fate; Anil Mehta lost an arm and wound up in public service
Abstracts: School supplies for law firms; a look at where some law firms find their newest associates. Where associates are schooled: a look at where some law firms find their new young lawyers
Abstracts: Schwartz on torts; Victor Schwartz's drive for products liability bill edges ever closer. Legal woes on campus increase; due process questions are often at the fore
Abstracts: Science and Technology Section looks to future. Litigation Section sets new focus. Business Law Section will seek to extend services
Abstracts: SCOLA means quality assistants. Lowering the bar; new Restatement on lawyer competence may protect less skillful lawyers
Abstracts: Scope of anti-bribery rules still unclear. Led by the U.S., the world wages war on corruption; after two decades, numerous international organizations are embracing principles set forth in the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Abstracts: Scope of harassment liability expands. Harassment gets taken seriously. An expert can gauge perceptions
Abstracts: Scope of harassment liability expands. Primary schools as well as colleges are learning from a spate of lawsuits that sex harassment allegations may be brought not only by employees but by students
Abstracts: Scope of joint defense doctrine enlarged. Assessing a new ruling on joint defense. How Reves may alter plaintiffs' strategy
Abstracts: S corporation one-class-of-stock regulations reissued: the Service backs off. Redemption distribution treated as dividend reduces S corporation's accumulated adjustments account
Abstracts: Scott Turow ponders the '60s in new book; defying politically correct, he took on race while billing $325 an hour
Abstracts: Scott Turow ponders the '60s in new book; defying politically correct, he took on race while billing $325 an hour. part 2
Abstracts: Scrambling for privacy; encrypted information on lawyer-client networks maintains confidentiality, foils unauthorized users
Abstracts: Screen tests; critics view resume-scanning software as newest form of employment discrimination. All aboard for MDP train; but accounting giant's financing of D.C. law firm could still derail
Abstracts: Scrutiny scrutinized; case sparks debate on intermediate standard. Changing the jury tool box; ABA task force invites criticism of trial proposals - and gets it
Abstracts: S.Ct. in Hubert fails to provide needed guidance. Prop. regs. after Hubert: new rules for administration expenses
Abstracts: Seagram case and Seagram's actions highlight current developments. Administrative proposals point to changes for pass-through entities
Abstracts: Search firms left in the lurch; slump in legal hiring thins the herd of headhunters. Doin' the power shuffle; elite firms want to two-step with new Bush administration
Abstracts: Searching beyond data bases; law librarians can offer firms services over and above their skills in computer resources
Abstracts: Searching beyond data bases; law librarians can offer firms services over and above their skills in computer resources. part 2
Abstracts: Searching for "bubbles of capitalism": application of the U.S. antidumping and countervailing duty laws to reforming nonmarket economies
Abstracts: Searching for the right fit; pre-emptive sleuthing can help in avoiding the wrong job. Containing the contagious; precautions can ward off an outbreak of e-mail viruses
Abstracts: Searching out legal resources. Business law resources online. Intellectual property Internet resources
Abstracts: Search 'widgets' streamline Internet research; new products help coordinate several search engines and yield more efficient results
Abstracts: Sears reps practiced law illegally; but using real lawyers in credit card debt sessions might be too expensive
Abstracts: Seattle firm cooperates with rivals on high tech; Bogle & Gates is a member of a consortium of firms that share time-and-billing technology
Abstracts: Seattle's no. 1 firm prospers. San Francisco firm reels from murder of lawyers, others. Belli partners sue to split firm
Abstracts: SEC adopts new rules of practice; while the new rules do not provide for compulsory pre-hearing discovery, they generally are favorable to respondents
Abstracts: SEC agrees to delay effective date of PanAgora no-action letter until the end of 1995. The regulation of socially responsible mutual funds
Abstracts: SEC, Congress address executive pay. Shareholder rights plans are under board review; as 1980s rights plans expire, clients try to adopt formulas that withstand court review
Abstracts: SEC, Congress clarify securities disclosure issues; the recent reform act and new SEC proposals will help simplify some reporting requirements
Abstracts: SEC could lease offerings of securities via the Web; Commission has the power to block states' registration requirements for online offers made exclusively to 'qualified purchasers.'(Internet/CD-Rom)
Abstracts: SEC defines 'securities' expansively; agency wants U.S. laws to protect Lloyd'd investors. GOP threatens securities suits: House bill would kill 'fraud on the market' theory behind class actions
Abstracts: SEC initiatives benefit Canadian issuers. Accountants, no longer at risk of being sued for aiding and abetting securities law violations, have recently been found directly liable for their clients' fraud
Abstracts: SEC, lawyers spar over derivative restrictions. A place in the sun. Securities defense finds a safe harbor
Abstracts: Second Circuit holds fraud actionable in employment agreements. The "reasonable woman" standard: the Ninth Circuit decrees sexes perceive differently
Abstracts: Second Circuit holds that participants not entitled to actuarial reports; Eighth Circuit holds that employer-sponsored HMO must disclose incentives paid to doctors to limit referrals
Abstracts: Second City tries again; Chicago hopes new loitering law avoids constitutional defects. Standing up for victims
Abstracts: Second-death life insurance in profit sharing plans. Insured bonus plan - a different approach. Key 1995 tax developments involving life insurance in estate and business planning
Abstracts: Secondhand smoke suits may catch fire; some lawyers see an upsurge following a new EPA report. Plaintiffs hope for more cracks in the tobacco wall; historic settlement a first, but some caution that it may not affect other cases
Abstracts: Second opinions on HMOs; ERISA has long been a staple in managed care organizations' defense strategies. But now plaintiffs lawyers are opening up new theories of liability and expanding old ones
Abstracts: Second wind; tobacco battles shift back to trial courts after justices spare the industry from FDA regulation
Abstracts: SEC pays attention to increase in online investing; agency has examined ways to monitor electronic markets and to encourage wider participation
Abstracts: SEC release no. 33-7380, plain English disclosure, proposed rules (January 14, 1997). A plain English handbook - how to create clear SEC disclosure documents
Abstracts: SEC restrictions on stock at decedent's death were considered in valuing the stock. Estate tax on life insurance trust was not reduced by unified credit, rules CA-6
Abstracts: SEC revises executive compensation reporting rules. Executive compensation disclosure - the new rules. Proxy statement disclosure in the SEC's new summary compensation table
Abstracts: SEC rule 701: does rule 701 status "flow through" to transferees? Proposed reduction in the Rule 144 holding periods
Abstracts: SEC's new top cop goes on the record; he says lawyers must waive privilege for a good deal. SEC general counsel calls it quits
Abstracts: SEC staff refuses no-action letter permitting issuer to exclude compensation-related shareholder proposal. SEC staff refuses to allow omission of shareholder proposal on executive pay
Abstracts: SEC staff refuses no-action letter permitting issuer to exclude compensation-related shareholder proposal. part 2
Abstracts: SEC studies disclosure in securitizing; but regulatory changes unlikely to broaden fiduciary obligations of investment banks
Abstracts: SEC's valuation views may have impact. Defending the SEC from 'deregulators.' Securities litigation bills are anti-market
Abstracts: Section 183 election extends the refund period. District court bars service's employer-only FICA assessment. Prop. regs. offer lesson on deducting education loan interest
Abstracts: Section 2013 and Estate of Harrison: statutory quirk meets common disaster. Family limited partnerships: the open issues
Abstracts: Section 355, Revenue Procedure 96-39 and the Viacom transactions. Spin-off and stapling transactions
Abstracts: Section 368(a)(1)(F): the eye of the hurricane. Continental breakfast and a history lesson. Ruling dealing with REITs and a comment on two-step acquisitions
Abstracts: Section 404(a)(7) limits applied separately to employers in controlled group. Patterson v. Shumate: a five-year legacy
Abstracts: Section 54, Insurance Contracts Act 1984 (Cth). 'Claim' in insurance law. Insurance Laws Amendment Act 1998
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