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Abstracts: Storm leaves a lot of suits in its wake. Grand jury witnesses get help. Raveling the web of BCCI
Abstracts: Storm over Niagara: a catalyst in reshaping government in the United States and Canada during the Progressive Era
Abstracts: Storm warnings: after months of courtroom maneuvering in the O.J. Simpson case, the public is ready to indict the entire criminal justice system
Abstracts: Storm warnings: after months of courtroom maneuvering in the O.J. Simpson case, the public is ready to indict the entire criminal justice system. part 2
Abstracts: Straight talk; to Bush, Clinton and Perot: open the debate on justice. Seeking fairness in justice reform
Abstracts: Strange bedfellows: business and environmental groups. Swaps, banks, and capital: an analysis of swap risks and a critical assessment of the Basle Accord's treatment of swaps
Abstracts: Strange tale of the judge and the Hoover files. Judges' sentencing decisions bolstered. He balked at bills, so firm padded them: the firm admitted overbilling but still prevailed in a lawsuit brought by a too-savvy client
Abstracts: Strategic directions for North American industrial relations academic units: the Laval experience. Needed skills for human resource professionals: a pilot study
Abstracts: Strategic hostile acquisitions. Introduction to hostile takeovers. Doing a deal for a public company: slide presentation summary
Abstracts: Strategies for clients residing in nursing homes. Guidelines for clients contemplating organ donation. Surviving spouse may benefit from revised planning
Abstracts: Strategy for dragonslayers; start from within to cure lurking ills of the legal profession. A well-planned attack; preparing cross-exam ahead of time gives it more impact
Abstracts: Strategy, form, and corporate legal responsibility under the NLRA. Labor and employment laws in Mexico and the US: an international comparison
Abstracts: Strategy for survival: problems of legislative and executive power in the field of environmental protection in the Ukraine
Abstracts: Strawberry growers pick off a pesticide ban. Astroturf lobbying replaces grassroots organizing. Hazards of Herbicides: Loggers Risk Tomorrow's Trees
Abstracts: Streamlined Form 5500 package proposed. Agencies clarify HIPAA regs. on health FSAs and nondiscrimination involving denial of coverage due to health status factors
Abstracts: Strength in networking: how the organized bar is gaining one solo at a time. The secretarial advantage; law students, paralegal tasks, flexible hours are part of new approach
Abstracts: Stress and common sense: the first ever HSE guidance on tackling stress at work. University health and safety: new approaches to management
Abstracts: Stricter real estate loan rules in place. Revisions to RESPA at issue; HUD's proposals on disclosure are assessed
Abstracts: Strict liability for hazardous enterprise. The role of corporate compliance programs in determining corporate criminal liability: a suggested approach
Abstracts: Strict liability of individuals under CERCLA: a normative analysis. Putting the remedial cart before the statutory horse: the Ninth Circuit reopens debate on CERCLA's definition of disposal
Abstracts: Strife after death for King of Torts; lawyers wrangle over Melvin Belli's estate in probate and bankruptcy courts
Abstracts: Striking back at the dreaded SLAPP. World is getting SLAPP-happy. Supersedeas bonds: a crushing burden; as punitives escalate, defendants seeking appeal may be hobbled by court bonding requirements
Abstracts: Stroh's ads targeted; bikinis and beer lead to harassment at work, suit claims. Gordon Lish's $2,000 letter; writer wins copyright suit against Harper's, but loses libelous editing claim
Abstracts: Stroking the Nettle: New Zealand legislators and the issues of redundancy. The rights of illegal workers injured at work: a study of the judicial dilemma in the United States
Abstracts: Structural impediments to operational syringe-exchange programs. Rural HIV-service networks: patterns of care and policy issues
Abstracts: Structuring and managing a virtual law firm: a technologically inspired MDP approach. Making the virtual law firm
Abstracts: Structuring hedge funds to exceed the 25% limit on benefit plan investors. Effect of recently issued proposed IRS regulations on the qualification of cash balance pension plans
Abstracts: Structuring trusts to permit the donor to act as trustee. Proposed legislation threatens unified credit. Maximizing the use of the state death tax credit
Abstracts: Structuring U.S. operations for foreign corporations in the current tax climate. Partnerships can be restructured to meet changing needs
Abstracts: Struggling with words in tax jurisprudence: the revival of textualism in the supreme court of the United States of America
Abstracts: Students already heed the call for service in the public interest. Chicago students plan to export American con law to Chinese
Abstracts: Studies challenge accepted notions; judges not unsympathetic to plaintiffs; corporations win more often than people
Abstracts: Studies: community release works; easing transition from hospital to freedom helps keep mentally ill out of trouble
Abstracts: Studies suggest that minorities still lag in admissions, tests. Arizona State bucks the critics and admits convicted murderer
Abstracts: Study forecasts broad future for financial planning. Tax advantaged retirement planning: selling life insurance in the Roth IRA market
Abstracts: Studying the acceptability and feasibility of medical abortion. RU 486/prostaglandin: considerations for appropriate use in low-resource settings
Abstracts: Study: lack of U.S. lawyers adds to deficit. Reno's colleagues say Clinton's hit pay dirt. Legal bills stillborn in Congress; legislators leave town
Abstracts: Study measures Superfund costs; the counsel fees vary. Firms' S&L fees dipped in 1992; first drop during crisis
Abstracts: Study: Quayle was right ... and wrong; entitlement programs in Western Europe help accident victims avoid court
Abstracts: Study the Web, then get a J.D.; legal institutions revamp their curricula to include courses on cyberlaw and technology
Abstracts: Stupid judge tricks; in honor of Law Day, the NLJ presents its Top 10 list of the most amazing antics by judges
Abstracts: Sua sponte
Abstracts: Sua sponte. Mr. Escobar, one of the world's richest inmates, helped design the prison. As it turned out, the historic $100 million may not have been totally altruistic
Abstracts: Subchapter S reform: the Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996. Creating a banker-free zone: the new proposed anti-Morris trust regulations
Abstracts: Subnational governance and the International Joint Commission: local management of United States and Canadian boundary waters. part 2
Abstracts: Subordination, nondisturbance and attornment agreements - known as SDNAs - protect tenants, landlords and lenders in the event of foreclosure
Abstracts: Subsidizing contractors to gain employment: construction union "job targeting." Preserving unionized employees' individual employment rights: an argument against section 301 preemption
Abstracts: Substituted judgment: medical and financial decisions by guardians. Chapter 11 financial reporting rules for debtors: the impact on creditors, shareholders, new investors, and the bar
Abstracts: Substitutes for letters of credit sales: a seller's lot is not a happy one. An analysis of the recent revision to Article Five of the Uniform Commercial Code: letters of credit
Abstracts: Subtrusts and reversionary interests: a review of current options. Attitudes of older adults toward long-term health care options
Abstracts: Successful IPOs require more than big dreams; after much work, Rambus' IPO yielded liquidity and profile, but both will take getting used to
Abstracts: Successful lawyers pay the price; many in the profession today work more, earn more, but enjoy it less. The way back; personal crises can be especially tough for busy lawyers, but help in coping is out there
Abstracts: Suggested approach for judicial interpretation of regulations that grant discretion to taxpayers. Use of industry definitions in interpretation of the Internal Revenue Code: towards a more systematic approach
Abstracts: Suicide cases led by bicoastal duo. A death penalty duel; U.N. court orders U.S. to stay executions. Board battle; Canada and U.S. are in long dispute over imports
Abstracts: Suitability claims under Rule 10b-5: are public entities sophisticated enough to use derivatives? Company registration: toward a status-based antifraud regime
Abstracts: Suit could bar insurer transfers; 'assumption reinsurance.' (Tom Gallagher, Commissioner, Florida Department of Insurance v. American Health and Life Insurance Co.)
Abstracts: Suit: death defense is a sham; claim is Fla. provides lawyers but makes it so they can't save inmates. Justices struggle with a 'Lemon;' landmark church-state ruling needs updating - but how?
Abstracts: Suite harmony; protecting client confidentiality while you share space. Bad references: beware of ethical hazards when nonlawyers offer referral fees
Abstracts: Suits by patients surge in misdiagnosed AIDS cases; lawyers say clients trust doctors, take AZT, lose families and prepare to die
Abstracts: Suits increasing for failure to spot cancer. Law firms take document blooper battles to court. Deceased stars haunting the courtroom; protecting celebrities' estates from merchandising ripoffs is big business
Abstracts: Suits over school financing, vouchers increase. Making computer searches easier; questions can be asked. The 'show' case may be gutted; Utah abortion ban lawsuit
Abstracts: Suits over shuttle crash face hurdles; law changed after disaster in 1986. First trial for Bayer's Baycol set to start; plaintiff in Texas case seeks $100M
Abstracts: Suits test environment jurisdiction; can U.S. courts treat rain forest damage like genocide? New tool for job bias suits; two circuits say the ADA covers hostile work environments
Abstracts: Sullivan & Cromwell cross-exam goes on and on... Is Microsoft's trial counsel putting judge to sleep? Or does it have a master plan?
Abstracts: "Sullivan-type" principles for U.S. multinationals in emerging economies. Introduction
Abstracts: Sunday working in retail - drifting away from double-time. Retail settlements still at 3%. The 1995 retail pay round
Abstracts: Sundstrand: a case study in transformation of cultural ethics. "Alliances - their roots and their fruits." (speech of Council for Ethics in Economics founder and first Pres Paul M. Minus)(Transcript)
Abstracts: Sundstrand: a case study in transformation of cultural ethics. part 2 Responses to legislative changes: corporate whistleblowing policies
Abstracts: 'Sunshine' laws bar secret settlements; several states have enacted statutes that prevent parties from keeping particular settlements and documents confidential
Abstracts: 'Sunshine' laws bar secret settlements; several states have enacted statutes that prevent parties from keeping particular settlements and documents confidential. part 2
Abstracts: Superannuation - protection for investors. The role of the employment contract in superannuation: an analysis focusing on surplus repatriation powers conferred on employers
Abstracts: Supercarriers compete in global arena; as leading telecom providers battle for the business of multinationals, the FCC begins to establish ground rules for competition
Abstracts: Superleague: a victory for competition and free markets. When is a railway part of a production process? Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd v National Competition Council
Abstracts: Supermandamus; stiffer standard for attorney disqualification. Fallen woman? Double standard for centerfold
Abstracts: Superstores are major FTC target; new antitrust theory says they're a distinct submarket. Who will pay for discarding of files in Sunbeam case?
Abstracts: Supported bail for mentally vulnerable defendants. De-institutionalisation, psychiatric treatment and mentally disordered offenders in Italy: some critical considerations
Abstracts: Supported bail for mentally vulnerable defendants. Television licence evasion and the criminalisation of female poverty
Abstracts: Supporting organizations: a good alternative to private foundations. Planning to preserve the advantages of community property
Abstracts: Suppress or suspend: New York's exclusionary rule in school disciplinary proceedings. Of sausage factories and syllogism machines: formalism, realism, and exclusionary selection techniques
Abstracts: Supreme challenge; a law professor hopes some justices will correct their dismal hiring records for women law clerks
Abstracts: Supreme Court antitrust 1991-92: the revenge of the amici. The FCC's review of the Bell Atlantic/NYNEX and SBC/Ameritech mergers: regulatory overreach in the name of promoting competition
Abstracts: Supreme Court broadens actions available under ERISA s. 510 to include both welfare and pension plans. First Circuit addresses safe harbor exclusion from definition of ERISA plan for non-employer endorsed group insurance plan
Abstracts: Supreme Court broadens actions available under ERISA s. 510 to include both welfare and pension plans. part 2 Seventh Circuit holds that "parties in interest" are not liable to plans for participatiing in prohibited transactions
Abstracts: Supreme Court could redefine ADA this term; hearing five cases will allow the court to leave its mark. What's left after 'Morrison;' VAWA ruling leaves Congress quite a few commerce powers
Abstracts: Supreme Court decides Keystone: transfer of unencumbered real property to satisfy funding liability is prohibited transaction
Abstracts: Supreme Court hands windfall to owners of insolvent S corporations. Debt discharge controversy for owners of S corporations
Abstracts: Supreme Court holds legal and investment banking fees of target of friendly takeover nondeductible. Spin-off of newly formed subsidiary results in recapture of ITC
Abstracts: Supreme Court resolves major age discrimination controversy: ratification and tender back impermissible under OWBPA
Abstracts: Supreme Court's qui tam case is having an impact; with ruling months off, some lawyers seek to delay old cases, reject new ones
Abstracts: Supreme Court to examine scientific proof; a high-profile Bendectin case could result in a new standard for such evidence
Abstracts: Supreme Court to examine scientific proof; a high-profile Bendectin case could result in a new standard for such evidence. part 2
Abstracts: Surprise! The employment news isn't as bad as had been feared. New placement survey confirms just how bleak job market is
Abstracts: Surrogacy agreements pose biotech quandary for courts; two state courts address novel issues in gestational surrogacy contracts. One looks to adoption law, the other to intent
Abstracts: Survey: Boston firms lag in minority hiring. Judge: poverty lawyers also need a safety net; a New York judge joins effort to rejigger fee award formula and increase pay
Abstracts: Survey finds wide disparity in women's presence at firms. Minorities find firm with a place for them. Progress glacial for women, minorities; but the recession hits white male associates the hardest
Abstracts: Survey: general counsel face environmental toll. More lawyers expect to urge their clients to examine compliance
Abstracts: Survey lets judges render some opinions about the patent bar. Bills to make PTO government corporation stall; backers claim new PTO would be more efficient; opponents worry about undue influence
Abstracts: Survey of 92 key companies using ADR to settle employment disputes. Just cause in the arbitration of sexual harassment cases
Abstracts: Survey of non-ALJ hearing programs in the federal government. Negotiating for knowledge: administrative responses to congressional demands for information
Abstracts: Survey ranks scholarship output as critics say aim is too narrow. Applicants declined slightly from past record high levels
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