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Abstracts: The year 2000 problem: a technological time bomb. SEC and NASD releases, no-action letters and other pronouncements
Abstracts: The Year 2000 problem. Surviving the IS cattle auction. How many IS people should you have?
Abstracts: The year in judicial review, 1997-1998. Paradoxes of racial stereotypes, diversity and past discrimination in establishing affirmative action in FCC broadcast licensing
Abstracts: The year in review: a bibliography. What to plead and how to plead the defendants' state of mind in a federal securities class action: the plaintiffs' perspective
Abstracts: The year in review. Conditions and circumstances of living on death row - violative of individual rights and fundamental freedoms?: divergent trends of judicial review in evaluating the "death row phenomenon."
Abstracts: The year in review: significant judicial developments. Recent legislative developments affecting the work of the Securities and Exchange Commission
Abstracts: They're back! Your presentations...on the Web! Battle of the accounting bits
Abstracts: The Yugoslav Tribunal: use of unnamed witnesses against accused. Witness anonymity is inconsistent with due process
Abstracts: The Yusuf and Kadi judgments: The scope of the EC competence in respect of restrictive measures. Patient mobility and national health systems
Abstracts: They've cornered the market; a few firms dominate the derivative-suit arena. Insurer hit with quake verdict
Abstracts: The Zagat recipe for becoming an entrepreneur; the famed restaurant guide creators reveal how lawyers could do what they did
Abstracts: 'Things fall apart': The case for radical reform of the EU's courts. The EU charter of rights: rhetoric or reality?
Abstracts: Think globally, act locally: it's time to reform the intrastate exemption. An intrastate of mind: a critical review of the intrastate offering exemption
Abstracts: Thinking ahead about freedom of speech and hostile work environment harassment. Workplace harassment and the First Amendment: a reply to Professor Volokh
Abstracts: Thinking is fundamental. Handling difficult students. New law makes e-signatures legal
Abstracts: Thinking outside the "franchise law" box: Is our area of law special? Should it be? Item 19 earnings claims: a disclosure most franchisors should try to make
Abstracts: Thinking strategically about automation. Polishing your images, part 2. The $544 Computer
Abstracts: Third Circuit considers ERISA s. 404(c) as fiduciary defense where plan invested in Executive Life GICs. Claims against ERISA plan service providers
Abstracts: Third generation of corporate charter sales. Goldilocks meets Private Letter Ruling 9809051. Partial liquidations may stage a comeback
Abstracts: Third-party beneficiaries. U.S. commercial law crosses northern border: good faith and fair dealing is a U.S. doctrine that the Canadian legal system now must address
Abstracts: Third-party linking is latest wave of Web disputes; the nature of the defendant's overall activities governs whether a link is actionable
Abstracts: Third-party problems: with an erosion of client privity protection for lawyers, malpractice claims by nonclients are on the rise
Abstracts: This estoppel has got to stop: judicial estoppel and the Americans with Disabilities Act. The benefits of applying issue preclusion to interlocutory judgments in cases that settle
Abstracts: This GC's advice is always in fashion. Lots of litigation. A new life in Montana was a nice thought
Abstracts: This man of steel girds for trade suit. He sees the forest and the trees. Volume discounts: a developing idea
Abstracts: This model sports no caps; proposal by uniform law commissioners tightens punitive procedures. If the punishment fits; doctored BMW paint job returns punitive damages issue to court
Abstracts: This term, the Supreme Court held that punitive damages can be excessive. Now it's up to the lower courts to determine just how much is permissible
Abstracts: This time around, the Eighth Circuit comes down with a reversal of Brown. Brown Group shows interplay between Subpart F and partnership provisions
Abstracts: Those mainframes simply don't compute any more. Technology options; law departments stay ahead of law firms. Firms invest in technology to keep an eye on the future
Abstracts: Those thinking of a legal career guiltily point to others' greed. ADR in the classroom: the move from more adversarial lawyering
Abstracts: Though fame be narrow, FTDA protection holds; some courts will protect from dilution marks that are known only locally or industrywide
Abstracts: Threat of surge in pay deals recedes. Finance deals static at 4%. 3%: do not disturb
Abstracts: Threats of foreign group boycotts of American industry made in response to U.S. government trade policy: illegal anticompetitive activity or protected lobbying under the Noerr-Pennington doctrine?
Abstracts: Three groupware programs to watch. Using WordPerfect's Compare Documents feature. Personal Assistant in a box?
Abstracts: Three who dared; the path to the Supreme Court is not for the faint of heart. Tales from the journey. It's Baa-aa-kke! A circuit split aims affirmative action at the Supreme Court
Abstracts: Thriving in Detroit; the city's largest firms are flush, even though they don't get most of the big automakers' business
Abstracts: Thriving in Detroit; the city's largest firms are flush, even though they don't get most of the big automakers' business. part 2
Abstracts: Through a glass darkly; John Grisham and Scott Turow lay down the law for millions of Americans. Just what is it they're trying to tell us
Abstracts: Through a lens darkly: proposed "C" reorganization regulations clear up the Bausch & Lomb problem. Form and function in stock acquisitions followed by liquidations and mergers
Abstracts: Throwing stones at the mudbank: the impact of scholarship on administrative law. Strengthening professionalism within an administrative hearing office: the Minnesota experience
Abstracts: Tiger OS X 10.4.1. Abacus Law Silver. Cowles brings a breath of fresh air
Abstracts: Tiger OS X 10.4.1. Justreleased. Estate planning: Intuitive Estate Planner v.9
Abstracts: Tight budget squeezes courts; Judicial Conference says money could run out for civil juries, indigent defense
Abstracts: Tightening domain reins. Closing argument: using the special verdict form for equitable distribution of fault
Abstracts: Tilting the table? The use of preliminary injunctions. Patenting in the shadow of competitors. Development of an HIV research database using Medicaid claims data
Abstracts: Time/billing systems just a browser away; web-based service providers give smaller firms access to sophisticated time-and-billing software they can't usually afford
Abstracts: Time Matters 6.0. BlackBerry breakthrough. Virtual libraries
Abstracts: Time off; business travel can hold key to vacation pleasure. Finding safety in tax-exempt bonds; even in hard times munis make sense
Abstracts: Time off; business travel can hold key to vacation pleasure. part 2 In search of higher interest; alternatives to money-market funds and CDs
Abstracts: Time & Profit vs. PC Law. Amicus and PCLAW link up. PC LAW Jr.: small firm accountant in a box
Abstracts: Timeslips faces tech woes with 9.0. Estate planning: Heritance System. Timeslips 2005
Abstracts: Times Mirror deal shuts out Westlaw; sale to Lexis parent raises questions over tax as well. Courts find severance deal pitfalls; one awards $18 million based on 'plain meaning.'
Abstracts: Times they are a-changin' - and so are we! Court reporters now offer a diversity of services; they can provide, at low cost condensed transcripts, instant disks and keyword indexes
Abstracts: Time to change. West tackles legislative intent. Dawson Law Chambers
Abstracts: Timing is everything: crises and clients' demands can drive lawyers up the wall. Here's how to set priorities, make lists and follow through
Abstracts: Timing is everything: potential economic repercussions of proposed "flextime" reforms to the FLSA overtime hours law
Abstracts: Timing questioned as bar group calls for accreditation change. Students tapping LL.M. programs to 'master' their own fates
Abstracts: Timmmberr! How two lawyers and a spotted owl took a cut out of the logging industry. Old world new order; tips for U.S. lawyers in Eastern Europe
Abstracts: Tinkering with procedure; federal committee backs automatic disclosure, restrained Rule 11. Juvenile reform; ABA backs legislation to protect kids
Abstracts: Tinkering with procedure; federal committee backs automatic disclosure, restrained Rule 11. part 2 An untested remedy for abused women; some say new law will burden federal courts, provide divorce bargaining chip
Abstracts: Tinkering with the machinery in capital cases. The First Amendment also applies to lawyers. Can justice be served by appeals of the dead?
Abstracts: Tipping evidence scales. 'Race profiling' inflicts injustice on individuals. Net ignorance is bliss
Abstracts: Tire deaths: criminal acts? Prosecution, rare in products cases, is studied in 2 nations. Questions arise on aid plan details; 'this is a real mess,' one lawyer says
Abstracts: 'Tis the season to be marketing; remembering clients with cards or gifts can bring in business in the new year
Abstracts: Titans clash in takeover battle in Pa.; judge approves first use of toughest anti-takeover law. Getting a $70B telephone call; Skadden's Kenneth J. Bialkin became midwife to the biggest deal ever
Abstracts: Title III of the Helms-Burton Act is consistent with international law. Agora: the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (Libertad) Act
Abstracts: Title II of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act makes civil and administrative sanctions for fraud harsher
Abstracts: Title insurance needed in portfolio acquisitions; the failure to order a new policy or update an existing policy may result in post-closing surprises
Abstracts: Title VII as the regulation of the secondary effects of speech. Farm workers, boycotts, and free speech
Abstracts: Title VII punitives before justices; arguments on March 1 will deal with what standard is to be used. How to judge age bias; justices mull two questions of proof in potential landmark
Abstracts: Title VII sexual harassment: recognizing an employer's non-delegable duty to prevent a hostile workplace. He said, he said: same-sex sexual harassment under Title VII and the "reasonable heterosexist" standard
Abstracts: Title VII - standing - Fourth Circuit denies standing to white men advancing claim of hostile environment due to discrimination against coworkers
Abstracts: Title VII's tangled tale: the erosion and confusion of disparate impact and the business necessity defense. The reasonable accommodation difference: the effect of applying the burden shifting frameworks developed under Title VII in disparate treatment cases to claims brought under Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Abstracts: To Africa, with law: a new ABA initiative links U.S. and African law schools. Counselor at the barre; a Chicago lawyer's pas de deux
Abstracts: Tobacco deal advances socialized medicine. Who decides if children are vaccinated? Treatment decisions: tort or contract?
Abstracts: Tobacco docs archive revealed; boxes of potentially damaging data arrive each month in N.Y. DEA moves to ban foods with hemp; industry seeks stay in federal court
Abstracts: Tobacco industry tries pre-emptive lawsuits; claims include that AGs improperly hired private contingent-fee lawyers
Abstracts: Tobacco lawyers shame the entire profession. Starr flap shows need for reform. Legal ethics: practice what isn't preached
Abstracts: Tobacco papers rolled up: university cuts off access to documents after Brown & Williamson protests. Tobacco 'secret' in S.F. library: Brown & Williamson has sued to protect files that are publicly available in a medical school collection
Abstracts: Tobacco ruling could curtail client privilege; court's easy standard for ordering disclosure may become the U.S. rule
Abstracts: Tobacco smoke and statistical mirrors. Do not federalize tort law: a friendly response to Senator Abraham. An open letter to the President-elect
Abstracts: Tobacco's road is smooth: FDA regs face legal fight; calling cigarettes 'drug delivery devices' is just blowing smoke, say tobacco lawyers. The new rules are vulnerable
Abstracts: Tobacco suits create heat; cigarette makers have been under fire for decades, but now any company that does or did business with the tobacco industry can be drawn into the fray - along with its insurers
Abstracts: To B or not to B: distinctions between B and reverse triangular reorganizations defy logic but provide flexibility in restructuring
Abstracts: Today's toughest tech decisions: roads diverge on upgrade paths. Is there hope for any cease-fire in heated high-tech holy wars?
Abstracts: To down a stealth juror, strike first; there are ways to detect a fact-finder who tries to slip through voir dire on a mission to sabotage a case
Abstracts: To fault or not to fault. You must remember this.... Public tunes out battered women
Abstracts: To filter or not to filter: a discussion and analysis of the Massachusetts filtration conflict in the context of the Safe Drinking Water Act
Abstracts: Together and apart: two juries, one trial. A potentially explosive execution. Evidence; McVeigh and fairness
Abstracts: To handle the overload, create a national court. Justice benefits from self-analysis. Splitting 9th Circuit needs more thought
Abstracts: Toiling in the vineyards: young leaders in public service work give meaning to 'professionalism.' (President's Page)
Abstracts: To lawyer's surprise, cancer suit lost; judge rules cigarettes unreasonably dangerous, but jury doesn't find causation
Abstracts: Tombstones: the Internet's impact upon SEC rules of engagement. SEC interpretive releases regarding use of Internet web sites to offer securities, solicit securities transactions or advertise investment services offshore (Securities Act release no. 33-7516) (March 23, 1998)
Abstracts: Too many scares - food safety issues are coming to the boil. Labour mobility: it's not that easy
Abstracts: To pay or to convey?: a theory of remedies for breach of real estate contracts. The misappropriation theory as a corollary to the classic insider trading theory
Abstracts: Top-notch tomes. Online and out front. A staff with the right stuff
Abstracts: Top profs: not enough to impeach; NLJ 'jury' of 12 con-law experts weigh evidence. And for the prosecution, your honor... snapshots of the 13 GOP impeachment 'managers.'
Abstracts: To promote the progress of useful arts: American patent law and administration, 1787-1836. Novelty in historical perspective
Abstracts: Top tips for business trips; how to stay healthy when travelers' stress strikes. Heartfelt recoveries
Abstracts: Torn by tort reform; coalition of big and small business breaks up over diverging interests. In the beltway; all's fair in law firm wars and when Christian Coalition workers charge racism
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