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Abstracts: A thesis fracas comes down to procedure; did the failed Ph.D. step on toes when she called a famed theologian an anti-Semite? part 2
Abstracts: A think tank for criminal law. Who speaks for the kids? All for justice
Abstracts: Athletes around the world are challenging the legality of strict liability drug rules that penalize those testing positive for drugs irrespective of culpability
Abstracts: A tradition of bucking federal authority; another Western county takes on Uncle Sam, this time over Ruby Ridge
Abstracts: A tribute to Dean William C. Warren. In memoriam - Curtis J. Berger. In memoriam: a tribute William Warren
Abstracts: A truly living constitution: why educational opportunity trumps strict separation on the voucher question. Free exercise after Smith and Boerne
Abstracts: Attempted sale of remainder did not keep property out of estate. A charitable remainder trust can't be a QSST, IRS determines
Abstracts: Attention attorneys! How to achieve the best results in mediation. ADR: new challenges, new roles and new opportunities
Abstracts: At the crossroads; seen as a shortcut in mass tort cases, the ADR highway has become a rockier road because of constitutional and fairness issues
Abstracts: At the front; some lawyers want to combine professional fulfillment with a little adventure. Minor hardships; jailing youths as adults is gaining ground - and so are its critics
Abstracts: At the intersection of bankruptcy and divorce: property division debts under the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1994
Abstracts: At this firm, they don't do Windows 95; Dorsey and Whitney says its Mac-based system pays off in ease of use, multimedia presentations
Abstracts: Attitudes towards business ethics held by western Australian students: a comparative study. The ethics of downsizing: perceptions of rights and responsibilities
Abstracts: Attorney fees; judges must follow the market. EPA dealt setback; First Circuit: CERCLA lien violates due process
Abstracts: Attorney malpractice in claims handling and settlement strategy: avoiding the road to liability. Punitive damages: an analysis of the states' response to B.M.W. v. Gore
Abstracts: Attorneys are an IRS target. Lawyer jobs to increase 28% by 2005; corporate work is growing, but incomes may drop
Abstracts: Attorneys' fees in class actions governed by fee-shifting statutes. Failure of named representatives in a class action to satisfy the statute of limitations
Abstracts: Attorneys make more use of PCs. Outsourcing firms now offer new technologies: law firms are contracting with outside companies for services formerly handled internally
Abstracts: Attorneys working with translators must watch over defendant rights. False logic misdirects the U.S. war on drugs
Abstracts: A tug of war: state divorce courts versus federal bankruptcy courts regarding debts resulting from divorce. An analysis of state-wide variation in bankruptcy rates in the United States
Abstracts: At United Way, she remains the one. Going to the mall is part of his job. His new job brings music to his ears
Abstracts: A Twentieth Amendment parable. The amazing vanishing Second Amendment. (response to article by David C. Williams in this issue, p. 822)
Abstracts: A Twentieth Amendment parable. The unitary Second Amendment. Minors and the Fourth Amendment: how juvenile status should invoke different standards for searches and seizures on the street
Abstracts: A U.C.C. for e-commerce angers some; uniform law group also has plan for evidence, estate tax. New suits pre-empt HMO move by House; lawyers build on the growing body of patients' rights law
Abstracts: Audit committees need to serve as 'watchdogs;' a stock exchange panel issues a call for better financial reporting by businesses
Abstracts: Audit guidelines and a correction program focus on section 403(b) plans. Final regulations simplify S corporation one-class-of-stock rule
Abstracts: Auditing systems: CHASE at British Waterways. Auditing systems: Quality Safety Audit at Hoechst. The impact of business restructuring on safety
Abstracts: Audit strategies for defending against the accumulated earnings tax. Personal holding company tax grabs the unwary
Abstracts: (Australian business law reforms.)(Editorial) (Australian company and tax law reforms focus on return of capital, one person companies, competition policy and related party transactions.)(Editorial)
Abstracts: Austria's affirmative action for women workers versus protective legislation for the "weaker sex": incongruous concepts?
Abstracts: Authentication; proving your evidence is genuine. Gestapo impeachment; hammering the witness makes you look like the bad guy
Abstracts: Author! Author! Lawyer-written software is arriving at law firms. Human rights crusader; Philly lawyer wins billions suing Marcos, Swiss banks
Abstracts: Authority or reason? The economic consequences of liability for breach of statutory duty in a comparative perspective
Abstracts: Automated management solutions. Inventing solutions. Quayle vs. ABA, round II; vice president claims association honored "liberalism's heroine." (Anita Hill)
Abstracts: Automating a records department. Dispute over modified food hits U.S.; criticism of genetically charged organisms has spread from Europe, but supporters of biotechnology are beginning to fight back
Abstracts: Automating a small office for a small cost. PC faxing. Internet mailing lists
Abstracts: Automating TQM. Assessing the worth of new technology. Protecting against PC viruses and other risks
Abstracts: Automating your fee agreements. Law Office Computing's 1st Annual Reader's Choice Awards. Automatic fax coversheets in 6.x DOS
Abstracts: Autonomous institutional arrangements in multilateral environmental agreeements: a little-noticed phenomenon in international law
Abstracts: Autonomy for ALJs; bills would create independent corps of administrative law judges. Opening doors; bills would bolster assistance to law students
Abstracts: Autonomy for ALJs; bills would create independent corps of administrative law judges. part 2 Ready for a new administration; Congress prepares for early legislative onslaught
Abstracts: AutoText at the next level. CiteLink Primer; getting the most out of CiteLink, the Corel Legal Suite's new table of authorities generator
Abstracts: Avast, ye legal software pirates! BSA fires broadside at law firm. Client conflict software: no panacea; complexity of client relationships at firms like Wilkie Farr presents ethical traps
Abstracts: Averting risks in system conversion. Play smart in buying a system; much rides on a firm's computer acquisitions
Abstracts: A voice-mail privacy suit is setting off alarm bells: experts say either Congress or the courts need to clear up the confusion about eavesdropping on workplace systems
Abstracts: Avoiding "cloudcuckooland" in ethics committee case review: matching models to issues and concerns. Antiprogestin drugs: ethical issues
Abstracts: Avoiding gender bias in downward departures for family responsibilities under the federal sentencing guidelines
Abstracts: Avoiding malpractice claims in planning and administration. Marshaling assets when a client chooses multiple fiduciaries
Abstracts: Avoiding the investment company trap when forming FLPs and LLCs. Recent decisions frustrate Service's efforts to challenge FLPs
Abstracts: Avoiding the "nature-purpose" distinction: redefining an international commercial act of state. The United States' approach to international civil litigation: recent developments in forum selection
Abstracts: Avoiding the wake-up call. Against all odds: with the aid of computers, solos can take on giants and win. Strength in networking: how the organized bar is gaining one solo at a time
Abstracts: Avoid interest charges arising from IRS errors and delays. Make the most of recently expanded IRS mediation opportunities
Abstracts: Avoid tax when incorporating with encumbered assets. Poor timing precluded deduction of guarantor fees. Trio of rulings foster tax-free triangular reorganizations
Abstracts: Awarding damages for breach of competition law in English courts-Crehan in the court appeal. When the wrongdoer profits from its wrongdoing
Abstracts: A warm wind blows in paradise: Colorado windsurfer-lawyers open resort on Venezuelan island. Spring training: get in condition before taking to that softball diamond
Abstracts: A warning on a product may not bar liability, two courts hold in decisions citing the new Restatement. Guilt by association(s)? Injured plaintiffs sue groups that promote faulty products and standards
Abstracts: A wealth of templates, macros. Visio: no experience required. Net mail for newbies
Abstracts: A white knight's tale; huge pro bono effort fights to free child abuse convicts. Experts see lift in pro bono work
Abstracts: A wider Medicaid fraud net; new law criminalizing asset transfers could snag lawyers. Ballad of Billy the Plaintiff; Joel lawsuit claims lawyers curried favor with his manager, breached duty
Abstracts: A wiseguy's approach to information products: muscling copyright and patent into a unitary theory of intellectual property
Abstracts: A worker's safety rights. Wiretap suits proceed in Connecticut; a class settles. How owners, operators contest CERCLA costs
Abstracts: A work in translation. Closing statements . Digging for gold
Abstracts: A worthy successor he is not. Set-aside case divides Atlanta; whites' lawyer sees ''freedom train'; black mayor sees the KKK
Abstracts: Ax-grinding politics leads to unequal justice. Can foreign court pronounce on British justice? Unequal justice for gays in hostile courtrooms
Abstracts: Babe Ruth: the sultan of legal cites? Yup. Quality legal aid: going, going, gone. Tough legal battles shaped business world
Abstracts: Baby Bells say: wrong number; the 8th Circuit is asked to decide the future of telcom deregulation. Much feared 'Dingell-grams' to be a thing of the past
Abstracts: Baby boomers' expectations. How much should we worry about inflation? The stock market boom and the baby boomers
Abstracts: Baby boomers, financial literacy, and the privatization of Social Security. Estate planning: the diversity and complexity of net worth among older americans
Abstracts: Backdraft. Too good to last? Budget cuts force the EEOC to terminate contract mediators from its new, highly touted program
Abstracts: Background checks online. Online advantage. Enter the blogosphere: attorneys discover blogging as an effective marketing tool
Abstracts: Backlash. Lifetime employment: labor peace and the evolution of Japanese corporate governance. Foundations of corporate finance: the 1906 pacification of the insurance industry
Abstracts: Back to A.B.C. at U.C.C. Cracking cybercrimes. E-mail abuses abound
Abstracts: Back to A.B.C. at U.C.C. Talking turkey about Y2K issues takes tact, trust and tough law. Speeding toward the millennium
Abstracts: Back to BASIC - stages of international tax planning or: getting the grip on a rocky road. 50d (3) EStG - entitlement to tax relief available to foreign companies: unofficial translation of the Federal Ministry of Finance Circular dated April 3, 2007 and Explanatory Notes
Abstracts: Back to 'Miranda;' as one lawyer prepares to defend the rule, four who helped establish the landmark remember its adoption
Abstracts: Back to the drawing board: the settlement class action and the limits of Rule 23. Civil procedure - class actions - Eleventh Circuit reverses certification of plaintiff class on interlocutory appeal under Rule 23(f)
Abstracts: Backyard blues; hemmed in by industrial plants and two Superfund sites, a New Jersey neighborhood fights back in a closely watched 'environmental discrimination' case
Abstracts: Bacon searches for "double Holy Grail." (Health and Safety Executive's Director General Jenny Bacon) (United Kingdom)
Abstracts: Bad daughter makes good lawyer. 'Never again,' with an asterisk; Swiss Holocaust deal pays many forgotten victims, but not Poles
Abstracts: Bad enough to punish: the application of the responsibility guidepost in punitive damages cases after BMW v. Gore
Abstracts: Bad faith by design: the third-party liability setup. Where there's smoke, there's fire: the absolute pollution exclusion and hostile fires
Abstracts: Badwill. A caution about recent trends in ethics compliance programs. The good, the bad, and their corporate codes of ethics: Enron, Sarbanes-Oxley, and the problems with legislating good behavior
Abstracts: "Bagging" or "goosing": how the courts are ruling in same-sex sexual harassment claims. From construct to cases: the emergence of the obnoxious employee defense
Abstracts: Bailey, Broder bump bellies. Lawyers sued in bankruptcy: two New York firms among defendants named in Keene creditors' fraudulent conveyance lawsuit
Abstracts: Bailing from the bench; judges worry pay gap may drive their experienced peers into private practice. Avoiding global conflicts
Abstracts: Baird uproar puts lawyer in delicate situation. Verdict trends in 1995 disregard the clamor: congressional tort revision uproar has had little effect
Abstracts: Balancing free press and fair trial; new National Judicial College facility seeks to boost judiciary-media relations
Abstracts: Balancing the use of public and private financing for long-term care. The psychology of money
Abstracts: Banishing the thirteenth juror: an approach to the identification of prosecutorial racism. The dark side of private ordering: an institutional and empirical analysis of organized crime
Abstracts: Bank holding company/bank combinations. New section 351(e): the "not an investment company" representation for section 351 private letter ruling requests just got tougher
Abstracts: Banking law; financial privacy. Financial crime; disclosure requirements. Employment law; the inquiry issue
Abstracts: Bankruptcy attorneys: modern-day samurai; economic crisis thrusts an elite class of lawyers into the heart of Japan's mission of recovery
Abstracts: Bankruptcy, high-tech and FAA Online. State BBSs, federal CDs. (bulletin boards and CDs for law professionals) (Internet
Abstracts: Bankruptcy is a better alternative. Provision can cancel tax benefit; debtors' trap? How Chapter 11 sees dissenting classes
Abstracts: Bankruptcy law; unwinding settlements. Bankruptcy law; value in .com failure in .com failure. Bankruptcy law; a debtor's press release
Abstracts: Bankruptcy; new-value exception. Lessors win bankruptcy claim status; the 2d Circuit recently awarded landlords a priority for claims against Chapter 11 debtors, allowing losses to be paid in full
Abstracts: Bankruptcy, OSHA, workplace bills top Congress' agenda. Bankruptcy Code revision could effect big changes: consumer rules could be merged into one chapter, and 'Delaware clause,' governing jurisdiction, could be junked
Abstracts: Bankruptcy pact ensures payouts; insurance company's bad real estate investments had cast doubt on structured settlement industry
Abstracts: Bankruptcy valuation of a claim secured by a mortgage on realty and an assignment of rents. Liability of a secured party in possession when pledged stock or similar securities decline in value
Abstracts: Banks' encroachment on insurers' turf pits state lawmakers against the OCC, and may well bring in Congress and the Supreme Court
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