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Abstracts: US tax scene. Towards a more comprehensive examination of the compatibility of indirect taxes with the internal market
Abstracts: U.S. urges opening of foreign telecom markets; the United States has sought to spur the continuation of global telecommunications talks
Abstracts: Utilizing WordPerfect: utility tools help keep you updated and on track. Time & billing: ProVantage 7.1
Abstracts: Vaclav Havel, President of the Czech Republic, to the 10th EBEN Conference: how to make business ethics operational: creating effective alliances
Abstracts: Valdez Principles picking up steam. Toward "neutral principles" in the law: selections from the oral history of Herbert Wechsler
Abstracts: Valuation developments highlight the importance of appraisals. Tax Court clarifies requirements for special-use valuation
Abstracts: Valuation discount for built-in capital gains tax allowed. Interaction of estate planning and Medicaid planning strategies
Abstracts: Valuation litigation. Using capital cash flows to value dissenters' shares in appraisal proceedings. IRS adopts final regulations providing exceptions to use of valuation tables
Abstracts: Valuation of property issues in bankruptcy. Uniform Commercial Code bibliography January-June 1992. Bankruptcy bibliography update
Abstracts: Valuation of recovery - partially performed discharged contracts. Metcalfe v NZI Securities Australia Ltd
Abstracts: Valuation of secured claims in a bankruptcy reorganization: eating with the hounds and running with the hares
Abstracts: Values for probation, society and beyond. Risk management and rehabilitation in the probation service: collision and collusion
Abstracts: Valuing undivided interests: a new approach to an old problem. Valuing indirectly held real estate has special concerns
Abstracts: Variable life - the product of choice in the sophisticated marketplace. To be or not to be, that is the pension question
Abstracts: Varied duties face the successor trustee of a revocable trust. How to fund a revocable living trust correctly
Abstracts: V-cap atty's should plan for a merger; counsel can protect the venture investor's interests at two points: the certificate of incorporation and the merger documents
Abstracts: V-chip bill: tough to implement; legislation providing for rating and encoding of TV programs draws fire from broadcasters
Abstracts: VEBA permitted to use excess assets to pay premium for VEBA participants under employer's long-term disability plan
Abstracts: VEBA's distribution of funds to participating employers to pay future insurance premiums does not constitute reversion
Abstracts: Velvel: count more adjuncts as profs to keep class size low. Part-timers aren't the pariahs they were not too long ago
Abstracts: Venture-cap funds eschew investments in LLCs; benefits of the LLC form, such as flow-through taxation, are of little value to venture funds
Abstracts: Venture capital fund investments. Retirement plan provisions of the Taxpayer Relief Act. Retirement plan investments in company stock
Abstracts: Venture finance seekers need special expertise; role of company counsel can range from finding sources to drafting complex documents
Abstracts: Verdict set aside for faked injury; lawyers want to keep fees earned before plaintiffs' fraud uncovered. 9th Circuit studies gender bias; survey finds 60 percent of female lawyers sexually harassed in last five years
Abstracts: Versatile image editing tools. Putting the final touches on images. Create a professional look with graphics
Abstracts: Vertical conflicts in sentencing practices: custody, credit, and concurrency. Are New York police officers safely playing or playing it safe? Eliminating the forty-eight hour rule
Abstracts: Vertical conflicts in sentencing practices: custody, credit, and concurrency. part 2 RU-486: a dramatic new choice or forum for continued abortion controversy?
Abstracts: Vertical restraints: on the brink of reform? E-commerce: can the EU meet the challenge. A business concern: the reform of EU antitrust procedures
Abstracts: Vertical restraints with horizontal consequences: competitive effects of "most-favored-customer" clauses. Empirical methods of identifying and measuring market power
Abstracts: Viagra may have legal downside; insurance breaches, side effects raise some concerns. Wal-Mart had memo on risks to shoppers; it wasn't disclosed in a suit over rape
Abstracts: Viagra spawn birth control issue; advocates invoke bias laws in urging insurance coverage of contraceptives. Slamming the door; N.J. court lets homeowners turn down renters, buyers on Megan's Law list
Abstracts: Viatical settlements: new opportunities for wealthy individuals and business owners. Lawmakers and the Administration finally agree on financial services reform
Abstracts: Vicarious and other non-primary liability. Bankrupcty. In land mark decision, Supreme Court holds trade dress to be protected without proof of secondary meaning
Abstracts: Vicarious liability for hostile environment sexual harassment: examining the implications of the Ellerth and Faragher decisions
Abstracts: Vicarious liability. Fraud. Antitrust
Abstracts: Victim restitution will tie courts into knots. Trade marks, descriptions of origin and the internal market. Confidential commercial information and breach of fiduciary duty - the liability of third parties in knowing receipt to make restitution
Abstracts: Victims of omission; employers can face liability for negligent hiring practices when workers commit acts of violence
Abstracts: Victims of the 'mommy track.' Before your client says 'I do;' premarital agreements will hold up better with full financial disclosure
Abstracts: Victims' rights advocates on a roll; president's endorsement of constitutional amendment follows recent court victories
Abstracts: Video display terminals: a survey of reported results, opinions and conclusions on the association of miscarriages with terminal use
Abstracts: Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - consular access to detained nationals - International Court of Justice - provisional measures - original jurisdiction of the U.S. Supreme Court
Abstracts: ViewPlan offers several programs to meet practitioners' estate planning software needs. Proposed legislation threatens unified credit
Abstracts: Viewpoints from Olympus. Opinions as rules. Uncoupling free speech
Abstracts: Violence in American culture is deeply rooted. Critics of NOW's use of RICO belittle violence. Stop violence in the courthouse
Abstracts: Violent gang behavior is no civil liberty. The exclusionary rule was appropriately used. 'Jheri Kurls' trademark of uptown gang
Abstracts: Virginia's deregulatory challenge: a promising start. Indianapolis's road to regulatory reform: a new path in licensing and permits
Abstracts: Virtual administration: A solo's insight into efficient outsourced operations. Squashing spam
Abstracts: Virtue versus virtuosity: Clinton's dire dilemma. Ken Starr is the real wounded party. President Clinton is no Mafia chieftain
Abstracts: Visio: no experience required. Build a Fortres around your computer. Untangle the Web with HotPage
Abstracts: Visions of embargo falling spark U.S.-Cuba IP battles; posturing for future free-trade era ignites suits over cigar and rum brand names and a flurry of IP registrations in both nations
Abstracts: Visitation, alleged abuse are a potent mix. Pregnant drug abusers sue for treatment. Split rulings for fetal abuse cases
Abstracts: Visualize this. Law Office Computing's 1999 best law office Web sites. A staff away from the office
Abstracts: VitalSigns Software offers quick, user-friendly "due-care" information on many life insurers. Update on the failure of Mutual Benefit Life provides insights into selecting an insurer
Abstracts: Vocabulary of ADR procedures
Abstracts: Voices from the other side; accounting firm calls for changes in lawyer conduct rules. Lawyer, go home; firms negotiating multistate deals should take heed of California decision on unauthorized practice
Abstracts: Voir dire tip: pick former juror; NLJ-DecisionQuest '99 survey offers this and other lessons. A 'day in the life;' Bill Buckley's films document tragedy - for big damage awards
Abstracts: Volatile market enhances alternate valuation date election. Tax differences offset bond and stock fund similarities
Abstracts: Voluntary-aided school is not a state employer. Dismissal for pregnancy-related illness not discriminatory. Applying the Burchell guidelines
Abstracts: Voluntary euthanasia and the risks of abuse: can we learn anything from the Netherlands? Special ethical issues in the management of PVS patients
Abstracts: Voluntary mediation in New York State. The pros and cons of mediation. Non-adversarial mediation
Abstracts: Voting Rights Act. Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Title VII - affirmative action - Third Circuit holds that diversity is not, in itself, a sufficient justification for granting preferences to minorities. - Taxman v. Board of Education
Abstracts: Vox populi; the public perception of lawyers: ABA poll. Did the lawyers win? Political gloom lifts a bit from organized bar leaders at conference
Abstracts: Waco tragedy spawns litigation. Implants for men under fire. Upjohn spars on Halcion papers; should they stay secret?
Abstracts: Waguih Elie George Siag and Clorinda Vecchi v. The Arab Republic of Egypt decision on jurisdiction. Enron Corporation and Ponderosa Assets, L.P. v. Argentine Republic Award
Abstracts: Waiting for deision on Bear Stearns; will New York DA's probe lead to an indictment? Seeking justice around the world
Abstracts: Waiting to celebrate; as the Hispanic population grows in this country, so do concerns about equal treatment in the justice system
Abstracts: Waiver invalid because last contract was too short. Variation and unfair dismissal. Employees retained on temporary basis entitled to redundancy pay
Abstracts: Waiver of accrued pension benefits results in taxable distribution to participant. Antenuptial agreement does not constitute effective waiver of spouse's right to receive plan benefits of deceased
Abstracts: Walking a fine line; when a partner is impaired or deceitful, be careful in telling the firm's clients. Does moving dissolve duality? Relocating out of state may invalidate original law license in some ways
Abstracts: Wal-Mart cited for discovery abuse; $18 million fine seen as part of a pattern of violations the retail giant calls unfounded
Abstracts: Wal-Mart's bad day; lawyer apologizes for Texas misdeeds while Illinois judge accuses retailer of more. Wal-Mart's home court; Arkansas judges own retailer's stock, but still rule on its suits
Abstracts: Wanna get ABA's nod? Just call the man with a proven record. Re-education
Abstracts: Wanted: a theoretical construct for mediation practice. Bridging cultural gaps in mediation. A theory of mediation
Abstracts: Want to win complex IP trials? Simplify, simplify; communication management is the key to being persuasive and understandable in an IP trial
Abstracts: War crimes - applicability of Geneva Conventions and Protocol I - international character of the armed conflict in Bosnia - jurisdiction of German courts to prosecute foreigners for war crimes committed outside Germany - intent requirement for genocide
Abstracts: War crimes suits on tap in NYC; rights group served alien tort papers on Serb chief Radovan Karadzic. Community task forces harvest social change; Appleseed develops projects that match pro bono expertise with a community's needs
Abstracts: Warning: don't flick with Bic: lighter manufacturer adopts heavy-handed approach to litigation. Lawyers spar over implant litigation; claim concern for clients, not fees, at issue in fight over class action status
Abstracts: War tribunal counsel; a Latham & Watkins partner defends a general accused of slaughter in war-torn Bosnia. A clash of cultures leads to the courtroom: was L.A. partner Philip Heller too brash for an old-line law firm based in San Francisco?
Abstracts: Was Denver ex-SEC lawyer in bed with the 'enemy'? After leaving the agency, he's indicted for allegedly improper business contacts
Abstracts: Washington gets amendment fever: the 'new federalism' has Congress and the Supreme Court debating first principles
Abstracts: Washington Items. IRS denies relief following financial planner's failure to deposit IRA-earmarked funds within 60 days
Abstracts: Wash-sale rules mutual fund loss deductions. To deduct or capitalize: courts and IRS interpret Indopco. Planning pays for stock redemptions through related corporations
Abstracts: Was it collusion or just good business? The liability insurance crisis revisited. Judge takes lead role in Microsoft case: in a controversial ruling, Sporkin rejects antitrust consent decree
Abstracts: Waste recovery: Salvaging some meaning from waste definitions? The Groundwater Daughter Directive: A UK perspective
Abstracts: Was this term historic; maybe, say some, but none of its big rulings was seen as a true landmark. Judges: what's behind the figures; big doesn't always mean slow
Abstracts: Watchdog of LAPD gets Starr review; like independent counsel, the job itself is widely hated. Keating gets help from his friends
Abstracts: Watchful eyes in-house; attorneys join health care firms as compliance officers. Standouts; litigators from firms big and small made their mark in 2d Circuit
Abstracts: Watching paint dry. Is EPCRA unconstitutional? The failure of flow control
Abstracts: Watching the docket can be software's job; automated court-docket tracking ensures that deadlines are met and embarrassing default judgments and dismissals avoided
Abstracts: Watching videos is work at her agency. Lawyers are higher profile on his watch. No handyman, but he nailed his job
Abstracts: Watch your back on referrals: check out the other attorney first, then put arrangement in writing. Yes: monopolizing the market serves no one
Abstracts: Watch your mouth: section 12(a)(2) liability for oral statements made at road shows. Municipal bond disclosure: remaining inadequacies of mandatory disclosure under Rule 15c2-12
Abstracts: Water and bureaucracy: origins of the federal responsibility for water resources, 1787-1838. Political obstacles to the implementation of emissions markets: lessons from RECLAIM
Abstracts: Watering the money tree; by reforming their financial practices, firms can increase collections and raise revenues
Abstracts: Watershed management and nonpoint source pollution: the Massachusetts approach. Expanding the effectiveness of the Massachusetts comprehensive permit law by eliminating its subsidy requirement
Abstracts: Water use and cultural conflict in 19th century northwestern New Spain and Mexico. Applied and theoretical aspects of binational watershed councils (consejos de cuencas) in the the U.S.-Mexico borderlands
Abstracts: Way over the client limit; out-of-state lawyers who angle for business can face sanctions, loss of fees. Keep an eye on 'em; associates may be getting big bucks, but they still require supervision
Abstracts: Ways to avoid being a franchise. Ontario passes franchise legislation. A guide to the Illinois Franchise Disclosure Act
Abstracts: Wealthy wives' tales; high-asset, high-profile divorces are changing the way judges look at partnership. Dream weavers: four lawyers who feared frustration or burnout would drive them from their careers show off how they found new excitement in the law
Abstracts: 'We are all somebodies': how a Supreme Court justice taught a young lawyer the meaning of the law. Where there's smoke; testing the boundaries of prisoner rights
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