The National Law Journal 2003 |
Title | Subject | Authors |
$100 million award for pool accident; lawyer used mock trials, video in the case over the disabling of a 2-year-old.(Florida)(Brief Article) | Law | Dee McAree |
A danger of air travel: blood clots; suits grow over long-flight perils. | Law | Tresa Baldas |
America and England may become new meccas for suits; claimants worldwide see U.S. and England as ripe for legal actions.(Global Big Suits) | Law | Brennan J. Torregrossa, Steven Clark |
A new life in Montana was a nice thought.(Stewart S. Hudnut, senior vice president, general counsel and secretary, Illinois Tool Works Inc.) | Law | Susan Mandel |
Antitrust enforcement. | Law | Janet L. McDavid, Robert F. Leibenluft |
Archiving documents; court administrators need a standard that will last.(The Litigator's Toolbox) | Law | David Horrigan |
A tightrope victory; nine more notable wins.(verdicts for the defense) | Law | June D. Bell |
Battling digital piracy; recording industry has taken a multipronged response to illegally downloaded music.(Intellectual Property) | Law | Lawrence Iser, James Toma |
Business regulation.(reasons fighting corporate corruption has become so extreme that it criminalizes otherwise normal economic activity) | Law | George J. Terwilliger III |
But is it art? One court in.(classification of items for sale in a museum gift shop as art)(Intellectual Property) | Law | Heather Angelina Dunn |
Class action, part II. | Law | Linda S. Mullenix |
Classwide arbitration. | Law | Georgene M. Vairo |
Contact sport.(Suzie Thomas, general counsel for the Houston Texans) | Law | Bill Jeffreys |
Cross-burder injunction against claimant denied; court takes 'globalist' approach to conflicting insolvency actions.(Bankruptcy) | Law | Luis Salazar |
Digital headache; e-discovery costs soar into the millions, and litigants seek guidance.(NLJ Business) | Law | Mark Ballard |
DMCA resists challenges, despite recent acquittal.(Digital Millennium Copyright Act)(Intellectual Property) | Law | Joseph Chovanes |
Expert spoliation. | Law | Gregory P. Joseph |
FCC to increase flow of wireless spectrum; new block is likely to cost less than old ones and attract new money to the mobile communications industry.(Telecommunications) | Law | Gregory Staple |
Feud engulfs S.F. defender's office; ten months from election to changeover.(San Francisco, California) | Law | Sue Reisinger |
First trial for Bayer's Baycol set to start; plaintiff in Texas case seeks $100M. | Law | Andrew Harris |
Forum non conveniens. | Law | John I. Bkanck Jr. |
Grounded by the IRS; the Ninth Circuit ruled that two IRS lawyers committed fraud in a tax case.(Dixon v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue) | Law | Gary Young |
Hotel industry faces need for restructuring; downturn in tourism may lead to workouts and Chapter 11 filings; early focused action is key.(Bankruptcy) | Law | Francis L. Carter, Jeffrey T. Kucera, William J. Simonitsch |
Justices torn on drug program; a case watched by many other states.(Supreme Court case regarding Maine's discount drug program)(Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America v. Concannon) | Law | Tony Mauro |
Language issues abound in litigation; translators and interpreters need to know colloquialisms and terms of art.(The Litigator's Toolbox) | Law | Steve Seidenberg |
Liberal U.S. discovery rules extend their reach; foreign corporations may be subject to our rules on our turf.(Global Big Suits) | Law | Richard M. Rothman, Konrad L. Cailteux, Danielle Krause |
Local telephone competition remains a big issue; search for a solution as much on the table as when 1996 act was enacted.(Telecommunications) | Law | Owen D. Kurtin |
Mandates. .(power of federal appellate courts to recall their mandates) | Law | Mark R. Kravitz |
Online law school's first graduates: one problem: no accreditaton by ABA. | Law | Michael Ravnitzky |
Peripheral defendants begin to get some relief; one recent N.Y. ruling limited damages; another set up a deferred docket for less-impaired plaintiffs.(Asbestos Litigation) | Law | Alan C. Eagle, Frank J. Giliberti |
Privilege is simply a domestic issue; care should be taken in complex litigations, as foreign privilege rules may become a factor.(Global Big Suits) | Law | Frederick M. Zullow, Rekha Ramani |
Pro bono: 2002 awards. | Law | Elizabeth Amon, Steve Seidenberg, David Hechler |
Proper test procedures. | Law | Edward J. Imwinkelried |
Punching the clock is not so simple;an old statute holds new perils for employers, as workers increasingly sue, alleging wage and hour violations.(Employment Law) | Law | Mark J. Neuberger |
Rand new man; Robert T. Reville leads the Institute for Civil Justice.(California) | Law | Gail Diane Cox |
School expenses. | Law | Barbara Handschu, Mary Kay Kisthardt |
SEC acts on selective disclosures; the agency announced its first Regulation FD enforcement actions, plus a new rule on financial data.(Corporate Governance) | Law | Eric DeJong, Paul Sassalos, Stewart Landefeld |
Setting standards for future asbestos liabilities; two courts addressed this complex and important area of law.(Asbestos Litigation) | Law | Mark P. Goodman, Steve Vaccaro |
Suits over shuttle crash face hurdles; law changed after disaster in 1986. | Law | Andrew Harris |
Texas criminal law firm challenges an IRS rule; what's in a name? Just about everything, according to some criminal lawyers.(Law Office Enterprise)(Cover Story) | Law | Mark E. Battersby |
There ought to be a law.(need for civil procedure rule to cover electronic discovery) | Law | Jerold S. Solovy, Robert L. Byman |
The TEACH Act.(Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization Act) | Law | Mary J. Hildebrand, Jacqueline Klosek |
Tort reform advances in Mississippi (for starters); action is foreseen in other states. | Law | Mark Ballard |
U.S. signs on to Madrid Protocol; treaty allows for single application for member nations.(Intellectual Property) | Law | Keith W. Medansky, Emily Sexton |
Web site disclosures; Sarbanes-Oxley has led to new SEC rules on the posting of important public-company information.(Corporate Governance) | Law | Jonathan B. Newton, Amar Budarapu |
When scandal hits; corporate executives are calling Reid Weingarten.(NLJ Business) | Law | |
WiFi market is likely to boom in the next few years; Wireless Fidelity users may number 5 million in 2003, with revenue in the billions.(Telecommunications) | Law | Eric W. DeSilva |
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