Wired for insight; TIPS academy helps lawyers learn how jurors react to trial tactics

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The National Trial Academy sponsored by the A.B.A. Section of Tort and Insurance Practice is described. This is a kind of moot court where jurors register their reactions on handheld devices and a computer program analyzes these and shows responses on a video monitor.

Evaluation, Trial practice, Study and teaching, A.B.A. Section of Tort and Insurance Practice. National Trial Academy

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Finding role in breast cancer fight; lawyers learn to pitch in with insurance appeals, advocacy for policy change

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The presidential showcase on breast cancer planned for the American Bar Ass'n's (ABA) 2000 conference is discussed. The program is to launch an ongoing legal advocacy project to help patients who have been denied insurance coverage.

Information services, Breast cancer, Cancer patients

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Is this woman a threat to lawyers? A resurgene in unauthorized practice complaints is raising questions about whether the court of public opinion will judge lawyers as guardians of the common good or protectors of their own turf

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Unauthorized practice of law cases have been filed against parent advocates, paralegals, publishers of do-it-yourself legal books and computer software, and against real estate and mortgage brokers. More such claims are being brought by lawyers claiming an interest in accountability and consumer protection, and critics have warned that the aggressive use of such claims may boomerang and damage the public image of the bar. Many cases have been brought against accounting firms whose work was traditionally distinct from law practice.

Cases, Unauthorized practice of law, Legal assistants

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