Defense Counsel Journal

Be a defense lawyer: help your clients minimize losses.

Part 3 - Manual for lawyers representing insured defendants

Chapter XI: Appendix of forms.

Exercise independent judgment.

Part 6 - Manual for lawyers representing insured defendants

Frequently asked questions.

Part 1 - Manual for lawyers representing insured defendants

Introduction.

Loyalty and clienthood go together.

Part 4 - Manual for lawyers representing insured defendants

Obedience.

To the client - Part 5 - Manual for lawyers representing insured defendants

Partial bibliography.

Part 10 - Manual for lawyers representing insured defendants - Bibliography

Preface and acknowledgments.

Settlement issues.

Part 8 - Manual for lawyers representing insured defendants

Special problems: handling an uncooperative insured.

Part 9 - Manual for lawyers representing insured defendants

Start out right: identify your client or clients.

Part 2 - Manual for lawyers representing insured defendants

The duty to give information and the duty of confidentiality.

Part 7 - Manual for lawyers representing insured defendants

The rebirth of the IADC.

International Association of Defense Counsel - President's Page

U.S. Postal Service statement of ownership, management and circulation.

Required by 39 U.S.C. 3685

Calendar of legal organization meetings.

Calendar

International Association of Defense Counsel tenets of professionalism.

The case for a preservation safe harbor in requests for e-discovery: despite the courts' increased attention to dragnet requests for production of electronic materials, the scope of preservation should be addressed.

The puzzle of defining 'bodily injury' under the Warsaw Convention: laxity of courts in requiring an objective, palpable bodily injury will lead to a flood of insignificant claims for hurt feelings.

The U.S. Supreme Court and punitive damages: on the road to reform: after years of developing its jurisprudence, the Supreme Court in State Farm signals that the days of runaway, irrational punitive damages may be ending.

State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.

Extraterritoriality and punitive damages: is there a workable system? The U.S. Supreme should speak more definitively on the extent to which conduct in other instances and net worth may be used against defendants.

When insurers go belly up: implications for insurers, policyholders and guaranty funds: it's not only the insured who suffers when there is an insurer insolvency; the ripples may cause damage to several other parties as well.

Law firm in-house attorney-client privilege vis-a-vis current clients: courts should reconsider and limit the rule that in-house communications are not protected against current clients.

Qui tam and the False Claims Act: criminal punishment in civil disguise: the qui tam provisions of the FCA are a serious threat to American industry, and they are subject to constitutional challenges on several grounds.

Fear of future cancer part of pain and suffering.

How much is an ounce of prevention worth?

Ghostbusting prejudicial evidence: no haunting the manufacturer.

Lost punitive damages as compensatory loss.