Vol. 68 No. 4, October 2001
Index
- Money and judicial elections.
- International Association of Defense Counsel tenets of professionalism.
- Judicial conference "recommits" computer monitoring proposal.
- Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act riles U.S. lawyers.
- Maio and Silverstein win Burton Award.
- Defending against contribution actions: using the UCATA bar to advantage: although jurisdictions vary, contribution can be escaped if parties seeking it acted "intentionally," "willfully" or "wantonly." But who was the actor?
- Liability for direct-to-consumer advertising and drug information on the internet: while the learned intermediary doctrine still lives, drug manufacturers can take some precautionary measures if it is ruled inapplicable.
- Sands in an hourglass: solving the puzzle of time limits for removal to federal court: 28 U.S.C. section 1446(b) is most unhelpful when multiple defendants seek removal, but the Supreme Court's Murphy Brothers decision points the way to a rule.
- Attorney liability under ERISA: myth or reality? Lawyers may not be "fiduciaries," but that won't help them escape non-fiduciary exposure, particularly as forecast by a recent decision.
- Identifying and protecting employers' interests in trade secrets and proprietary information: every company has something that it hopes will give it an edge over the competition, and it's wise to protect this as a trade secret.
- Using joint defense privilege agreements in parallel civil and criminal proceedings: there are pluses and minuses to joint defense agreements, but the pluses might outweigh the minuses if the agreements are carefully drafted.
- Exercising subrogation rights against subcontractors isn't easy, but it's not impossible: careful attention to the issues presented by policy language, additional insured language and subrogation clauses is important.
- Lawyers and bioethics: balancing being lawyers and conferring with medical ethics advisors: there may be some reasons why lawyers shouldn't participate in medical ethics discussions, but with some common sense, they could be valuable.
- Successful Partnering Between Inside and Outside Counsel, 4 vols.
- Multi-Party Actions.
- Holler bad faith and privileges disappear.
- No state action for lack of propeller guard.
- Attorney trumps client in fee dispute.
- Security interest survives dissolution and bankruptcy.
- Massachusetts lawyer invades Rhode Island unsuccessfully.
- Use of F word out of court can't support sanctions.
- No medical monitoring if it won't do any good.
- Securities case costs sanctions for two firms.
- California anti-SLAPP statute defeats drug class actions.
- Growing recognition of wrongful death for unborn children.
- Medical monitoring: pay me now or pay me later.
- Unraveling the Unicover mess - and more to come.
- "But for" and "case within the case" weakening.