Vol. 70 No. 1, January 2003
Index
- President's page: Introducing The Privacy Project.
- Calendar of Legal Organization Meetings.
- 31st Annual IADC Trial Academy.
- International association of defense counsel tenets of professionalism.
- The privacy project.
- The emperor has no clothes: how courts deny protection for confidential information; litigants' rights to protection of information not used in judicial proceedings should trump any public right to access.
- The brave new world is here: privacy issues and the Human Genome Project: governments and courts must step in to provide protections and regulations for the use of individuals' genetic testing results.
- Discovery unplugged: should internal e-mails be privileged confidential communications? The concept of appropriate discovery should keep pace with modern communications technology and protect intra-company e-mail.
- The self-critical analysis privilege in the product liability context: if analyzed as a subsequent remedial measure, self-evaluation wouldn't impede discovery, but the information would be protected.
- Cybersmear may be coming to a Website near you: a primer for corporate victims; how to respond or combat venomous comments from current or former disgruntled employees presents both legal and non-legal problems.
- Between the devil and the deep blue sea: monitoring the electronic workplace; employers should have detailed, understandable and fair computer, e-mail and Internet usage policies impartially administered.
- Romantic relationships at work: does privacy trump the dating police? Courts generally have upheld fraternization policies that balance employer and interests carefully and that are administered impartially.
- Privacy issues from the judicial perspective: requirements for protective orders; the frequency with which courts employ protective orders should influence counsel to draft the application with detailed statements.
- Protection of personal data: the United Kingdom perspective: the U.K.'s new Data Protection Act sets up a comprehensive and detailed regime to which multinationals must conform for the transfer of personal data.
- Protection of personal data: the Australian perspective; new legislation has applied the information privacy principles of 1988 to the private sector through national privacy principles.
- The HIPAA privacy rule: an overview of compliance initiatives and requirements; the privacy rule contains a maze of mandates and exceptions requiring that entities covered by HIPAA need the best of health care counsel.
- Annual survey of fidelity and surety law, 2002.
- $290 million punitive award against Ford stands.
- Chrysler fails to reverse $3 million punitive award.
- District Court off track in selecting lead plaintiff.
- Lawyer liable for debt collection violations.
- Sidley, Austin firm must turn over more information.
- Insurer must defend hospital against defamation claim.
- Domain name game goes international.
- Instruction based on store's safety manual improper.
- Nationwide class action certified for smokers.
- Reviewing the law reviews.