Vol. 71 No. 4, October 2004
Index
- Celebrating the IADC's 85th anniversary.
- Calendar of Legal Organization Meetings.
- International Association of Defense Counsel Tenets of Professionalism.
- Bytes, bits and bucks: cost shifting and sanctions in e-discovery: in the electronic forest where sanctions can abound, good faith of the part of counsel in meeting requests can go a long way in avoiding trouble.
- Practical considerations for national coordinating counsel in complex litigation: the role of national coordinating counsel in complex litigation is multifaceted, with an approach to keep everyone of the same page from the beginning to end.
- An overview of Lone Pine orders in toxic tort litigation: by requiring plaintiffs to produce early in discovery the specifics of their claims, judicial resources are preserved and contentions sharpened.
- Publican in England uses EC competition law to recover in English Court: Crehan upstages Courage by challenging a tie arrangement with a brewing giant and comes off with a European Community law victory.
- Is the economic loss rule in peril? Courts, negligence and the economic loss wolves: the economic loss rule has withstood the test of time, and departures from it fail to understand adjudication problems in the non-personal injury context.
- Uncertainty in federal removal procedure: the riddle of the "other paper": litigants are in a linguistic quandary about what triggers the 30-day period for removal, but the problem could be fixed by statutory amendment.
- International arbitration and punitive damages: delocalization and mandatory rules: now that non-state parties are using international law, the question whether punitive damages arbitration awards can be enforced has become more important.
- Annual survey of fidelity and surety law, 2003, part II: this roundup of recent cases covers public and private construction bonds, financial institution bonds and sureties' remedies.
- Reviewing the law reviews.