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| Tigar’s
Seven Deadly Sins for Litigators To be a trial lawyer, you should read the speeches and study the lives of great advocates—Erskine, Andrew Hamilton, Darrow. You should carefully study the rules of professional responsibility, paying special attention to those dealing with litigation. Ignore other voices and claims. And avoid the seven deadly sins that jurors find hard to forgive. |
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| HIPAA—Compliance
or Confusion? The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, more commonly known as HIPAA, impacts every aspect of health care, including treatment, payment, and management of a health care group. But HIPAA also has a tremendous affect on the practice of law. In particular, HIPAA directs how lawyers and other professionals obtain, control, and release medical records and other health-related documents. HIPAA provides strict guidelines for protection of the confidentiality of health information. But what information exactly does HIPAA protect? |
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| Construction
Delays—Nonexcusable or Excusable Timely completion is one of the key benchmarks of success for a construction project. Delays, however, can and do occur. But when is a delay deemed nonexcusable or excusable? |
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| Ethics
101 for Legal Assistants Legal assistants and other support staff can contribute significantly to law firm profitability and productivity. To utilize staff services effectively, it is crucial to include them in the communication chain so that they understand firm policies and procedures regarding the ethics rules that you, as a lawyer, must follow. |
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| Ever
Wonder What It Would Be like to Be a Published Novelist? Recently Criminal Justice Section member Milton Hirsch found out just how great it feels: his novel, The Shadow of Justice, was just published by the ABA! |
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Spirit into Your Practice Practicing law can often feel like an endurance contest. We pace ourselves to finish the current project before we run out of gas. But when a project is finished, there is more work to take its place, and little respite between assignments. We look for ways to refill our tanks and, when time doesn’t permit, we run on fumes. Victories bring short-term highs, like a runner’s charge when endorphins are released into the body. But when the moment passes, we are still in a long-term race in which the most coveted quality is endurance. And when we practice law in a manner antithetical to our personal beliefs, consequences follow. |
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| The
Touchstone for the Privilege: Legal Advice Of all the “nettlesome questions” presented by the application of the attorney-client privilege to corporate lawyers, none has caused more ink to be spilled than the issue of whether the corporate attorney is rendering legal advice or business advice. |
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| Getting
Involved in Microenterprise Microenterprise development is a community economic development and anti-poverty strategy designed to create jobs through self-employment. By turning interests, hobbies, and skills into small businesses, microentrepreneurs, many of them women, minorities, and members of underserved communities, fulfill their dreams of running a small business. Business, legislative, banking, and other lawyers can play a critical role in supporting the microenterprise approach to economic development and poverty alleviation. |
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| That Rutherford B. Hayes was the only lawyer-president to graduate from Harvard Law School, that FDR dropped out of Columbia Law School after passing the bar, or that Gerald Ford attended three law schools? This is just
a sample of the information highlighting the impact that legal practice
and education had on twenty-five of our nation’s presidents.
An ideal book for family, friends, colleagues and clients . . .
America’s
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nation’s lawyer-presidents. This new book sheds light on the
legal backgrounds of each of these chief executives and describes
how their experiences as lawyers impacted and shaped their presidencies. Written by
historians and presidential scholars and highlighted by the generous
use of photos, illustrations, and sidebars, America's Lawyer-Presidents
provides new insights into our national leaders and their lives
and times, from colonial days to the present. Be among the first
to own or give this 362-page, full-color volume that, according
to Scott Turow, “provides intriguing biographical perspectives
on the professional lives of a number of our most influential citizens,
and also demonstrates . . . the profound relationship between the
development of American law and our democracy.” A co-publication of Northwestern University Press and the ABA Museum of Law. |
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