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Ethical Issues of the 21st Century

Frederick L. Whitmer & Benjamin D. Goldberg

Why and how a "confidential e-mail" might not be so confidential--and what can ensue when it leaks.

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To Catch an e-Criminal

Ken Stasiak & Dave Kennedy

Someone is stealing electronic data from you ' right now. A person your firm or company has trusted for years is doing things that are making you suspect he or she is stealing. You don't know how or with whom, but you know something is wrong. What do you do? Where do you turn? How do you find out for sure?

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New York's Post-Marital Compensation Image

New York's Post-Marital Compensation

Alton L. Abramowitz

Last month, the author discussed the controversial proposal to replace New York's current maintenance scheme with "Post-Marital Income Guidelines." What follows is a critique of the proposed legislation, based in large measure on a report of the Legislative Committee of the Family Law Section of the New York State Bar Association.

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Prevent Your Tenant Mix from Turning Your Property into a 'REC' Image

Prevent Your Tenant Mix from Turning Your Property into a 'REC'

Am'lie H. Mailloux

An increasing number of properties have been and continue to be classified as having some kind of recognized environmental condition. The REC classification arises from the EPA crackdown over the past few decades to ensure that property owners and the parties who are responsible for causing the contamination actually share in the cost and burden of the remediation process.

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Economic Abuse: A Form of Abuse That Needs More Scrutiny Image

Economic Abuse: A Form of Abuse That Needs More Scrutiny

Nancy S. Erickson

Domestic violence is now recognized to be coercive control, whether that control is exercised by physical violence, psychological abuse, or some other type of coercive act. Herein is the conclusion of this discussion.

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Human Research Studies and Medical Malpractice Liability

Thomas A. Moore & Matthew Gaier

The authors relate an experience in a case involving a not affirmative experimental treatment, but a human research study regarding modes of diagnosis.

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Prescribing the Right Amount of Pain Medications

Amy Kolczak & Melissa P. Reading

Pain is the most common cause of long-term disability, and it is the leading reason patients seek medical attention. But physicians seeking to manage their patients' pain with narcotics must be mindful of both the potential liability involved and the potential for scrutiny by their medical boards.

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Counsel Concerns

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A Look At Disney's International Legal Team

Leigh Jackson

For Peter Wiley, the Walt Disney Co.'s European head of legal, these are interesting times. His employer, one of the most iconic companies in the world, is engaged in a drive to expand internationally and take the House of Mouse into the digital age.

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Right-of-Publicity Amendments Extend Protections, But Marilyn Monroe LLC Suffers New Setback Image

Right-of-Publicity Amendments Extend Protections, But Marilyn Monroe LLC Suffers New Setback

Stan Soocher

Los Angeles entertainment attorney Robert A. Finkelstein accompanied Nancy Sinatra to Washington, DC, last summer for a U.S. Congressional hearing on a proposal for terrestrial radio stations to pay performance royalties to air sound recordings. Sinatra was a key artist-rights witness before the House Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property. Finkelstein praised a recent change in Washington state's right-of-publicity statute. The amendment, which took effect in June 2008, eliminated a personality's domicile as a bar to bringing a right-of-publicity suit.

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