Defense Counsel Journal articles from April 2001

Defense Counsel Journal archives from April 2001

Medical Monitoring: The New Gold Rush.
April 1, 2001... HANG on to your wallets! Contingent fee lawyers have discovered a new way to make gobs of money. They are now seeking hundreds and millions of dollars on behalf of plaintiffs who have never been injured. It's a great way to make a living. ...

Medical monitoring in drug and medical device cases: taking the temperature of a new theory.
April 1, 2001... Many state courts have not confronted the issue, so class action plaintiffs shouldn't get in federal court what they can't in state court ON ITS FACE, medical monitoring relief has a seductive appeal. What could be more reasonable, after...

What insurers and their counsel need to know about California's unfair competition law.
April 1, 2001... Because of the state's commercial importance, California's UCL statute may catch national and international insurers in its complicated net NATIONAL and international insurance companies are facing claims under state law unfair competition...

Emerging issues in U.S. corporate governance: Are the recent reforms working?
April 1, 2001... The decade of the 1990s was one of increased emphasis on openness, with accelerated institutional shareholder activity and governmental prodding WHAT IS "corporate governance"? In the 1990s, the term became a buzz word in board rooms...

The need for federal standards regarding electronic discovery.
April 1, 2001... There are vast differences between discovery of hard-copy documents and those stored electronically, and the difference should be recognized THE USE of electronic methods to create, transmit and store information has changed dramatically...

"Let's Be Reasonable" -- Resolving the Ambiguities of the Faragher-Ellerth Affirmative Defense.
April 1, 2001... If employers have acted reasonably to stop and correct supervisor harassment, the defense should be available even if the employee has acted reasonably THE BIG one hit in 1998. What had rumbled in the lower courts for 12 years--the...

Law firm profits increase with strategic legal management.
April 1, 2001... As corporate clients move to apply strategic management principles to legal service, law firms must move in the same direction MUCH is being written about the new ways in which corporate clients are managing their outside counsel to achieve...

Hammered by the hammer clause: Does it mean what it says?(clause giving law firm option of refusing settlement to clear its good name)
April 1, 2001... It does, but whether it will be lowered on the insured may depend on business rather than legal reasons For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. --Newton's third law of motion YOUR FIRM has been sued. The...