LJN Newsletters

  • Confiding in the Government Corporate Fraud Brings New Pressures to Provide Disclosure to the Government in Confidentiality and Non-waiver Agreements

    In the wake of the headline-grabbing corporate fraud scandals starting with Enron, the Justice Department earlier this year issued revised guidelines making a corporation's waiver of the attorney-client and work-product protections a factor in determining whether to charge a corporation for criminal conduct, including fraud. Under these guidelines, prosecutors may "consider" a company's willingness to identify wrongdoers, make witnesses available, disclose the results of its internal investigation and waive the attorney-client and work-product protections.

    October 01, 2003Andre G. Castaybert

  • MedBytes

    Web sites of interest to you and your practice.

    October 01, 2003ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |

  • Verdicts

    The latest cases of interest to your practice.

    October 01, 2003ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |

  • Facing the 'Expert'

    How to Take the Opposing Medical Expert Witness' Deposition: A Step-by-Step Guide

    October 01, 2003Elliott B. Oppenheim

  • Med Mal News

    The latest news of interest to your practice.

    October 01, 2003ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |

  • Why Juries Turn Against Doctors

    Cases Built on Anger Million-dollar medical malpractice verdicts have doubled since 1996. They now make up 8% of all malpractice claims actually paid. This, at the same time that verdicts for the defense remain the norm and the number of lawsuit filings has actually fallen somewhat. Why? The quick - and partially correct - answer is that the cost of health care has skyrocketed.

    October 01, 2003Lewis L. Laska

  • Helping Judge and Jury Understand Valuation Testimony

    The purpose of this article is to provide attorneys and expert witnesses with the information and knowledge necessary to help a judge or jury understand valuation testimony.

    October 01, 2003Mike McCurley, Barry S. Sziklay and Brian W. Clark

  • Children As Pawns: Who Determines Custody?

    Attorneys and courts struggle with ways to determine which parent would be the better primary caretaker. If only there were a test ... Because there is not such a determining factor, the legal system has come up with many tests - and people to evaluate them. Rather than simplify the decision, this process may have further complicated it. In addition to the questions of objectivity raised about the tests themselves, there are the questions raised about the individuals who evaluate them.

    October 01, 2003Lawrence Jay Braunstein