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Executive Committees' New Role: Focus on Integration
January 01, 2004
Information Resources (formerly called the Library in most firms) and Marketing/Business Development now must form a union to help the firm's senior management with strategic positioning, competitive analysis and revenue generation through firm strategic intelligence. The time for dotting the "I" in Information and crossing the "t" in Marketing has come. It is no longer enough to obtain information about a client.
Around the Firms
January 01, 2004
Movement among major law firms and corporations.
Optimizing Retirement Plans for Law Firms
January 01, 2004
Part One of this article compared some hybrid retirement plans (combinations of defined contribution and defined benefit plans) that are potentially desirable for law firms. In Part Two, we provide spreadsheet analyses to illustrate the benefits of these plans and to reconcile them with nondiscrimination criteria of the Internal Revenue Code and of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA).
Orrick's Global Operations Center After Year One
January 01, 2004
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliff LLP, a San Francisco-based law firm with a global reach, contended with more than a little skepticism a few years ago…
Verdicts
January 01, 2004
Recent rulings of importance to your practice.
Med Bytes
January 01, 2004
All about <i>Daubert's</i> Ghost...complete with Web sites. Also, a look at ECRI (formerly the Emergency Care Research Institute) is a nonprofit health services research agency. Its mission is to improve the safety, quality, and cost-effectiveness of health care. It is widely recognized as one of the world's leading independent organizations committed to advancing the quality of healthcare. ECRI's focus is health care technology, health care risk and quality management, and health care environmental management. It provides information services and technical assistance to more than 5000 hospitals and more.
Med Mal News
January 01, 2004
Important news of interest to you and your practice.
Understanding EMTALA and the Courts
January 01, 2004
Because many attorneys who handle professional liability cases are not also involved in cases challenging government regulations, they may not be familiar with the weight that the courts often give to regulations and regulatory preambles such as those discussed in last month's article on the new Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) regulations. This article should aid in filling any such gaps in the attorney's experience.
The 'Lost Chance' Theory of Recovery
January 01, 2004
Under the "lost chance" theory, a claimant's recovery is limited by the odds or likelihood that the event would have or will occur -- a departure from the "all-or-nothing" rule of recovery, whereby a claimant receives the full measure of damages if, but only if, the injury is "reasonably certain." If, for example, it is shown that there is a 20% chance that the plaintiff will suffer future harm, the plaintiff will be awarded 20% of what he or she would have been awarded had he or she sustained the injury.
Hotline
January 01, 2004
Recent developments of interest to corporate counsel.

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