Fire Litigation Sourcebook (Personal Injury Library)
by Alexander J Patton
Discovery Problems and Their Solutions
by Paul W Grimm, Charles S Fax, and Paul Mark Sandler
Reports of the United States Tax Court, Volume 136, January 1, 2011, to June 30, 2011
Litigation Services Handbook 5e – The Role of the Financial Expert
The "2008 Supplement" contains the following updates: Chapter 15. The authors of our chapter on Punitive Damages review the Supreme Court's decision in Philip Morris USA v. Williams and the implications of that decision for punitive damage claims going forward. Chapter 18A. In securities class actions, a lot rides on class certification. Many defense counsel appear to believe that to defeat the certification of the class is to win the big battle, maybe even the war. One impediment to class certi...
David Boies, the star trial lawyer in a country obsessed with legal drama, proves endlessly fascinating in this compulsively readable account of his extraordinary career.A man of almost superhuman accomplishment, Boies argued a string of headline-making cases before being catapulted to international prominence when he represented Al Gore before the Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore. Brash, reckless, and prideful, he is also charming, charismatic, unerringly articulate in the courtroom, and supremely...
A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections, Third Edition
by Marie C. Malaro
Hailed when it was first published in 1985 as the bible of U.S. collections management, A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections offers the only comprehensive discussion of the legal questions faced by museums regarding collections. This revised and expanded third edition addresses the many legal developments—including a comprehensive discussion of stolen art and the international movement of cultural property, recent developments in copyright, and the effects of burgeoning electronic uses—...
The last fifteen years have seen a tremendous growth in the number of health rights cases focusing on issues such as access to health services and essential medications. This volume examines the potential of litigation as a strategy to advance the right to health by holding governments accountable for these obligations. It includes case studies from Costa Rica, South Africa, India, Brazil, Argentina and Colombia, as well as chapters that address cross-cutting themes.The authors analyze what type...
Guide to Protecting and Litigating Trade Secrets
by Gregory S Bombard, Joanna H Kim-Brunetti, Emily J Friedman, and Jeffrey K Riffer
Florida Evidence Code with Objections (NITA)
by Teresa McGarry, Lisa Hirsch, Anthony J. Bocchino, and David A Sonenshein
The Landscape of Insurance Class Action Litigation
by Stephen Carroll
Reports of the United States Tax Court, Volume 138, January 1, 2012, to June 30, 2012
Reports of the United States Tax Court, Volume 132, January 1, 2009, to June 30, 2009
Reports of the United States Tax Court, Volume 137, July 1, 2011, to December 31, 2011
New Trends in Financing Civil Litigation in Euro - A Legal, Empirical, and Economic Analysis
by Mark Tuil and Louis Visscher
This unique and timely book analyses the problem of financing civil litigation. The expert contributors discuss the legal possibilities and difficulties associated with several instruments ? including cost shifting, fee arrangements, legal expense insurance and group litigation. The authors assess the impact of these instruments from a law and economics perspective and provide empirical information on the way in which they work in practice. A transatlantic perspective on financing civil litigati...
Marsha Coleman-Adebayo details the struggles and challenges she, an EPA employee working on Al Gore's commission to assist post-apartheid South Africa, faced after she tried to convince the United States government to investigate allegations against a multinational corporation she believed was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of South Africans.
Research Handbook on Representative Shareholder Litigation
by Sean Griffith, Jessica Erickson, David H. Webber, and Verity Winship
Written by leading scholars and judges, the Research Handbook on Representative Shareholder Litigation is a modern-day survey of the state of this essential field. The book is an important and timely contribution by leading corporate law scholars, judges, and practitioners, seeking to better understand and explain the proliferation of shareholder litigation across the globe. It provides a cross-jurisdictional survey of litigation and empirical evidence on the recent evolution of these lawsuits,...