2008 May

Articles

Articles in this issue:

The admissibility of a defendant’s written policies and procedures as evidence of the standard of care

From hospitals to railroads, police agencies to banking, P&P can be used to establish duty and standards of care

Shirley Watkins

Establishing the Special Needs Trust: How to keep your win from becoming your client’s loss

Avoiding great hardship for a client who receives certain public benefits requires careful planning

Ontario: Lessons from one city’s attempt to regulate homelessness

Can evicting homeless people deny them their Constitutional rights?

The anatomy of risk

An analogy to help your client better evaluate his case — and the settlement offer

Bo Links

When your client is out of control

When your client is out of control

Telephone technology: Is Internet telephony ready for prime time?

Talk can be cheap with VoIP

Althea T. Kippes

The Holy Grail uncovered?

Who says your client is faking it? Methods for preemptively and scientifically validating, diagnosing, and treating injured clients’ chronic pain

Attorney fee awards and the common fund doctrine: Hands in the plaintiffs’ pockets?

With the expansion of the common fund doctrine has come the diminishment of ethical and statutory requirements governing recovery of attorney’s costs and fees

You win some; you lose some

Recent rulings on recovery of expert witness fees, summary judgment rules and product liability actions are a mixed bag

Donna Bader

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