Too little, too late: ineffective assistance of counsel, the duty to investigate, and pretrial discovery in criminal cases.
Where money is involved, all parties receive all relevant information from their adversaries upon request; but where individual liberty is at stake, such information can be either withheld by the prosecutor or parceled out at a time when it produces the least benefit to the accused. (1) ...

ERISA litigation, 2d ed.
9781570185083 ERISA litigation, 2d ed. Zanglein, Jayne E. and Susan J. Stabile. BNA Books 2005 1386 pages $345.00 Hardcover KF3512 Zanglein (law and mediation, Western Carolina U. and The College of...

A remarkable jurist.
As of December 31, 2002, the Arizona Supreme Court lost a most remarkable jurist. Justice Stanley G. Feldman's twenty-year tenure as one of five members of the Arizona Supreme Court contributed not only a brilliant mind but an enormous capacity for work, an understanding of the law which far...

Obtaining discovery abroad: the utility of the comity analysis in determining whether to order production of documents protected by foreign blocking statutes.
I. INTRODUCTION The global economy is now a reality. With the increasing globalization and diversification of commerce and human interaction comes a concomitant globalization and diversification of legal proceedings. In this age of growing international economic interaction, discovery driven document production often involves corporations with offices overseas....

States try to recoup health costs of smoking.
States are going after the tobacco industry since the discovery that they are spending billions of dollars on patients with smoking-related illnesses. Florida's $1.43 billion lawsuit started with a special act passed by the Legislature in 1995. Attorneys general in Mississippi, Massachusetts, Minnesota and West Virginia also are seeking...

NSF-gadolinium cases centralized.
Discovery for 66 suits alleging that gadolinium-based contrast led to nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF) has been consolidated in a federal court in Ohio. The plaintiffs allege that the gadolinium-based contrast agent used during magnetic resonance imaging led to NSE NSF has occurred only in patients with preexisting renal compromise....

Inadvertent disclosure: the Ryan case is a reminder of the need for board policies on the handling and communicating of privileged information.
THERE HAS BEEN a steady increase in litigation over conflicts of interest and allegations of wrongdoing involving officers and directors of public companies. In addition, there certainly is greater scrutiny of possible misdeeds, including corporate investigations of alleged misconduct, which have dramatically increased. When a board decides to launch...

A matter of privilege.
Editor's Note: Welcome to our first installment of Law & Medicine, our new legal column written by Miles Zaremski, J.D., past president of the American College of Legal Medicine. Each month, Mr. Zaremski, who practices in Northbrook, Ill., will discuss an aspect of health law that affects physicians. We...

A matter of privilege.
The case of Russell Adkins, M.D. v. Arthur Christie et al. may not sound very exciting on its face, but could be a significant one for practicing physicians because of its potential effect on peer review. Dr. Adkins, an African American, brought suit in federal court against...

Trials of this century: when you prosecute a terrorist ...
"IT would be unacceptable, legally," Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina inveighed to the New York Times on September 8, "to give someone the death penalty in a trial where they never heard the evidence against them." Such has been the distortion of President Bush's eminently sensible...