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Summary Of Greenberg Traurig, Llp V. Frias Holding Company, 130 Nev. Adv. Op. 67, Tom Stewart
Summary Of Greenberg Traurig, Llp V. Frias Holding Company, 130 Nev. Adv. Op. 67, Tom Stewart
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
The Court adopted an exception to the common law litigation privilege for legal malpractice and professional negligence actions. A client can pursue malpractice and professional negligence actions against an attorney, and support those actions with communications made in the course of litigation.
Summary Of State Of Nevada V. Eight Jud. Dist. Ct. (Zogheib), 130 Nev. Adv. Op. 18, Brian Vasek
Summary Of State Of Nevada V. Eight Jud. Dist. Ct. (Zogheib), 130 Nev. Adv. Op. 18, Brian Vasek
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
The Court was asked to decide the appropriate standard for determining when the entire Clark County District Attorney’s office should be disqualified for an individual prosecutor’s conflict – an appearance-of-impropriety standard or if a more appropriate standard exists.
The Client Who Did Too Much, Nancy B. Rapoport
The Client Who Did Too Much, Nancy B. Rapoport
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Using Hitchcock's MacGuffin as a theme, I discuss the dynamics between client and lawyer when the client so obsesses over the issue driving him that he persuades (or attempts to persuade) the lawyer to do things that are inadvisable from the lawyer's point of view.
Giving Thanks: The Ethics Of Grateful Patient Fundraising, Stacey A. Tovino
Giving Thanks: The Ethics Of Grateful Patient Fundraising, Stacey A. Tovino
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Grateful patient fundraising, defined as the solicitation of philanthropic donations by health care providers from current and former patients, raises a number of legal and ethical issues. Elsewhere, I detailed the confidentiality issues raised by the use and disclosure of patient identifiable information by hospital development officers, major gifts officers, institutionally-related foundations, and commercial fundraisers, and proposed corrections to federal health information confidentiality regulations to better balance the competing aims of health care philanthropy and health information confidentiality. In this Article, I analyze several outstanding issues raised by physician involvement in grateful patient fundraising. That is, physicians who solicit philanthropic …
Silence Is Golden . . . Except In Health Care Philanthropy, Stacey A. Tovino
Silence Is Golden . . . Except In Health Care Philanthropy, Stacey A. Tovino
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"Nudging" Better Lawyer Behavior: Using Default Rules And Incentives To Change Behavior In Law Firms, Nancy B. Rapoport
"Nudging" Better Lawyer Behavior: Using Default Rules And Incentives To Change Behavior In Law Firms, Nancy B. Rapoport
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This article examines how incentives in law firms can affect lawyer behavior and suggests some possible changes to incentive structures and default rules that might improve the ethical behavior of lawyers.
In the changing landscape of law practice — where law firm profits are threatened by such changes as increased pressure from clients to economize and the concomitant opportunities for clients to shop around for the most efficient lawyers — are there ways to change how things are done in law firms so that firms can provide more efficient and ethical service? This article suggests that an understanding of cognitive …