Below you will find articles from our legal journals on a variety of pressing legal topics.
Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) is gaining attention as an alternative to the traditional “first-past-the-post” electoral system, especially during the lead-up to the 2024 elections. RCV has the potential to make elections more competitive and ensure...
As a young lawyer in the late 1970s, I marveled at how my colleagues working for large law firms, (now called “Big Law”) could work at least 12 hours per day for at least four days a week and then some on weekends. My observation was that they were...
The administrative process by which tribal nations obtain trust status for land to conduct off-reservation gaming or other activities has been criticized by some as cumbersome, lengthy, and overly burdensome.1 With recently implemented amendments...
The practice of medicine has undergone a metamorphosis that has materially changed “the increasing gap between what doctors have traditionally been trained to do and the realities of modern clinical practice.”1 This article will examine these...
This article will focus on how lawyers and appraisers can work together to tackle difficult appraisal problems that don’t lend themselves easily to a simple comparable sales approach or where such an approach requires larger adjustments than are...
“I knew [he] was going to be a bad witness by the enormously confident way that he marched into the box, held the Bible up aloft and promised to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. He was that dreadful sort of witness, the...
“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.” - Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac From law firms with fewer than 10 attorneys to those with more than 500 and from bar associations to state courthouses, dozens of organizations involved...
Life Insurance Company Products 2024 is taking place in Washington, D.C., on November 7-8, 2024, in person or via live webcast. Life Insurance Company Products 2024: Featuring Current SEC, FINRA, Insurance, Tax, and ERISA Regulatory and Compliance...
It is axiomatic that “you can’t get the value right if you get the highest and best use wrong.”1 There may be no more fundamental concept in the valuation of property under the Fifth Amendment’s just compensation clause than that fair market value...