Newest Issue - January 2009

Special Recession Issue

Features

• What a Legal Recession Looks Like
• Rollin' the Dice on Parkdale Road
• Recession-Proof Your Practice
• Situations Wanted
• 'You're History.' Now What?
• Justice Systems Sent Reeling
• Pooling Practices
• 14,307 Lawyers Predict the Future
• 'We had to talk to the debtors to get smart'
• 'Every day was totally pressure-filled, client-filled. There was no break.'
• 'I need to advise them to fall behind on their payments, and that's ludicrous to me.'
• 'You can't calm directors by telling them it's all going to be OK.'
• 'The best time to get divorced for the moneyed spouse is when everything has gone to the devil.'
• 'All of these state regulators are involved; the press is waiting outside. The stakes are high.'

President's Letter

• Facing Challenges in Crisis Mode

Letters

• Two Covers, Four Takes

The National Pulse

• Double-Edged Rules
• A Debt-Defying Act

Precedents

• January 11, 2003

ABA Connection

• How Lawyers Enabled The Meltdown

Opening Statements

• Lighting a Path
• Employing the Law
• Lehman by the Numbers
• Lost in Translation
• Yes We Can
• Calling It In

Supreme Court Report

• How Did They Get It So Wrong?

McElhaney on Litigation

• Persuasive Direct

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