To a non-lawyer, references to law reports can appear confusing and complicated. This brief article attempts to explain how to decode such references and thus get to the reports. Those wishing to pursue the matter further are referred to more detailed explanations. This article deals primarily with English case law and is up to date as of December 1987.

Last August, the American Bar Association adopted the Model Rules of Proje ional Conduct. which significantly altered the ABA' position on lawyer advertising. It is still unclear how the states will respond to the ABA's new position, and the debate about the propriety of lawyer advertising continue. In the authors' view, both sides of the debate have overlooked an impur-tant point: For purposes...

... Anthony Kronman begins his deeply pessimistic meditation on the state of the American legal profession with a confession. ... On that occasion, Kronman argued that the legal profession's moral problems stemmed from its commitment to advocacy as a professional ideal. ... This vision of the lawyer's role, which Kronman calls "the ideal of the lawyer-statesman" (p. 3), links professional excel...

The standard Engineer-Lawyer problem (Kahneman & Tversky, 1973) points to the failure of reasoners to integrate mentioned base-rate information in arriving at likelihood estimates. Research in this area nevertheless has presupposed that participants respect complementarity (i.e., participants ensure that competing estimates add up to 100%). A survey of the literature leads us to doubt this pre-...

The word "ethics" is a particularly amorphous concept in the context of legal training. I t is critical to spell out the several distinct meanings of legal ethics: First, there are professional rules of protocol (Ethics I): a client's funds must be kept in a special escrow account separate from the attorney's funds;l a lawyer only contacts the adverse party through his of her own lawyer;' a law...

The Statements of Antitrust Enforcement Policy in Health Care, issued by the FTC and the DOJ, dramatically change how the agencies evaluate physician joint venture networks. This article analyzes the Statements, providing useful guidance to the health lawyer.