Kentucky Law Survey: Insurance

This Survey will examine recent Kentucky decisions on insurance law issues, and comment on the latest crop of cases relating to the application and construction of the Kentucky Motor Vehicle Reparations Act. In addition, this Survey will discuss proposed unfair claims settlement practices legislation, which is once again generating interest in the Commonwealth

Confessions of an Ethics Chairman

This article responds to the critics of state bar ethics committees. Indirectly, it raises some questions about the need, or at least the extent of the need, for yet another law-related cottage industry (the for hire legal ethics consultant). It also provides some friendly advice for those well-meaning types in every jurisdiction who are perennially reforming or energizing their bar associations and demanding for the membership a dazzling new array of services. It discusses practical problems that have gone unmentioned in the limited literature, just as it takes issue with many of the assertions that have been made in that literature

The Professional and the Liar

Many individuals in society think that all lawyers are liars. Some think lawyers are allowed to lie. Regrettably, some American lawyers apparently think so too. In the United States there has been, and continues to be, a troubling lack of professional consensus when it comes to litigating a case. Indeed, lawyers who are neither corrupt nor insensitive have been accused of arguing that the elicitation of false testimony, and the use of it, is a professional responsibility. Fairness also calls for some acknowledgment that even the most cunning, zealous, and successful of trial lawyers have agonized over such moral choices. But if there is some professional consensus or agreed etiquette, what does it amount to in application

What I Think That \u3cem\u3eI\u3c/em\u3e Have Learned about Legal Ethics

In this short piece I want to say a few things that other academics teaching legal ethics may find disturbing. I say this because I believe that I may be swimming against the current academic fashion. Of course, it is possible that I do not have a very good handle on the current academic fashion. I hope I am not setting up a straw person to knock down, but I may be. If I am, I am sure someone will call me to task. What I am going to say is this: contrary to popular belief (among practitioners, at least) law teaching is probably better than it used to be, especially in the areas of legal ethics and professionalism; and law students and practicing lawyers probably have a better understanding of the content of the professional codes than they used to have. Things may not be like they used to be in that late, great Golden Age that some allude to, but then again, they probably never were. I think that all of this can be attributed to better teaching of the rules (or if you prefer, the Rules\u27) in law school, and better Continuing Legal Education, as well as the interest in the rules that was generated as the Model Rules were formulated and adopted, first at the ABA level, and then at the state level

Quaternary geology of the Five Springs area, northeastern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming

Geomorphic elements in the Five Springs area include floodplains, terraces, alluvial fans, pediments, landslide deposits, and clay dunes which unconformably overlie bedrock of Permian to Cretaceous age. These features are significant to this dissertation because their topographic position and lithologic constituents derived from recognizable stratigraphic units can be used to interpret the Quaternary history of the region;The highest surfaces and oldest Pleistocene sediments are associated with the 600,000 year B.P. North Kane Ash. Subsequent climatically-induced periods of aggradation and incision produced the remaining topographic components. The Bighorn River has been primarily responsible for causing various segments of local creeks to continually be out-of-phase with its regime, which indicates a lag-time in the adjustment of tributaries to Bighorn River processes. Climatic parameters associated with the Bighorn Mountains likewise affect tributaries, but are less important;Processes associated with a typical interglacial-glacial cycle include: (1) interglacial stability with Bighorn River alluviation, pedimentation, and eolian deposition; (2) late-interglacial to early-glacial incision; (3) alluvial fan extension and increased landsliding during glacial intervals; and (4) an early-interglacial return to more stable conditions. Frequent stream captures during interglacial times were caused by the out-of-phase relationships between the Bighorn River and local creeks;The most intense Pleistocene glacial climates in the northeastern Bighorn Basin are believed to have occurred ca. 600,000, 440,000, and 140,000 years B.P; an abnormally wet interglacial existed 100,000-90,000 years ago. The relationship between the Bighorn River and its tributaries suggests that the Pinedale cycle is not yet complete