Forrest B. Weinberg - A Tribute

In Memorium: Forrest B. Weinber

Forrest B. Weinberg - A Tribute

In Memorium: Forrest B. Weinber

Coping with Change: The Lawyer\u27s Role

The following articles are the result of an experimental course entitled Current Problems of Small Business offered at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. Primarily for third-year students, the course was designed to provide a practical learning experience in seminar format. The course focused on business issues, but also taught lawyering skills such as interviewing, counseling, negotiating and drafting. Thus, the students were provided a pragmatic learning experience that can be applied to legal practice

The Changing Role of the Attorney with Respect to the Corporation

Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart once stated that the propriety of a lawyer serving as a member of the Board of Directors of his corporate client remains, even today, a vexing problem of professional responsibility.” Historically, accountants have been assumed, as well as required, to be independent of any enterprise in which they express an opinion regarding the enterprise\u27s financial statements. Independence had been interpreted to mean that accountants may not serve on the board of directors or invest in any enterprise which they, or their firm, audit, or for whom either expresses an opinion on the enterprise\u27s financial statements. By contrast, attorneys have been counsel to an enterprise, have served as officers and directors, and have invested in the enterprise. The purposes of this article are to: (1) compare and contrast the difference between the accounting and the legal profession\u27s self-regulation of board membership; (2) analyze the trend towards requiring more independence of attorneys as it relates to simultaneously providing legal advice to a client and serving on the client\u27s board of directors; and (3) predict the future trends regarding attorneys serving as directors of clients

Obesity and addiction: can a complication of surgery help us understand the connection?

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Outcomes of the first global multidisciplinary consensus meeting including persons living with obesity to standardize patient-reported outcome measurement in obesity treatment research

Quality of life is a key outcome that is not rigorously measured in obesity treatment research due to the lack of standardization of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) and PRO measures (PROMs). The S.Q.O.T. initiative was founded to Standardize Quality of life measurement in Obesity Treatment. A first face-to-face, international, multidisciplinary consensus meeting was conducted to identify the key PROs and preferred PROMs for obesity treatment research. It comprised of 35 people living with obesity (PLWO) and healthcare providers (HCPs). Formal presentations, nominal group techniques, and modified Delphi exercises were used to develop consensus-based recommendations. The following eight PROs were considered important: self-esteem, physical health/functioning, mental/psychological health, social health, eating, stigma, body image, and excess skin. Self-esteem was considered the most important PRO, particularly for PLWO, while physical health was perceived to be the most important among HCPs. For each PRO, one or more PROMs were selected, except for stigma. This consensus meeting was a first step toward standardizing PROs (what to measure) and PROMs (how to measure) in obesity treatment research. It provides an overview of the key PROs and a first selection of the PROMs that can be used to evaluate these PROs