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Publisher
American Bar Association, Business Law Section
Pub. Date
[2025]
Description
"This thought-provoking guide examines artificial intelligence from practical, legal, and policy perspectives. Precise understanding of new technology like AI can lead to more practical incorporation into our lives and better rules for managing AI's workplace changes. The guide challenges lawyers to think about AI and its impact on law and society. Thinking like a lawyer about artificial intelligence leads to a better understanding of how to effectively...
Author
Publisher
William S. Hein & Co., Inc
Pub. Date
2025.
Description
Aviation is a large field encompassing both civil aviation and military aviation. This guide focuses on the laws regulating civil aviation. This guide is also primarily focused on the law of suborbital powered flight in manned vehicles. Therefore, the guide does not cover any particular laws on space law, hot air balloons or drones, the latter topic of which has been covered in an earlier research guide published by Hein. This guide takes a two-prong...
Author
Publisher
William S. Hein & Co., Inc
Pub. Date
2025.
Description
Age discrimination in employment is both a federal and state legal problem found in numerous primary and secondary sources. Since the passage of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 and succeeding legislation, age discrimination in employment and in other areas of the law has affected both federal and state governments. As the population of the country grows older and economic conditions affect the ability of older Americans to retire,...
Author
Publisher
American Bar Association, Health Law Section
Pub. Date
[2025]
Description
"Cancer Rights Law provides an overview of key areas of the law that often come into play for individuals who have been diagnosed with cancer and their caregivers, including health insurance, employment, disability insurance, genetics, estate planning and medical decision making, and finances and consumer rights" -- From the publisher.
Author
Publisher
American Bar Association, Section Lawyers Division
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"Increasingly, attorneys are receiving inquiries from clients, family and friends seeking guidance through what is a very discreet area of life and law: planning for long-term care. This book is organized as a handy, practical guide to reach for when you need information and tools to respond to questions regarding long-term care. This area of law is generally referred to as elder law. This book will discuss the necessity of legal documents to preserve...
Author
Publisher
American Bar Association, Senior Lawyers Division
Pub. Date
[2025]
Description
"This handbook provides step-by-step guidance on dealing with the medical-legal issues involved in litigating a nursing home case for both plaintiff and defense lawyers. It also provides guidance to nursing home administrators on how to avoid liability and improve quality through regulatory compliance. The nursing home industry is valued in excess of 150 billion, and the United States has over 15,000 nursing homes serving over 1.2 million people....
Author
Publisher
Peter Lang
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"The book analyzes the U.S. Supreme Court's adjudication in cases concerning surveillance, both domestic and foreign intelligence, focusing on how judicial activism or judicial restraint legitimized almost uncontrolled surveillance of American citizens by government agencies. The purpose of the research is to present the impact of the judiciary on the scope of government surveillance and, in a broader perspective, on the state of American democracy...
Author
Publisher
William S. Hein & Co., Inc
Pub. Date
2025.
Description
United States military veterans have many resources for support available through the federal government. These resources can include commissary and exchange privileges, education and vocational training, healthcare, support for disabilities, life insurance, death benefits, as well as burial in a national cemetery. This guide includes sections on where to find veteran specific information about health care (mental and physical), housing, education,...