Many people assume text messages are private, but that’s not necessarily the case—as recent momentous events have shown. Text messages have played a pivotal role […]
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The Law: The Sausage Factories
Every high school civics student is taught that “in all criminal prosecutions,” the Sixth Amendment guarantees defendants “assistance of counsel.” It was not until 1963, […]
The Law: Mr. Smith Comes to the A.B.A
Moving through the crowd, the white-haired, chunky, effervescent lawyer works as hard as a campaign politician. A crunching squeeze of the arm for one man, […]
The Law: At 100, the Bar Confronts Reform
Since the turn of the century, the legal profession has claimed the privilege of regulating its own affairs—its ethics and finances and public services. Today […]
The Law: Cut-Rate Counsel
Many of the well-heeled lawyers who lounged in the sun and relaxed in posh hotel bars last month at the American Bar Association’s annual convention […]
Law: Pay Now, Sue Later
When a 31-year-old manufacturing-company executive moved out of his rented home in Oregon, the landlady kept $125 of his $325 security deposit. That sort of […]
Insurance: Politics at Fault
It might seem impossible for anyone to devise an auto-insurance plan more fouled up than the one now actually in effect in the U.S. Under […]
Insurance: Trying for Answers
Hoping to reform their beleaguered industry on their own terms, 168 auto-insurance companies last week proposed sweeping revisions in the kind of coverage they now […]
Business & Finance: Auto Insurance
About three quarters of the purchasers of automobiles pay for them on credit over the course of the following year. The theoretical risk to the […]
Auto Insurance: Toward Quick Payment
Crumpled cars, glazed-eyed victims, and blinking ambulance lights are depressingly familiar sights on the nation’s highways. U.S. traffic accidents last year killed 56,000 people and […]