Suggestions for fact sheets included that they be balanced, unbiased (e.g. "not driven by litigation and drug companies"; clinician 16, female GP), not overwhelming, to have simple messages, to be available on the Internet, and to be interactive; "anything you can do interactively, like getting (clients) to write things in and you write things in is good" (clinician 10, female psychiatrist).
Mustich says that's partly driven by recent litigation that could make it easier for investors to take legal action on directors' compensation.
Finally, my model emphasizes that when capital structures are fragmented, bankruptcy costs can be driven by haggling and litigation over the value of the parties' entitlements, even when the parties agree about what to do with the bankrupt firm.
You feel 'how dare you think you've got permission to keep hold of a bit of me?" The CLA believes a defensive attitude driven by fear of litigation contributes to many poor responses from local authorities.
However, bureaucratic decision-making, driven by risk and litigation averse policies and procedures were found to be dominant in midwifery decision-making in their every day work, not just emergencies [ 27, 28].
Litigation driven by individuals often produces perverse effects.
"Freedom Mail will liberate wireless e-mail from expensive and spurious litigation driven by very few patent owners for the sole purpose of dominating global wireless e-mail communications," Mr. Fodor said in an e-mail message.
They also deny the ex-dealers' allegations, which they say are driven by "lawyers playing the litigation lottery" and are "uncoupled from reality". Kinkade, a self-described product of a broken home and a hardscrabble childhood, once worked as a film animator and hawked his paintings at supermarket parking lots in his hometown of Placerville, Calif.
Two new public relations positions with salaries of $135,000 per year, plus generous benefits, along with several other new positions with similarly generous salaries; high-priced lawyers, including some at $495 per hour, adding up to more than $1.7 million in seven months and counting, much of it spent on unnecessary and unsuccessful litigation driven by council hubris and errors.
"Until the uncertainty surrounding the outstanding NTP litigation ends, we expect Research in Motion's share price to be highly volatile, driven by news flow regarding the litigation," said Modoff, who has a "sell" rating on Research in Motion.
Whether driven by fear – of death or litigation – ignorance, hope, or the imperative to "win" against disease at all costs, we sit as King Canute: foolishly, distressingly and impotently commanding the inexorable tide to retreat.
