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Risk management tips printed

Two attorneys with Hinshaw & Culbertson are co-authors of the updated second edition of “Risk Management: Survival Tools for Law Firms.” They are Anthony E. Davis of the New York City office and Peter R. Jarvis of Portland, Ore. Both serve on Hinshaw’s Lawyers for the Profession practice group.

The 176-page paperback, which includes a CD-ROM, was published jointly by the American Bar Association Section of Law Practice Management and the Center for Professional Responsibility.

To order copies, call (800) 285-2221 and refer to product code 5110653. The price is $89.95, with a $10 discount for members of the Law Practice Management Section.

Career satisfaction study

Chicago attorney Scott Turow is among contributors to the American Bar Association publication, “Raise the Bar: Real World Solutions for a Troubled Profession.” It complies findings of an ABA Section of Litigation project about legal career satisfaction.

The book is edited by Philadelphia attorney and author Lawrence J. Fox, who was instrumental in creating the ABA Commission on the Evaluations of the Rules of Professional Conduct (Ethics 2000).

Copies may be obtained for $49.95 ($39.95 for members of the Section on Litigation) by calling (800) 285-2221.

War on terror examined

“Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror” (The New Press), a book by two law professors that examines the tension between civil liberties and national security, has received the first Chicago-Kent College of Law/Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize.

The authors, David D. Cole of George-town University and Jules L. Lobel of the University of Pittsburgh, have made a “scholarly contribution to the public discourse regarding the tenuous relationship between national security and the rule of law in times of crisis,” said Chicago-Kent Dean Harold J. Krent.

The $10,000 prize was established this year by 1962 alumnus Roy C. Palmer, who with his wife has also pledged a $1 million gift to support expansion of Chicago-Kent’s campus.

Lincoln documents boxed

The Illinois Historic Preservation Agency and the University of Virginia Press have published a four-volume, boxed set of “The Papers of Abraham Lincoln: Legal Documents and Cases” that covers Lincoln’s Illinois practice from 1836 to 1861.

The $300 collection includes a chronological arrangement of 50 of Lincoln’s most interesting, important or representative cases, all transcribed and annotated.

It also contains essays about his legal career, a biographical directory, an extensive legal glossary and a cumulative index of the four volumes. For information, call (800) 831-3406 or access http://www.upress.virginia.edu.

Famous trials featured

The American Bar Association has published “Law Makers, Law Breakers and Uncommon Trials,” a collection of 25 accounts of intriguing trials and cases that have shaped the practice of litigation.

The authors, Bob and Marilyn Aitken have included such milestones as the divine right of Charles I, the civil rights struggle of Rosa Parks, and the oversight by John Marshall that culminated in Marbury v. Madison.

The non-fiction stories were printed individually in issues of the journal of the ABA Section of Litigation. Orders for the 358-page paperback ($39.95) may be placed at http://www.ababooks.org or by calling (800) 285-2221.