What a difference a year makes. We had a record number of submissions this year, the quality of which were outstanding. We had to make tough decisions and we are publishing four. The submissions were from coast-to-coast, and our exposure has picked up among the Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) community.
We are now listed in both Cabell’s Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Management and in Washington & Lee University Law Journals: Submissions & Rankings. This is a significant achievement. Additionally, our Editorial Board has grown exponentially and even includes members from the law school community and non-business law community as well. Our website is vastly improved as well.
I would like to thank all of you who reviewed for the Rocky Mountain Law Journal this year. This includes several new volunteers as well who clearly spent considerable time screening articles and providing comprehensive suggestions to make the articles even better.
For those of you who just came on board, I am looking forward to you next year as we go through the review, acceptance and editorial process once again so that you, too, can provide important input related to article submissions. Certainly, I would also like to thank the Rocky Mountain Academy of Legal Studies in Business conference organizers and committees that continue to support our Journal as it moves forward.
This year’s Volume 3 includes four timely and intriguing articles. We begin with Brian J. Halsey, Julie D. Pfaff and Jennifer C. Halsey and their discussion of Trusted Individual Retirement Accounts (TIRAs) in light of the 2014 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Clark v. Rameker. For the financial and legal practitioner, this has important ramifications with regard to asset protection (or the lack thereof) from creditors under federal bankruptcy law with regard to beneficiaries of individual retirement accounts. The next article by Harvey Shrage explores how courts and arbitrators have interpreted the expression just cause in a collective bargaining agreement, a sometimes neglected and not-so-easy task for the employer and employee. Kevin Farmer discusses the relatively new business form known as the benefit corporation and how many states have adopted statutes accordingly for this socially conscious business organization. Finally, Vicki M. Luoma, Milton Luoma and Emmy J. Buboltz explore major electronic discovery issues for the upcoming year, including Technology Assisted Review (TAR), several others, and possible changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
So, enjoy Volume 3 and thank you again to all who continue to play a role in making the Rocky Mountain Law Journal a success for years to come.
Adam Epstein
Editor-In-Chief
January 12, 2015
We are now listed in both Cabell’s Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Management and in Washington & Lee University Law Journals: Submissions & Rankings. This is a significant achievement. Additionally, our Editorial Board has grown exponentially and even includes members from the law school community and non-business law community as well. Our website is vastly improved as well.
I would like to thank all of you who reviewed for the Rocky Mountain Law Journal this year. This includes several new volunteers as well who clearly spent considerable time screening articles and providing comprehensive suggestions to make the articles even better.
For those of you who just came on board, I am looking forward to you next year as we go through the review, acceptance and editorial process once again so that you, too, can provide important input related to article submissions. Certainly, I would also like to thank the Rocky Mountain Academy of Legal Studies in Business conference organizers and committees that continue to support our Journal as it moves forward.
This year’s Volume 3 includes four timely and intriguing articles. We begin with Brian J. Halsey, Julie D. Pfaff and Jennifer C. Halsey and their discussion of Trusted Individual Retirement Accounts (TIRAs) in light of the 2014 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Clark v. Rameker. For the financial and legal practitioner, this has important ramifications with regard to asset protection (or the lack thereof) from creditors under federal bankruptcy law with regard to beneficiaries of individual retirement accounts. The next article by Harvey Shrage explores how courts and arbitrators have interpreted the expression just cause in a collective bargaining agreement, a sometimes neglected and not-so-easy task for the employer and employee. Kevin Farmer discusses the relatively new business form known as the benefit corporation and how many states have adopted statutes accordingly for this socially conscious business organization. Finally, Vicki M. Luoma, Milton Luoma and Emmy J. Buboltz explore major electronic discovery issues for the upcoming year, including Technology Assisted Review (TAR), several others, and possible changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
So, enjoy Volume 3 and thank you again to all who continue to play a role in making the Rocky Mountain Law Journal a success for years to come.
Adam Epstein
Editor-In-Chief
January 12, 2015
