Publications

Provisions Added to Perfect Interest in Personal Property

September 2013 by Timothy W. Grooms | “Fundamental to the concept of taking a security interest is the ability of a secured party to remain perfected in its collateral.…

Caveat Who?: A Review of the Landlord/Tenant Relationship in the Context of Injuries and Maintenance Obligations

Summer 2013 by J. Cliff McKinney II | “Bad things happen.  People make mistakes.  Evil exists in the world, as does stupidity, which may be the superlative source…

The Collateral Source Rule: A Compendium of State Law

2012 by R. Ryan Younger | “Arkansas” Note: This excerpt is from from The Collateral Source Rule:  A Compendium of State Law. ©2012.  DRI.  Click the link below to read…

Implementing Institutional Controls at Brownfields and Other Contaminated Sites

2012 by J. Cliff McKinney II | “The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) regulates hazardous substances in Arkansas. ADEQ is vested with the authority granted by the EPA,…

Even Courts Are Going Green. How to Protect Yourself From Greenwashing Litigation

Spring/Summer 2012 by Joseph W. Price II | “This article was printed on biodegradable, post-recyclable paper with chemical- free ink, and produced in a carbon-neutral fashion by an energy-efficient…

Negotiating Arkansas’s Law of Several Liability

Fall 2011 by Joseph R. Falasco | “Life intersects art, sometimes. As a practicing lawyer, I have tried to employ rules, statutes, and laws in service of a defined…

Deed Covenants of Title and The Preparation of Deeds: Theory, Law, and Practice in Arkansas

2011 by J. Cliff McKinney II | “Let’s assume A sold B his 50-year-old bungalow, located on a platted, fenced city lot in Little Rock. A conveyed a typical ‘general…

Adverse Possession and Boundary by Acquiescence in Arkansas: Some Suggestions for Reform

2011 by J. Cliff McKinney II | “Some commentators have characterized adverse possession as a ‘strange and wonderful system,’ others as ‘legal[ized] land theft.’ Like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,…

Affirmative Acts and Antitrust: The Need for a Consistent Tolling Standard in Cases of Fraudulent Concealment

2011 by Amber Davis-Tanner | “It is axiomatic that ‘no man may take advantage of his own wrong.’ It is also a fundamental principle of the American justice…

Using Technology at Trial

January 2011 by E. B. (Chip) Chiles IV | “Almost every trial now involves the use of technology by lawyers. The extent to which lawyers use technology at trial,…