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Last month Serena Williams played in her first major tournament since giving birth to her daughter. She had to enter the French Open unseeded, as her protected No. 1 ranking from the Women’s Tennis Association did not apply to the ...

Tagged with: Lindy Korn Workplace Issues

 If you’ve been reading my column over the years, you already know that unencrypted email is inherently unsecure and that it’s no different than sending a postcard written in pencil through the post office. Despite this fact, in the mid-1990s, ...

Tagged with: Legal Loop Nicole Black

The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or Commission) are “Officers of the United States” whose appointments must be made in accordance with the Appointments Clause of the ...

Tagged with: Alan J. Bozer James E.B. Bobseine White Collar Corner

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” The words of Benjamin Franklin perfectly describe the transactional attorney’s ideal role in the negotiation and drafting of contracts. In practice, complex agreements are routinely negotiated and signed within days ...

Tagged with: Advocate's View Kamran F. Hashmi

On a recent trip to the Pacific Northwest, I was bombarded with stores and products advertising “all natural,” “organic,” “farm-raised,” etc. It got me thinking to when I was a kid growing up on a farm that raised chickens and ...

Tagged with: Fraud Facts James I. Marasco

More than ever before, we who practice law limit ourselves to a finite number of areas. Notwithstanding, people come to us with many problems which fall outside our expertise. Although a little knowledge is dangerous, the goal of this column ...

Tagged with: Steven Modica Your Counsel

We heat and cool our homes, drive our vehicles for pleasure and necessity and work comfortably in a temperature0controlled environment. Energy isn’t a forethought until we get the bill for all this convenience and realize the financial pain. Factors relating ...

Tagged with: Mitchell Thomas Money Management

The Supreme Court recently handed down some significant decisions in the labor and employment field. These decisions represent a trend of pro-employer decisions from the Court. Union Agency Fees: Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31, 138 S. Ct. 2448 (2018) In ...

Tagged with: Alina Nadir Civil Litigation

The United States Copyright Act contains one of the great contradictions in American jurisprudence. Copyright automatically inheres in a work at the moment the work is created. In other words, an author of any work of art has copyright rights ...

Tagged with: IP Frontiers Thomas L. Sica

Smartphones have become central to the lives of most Americans. We count on our phones to keep us connected to the world. Because our phones handle so many pivotal functions for us, we’ve become increasingly reliant on them. They’ve have ...

Tagged with: Legal Loop Nicole Black

Both the prosecution and defense are entitled by statute to a certain number of peremptory challenges. This depends on the highest offense level contained in the accusatory instrument: with class A felonies, for example, 10 challenges; for misdemeanors, three challenges. ...

Tagged with: Criminal Law Gary Muldoon

From the outside looking in, it’s hard to understand. From the inside looking out, it’s hard to explain. A month ago, we were all abuzz about the high-profile suicides of two individuals that appeared to have everything going for them. ...

Tagged with: GRAWA President's Message Katie Courtney