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Everyone wants to know if they are on track for a successful retirement and if they can afford to retire. Improvements in health care, along with longer life expectancies, have changed the idea of retirement from slowing down to more ...

Tagged with: Money Management Sharon L. Thornton

I’m online a lot. For starters, it’s the nature of my job as a legal technology journalist and speaker, both of which are central to my position as Legal Technology Evangelist for MyCase. And that fact that I work remotely ...

Tagged with: Legal Loop Nicole Black

Cyber attacks and costly accidental losses of sensitive personal and financial information are no longer confined to retailers like Target and Sony or banks and investment houses like JP Morgan. Professional service companies — accountants, lawyers, financial advisers and insurance ...

At the time of writing this article, my tenure as the president of the Paralegal Association of Rochester, Inc. (PAR) has come to a close. This last year entailed many PAR events and projects and it the time went very ...

Tagged with: Jane M. Gorski Paralegal Perspectives

One thing I believe we all agree on is that dealing with risk in everyday life is constant. Whether it’s career choices, personal health decisions or financial decisions, we need to define the risk/reward payoff. We then determine what level ...

Tagged with: David P. Angeline Money Management

My father and I went on a trip last summer to tour the national parks on the way from Colorado to San Francisco. In between our travels from the unparalleled beauty of Zion National Park to the striking sequoia trees ...

Tagged with: Legal Bytes Robert Marks

The reported settlement of a charge filed at the EEOC by Jessica Casucci against her employer, Ernst and Young, involves Jessica leaving the firm. Jessica had first filed an internal complaint with the firm’s global diversity officer but was allegedly ...

Tagged with: Lindy Korn Workplace Issues

The phenomenon of social media has infiltrated all aspects of our lives, so it’s no surprise that social media evidence is now a pivotal tool in litigation. Juror use of social media has resulted in mistrials across the country for ...

Tagged with: Legal Loop Nicole Black

Included in the newly enacted New York State Budget Bill are provisions that reform New York State tax law. This is in response to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). The provisions specifically address the TCJA’s $10,000 state and ...

Tagged with: Keeping Your Balance Kristina Stamatis

Binding arbitration remains on the rise. Indeed, there is a high likelihood that only a small percentage of the readers of this article will have not already, in some area of their life, consented and otherwise agreed to private, binding, ...

Tagged with: Civil Litigation David M. Tang

The Court of Appeals 2009 decision in Mahoney-Buntzman v. Buntzman (12 NY3d 415) has greatly affected how separate/martial property and debt claims are viewed in divorce. While this decision has alleviated matrimonial practitioners of some tedious tracing labors, exactly how ...

Tagged with: Matrimonial Matters Sara Stout Ashcraft

Over the last 49 years, I have met with thousands of individual investors and have been a student of the markets and investor behavior. Why are some investors successful, and why do others fail? Dalbar, an independent research firm, studied ...

Tagged with: George Karpus Money Management