The fall issue of the National Paralegal Reporter will be celebrating NFPA’s 45th anniversary and the individuals who made this success possible. Local associations have been invited to send profile articles of their longstanding members; the articles should be roughly ...
Tagged with: Bobbi Ahearn Paralegal Perspectives
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Cryptocurrency, such as Bitcoin, while still an unusual form of payment, is becoming more common and familiar to the average person. As a result, the issue of whether lawyers can ethically accept Bitcoin as payment for legal services is an ...
Tagged with: Legal Loop Nicole Black
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Culture continues to be a focus of law firms today, and it should be in the forefront of organizations that want to excel. An article in Legal Insights Europe, entitled “The Biggest Challenges and Opportunities for Law Firms in 2019,” ...
Tagged with: Beth Sears Collaboration Insights
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The Third Department Appellate Division recently issued a Decision regarding the presumption of legitimacy and DNA testing in regard to a child’s paternity. Mario WW. v. Kristin XX, et al [2019 NY Slip Op. 04798]. (“Et al” being Kristin’s husband.) ...
Tagged with: Matrimonial Matters Sara Stout Ashcraft
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There are potentially impactful changes to the laws regarding employer’s qualified plans and family savings plans in the works right now in Congress. These changes, if enacted into law, would require amending retirement plans to reflect mandatory and elective changes. ...
Tagged with: Money Management Scott Hansen
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Organizational values have gotten a great deal of attention as a positive component of organizational strategy, but what is the purpose of values? Core values are standards that the partners or attorneys subscript to and use to recruit, promote and ...
Tagged with: Beth Sears Collaboration Insights
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Lawyers have been practicing law remotely for many years now, first via remote access tools and more recently by using cloud computing software, such as cloud-based law practice management software. Not surprisingly, as cloud computing legal software has become increasingly ...
Tagged with: Legal Loop Nicole Black
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President Donald J. Trump appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, concluding that he engaged in unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination by using Twitters “blocking” function to limit certain user’s access to ...
Tagged with: Lindy Korn Workplace Issues
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Over the past year, the New York State Legislature has passed a flurry of new laws requiring employers to update their employment discrimination policies and provide additional training. The new requirements generally apply to all employers in the state with ...
Tagged with: Advocate's View Stacey E. Trien
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On May 23, I was installed as the 37th president of the Greater Rochester Association for Women Attorneys (GRAWA). It is still hard for me to believe that I was installed as GRAWA’s president, as it does not seem that ...
Tagged with: Carey Ann Denefrio GRAWA President's Message
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At the end of 2018, the interest rate on a 10-year treasury bond was 2.7%. The belief among professionals at this time was that interest rates would rise in 2019.1 These economists believed Trump’s tax cuts and continued economic momentum ...
Tagged with: Joseph G. Mowrer III Money Management
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Our family has a running joke about my wife’s intuitive powers. For example, when I said I ran into an old friend we hadn’t heard from in several months, she said, “Wow, I was just thinking about her yesterday!” Unfortunately, ...
Tagged with: Frank Cania HR Connection
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