The stats are alarming: Before entering law school, a student is just as likely to have experienced depression as any other adult in the general population (about 7 percent). After one year of law school, 32 percent of students experience ...

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  Many of my clients report feeling scattered as they navigate their day in the role of CEO/firefighter. Their to-do lists are never-ending. Will better priority management and more effective organizational systems improve productivity? Probably. The deeper transformation, however, comes ...

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On Sept. 17, about two months after most employers would have liked to have seen final guidance, the Internal Revenue Service released final Affordable Care Act reporting forms and instructions for 2015. Applicable large employers and insurers will use these ...

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Those of you who follow NFL football or like to read the gossip pages of tabloid magazines are probably aware that a federal judge recently overturned the NFL’s four-game suspension imposed on star quarterback Tom Brady. The judge ruled that ...

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Lawyers and judges often complain about how television shows and movies depict courtroom behavior. For the sake of drama, TV and movie lawyers lean into jury boxes, stand too close to witnesses, and make long-winded objections. Making objections properly requires ...

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The big banking story this year is about embedded microchips and the machines that read them. The new rules made U.S. retailers nervous because of the liability shift that goes with the new technology; if the store isn’t using it ...

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I never understood that expression, “The King is dead! Long live the King!” until I started watching Game of Thrones. So when horrible King Joffrey Baratheon was poisoned and the assembled onlookers turned to his younger brother and shouted those ...

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No matter how good your product or services, you will not stay in business if you are not paid. The basic elements of assuring payment: Deliver value Customers expect value. They choose to do business with you. It follows, then, ...

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The problem with being Volkswagen right now is that you lied. The other problem with being Volkswagen right now is that your company’s value dropped by $18 billion or so in a day and you had to take a charge ...

Tagged with: Expert Opinion Ted Streuli

With the onset of fall, the kids are back in school and football has begun. Perhaps more even more important to me — a child of the ’70s who was raised with the TV as a babysitter — a new ...

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As mediators, attorneys and educators, we understand the importance of preparing litigators to engage in mediation advocacy effectively. We also understand the realities of law firm practice and the scarcity of time attorneys have to devote to professional development. However, ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court recently decided a case that every employer will need to understand in order to stay on the right side of federal religious discrimination law. It ruled that retail clothing store Abercrombie & Fitch violated the law ...

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