by Experience, Dedication, Results | Aug 2, 2011
Texting, mobile calls, and email on smartphones, including a host of both personal and business applications [“Apps”] open a pandora’s box of privacy issues for employees who accept partial or full reimbursement of mobile phone costs from their...
by Experience, Dedication, Results | Aug 2, 2011
This morning I received a call from a retired Employment Lawyer of 30 years or more practice who spent decades in the trenches representing employees in trial and arbitrations. She and I discussed the necessary methods of proof in discrimination cases. She...
by Experience, Dedication, Results | Aug 1, 2011
A $1 increase in gasoline prices over a 7-year period would reduce obesity in the U.S. by 10%, according to a study by Charles Courtemanche of the University of North Carolina that found evidence of a negative association between gas prices and body weight. Gas-price...
by Experience, Dedication, Results | Jul 29, 2011
Opening statements were given this week [7-29-11] in L.A. Superior Court in the case of TCW v. Gunlach. Trust Co. of the West (TCW) sued one of its top performing bond investors, Jeffrey Gundlach for stealing an enormous volume of data that TCW asserts...
by Experience, Dedication, Results | Jul 28, 2011
I have a dream . . . a bad dream! I am standing before my client’s peers in a discrimination trial, and I am pointing an accusatory finger at a well-dressed, professional looking employer. Her lawyer has worked hard at presenting her as a...
by Experience, Dedication, Results | Jul 28, 2011
The following is a reprint of an article by Hoover, Hull, LLP, a boutique business and commercial law firm in Indianapolis, IN. Social media including Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, have become mainstays in today’s business environment. Social media creates...