by EMPLOYEE RIGHTS EXCLUSIVELY | Jul 10, 2011
Emile Zola wrote of a miners’ strike in France in the 1860s. Victor Hugo wrote Les Miserables, and the distorted idea of justice without mercy. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote of the cruel inhumanity of slavery in America in the 1850s. These are...
by EMPLOYEE RIGHTS EXCLUSIVELY | Jul 9, 2011
It’s hard not to like Joe Dunn. He’s bright, he’s charming, and he’s determined. I can see why he was elected to the State Senate several times. Last year, I asked Joe Dunn to speak on the subject of gender bias in the legal...
by EMPLOYEE RIGHTS EXCLUSIVELY | Jul 7, 2011
Suppose a husband and wife work at the same company, in different departments. Suppose the wife makes a sexual harassment complaint at work. Suppose further both she and her husband get fired not long after that. She claims she was fired in...
by EMPLOYEE RIGHTS EXCLUSIVELY | Jul 6, 2011
Lincoln responded to a charge of being two-faced by asking, “If I were two faced, would I be wearing this one?” His point is a good one for legal writing as well. Good writing, good communication generally, and legal writing specifically have these...
by EMPLOYEE RIGHTS EXCLUSIVELY | Jul 5, 2011
The traditional law firm of 30 years ago was book intensive with a large space contributed to accommodate all those volumes. It was also an area where lawyers would have serendipitous encounters that sparked case discussions and produced fertile collaboration....
by EMPLOYEE RIGHTS EXCLUSIVELY | Jul 3, 2011
We and the Social Media Giants are in this strange love lock: we are seduced and used. We know it, and we like it. We keep giving away our personal information. What are the privacy limits of what we give them? How badly can we be used as the price we pay? Not to...
