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7 Aug 2013, 4:00 am
But once you’ve written a few articles in the legal media, spoken at some conferences in your field, and maybe taught a course or two, it doesn’t hurt to widen the scope of your reputation. [read post]
6 Aug 2013, 3:39 pm
Board Certified in Labor & Employment Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, management attorney and consultant Ms. [read post]
6 Aug 2013, 6:30 am
She is a writer, speaker, and publisher. [read post]
5 Aug 2013, 11:31 am
Businesses and workers concerned that the definition of “full-time” employment as 30 hours per week in the “pay-or-play” penalties of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (commonly referred to by the public as “Obamacare”) is hurting American workers may want to share their input on recently introduced legislation that would raise the number of hours an employee must work to qualify as “full-time” for purposes of the pay-or-pay… [read post]
5 Aug 2013, 10:37 am
But there is actually a reason for that policy: It is meant to protect, not so much Hollywood and the recording industry, but “creators” in the same hazy, old-timey sense as “newspapers” per the last paragraph: Starving artists and writers who could never afford to secure legal protection for works whose economic value is, shall we say, as yet still unproved, but which as a policy matter we do wish to protect. [read post]
5 Aug 2013, 10:37 am
But there is actually a reason for that policy: It is meant to protect, not so much Hollywood and the recording industry, but “creators” in the same hazy, old-timey sense as “newspapers” per the last paragraph: Starving artists and writers who could never afford to secure legal protection for works whose economic value is, shall we say, as yet still unproved, but which as a policy matter we do wish to protect. [read post]
5 Aug 2013, 10:25 am
SLAPP is an acronym for “strategic lawsuits against public participation,” and such statutes are “designed to discourage suits that masquerade as ordinary lawsuits but are brought to deter common citizens from exercising their political or legal rights or to punish them for doing so [citation omitted]. [read post]
5 Aug 2013, 8:21 am
Conquer Writer's Block: The 21-Minute Method by Gary Kinder (Attorney at Work, August 5, 2013) Some useful tips on getting past writer's block. [read post]
2 Aug 2013, 1:36 pm
The Court of Chancery dismissed the action, concluding that Petitioners failed to satisfy the “legally protected interest” element of standing because they did not own Maggie, and their statement of interest to adopt Maggie was not sufficient to create a reasonably conceivable legally protected interest in Maggie.Read More: Judge dismisses lawsuit against shelterThe post Justia Weekly Writers’ Picks: Go Wide appeared first on Justia Law, Technology &… [read post]
1 Aug 2013, 3:15 pm
ANY STATEMENTS CONTAINED HEREIN ARE NOT INTENDED OR WRITTEN BY THE WRITER TO BE USED, AND NOTHING CONTAINED HEREIN CAN BE USED BY YOU OR ANY OTHER PERSON, FOR THE PURPOSE OF (1) AVOIDING PENALTIES THAT MAY BE IMPOSED UNDER FEDERAL TAX LAW, OR (2) PROMOTING, MARKETING OR RECOMMENDING TO ANOTHER PARTY ANY TAX-RELATED TRANSACTION OR MATTER ADDRESSED HEREIN. [read post]
1 Aug 2013, 2:39 pm
Conor Friedersdorf, a writer at The Atlantic, has been digging around in some opinions from the Office of Legal Counsel in the '30s and '40s and today publishes a memo from May of 1942 in which Oscar Cox opines on whether the Executive has the authority to declare a targeted sort of martial law that would allow the removal of American citizens of Japanese ancestry in Hawaii to the mainland and, once on the mainland, their imprisonment. [read post]
1 Aug 2013, 8:36 am
ANY STATEMENTS CONTAINED HEREIN ARE NOT INTENDED OR WRITTEN BY THE WRITER TO BE USED, AND NOTHING CONTAINED HEREIN CAN BE USED BY YOU OR ANY OTHER PERSON, FOR THE PURPOSE OF (1) AVOIDING PENALTIES THAT MAY BE IMPOSED UNDER FEDERAL TAX LAW, OR (2) PROMOTING, MARKETING OR RECOMMENDING TO ANOTHER PARTY ANY TAX-RELATED TRANSACTION OR MATTER ADDRESSED HEREIN. [read post]
31 Jul 2013, 5:10 pm
New litigation against the former trustee and former investment service provider of four pension plans reminds employer or other employee benefit plan sponsors, business owners or management, investment advisors and others serving as fiduciaries or advisors of employee benefit plans of the need to ensure that employee benefit plans are only used for the benefit of participants and beneficiaries, and prudently and properly invested and administered. [read post]
30 Jul 2013, 4:43 pm
Whenever you or someone in your family experience abuse, you can seek legal assistance from the Nassau County Criminal Lawyer. [read post]
30 Jul 2013, 3:09 pm
can lead into discussion of the types of legal aid needed or description of populations that need help who don't speak English. [read post]
30 Jul 2013, 6:34 am
As pointed out by that acknowledged legal writing guru, Bryan Garner, in The Elements of Legal Style: “Many of our most gifted legal writers have used figures of speech, or ‘graces of language’–not just insidious vagaries–to give their prose greater force. [read post]
30 Jul 2013, 5:00 am
As woman's rights activists recognized, citizenship encompassed activities that ranged far beyond specific legal rights for women to their broader terms of inclusion in society, the economy, and government. [read post]
30 Jul 2013, 4:30 am
The writer and I are aware of the irony in writing pseudonymously about a government spying on its citizens.Simon Fodden Edward Snowden’s recent disclosures have revealed a need to rethink the way that the current legal structure governing the clandestine activities of intelligence agencies provides for proper oversight by Congress and the public at large. [read post]
29 Jul 2013, 1:51 pm
Since I wrote my post in April, other writers have reported on new hijinks by Suburban Express and Toeppen. [read post]
29 Jul 2013, 10:47 am
Here's the photo that was supposed to inspire hilarity: This reminds me of the blind judging I did back in 2008, when Above the Law had a contest to determine who would replace David Lat as the chief writer at the blog. [read post]
