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May 6, 2013
There is a nasty rumor out there that lawyers are not popular people. The most some people will give us is that we are a necessary […]
May 5, 2013
In this day and age of rather polarized politics, supporters of each side have been heard to wonder just what those who voted for the other […]
April 30, 2013
A person or company who knows that they disagree with another about the meaning of a legal document may think they are in a bind. How, […]
April 28, 2013
In many trials, the question comes up as to when and how to introduce “character evidence,” which is to say evidence that this or that person is a […]
April 24, 2013
As I noted in a previous post, appellate law has its unique intricacies and technicalities. As such, bringing an appeal in a family-law case will be […]
April 23, 2013
Poaching of African wildlife remains a problem, fueled by appetite for illegal products in Asia, especially China and Thailand. The United States, like many other countries, is […]
April 21, 2013
Amateurs of reality TV may have heard of Storage Wars, Shipping Wars, or Parking Wars. The increasing interest in vegetable gardens and other homegrown, healthy goodies […]
April 16, 2013
Congress’ consideration of a gun control law, along with several states passing stricter laws on the topic, has garnered many hours of newscast and probably hundreds […]
April 15, 2013
A couple of weeks ago we posted a Sunday Funny about dumb laws. It should be only fair to also write about dumb lawsuits and show that we […]
April 10, 2013
It has become a cliché to say that we live in a global economy. Yet we do. A simple trip to the supermarket or a big-box […]
April 7, 2013
It is not uncommon, while driving down a busy thoroughfare, to see someone dancing madly at the side of the road, brandishing a colorful arrow or […]
April 5, 2013
It does not take a lawyer to see that the administrative state is a pervasive presence in our lives. The alphabet soup of federal and state […]
April 3, 2013
You have to admire the British ability to tell it like it is. Late in 2010, the English equivalent to our SEC shut down, and froze […]
March 31, 2013
Like California, Florida’s constitution is easy to amend – too easy sometimes. It takes relatively few signatures for an initiative to make it on the ballot. […]
March 26, 2013
Some time ago I published a post explaining that businesses (or individuals for that matter) may well need three tax guys depending on the circumstances. The […]
March 24, 2013
The putative heir left out of a will may easily exclaim how the recently deceased must have been insane. Yet the bar to prove that a […]
March 22, 2013
In the U.S. justice system, each side pays its own attorney. This is unlike most countries in Continental Europe, for example, where the loser pays the […]
March 17, 2013
Frequent watchers of Law and Order might still be hearing that frequent phrase ring in their ears: “On the sole count of the indictment, how do […]
March 15, 2013
If you sold a tangible product, and no-one said anything about any warranty, you may think that what you sold is not under any sort of […]
March 14, 2013
Every request for a sick leave, every legitimate medical exam for a physically demanding job, any lawful drug test, and so on and so forth, has […]
March 10, 2013
Here comes a man telling a judge that he was the victim of racial discrimination, because he was fired after being disciplined, and a co-worker from […]
March 8, 2013
There should be no two words in the English language more odious to our Republican ideals than “sovereign immunity.” This doctrine is a relic of old […]
March 3, 2013
A law firm known for putting out a lot of TV advertising recently had me worried. In one commercial, someone appears on camera to say something […]
February 28, 2013
And no-one is there to hear it fall, does it still make noise? The same can be asked about a lawsuit. Sometimes, one may fairly ponder […]
February 25, 2013
A couple of tortured opinions from our nation’s courts, combining with the less than artful way in which Congress sometimes writes the country’s laws, has combined […]
February 24, 2013
There was once a young lady Living the life at University Who set out to rent, for a party, A party bus, big and shiny. […]
February 22, 2013
Say you run a business. Say too that one of your employees takes computer data without authorization and later uses it against you to compete unfairly. Let’s […]
February 18, 2013
Our last entry, about technicalities, bemoaned that common sense is not as common as one may wish. That entry empathized with two people seeking relief from the […]
February 11, 2013
Common sense is not always as common as one may wish. This is particularly true in legal matters. Two Minnesota men who were committed for treatment […]
February 4, 2013
We are living in difficult economic times. Sometimes, companies, especially small and mid-size businesses, go under. If you are its owner, a high-level employee, or a […]