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Lawyers, you would think, would be relatively at ease with the law, especially after devoting three years or more of their lives to law school and having made the law their chosen profession, but it never ceases to amaze me ...

Claimants under federal, state and local discrimination laws generally must satisfy a three-pronged standard to overcome summary judgment. The triumvirate standard requires the claimant first to establish a prima facie case; then shifts the burden to the employer to provide ...

If you’ve been living under a rock for the last several years, you might not have heard yet that fraud is big business. Companies are most at risk of fraud from their employees, since the employees have access to information ...

Partners sometimes disappoint each other. But if one of your partners has a legitimate and serious problem such as alcoholism or anger management issues, you need to face it squarely and quickly, while taking all necessary steps to ensure clients ...

We are continuing to talk about the topic of “collecting” as the fifth and final area of the five areas that make up every business in the world. The other four areas are as follows: “Clients” or “customers”; “Administration”; “Getting ...

Today, many public companies have taken the silent approach when it comes to giving public guidance on a quarterly or annual basis. More often than not, a company says guidance focuses investors and analysts away from short-term results and toward ...

We know that in many cases, parties reach agreement in mediation where they had previously tried to do so without success, perhaps on a number of occasions. Something had to have changed during the mediation for this to have happened ...

As my last column closed, I asked whether we wish to leave the effort to reconcile the various jurisprudential philosophies to economists, who evaluate legal outcomes solely by their degree of conformity to economic theory. My answer is no. Instead, ...

Presenting evidence in trial, mediation and other legal arenas has changed dramatically over the years. We are still learning methods to prepare information to achieve the greatest impact with a judge and jury. A mixed media of information can keep ...

Client loyalty is best built with customized services that specifically meet client need. It is time to banish the “standard” treatment including standardized letters and invoices in favor of customized support. Think of amazon.com, for example. It learns about its ...

“To be, or not to be: that is the question,” – Shakespeare, “Hamlet,” Act III, Scene I, 1661 Judges are often confronted with the question of whether a dispute must be arbitrated and, after the arbitration, whether to uphold the ...