Lawyers being who they are, when the Brett Favre/Jenn Sterger sexting scandal surfaced, talk immediately turned to the legal issues.
Read More »Success is in the eye of the beholder
I attended a luncheon recently for Rochester, N.Y.-based women attorneys who had graduated from my alma mater, Albany Law School.
Read More »Make a plan before paying down debt
As Americans become more conscious about the damage debt can do to their finances, there’s always a question of whether it makes sense to pay down first mortgages and home equity lines so they can direct more money to retirement or other goals.
Read More »Med-mal suit booted due to plaintiff’s intoxication
You just know that things are going to end badly when you give a guy a 12-pack of beer and a snowmobile. That they did for Donald Beebe.
Read More »On cheesecakes and Constitutions
Thanksgiving is this week, which means I'm being heavily badgered by folks who want me to make them pumpkin cheesecakes for the holiday, or at least give them my recipe.
Read More »Mark-to-make-believe perfumes rotten loans
Just when it looked like U.S. banks were starting to reveal the true values of their loans, it turns out there’s an accounting loophole they can exploit to keep bad news buried.
Read More »Chaos is your friend
“Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.”
Read More »Nazis who hid still get U.S. cover
To whatever degree the U.S. knowingly or carelessly sheltered Nazi murderers after World War II, it’s a national shame.
Read More »Justice Breyer will not be your Facebook friend
The lack of tech savvy among justices of the Supreme Court has been well documented. Now Justice Stephen Breyer admits that the concept of Facebook confounds him.
Read More »Unruly ‘friend’ gets Facebook death penalty
Gee, I guess Facebook must be a pretty big deal. Why else would a Maryland woman make two cross-country road trips and sue in federal court to protest her banishment from the social networking site?
Read More »Suit shows why Wall Streeters can walk
Citigroup Inc. investors either fell on their faces or cleared a high hurdle when a federal judge last week killed (part of) their securities fraud case.
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