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The NCAA college basketball tournament started this week. Tournament time also means that someone in the office will organize a basketball pool. Most business owners and managers look the other way as employees circulate tournament brackets, collect money and update ...

My very first job as a lawyer was as a summer associate at a firm in New Orleans. (I don’t remember much about that long-ago summer, except that the food was amazing, and that there are some areas of the ...

Last week I attended the official investiture of my law school classmate and friend, Mary Rhodes Russell, as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Missouri. (She was privately sworn in late last fall.) The official ceremony was delayed in ...

We are continuing to talk about “tips” in the area of billing that deals with expenses. As you know, billing is the fourth area of the five areas that make up every business in the world. The other four are ...

During the course of writing this column, I have often pondered my own version of the philosophical question, “if a tree falls in the forest and there is no one there to hear it, does it make a sound,” by ...

As in most areas of life, the unseen conflicts in the practice of law can threaten us more than those exposed to the public eye. This is especially true in settlement negotiations, in which, unbeknownst to others, the lawyer’s self-interest ...

The number of legal disputes regarding tobacco smoking in public places is constantly increasing. In Minnesota, a proposed statewide ban on smoking in most public places was snuffed out last week in a House committee, putting a likely end for ...

I know of a medical office where the staff is unhappy. The reason is that the new HIPAA regulations (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) are requiring unique usernames and strong passwords for their computer systems. Before the office ...

“The only constant is change,” wrote the Greek philosopher Heraclitus. That expression accurately describes the business environment for tax professionals who know the rigorous effort required to keep abreast of the changes each year to the tax code. Recent years ...

The statutes and regulations that control when and how a federal discrimination case is heard in federal court require that a plaintiff first file a charge of discrimination with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Most employment lawyers understand that ...

Originally designed to reduce the cost of doing business in the United States by reducing import duty costs, Foreign Trade Zones (FTZs) are now beginning to be used to reduce the cost of other countries’ import duties as well. Companies ...