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Learning from those you teach

One night a week I teach legal classes to upcoming paralegals at a local four-year university. At this institution you can receive a degree in the paralegal field. We cover a variety of topics, including but not limited to, criminal, ...

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Who determines workers' comp rates?

Back in the early 1990s, there was a crisis in the workers’ compensation insurance market. Rates were rising quickly, and fewer and fewer carriers were interested in writing workers’ compensation insurance in our state. While always concerned about the cost ...

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Take time to honor your boss

National Boss Day is October 16th! Have you ever wondered how National Boss Day came to be? In 1958, Patricia Bays Haroski, an employee at that time of State Farm Insurance Company in Deerfield, Illinois, registered National Boss Day with ...

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Geekify your life

Rumor has it that the legal profession is among the most antiquated when it comes to using technology. This may be the case if your firm is managed by people that were born before the remote control and Atari, or ...

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Pay attention to your e-mail etiquette

As we are reminded every day by our overflowing inboxes, a great deal of business-related communication happens through email. Although email is often thought of as somewhat informal, it is important to keep a professional image when corresponding with clients ...

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