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Toyota Motor Corp. knew about flaws that could cause unintended acceleration more than 3 1/2 years before it recalled cars and trucks to fix the defects, according to company timelines. Toyota, the world’s largest automaker, learned that floor mats could ...

More than a billion people around the world look to the tiniest nation on the planet for guidance. It occupies less than a quarter-square mile and contains fewer than 1,000 residents, yet has all the privileges of an independent fully ...

I recently met a very beautiful and intelligent young attorney who pretty much sets the standard for the perfect woman: in addition to the aforementioned qualities, she’s a member of the Federalist Society and her favorite band is Metallica. In ...

The U.S. Labor Department announced it will investigate unpaid internships at private-sector companies to clamp down on firms violating wage laws. “If you’re a for-profit employer or you want to pursue an internship with a for-profit employer, there aren’t going ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently issued a set of final rules requiring companies to provide greater and more detailed disclosures in the filings that outline executive pay and contain board election information. Among other things, the Proxy Disclosure ...

An interesting theme became apparent at the ABA TechShow in March. The theme – one that didn’t surprise me – was that different social media platforms have had varying levels of effectiveness for different lawyers. Some find Facebook pages to ...

A recent South Carolina case highlights the occasionally thorny issue of law firm names. In the case, a firm founder’s widow sued the firm for continuing to use her late husband’s name.  (Gignilliat v. Gignilliat, Savitz & Bettis, L.L.P, 684 ...

Stealing by one’s own employees is a grim reality that many organizations find difficult to face. Further, many companies take a reactive approach to fraud prevention only after they’ve been a victim. Embezzlement can be a problem even at law ...

I’ve frequently written about the importance of meeting with and talking to your clients. As business starts to show hints of thawing and warming up, now is a good time to revisit the issue of client visits. Far too often, ...

Law students love to use parentheticals (to supplement and strengthen what is written). They feel that a parenthetic adds information (that was too subtle to be understood from the sentence that preceded the parenthetical). Often, the parenthetical is meant to ...

In a statement that sent ripples through the legal world, the Supreme Court’s eldest jurist, Justice John Paul Stevens, recently told the New Yorker that he will decide by sometime in April whether this term on the Supreme Court will ...