Federal immigration officials swept into Postville, Iowa, in May and detained nearly 400 workers at a kosher meat processing plant. Swiftly, local enforcement and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency arrested, charged with crimes, extracted pleas, and sentenced 297 of ...
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To be successful in managing your employees, you need to understand the steps to good generational management. Accept that there are differences among generations. You cannot apply your generational conditioning to others. Trying to do so starts out in defeat ...
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Federal immigration officials swept into Postville, Iowa, in May and detained nearly 400 workers at a kosher meat processing plant. Swiftly, local enforcement and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency arrested, charged with crimes, extracted pleas, and sentenced 297 of ...
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William Hochul Jr. seemed to be a shoo-in to oversee counterterrorism prosecutions at the U.S. Department of Justice. Working in Buffalo, N.Y., he had won a major terrorism case that brought him the attorney general’s top award for exceptional service. ...
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Record numbers of foreclosures and a $300 billion government bailout aren’t the only ways to help solve the subprime mortgage crisis. These chaotic financial times cry out for creative solutions. This is not the time to engage in the “blame ...
Read More »A creative approach to ease subprime mortgage crisis
Record numbers of foreclosures and a $300 billion government bailout aren’t the only ways to help solve the subprime mortgage crisis. These chaotic financial times cry out for creative solutions. This is not the time to engage in the “blame ...
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Earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review a lower court decision that limits the range of employees eligible for anti-retaliation protection under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In the decision, Crawford v. Metropolitan ...
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Sometimes, we lawyers take ourselves far too seriously. While the legal matters that we handle for our clients are most certainly serious, there is levity to be found in the law as well. In fact, I have an entire legal ...
Read More »Personal e-mail at office? Proceed at your own peril
The topic is one that makes lawyers either wince or smile: When are e-mail messages private, and what does that mean? Many businesses have generally held that, because the computer network is owned and maintained by the business, all information ...
Read More »A taxing matter
In the 1960s, the Beatles were all for peace and love — until they had to contend with Britain’s then-draconian tax rates on the wealthy. The result was the nasty little song, “Taxman”: “Be thankful I don’t want it all ...
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The topic is one that makes lawyers either wince or smile: When are e-mail messages private, and what does that mean? Many businesses have generally held that, because the computer network is owned and maintained by the business, all information ...
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