The average person can expect to change careers three to five times in his or her lifetime. And according to salary.com’s 2005-06 employee job satisfaction and retention survey, 65 percent of employees plan to look for a new job during ...
Read More »Brokers see continuing rise in business sales, valuations
Business brokers expect more gains in unit sales and average valuations this year. Unit sales and valuations sagged for nearly two years following 9/11, then rebounded. Now, demographic and financial-market trends figure to fuel more growth, brokers said. “It’s probably ...
Read More »Client education key for landscapers
From the simple to the sophisticated, landscaping design helps provide a sense of place, whether in a subdivision, a public park or a retail and office building. “Everyone looks to outwardly project a site as different in ways beyond the ...
Read More »Katrina creates timber glut, lower prices
Prices for timber products should begin a slow improvement once the market absorbs the wood being salvaged from hurricane-ravaged forests, a Mississippi professor predicts. Bob Daniels, forestry professor from Mississippi State University, said the market is glutted with wood, and ...
Read More »College students volunteer to rebuild New Orleans
College students have returned to New Orleans with a paint brush in one hand and a hammer in the other, volunteering their time to rebuild the city’s damaged neighborhoods, houses and schools. The assistance students are offering New Orleans is ...
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The American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession reported that as of the fall of 2004, nationwide 47.5 percent of all first-year law school enrollees were women, while women comprised 48 percent of the entire student body at ...
Read More »ABA releases report on wrongful convictions
Every time an innocent person is wrongfully convicted, there are two injustices. One is to the person who was unfairly charged, the other to the victim of the crime and to society because a guilty person is still at large, ...
Read More »8th Circuit rules termination of Wal-Mart employee was not racist
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found on Friday Wal-Mart adequately proved it did not terminate an employee at a Springfield, Mo., store based on racial discrimination. The appellate court’s decision affirmed a summary judgment grant to the retail ...
Read More »7th Circuit rules deleting computer data violates law
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act’s (CFAA) prohibition on transmitting a program, in order to damage a computer, includes erasing all the data from a laptop. The Seventh Circuit’s Mar. 8 opinion also held it doesn’t matter whether the perpetrator ...
Read More »Hollywood to host nation's trial lawyers
More than 1,200 lawyers, judges, academics and leaders in the legal profession will get an inside view of the entertainment industry’s take on trials and trial advocacy when the American Bar Association Section of Litigation convenes for its Annual Conference ...
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