Blog​

What Every Non-Lawyer Should Know About the Law

Lawyers tend to forget that non-lawyers know very little about some legal issues or principles that we lawyers take for granted. Following are some of the common misunderstandings that non-lawyers (and even many practicing lawyers and judges) have about the law. Judges Decide Issues of Law and Juries Decide Issues

Read More »

Blow the Whistle on Government Fraud – Qui Tam Cases

Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi just wrote a wonderful article entitled The Pentagon’s Bottomless Money Pit that shows how the Pentagon overpays, loses, and generally wastes billions upon billions of taxpayer dollars. As Taibbi writes, there is no incentive for the Pentagon to change because politicians receiving campaign money from military

Read More »

The Seventh Amendment Protects and Secures All Other Rights

What amendment found in the Bill of Rights protects all other rights? Some would say the Second Amendment. But there is an amendment that protects even the Second Amendment. It is the Seventh Amendment, which provides each of us with the right to a trial by jury. That right to

Read More »

The black hole of the gym membership

We do it everyday. We sign up for something –a cellphone, a gym membership, a magazine– and we give the company our credit card information or our bank account information. Allowing a business to automatically take money from your account or charge your credit card is a modern convenience that

Read More »

Out to Pasture – Age Discrimination in the Workplace

You work hard your entire life. You raise your family, you are trying to pay for the astronomical cost of college for your children while planning for retirement. You have done everything you were supposed to do. You have aged into your job and what you lack in energy, you

Read More »

Equifax Data Breach – What You Should Do

Equifax, a large credit reporting agency, recently exposed the personal information of 143 million consumers.  The breach was global, affecting not only Americans, but also consumers in the U.K. and Canada. It resulted in the hacking of personal information, including, Social Security numbers, driver license numbers and addresses. When you

Read More »
Translate »