Local Municipal Approval of Projects – Crowd Control
With the continued popularity of social media such as Twitter and Facebook, we are now, more than ever, more acutely aware of our neighbors’ opinions.
Minimizing Exposure to Stark Law
If you are a physician or provider, when was the last time you reviewed your written services contracts for compliance with the Stark Law?
Put a Lid On It – Ensuring Continuity for Online Bank Accounts
Vast digitalization has our generation buzzing. Work and social affairs have rapidly become taken over, and largely run by, the Internet. Quick to follow suit have been the more historically pen-and-paper affairs, such as banking and bill-pay. This trend has succession planners concerned. What will your children do when they cannot access your electricity bills […]
Lease Exit Strategies
Most physicians lease office space for terms of five or ten years, initially considering immediate needs, but often not negotiating appropriately for unexpected future developments. The purpose of this article is to give you – the prospective tenant – some guidance for developing strategies that give you some flexibility in dealing with future changes. The […]
Advances in Technology and the Evolution of Service
I recently had a client come into my office with a foot high stack of documents mailed to him over several months in Kodak’s bankruptcy. For him, the volume rendered a review an all or nothing proposal; unfortunately, he chose the latter, hoping instead that I could make heads or tails of it all. He […]
Recent Supreme Court Decisions Are Pro-Employer
The Supreme Court’s recent pro-employer decisions, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center v. Nassar and Vance v. Ball State University clarified some of the standards for employer liability for workplace retaliation and harassment under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, and provide some measure of comfort and guidance to employers in preventing discrimination in […]
Marketplace Fairness Act – Looking Back, Looking Ahead
Many would find it hard to believe that the Marketplace Fairness Act has a long legal history. While shopping on the internet may be a fairly modern concept, shopping from home is not. The progeny of the act is a 46 year old Supreme Court Case involving a mail order catalogue company called National Bellas […]
Small Estate Musings – When Real Property is the Estate
No doubt, people are living longer these days, and that means that more people are living on their social security and pensions in their senior years, having outlived their retirement accounts. If they are lucky, they own their own home which they maintain with their monthly income. However, complications arise when a homeowner dies and […]
