Category: Legal Law

This professional is a family attorney who specializes in child custody cases, helping to protect children’s rights. To become a child custody attorney, you would have to follow the same path as any attorney but specialize in child custody cases. In most states, you would need a bachelor’s degree, such as a bachelor’s degree, before …

Employee demands are distracting, expensive, and for the most part avoidable. Verdict investigation jury The 2007 edition of “Labor Practice Responsibility, Jury Prize Trends, and Statistics” highlights some employment statistics and trends you should know: Employee claims have increased 400% in the last 20 years to the current level of 6.5 claims per 1,000 employees …

A non-compete contract is an agreement signed by an employee in which he or she agrees that he or she will not engage in a certain job within a certain geographic area for a certain period of time after he or she resigns or is fired. Likewise, a non-solicitation contract obliges the employee not to …

In Approaching the Bench: Tales of a Personal Injury Lawyer, attorney Jan Weinberg shares some of his most fascinating cases from a career that has spanned decades. Beginning with stories from his time at Harvard Law School, years marked by anxiety and school absences, to his first assignment to a client while still a law …

If you’re not successful at first, should you apply to graduate school again next year? This is a very nervous time of year. Across the United States – and indeed, around the world – eager eyes scan their email accounts every few seconds, waiting to see if the school of their dreams has sent them …

In the last quarter of 2008, the United States faces economic challenges never imagined even a few months ago. How will companies manage and survive constraints on credit, demand, and growth? How is the economic recession affecting lawyers and law firms serving the business community? It is an obvious fact that companies can only consider …

Pattaya is a city on the north coast of the eastern Gulf of Thailand that attracts millions of tourists every year. Its name was originally “Thap Phraya” which means Army of Phraya. Initially, the place was just a fishing village until 1961 when the American military began to go there to relax. This gave rise …

I grew up in the 1980s when it seemed like everyone wanted to be a LA Law lawyer. The 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s (through 2007) were the era of Big Law when the promise of a $ 100,000 to $ 160,000 salary was apparently extended to anyone who graduated from one of the top 20 …

Intellectual property that may be related to the protection of your next song, book or script: Copyright Each original work of authorship fixed in tangible or electronic form, including text, graphics and images, may be the basis for one or more copyright applications. As a reminder, you should always include a notice on all web …

Today’s corporate legal departments seek to streamline and improve their contract management processes. In many cases, it makes business sense to hire a legal process outsourcing (LPO) provider to manage legal service contracts, agreement drafting, legal contract review, and legal document review work. Contract management outsourcing services LPO service providers offer governance, compliance and risk …