Imagine you are the representative of an insurance company handling a bodily injury claim. The injured plaintiff has $25,000 in medical expenses. Your insured’s policy has a limit of $30,000. The plaintiff makes a settlement demand for the policy limits. Because you know that $30,000 represents the extent of your company’s liability, you decide that you have nothing to lose
It is spring and college admission letters are showing up in mailboxes all over the country. This made me think of the one of the most frequent questions I am asked by the parents of juveniles in trouble: “Will this be part of a permanent record?” The answer is always a firm, “Maybe.” Ordinarily, the records and hearings that make
Zofran was approved by the FDA in 1981 for treatment of nausea in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy and post-operative patients. To this day, Zofran has never received FDA approval for use in pregnant women to treat nausea and vomiting of pregnancy (NVP). In 2012, The Center for BirThDefects Research and Prevention published a study that showed women who used Zofran
Class actions can be used as an instrument to protect small businesses from massive corporations and from the government. A group seeking a remedy in a class action doesn’t have to be a collection of consumers. A class can be a group of businesses. In recent years, rather than being an enemy of business, class actions have become protectors of
June 13, 2016 will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Miranda v. Arizona. At its inception, the holding created a new protection for defendants in the criminal justice system. Today, the case is still relevant as it continues to guard the rights of the accused. In 2000, the court acknowledged that the holding “has become embedded
Effective brands immediately convey impressions to the consumer about that product based on prior experiences with the product, advertising, or word of mouth exchanges (and now, of course, “word of mouth,” ironically – and powerfully – means social media conversations more than actual face-to-face interactions). Accordingly, your client’s brand is the face of that client’s reputation among its consuming public.
Most family law attorneys would agree that of all the major disagreements that take place both during a divorce proceeding and post-divorce, issues that involve parenting minor children are most common. When parents share joint legal custody and parenting time, as most parents do, temporary changes to the parenting time schedule, vacation scheduling, participation in extracurricular activities, medical treatment, religious
Morality clauses play an increasingly larger role in contracts with high level executives, athletes, musicians and entertainers. These clauses are inserted into the contracts with the expectation that the signing parties will modify their behavior to fit certain expectations. An example of a morality clause in an agreement between an entertainer and advertiser could be written as follows: If [entertainer]
Shareholders owning a minority block of stock in a corporation generally lack the ability to prevent transactions involving fundamental changes to the corporation or the nature of their investment in it. However, when fundamental corporate change is forced upon minority shareholders against their will, Minnesota law allows shareholders to “dissent” from the transaction and to exercise statutory “dissenter’s rights” designed
Certain forms of immigration relief require a showing of good moral character, such as voluntary departure, cancellation of removal and naturalization. Pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and federal regulation, certain individuals will be found to be persons lacking moral character for having committed certain acts that either trigger a permanent bar or a conditional bar if committed
Imagine you are the representative of an insurance company handling a bodily injury claim. The injured plaintiff has $25,000 in medical expenses. Your insured’s policy has a limit of $30,000. The plaintiff makes a settlement demand for the policy limits. Because you know that $30,000 represents the extent of your company’s liability, you decide that you have nothing to lose
It is spring and college admission letters are showing up in mailboxes all over the country. This made me think of the one of the most frequent questions I am asked by the parents of juveniles in trouble: “Will this be part of a permanent record?” The answer is always a firm, “Maybe.” Ordinarily, the records and hearings that make
Zofran was approved by the FDA in 1981 for treatment of nausea in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy and post-operative patients. To this day, Zofran has never received FDA approval for use in pregnant women to treat nausea and vomiting of pregnancy (NVP). In 2012, The Center for BirThDefects Research and Prevention published a study that showed women who used Zofran
Class actions can be used as an instrument to protect small businesses from massive corporations and from the government. A group seeking a remedy in a class action doesn’t have to be a collection of consumers. A class can be a group of businesses. In recent years, rather than being an enemy of business, class actions have become protectors of
June 13, 2016 will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Miranda v. Arizona. At its inception, the holding created a new protection for defendants in the criminal justice system. Today, the case is still relevant as it continues to guard the rights of the accused. In 2000, the court acknowledged that the holding “has become embedded
Effective brands immediately convey impressions to the consumer about that product based on prior experiences with the product, advertising, or word of mouth exchanges (and now, of course, “word of mouth,” ironically – and powerfully – means social media conversations more than actual face-to-face interactions). Accordingly, your client’s brand is the face of that client’s reputation among its consuming public.
Most family law attorneys would agree that of all the major disagreements that take place both during a divorce proceeding and post-divorce, issues that involve parenting minor children are most common. When parents share joint legal custody and parenting time, as most parents do, temporary changes to the parenting time schedule, vacation scheduling, participation in extracurricular activities, medical treatment, religious
Morality clauses play an increasingly larger role in contracts with high level executives, athletes, musicians and entertainers. These clauses are inserted into the contracts with the expectation that the signing parties will modify their behavior to fit certain expectations. An example of a morality clause in an agreement between an entertainer and advertiser could be written as follows: If [entertainer]
Shareholders owning a minority block of stock in a corporation generally lack the ability to prevent transactions involving fundamental changes to the corporation or the nature of their investment in it. However, when fundamental corporate change is forced upon minority shareholders against their will, Minnesota law allows shareholders to “dissent” from the transaction and to exercise statutory “dissenter’s rights” designed
Certain forms of immigration relief require a showing of good moral character, such as voluntary departure, cancellation of removal and naturalization. Pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and federal regulation, certain individuals will be found to be persons lacking moral character for having committed certain acts that either trigger a permanent bar or a conditional bar if committed
