Is your business in need of a buy-sell agreement? Don’t know how to get started?
An excellent resource worth considering is a book from Z. Christopher Mercer called Buy-Sell Agreements: Ticking Time Bombs or Reasonable Solutions? A blog post from Mercer worth reading also raises an excellent point regarding buy-sell agreements:
If you are in the process of
A Des Moines Register article discusses how many bosses are unwilling to allow night shift workers to caucus. Understandably this makes politically active employees a little upset. The article quotes a Medicom employee who said,
"It made me so furious. I raised such a fit I’m surprised they didn’t send me home."
It’s true
An Iowa man who worked with Catfish Bend Casinos in Burlington was fired for posting a Dilbert 
cartoon on the office bulletin board. Apparently the boss didn’t appreciate the comparison to a drunken lemur.
Dilbert creater, Scott Adams, offers this advice:
If you intend to mock your boss with Dilbert comics, the trick is in
Abe Lincoln, Freedom Fighter (1978)
Abe: I don’t know about this politician business.
Judge: What do you mean by that?
Abe: If I have to sacrifice my integrity for politics, I guess I’ll just have to stay a lawyer!
Up to this point I have avoided blogging on politics and the Iowa caucus. It’s
Over on the Iowa Law Blog . . . a helpful pointer on how to avoid the business divorce.
I am attending the Iowa State Bar Association’s eCommerce seminar tomorrow. The man formerly known as the sixth best law blogger in the world is one of the presenters. I am looking forward to Brett’s talk as he shares his Vegas Blogworld speech with the audience.
It got me thinking a little bit about how to improve
The deadline for filing claims in the Microsoft Iowa Class Action Settlement is December 14, 2007. If you have any questions about how to file a claim be sure to email the claims administrator at claimsadmin@iowamicrosoftcase.com.
For a recap of articles on the Microsoft Iowa case click here which includes one of my most
In the last blog post I picked on college football coaches and their exorborant salaries. But its probably not fair to pick on college coaches alone.
The Philadelphia Litigation Blog discusses how lawyers at large Manhattan firms are now charging $1,000 per hour or more. Superstar litigator, David Boies, sums it up pretty well:
Recently I have been discussing the rise in wage and hour litigation. See here and here.
According to the Department of Labor approximately 70 percent of businesses are out of compliance with wage and hour laws. That’s right – 70 percent! According to Shanti Atkins of the Compliance Training Blog, some experts believe
Last month I wrote on the rise of wage and hour litigation. In that post I talked about how I believe wage and hour issues are often misunderstood by employers which often results in misclassification of workers or possibly "off-the-clock" allegations where workers are not properly credited for time worked.
Yesterday, I heard the same
