Liz Overton of Sullivan & Ward, P.C. has a timely post on how employers should deal with the H1N1 virus.
While it’s true that employers are currently under no obligation to allow additional time off to employees who do not have available time off or have exhausted their available leave, I could easily see employers facing a tough dilemma about
A few weeks ago I posted on how your spouse could get you fired. Well, its not just your spouse you need to worry about. What about your kids?
A recent Family Circle article discussed how a teen’s post got her father fired. The father apparently could not get time off to attend his
Okay, you have decided you can do it on your own. You don’t need a lawyer to review your agreement (at least until the proverbial you know what hits the fan). But let me give you some MasterCard commercial-like "priceless" advice:
READ YOUR AGREEMENTS.
I am honestly not trying to be a smart aleck when
You’ve probably seen them in your contracts. Miscellaneous provisions such as choice of law, litigation venue, successors and assigns provisions, no waiver, entire understanding, or supersede clauses. They tend to always appear at the end of the contract and are almost always an afterthought by the parties. After all, those provisions don’t mean anything
A jury recently found a Union County Board of Supervisor, Mike King, not guilty of disorderly conduct after half hour of deliberation. Brick Gentry’s Matt Brick and Doug Fulton defended King in the case.
For details on the case please read Matt’s blog post regarding the intersection of employment law and criminal law.
Brett Trout, author of BlawgIT, offers his take on how you should navigate the Internet’s legal minefield in a recent post on IowaBiz.
Trout’s Cyberlaw: A Legal Arsenal for Online Business is a book I highly recommend if you currently operate (or plan to operate) an online business. It’s a great desk reference rather
Tiger Woods is the greatest golfer of his time. He was such a lock going into the weekend of the PGA Championship that an Irish bookmaker actually paid out the winnings on Tiger before the third round even started — oops! I’ll admit that I never could have imagined Y.E. Yang would actually pull it out for
A recent case reported in the Des Moines Register discusses how a handshake deal on the sale of a home went awry for a man that apparently invested over $100,000 in a home – only to learn the home was not his.
Actually there was a one-line agreement in this instance which read, "I Floyd
How Business Gets Done, Words of Wisdom from Central Iowa Experts has hit the virtual bookshelves at www.lulu.com. I am honored to be a contributing author with several respected peers in our business community. My chapter is on the Partnership Prenuptial where I discuss the importance of drafting a buy-sell agreement from the beginning
The case of Scott Janke, the former town manager of Fort Myers Beach, Florida has many people talking. It’s no ordinary employee termination. Janke was terminated because his wife is an adult entertainment star.
A good article on the subject comes via Jonathan Turley’s res ipsa loquitur blog. Turley’s blog has been included in
