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:
One couldn’t help but notice the carnage at the end of college football’s regular season. Coaches everywhere were fired or forced out. Some of those coaches even had winning records. Even the coach at my Division III alma mater didn’t survive the past few seasons of mediocrity.
Are college football fans just nuts or have these coaches created the
I love this post from New York business lawyer Imke Ratschko regarding the best practices in executing a contract.
Her tips (and my comments):
If you get the chance you should catch the Iowa Energy NBA D-League basketball team in action. The franchise played their first home game at Wells Fargo Arena last night after two road victories over Dakota the pre-season favorite. The home season started out on a high note with the Energy notching an exciting 101-98 victory
Kyle Kruidenier provides a good reminder for landlords over on the Iowa Law Blog.
Rick Georges of Futurelawyer shares a little Thanksgiving humor with his Top Ten Reasons There Weren’t Any Lawyers on the Mayflower.
Thanks for reading this blog. I appreciate it. I wish you a happy Thanksgiving and a wonderful holiday season.
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
I read an interesting report regarding the Yankees’ negotiations with Alex Rodriguez. Apparently the Oracle of Omaha provided some advice that Rodriguez should contact the Yankees without his super agent Scott Boras. With the assistance of two Goldman Sachs executives Rodriguez negotiated his $275 million, 10 year deal with the Yankees.
It was a
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
Thought I would share this article from Seeds of Growth following up on Mark Cuban’s talk at Blogworld.
Remember: In business, you only need to be right once to be a success.
Did you know that a certain Central Iowa patent attorney also appeared at Blogworld? Quite a feather in Brett’s cap.
