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County Attorney Andrew Thomas issued a press release this week announcing that his office has filed the state’s first employer sanctions case, a civil complaint against an employer accused of…

Yet another example of an employee believing that his statements published for the world to see online are somehow anonymous or not subject to his employer’s scrutiny.

wouldn’t kill you to take a break. Really. I know we got this “nose to the grindstone” culture going. But there is some rationale for taking breaks. Basically, the mind starts to wind down about 3 p.m., and it becomes hard to keep up the mental pace that gets you through the day.

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A growing number of businesses are making Facebook an indispensible part of hanging out their shingles. Small businesses are using it to find new customers, build online communities of fans and dig into gold mines of demographic information.  Businesses can easily create a Web presence with Facebook, even if they don’t have their own Web site.  Here’s how.

Does cloud computing compromise clients? Writer and lawyer Nicole Black predicts that within about two to three years, lawyers in most jurisdictions will communicate and collaborate with clients using some type of an encrypted network. A number of states, including Massachusetts and Nevada, already have passed laws or regulations requiring certain types of confidential data to be sent electronically only via encrypted communications. More laws of that nature most certainly will follow, both at the state and federal level.  Read more…

The New York Times had a really excellent article last week about how difficult it is in this country for seniors who need a job.  Nearly half a million workers 65 and older want to work but cannot…

Above the Law is one of the nation’s foremost chroniclers of the wackiness of the American legal system. And now Above the Law is an involuntary participant in a lawsuit that demonstrates the wackiness of the American legal system — and the American legal academy.

We’ve all encountered those perky, high-energy parents always smiling, laughing and running around with their kids. These are the same parents who even have time to do things for themselves. All this, while you were just starting to feel proud of yourself for getting the kids up, fed and out the door before noon….

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