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How to Still Achieve Maximum Productivity While Working Remotely In addition to the many personal and physical challenges the Covid-19 pandemic has introduced, none are more difficult than the way it has forced us to change how we do business. Never have we had to rely more on telecommuting, video collaboration, outsourcing, and other non-in-person...

Professional Legal Writing Preparation Learning and implementing a writing style and terminology in preparation of various types of legal documents can be difficult for many legal professionals. In this article there are a number of suggestions which may be very helpful. For those practitioners who find themselves spending more time researching and writing briefs than...

Five Important Healthy Work-Life Balance Tips The term “work-life balance” is something that you are hearing more and more about in modern society. Only a few generations ago, “work-life balance” was not a trending term and Americans mostly had clear separations between their home life and their work life.   Although “work ethic” has always been...

How Legal Outsourcing Can Improve Health & Wellness There are numerous benefits that legal professionals can receive from utilizing legal outsourcing services and delegating various aspects of their caseloads to qualified specialists. Legal outsourcing services work exclusively as support to other firms and individual attorneys. As law firms gain new business, the workload can be...

Most employers and employees know what “at-will employment” means.  Essentially, the “at-will” employment doctrine states that an employee can quit a job whenever they want, and an employer can also terminate an employee for any reason without notice or cause. What most employers and employees alike do not know is that there are generally four...

Republished: NY State Bar Association, Young Lawyers Section, Electronically In Touch e-newsletter  Legal compliance is a significant part of running any business. Even if you are an attorney who is a solo practitioner or you work for a small law firm that has only a few employees, it is imperative you or your business are...

Last Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, et. al, 137 S.Ct. 2290 (June 26, 2017). The case involves a Colorado baker’s refusal to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple, Charlie Craig and David Mullins. Although the baker stated he was...

The Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) is a law that was enacted in 1938 and guarantees a minimum wage for all hours worked. The Act also requires that an employee work no more than 40 hours per week. If an employee works more than 40 hours a week, the employer must pay additional compensation, referred...

Some may think that transgendered issues are novel and just now receiving public attention because it is the newest activist topic to pursue. But, that could not be further from the truth. There are historical accounts of the existence of transgendered people in American society as far back as the 1600s. There is evidence that...

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you are familiar with the protests that are taking place during NFL games- the “take a knee phenomenon.” The movement has gathered so much support that even some celebrities and public figures have posted photos while they are kneeling as a way of urging private citizens to support...

My parents always intimated that the ultimate measure of success is obtaining a job that is “secure.” You know…one of those good government jobs…with great benefits. My parents were born in the 1940s. Regarding livelihood, their attitudes were likely molded by THEIR parents-casualties of the Great Depression; victims of overt racial discrimination in the segregated...