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Raleigh, NC—My colleague asked me to read a passage for accuracy. The passage mentioned homeowners. When I reviewed the passage, I changed “homeowners” to “property owners” and highlighted “property owners.” When my colleague sent me a revised paragraph to check ...

Tagged with: Real Estate

Employers who do substance abuse testing need to be comfortable talking about employee body parts and, well, liquid waste. Nearly all employment-related drug testing is done using a urine specimen, generally with the types of tests that courts have called ...

Tagged with: Health & Wellness

Winning quarterbacks learn to read defenses, score touchdowns and win games by running hundreds of plays and throwing thousands of passes every year. As with muscular and even intellectual skill, our brains also learn emotions and form our own idiosyncratic ...

Tagged with: Litigation Support

Current estimates from the wireless communications industry boast that, of 234 million active cell phones in the U.S., approximately 20 percent are “smart phones.” Their growing popularity has created another opportunity for thieves to gain access to your confidential data. ...

Tagged with: Technology

A common expectation in the legal field is that deteriorating economic conditions will cause a rise in litigation as employees are laid off, margins become tighter and stressed companies fail to perform obligations. However, in the current recession, the expected ...

Tagged with: ADR

With the New Year come resolutions. He who fails to plan, plans to fail. So, we resolve to do better, plan better, make better choices, spend our time more wisely, and to take better care of ourselves and others. No ...

Tagged with: Health & Wellness

A bill that exempts estates smaller than $5 million ($10 million for married couples) from the federal estate tax, and creates a maximum estate tax rate of 35 percent, has passed the House and Senate and is expected to be ...

Tagged with: Wills & Trusts

Savvy attorneys are using technology to speed settlement talks and mediation sessions. Many attorneys come to trial with flashy PowerPoint presentations, but will sit down at ADR sessions with only pens and paper. That’s changing, however, as attorneys realize that ...

Tagged with: ADR Technology

BALTIMORE – The National Football League has made curtailing helmet-to-helmet hits a priority, increasing fines and threatening suspensions for blows to the head as part of a midseason crackdown. But the league takes a different position when it comes to ...

This is one of the most important factors that can affect the way you structure your portfolio and your overall financial plan. Yet it is also one of the most difficult to quantify. There is no universally accepted way of ...

Tagged with: Wealth Management