If you’re a lawyer, do you get happy when you hear about yet another lawsuit opportunity. There’s always plenty of work for lawyers, since there’s always reasons to sue. Telephones are harmless, aren’t they? The iPhone and other smartphones are designed to make our lives easier and mobile and more convenient. Not to mention the [...]
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Amid the controversy about the proposed mosque at ground zero in New York near the site of the World Trade Center devastation, Americans are once again pondering the question: Is Islam a religion of peace? Their Moslem holy book called Quran, Koran, Qur’ān, Coran or al-Qur’ān provides guidelines for on how Sharia Law should be [...]
The short answer is yes…Marijuana can be legally sold as a business. Of course, there are state laws and federal laws against and about the growing and selling of weed. But, medicinal use of marijuana is legal in some states. And someone has to supply it…Sound like a good business idea? Check out the blog [...]
Plaintiffs law firms are spending money and time on websites and social media in marketing efforts that are beginning to take the place of more traditional ads. Potential clients are increasingly targeted through websites set up to resemble community forums or news boards, the Wall Street Journal (sub. req.) reports. The story starts with an [...]
Saying that it was crippled by a lack of cash flow from unpaid government-funded representations, the United Kingdom’s biggest immigration law firm has failed, leaving some 10,000 cases in limbo. The U.K.’s Ministry of Justice refused calls by legal experts and the Archbishop of Canterbury to intervene and shore up Refugee and Migrant Justice, and [...]
Did you know there were Green Crimes? When I hear about crime rates in various cities, I would never think of law breakers as being environmental movement proponents. I was shocked to find out that some of them are. Crimes of passion; passion about going green and saving the earth. But “Green” crimes, though they [...]
A willingness to be flexible about hourly billing rates and an eat-what-you-kill compensation structure has proven profitable for former BigLaw attorneys now practicing in the “Philadelphia” office of Chamberlain Hrdlicka. The office, which actually is located in Conshohocken, Penn., in the Philadelphia suburbs, resulted from a parting of the ways between partners Philip Karter and [...]
Anyone doing anything online has probably used Google. If you’re a business, you want to be found on Google. And once your customer, client, prospect or even competitor finds you on the internet, you want the Google results for your company to be good. By good I mean both accurate and positive. One of the [...]
As crude oil continues gushing into the Gulf of Mexico at a record-breaking rate from an undersea BP well, frustration with the situation is building. A little over a month after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and burned, killing 11 workers, it appears that a combination of factors ranging from shortcuts taken in the [...]