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Sep 1, 20102 min read
Overtime Pay Update
Under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), employers must pay an employee an overtime rate of at least one and one-half times the...
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Sep 1, 20102 min read
Choosing an Executor for Your Will
The designation of an executor for a will is one of the critical steps in effective estate planning. The executor will be the individual...
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Aug 16, 20102 min read
Sculptor Slays Government Goliath
Some 20 years ago, a World War II veteran and prominent sculptor won a government competition to sculpt a memorial to Korean War veterans...
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Aug 14, 20102 min read
Tax Credits for Historic Preservation
For over 30 years, the federal government has been using tax incentives to help preserve historic buildings. Originally, federal law...
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Aug 1, 20102 min read
MySpace, Students, and Free Speech
In separate cases, two public school students used MySpace to post disparaging comments about each of their principals. Each of the...
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Jul 1, 20102 min read
What Is an S Corporation?
An S corporation is a form of business classified for federal income tax purposes as a corporation that has elected to be taxed as a...
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Jun 1, 20101 min read
Car Dealers Clash with Website
In a variation on a familiar phrase, a federal trial court effectively has ruled that, in the context of a website posting customers’...
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May 1, 20103 min read
Real Estate Roundup
Lapsed Flood Insurance Hurricane Katrina destroyed Merlin’s house in August of 2005. About two weeks before Katrina hit, he had missed a...
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Apr 1, 20102 min read
Credit CARD Act
Recently, the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure Act of 2009 (the Credit CARD Act) went into effect. Congress saw...
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Mar 1, 20101 min read
E-Mailed Documents Allowed
Shortly before he left the employment of a residential treatment center for addicted persons, an employee e-mailed some of his employer’s...
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Feb 1, 20103 min read
Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments
The Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA), which went into effect last year, was a legislative response to U.S. Supreme...
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Jan 1, 20102 min read
Reliable and Free Legal Advice from the State Bar of California
An excellent and organized body of legal information highlights is available on the most popular areas of California Law that we want all...
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Dec 1, 20091 min read
FDIC Insurance Update
In October 2008, Congress increased the basic limit on federal deposit insurance coverage from $100,000 to $250,000. The limit is...
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Nov 25, 20092 min read
Charitable Remainder Trusts
As the name implies, a charitable remainder trust involves the transfer of assets to a trust with the income going to an individual or...
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Nov 15, 20092 min read
$200,000 for Identity Theft Victim
Nicole discovered that someone with a name very similar to hers had stolen her identity and opened fraudulent accounts in her name and...
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Nov 1, 20092 min read
Life Insurance Policy Rescinded
A business executive was answering questions for an application for a $3 million life insurance policy that named as the beneficiary a...
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Oct 1, 20092 min read
Bonus Plan May Trigger Overtime
The federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) provides that employers may not require their employees to work more than 40 hours per...
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Sep 1, 20093 min read
Caregiver Bias in Employment
Today, it is commonplace for workers to handle both work and caregiving responsibilities for spouses and children, parents and other...
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Oct 11, 20081 min read
Our Economy and the Wisdom of Thomas Jefferson
I recently wrote an email to clients and made known my frustration with the fact that neither Candidate for President voiced the obvious...
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Oct 3, 20081 min read
Bicycle Safety
When a car or truck has a collision with a bicycle, the bicycle rider usually loses, no matter who legally had the right of way. Bicycle...
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