As an undergraduate at West Point, I was a Spanish and Portuguese major. My Brazilian “thing” had already started a decade earlier as a ten year old growing up in the Panama Canal Zone seeing Pele play for his Brazilian team Santos along with hearing...
Most personal injury cases never go to trial. Typically, injury claims are settled with the insurance company and defendants. Sometimes, an arbitrator decides the outcome in a quasi-judicial proceeding. There is a good chance, therefore, that you...
On April 7, a highly anticipated opinion was issued by New Jersey District Court Judge Esther Salas in a case that will likely have broad implications in the realms of privacy and data security. The case in question is FTC v. Wyndham Worldwide Corp....
Three U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) agencies, the Office for the National Coordinator for Health IT (“ONC”), in conjunction with the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) and the Office of the General Counsel (“OGC”), have released a...
There appears to be no shortage of advertising for testosterone products for men to relieve low sex drive and fatigue. But these products remain without any warning on the product labels despite a recent study that showed the risk of heart attack is...
As many of you know, all businesses worldwide are facing the opportunities and perils of a vast expansion of internet domain names. The Solar Industry is on the front row of this new domain name game with a generic top-level domain name all its own -...
Accounting firms often use post-employment restrictive covenants to prevent their clients and employees from being poached by departing partners and employees. As the number of accountants moving between firms has started to pick up again, so too has...
Texas is the second largest surplus lines insurance market in the United States, collecting over $4 billion in premiums annually. Surplus lines insurance is important as it can provide insurance to those whose needs are not met by the...
Two recently published books make the claim that the legal profession has changed (Steven Harper’s The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession in Crisis) or is changing (Richard Susskind’s Tomorrow’s Lawyers: An Introduction to Your Future). The books are...
Non-profit organizations, which are exempt from federal income tax under Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)(3) (each a “Tax- Exempt Organization”), may find it necessary or beneficial for their operational goals to enter into various relationships...
