Companies spend lots of money these days on their website design. For many businesses, their website is their only portal to obtain new clients; for others, its a large part of their marketing strategy; and for the rest its at least their company’s main presence on the web. So its perfectly understandable that a business […]
In most states in the Union, including NY where I primarily practice, the concept of allowing jurors to take notes and even ask questions is gaining in popularity. Most federal courts allow juror note-taking but not juror questioning of witnesses. Having recently tried a lengthy civil trial where the jury was allowed to both take […]
The acquittal of George Zimmerman may make me very uncomfortable, but it was inevitable. This case says less about racial equality and racial profiling in America than it says about the State of Florida and its criminal justice system. Here are some quick thoughts on why this verdict was rendered: (1) the Government overcharged the […]
When Miss Pennsylvania 2012 was hit with a $5 Million judgment for stating that the 2012 Miss USA pageant was rigged, it was not just her choice of words that landed her in hot water, it was her choice of lawyer. That’s what Judge J. Paul Oetken, of NY’s Southern District Federal Court, ruled yesterday […]
A few days ago, two interns who had worked at NBC Universal filed a Federal lawsuit against the company claiming that NBC violated the Fair Labor Standards Act by failing to pay them any wages during their respective internships. One plaintiff, Jesse Moore, interned at MSNBC in 2011; the other, Monet Eliastam interned at Saturday […]
We can always count on the glorious state of Texas to bring us the extremes of the criminal justice system: executing a man with a 61 IQ, for example. And now from Polk County Texas comes a story that a judge was texting a prosecutor a line of questioning in the middle of a trial, […]
In a blog post a few days back, I criticized the way the prosecutors were handling the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin case. I thought that this was a case that was very winnable for the State if they kept it simple - unarmed kid walking home from a store minding his own business and confronted and […]
On this July 4th let’s remember what is the founding credo and guiding principle upon which these United States are based: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of […]
OK, so the eyes of the nation (at least those without daytime jobs) are all on the George Zimmerman trial. I am not a fan of cameras in the courtroom as a general rule but I just caught a few snippets of what is transpiring and I am a little shocked at how the prosecution […]
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