Legal Drama

It’s a New Year with new seasons of our favorite TV shows. Too bad the legal dramas haven’t resolved to use realism in their scripts. The Good Wife just gets worse and worse. In one episode, a divorce lawyer framed a client’s husband to look like he was cheating. If that weren’t enough, the firm lied about having a copy of a signed document from the divorce case. After a frantic search, the lead divorce attorney surprised the rest of the firm by magically producing the document...

Attention Employers: NLRB postpones effective date...

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has again postponed the effective date for the “Notification of Employee Rights Under the National Labor Relations Act” (Requirement). The Requirement was originally to become effective on November 14, 2011; however, the effective date was pushed back to January 31, 2012, and again to April 30, 2012 because of ongoing litigation regarding the constitutionality of the Act. Under the Requirement, the vast majority of employers must conspicuously...