In Good Practice
By Kerrie Spencer, staff writer – August 31, 2011 Losing a loved one due to the error of a surgeon and physician’s assistant is a devastating reality no one should have to go through. This particularly difficult case involves a 61-year-old woman who suddenly died five days after heart surgery. It was unexpected, and her…
Continue readingBy Krystina Steffen, staff In Good Practice writer – August 24, 2011 States have laws that must be applied when police search a car or a home, including obtaining a warrant to legally search these places. But with new lawsuits emerging in cases where police are searching and confiscating cellphones, it brings up a new…
Continue readingBy Krystina Steffen, staff In Good Practice writer – July 20, 2011 Rein in the Environmental Protection Agency or turn back the clock 40 years? The House of Representatives passed H.R.2018, the Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act of 2011, on July 13. [1] The bill lets states decide water quality actions and strips federal efforts…
Continue readingBy Krystina Steffen, staff In Good Practice writer – May 24, 2011 The Everglades are a meandering chain of sawgrass marshes, forested uplands and freshwater ponds that provide a habitat for birds, fish, wildlife, and a diversity of unique plants. The River of Grass, as it is called, is also critical to the state’s tourism…
Continue readingBy Krystina Steffen, staff In Good Practice writer – April 19, 2011 How the law creates, regulates and strengthens art is a layer of the art world that is rarely shown. From the artists themselves to buyers and sellers, museum directors and claimants in court cases, the intersection of the law and art is as…
Continue readingBy Krystina Steffen, staff In Good Practice writer – March 23, 2011 The four Hollywood stars of E! Entertainment’s “Fashion Police” might have some new targets to go after if New York Sen. Charles Schumer’s proposed legislation for fashion designers, The Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act, is passed this year. The bill was…
Continue readingBy Ren LaForme, guest columnist for ‘In Good Practice’ – January 21, 2011 As one of the most prolific CEOs in the business world, Steven P. Jobs has led Apple Inc. on a journey of Sisyphean proportions. Apple’s stock (Nasdaq: AAPL) was essentially worthless in 1997 when Jobs retook the CEO position of the company…
Continue readingBy Ren LaForme, guest columnist for ‘In Good Practice’ – November 23, 2010 The Transportation Safety Administration is feeling some turbulence over a new technology it has installed in airports across the country. Websites like optoutday.com have sprung up to encourage people to opt out of receiving body scans that peer through clothing, and the…
Continue readingBy John Majeski, staff writer, In Good Practice column – October 27, 2010 Ten million dollars in punitive damages. That’s the amount a federal court jury in Sacramento says Corrections USA, a California-based coalition of prison guard unions, is owed by one of the most politically powerful prison guard unions in the state, the California…
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