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Last Entry: May 08, 2008 at 19:34:55

Teen Girls the subject of Sexual Harassment

Posted on May 08, 2008
On our employment law blog, Attorney Michael Goldstein has posted a very interesting article regarding sexual harassment in the workplace and how the practice of such has shifted from adults to part-time teenage employees. It demonstrates how retail stores, restaurants and other outlets found in the malls throughout the country need to be more proactive [...

Bankruptcy relief from student loans

Posted on April 18, 2008
Although this blog primarily deals with cyber law and small business issues, many of our readers and subjects of blog articles come from a place where they have amassed immense student loans. As such, one of our attorney?s, Michael Goldstein has drafted a very poignant article on our Massachusetts Bankruptcy Blog detailing, bankruptcy relief [...

How business owners can obtain a prejudgement attachement

Posted on March 20, 2008
An attachment is a prejudgment security device available to a creditor seeking to recover money damages and is used to encumber the debtor’s property during the pendency of the lawsuit. Mass. R. Civ. P. 4.1. Among the types of property subject to attachments are real property, personal property (including liquor licenses), and property of the [...

Boston Globe Reports: AG charges mortgage broker with fraud

Posted on March 11, 2008
Kimberly Blanton of The Boston Globe reported on March 8, 2008 that the Massachusetts attorney general filed suit yesterday against a Quincy mortgage broker, charging the firm with falsifying applications from customers to ensure they would qualify for loans...

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Wrongful Termination claim barred by failure to advise bankruptcy court

Posted on February 22, 2008
Each year millions of Americans file for chapter 7 or 13 bankruptcy protection in order to eliminate unsecured debt, including large credit card balances, or in order to stop a foreclosure on their home. What these debtor?s don?t realize, is that not only do they need to put the bankruptcy trustee on notice of [...

Federal Courts Acknowledge Online Propensity

Posted on February 17, 2008
On December 1, 2007, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure received several updates, demonstrating the Federal Courts acknowledgement of the impact of online activity in our daily lives. Several rules were modified to include technological vernacular...

Massachusetts Jurisdiction over Internet-based companies

Posted on February 02, 2008
If an individual conducts business over the internet with a web-based company and the parties enter into an agreement, and the company either breaches the agreement or commits some form of fraudulent or deceptive business practice with the buyer, can the buyer sue the company in his or her home state? The issue become [...

Why you should not incorporate in Delaware.

Posted on December 27, 2007
Recently I was reading a blog entry by another blogger who I read frequently, and came across a posting, 5 top reasons?s to incorporate in Delaware. In this blog posting, many positive facets are discussed, including Delaware?s flexible and in many cases advantageous corporate laws, including added privacy for business owners and inexpensive filing [...

What a new business should look for in a SEO proposal

Posted on December 23, 2007
As an attorney with many small business clients creating their first websites, I am frequently asked to analyze a website?s searchability and potential for rankings on Google, Yahoo, MSN and other search portals. I find that using a professional search engine optimization expert is critical in analyzing a client’s potential...

Private Info Can?t Be Published on Internet

Posted on December 20, 2007
A very interesting press release that I read today regarding private information being broadcast on the internet: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Tuesday, December 13, 2007 00:01 Contact: Glenn Hagele Mobile: 916/203-2442 Email: glenn.hagele@usaeyes.org Documents: http://www...

Can My Employer read My Email?

Posted on December 03, 2007
An employee should never assume that they?re emails that are sent and received, are kept in complete privacy from their employers. Under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) it provides for implied authorization to review employee emails, and that a company should state their policy of monitoring e-mails in the company handbook...

Seperation of Blog Categories

Posted on November 17, 2007
In an attempt to better serve our blog readers, the authors at E-legal lawyer have created a new blog on our site that will serve employment law articles. To that end, this blog will now reflect our original mission which is to provide information on cyber law and other internet legal issues facing small businesses...

Internet Jurisdiction ? Can you Sue from Home?

Posted on November 11, 2007
If you purchase an item on a small business website, but the product you receive does not conform to the specifications as indicated on the merchants website, what can you do? Can you file litigation in your home state, or must you sue them where the company is headquartered? Moreover, do you [...

Promoting your blog

Posted on October 24, 2007
In all the clutter of commercial web sites, blogs, social networking and more, it is becoming increasingly difficult for a small business to complete for high search ranking. Moreover, it is difficult to get your message out to the masses where your client’s can learn of your expertise...

A remarkable new book on cyber law

Posted on October 20, 2007
Recently, I was turned onto a great new book detailing some of the hottest legal topics surrounding businesses entering the online environment, particularly those companies who either use the Internet to market or conduct some form of commerce. This book is Brett Trout’s, A legal arsenal for online business...

The IRS announces an e-mail scam

Posted on August 24, 2007
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) posted a warning on their web site recently about an e-mail scam affecting Federal tax payers. The warning alerts tax payers to be vigilant against an email with the subject line: “Tax Avoidance Investigation”...

Growth of Cyber Law

Posted on July 30, 2007
As technology grows each day, conducting business on the Internet becomes increasingly more complicated from a legal standpoint. There are many issues to consider from intellectual property rights such as patents, copy right and trademark law, to secure transactions and contractual language found in terms of service and web site user agreements, the small [...

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