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Mentoring Programs: Why They Don't Work
This post is for professional service firms who are thinking of starting a mentoring program or who have one and are wondering why it's not a brilliant success. Assigning mentors doesn't work...

Internal Mentoring Programs: The Wrong Approach
This post is for professional service firms who are thinking of starting a mentoring program or who have one and are wondering why it's not a brilliant success. Assigning mentors doesn't work...

January Is National Mentoring Month
... And, Harvard School of Public Health Center for Health Communication (what a mouth full) runs The Harvard Mentoring Project (much easier to say). National Mentoring Month is a collaborative, public-private initiative sponsored by nonprofit organizations, media companies, and government agencies...

Ohio Mentor Program
The Ohio Supreme Court has announced a new mentoring program that will match experienced lawyers with newly-admitted members of the Ohio Bar: The Lawyer to Lawyer Mentoring Program is a one-year voluntary program for new lawyers designed to help ease...

Required Mentoring for New Lawyers- What Do You Think
According to this article, the Florida Supreme Court's Commission on Professionalism recently adopted a recommendation that would require every lawyer admitted to the Florida Bar - 2000 of them annually - to obtain a mentor during the first year of practice...

Golden on Mentoring.
Mentoring can be ugly or rewarding--and even euphoric. It depends on whether you plan it and tweak it right. See Michelle Golden's "Internal Mentoring Programs: The Wrong Approach" at her Golden Practices.

Senior Abuse
Avamere senior home to pay $904,200 settlement in eldercare lawsuit.

Kentucky lawyers
fraud case ends in mistrial.

Senior Awarded $7.75 Million in Nursing Home Abuse Lawsuit
Senior Awarded $7.75 Million in Nursing Home Abuse Lawsuit

Windsor Healthcare Management
allegedly provided substandard care and neglected the rights of its senior residents.

John Vermillion and Associates LLC et al.
allegedly misrepresented themselves as qualified financial advisers to sell living trusts and exploit senior citizens.

Convicted Caretakers
Senior care center agrees to $175,000 settlement in false advertising lawsuit.