Criminal Law

US News Law Rankings 2010 Start to Leak: Fordham Ranked Third in Evening Programs
We've been eagerly awaiting the arrival of the US News rankings in the faculty lounge...

Law Schools with January Start Dates
Some of my clients have been asking me about their options if they want to start law school in January 2009 instead of Fall 2009...

Planning for 2010
Planning for 2010, the year when there is no estate tax, raises some interesting moral, legal, and ethical issues...

Planning to Die in 2010
Under current law, there will be no estate tax for individuals who die in 2010. Accordingly, some wealthy individuals may plan for their demise to occur during 2010...

McCain/Palin to YouTube: Get real
The McCain/Palin campaign has written a fantastic letter to YouTube demanding that they start getting real about the response they're giving to notice and take-down demands of material that "are clearly privileged under the fair use doctrine...

Vanocuver 2010 Olympic Games and London 2012 Olympic Games
The legal and practical difficulties of stopping people from using the English language as intended (e...

Get Your H-1B Cases Ready Now To File On April 1 for October 1, 2007 Start Date
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will begin a...

USCIS Reminds Employers To Start Using New I-9 Form
Yesterday, USCIS issued a reminder to employers about the new I-9 ...

Can a former employee use photographs of jobs completed whie working for me in marketing material for a new business?
There are several issues here

1. Sub contractor started up a compe...

I am going through a child support hearing soon and I have a daughter with my ex wife. My new wife has 2 children whom moved to tennessee with her nearly 3 years ago and I provide 80 to 90% of care and support for them d
No you can't the judge is not gonna care if you are paying to take care of ...

My grandmother-in-law came to US for a short visit on a visitor visa for tourism. Due to some complications we had to take her to hospital in emergency. She was in hospital for 13 days & had a pacemaker put in. My granny
Having collections experience for over ten years, I can say that you are in no w...

My father is aging. We both agree we need to secure property that has been in the family well over sixty years. The problem is my uncle name was previously on the property who is now deceased and also took out two loa
buy the house from him . that would pay the old loan and title the property to y...

What type of legal issues are there if one was to start selling crafts online (through a site or auction service) and/or from home? ie. How would you have to make before having to filing taxes and any other problems that
Since hobby expenses are deductible only to the extent of hobby income, it is im...

Wrong Bus
Greenbrier County Board of Education agrees to $15,000 negligence settlement after dropping a 5-year-old off at the wrong spot.