Patent law reflects the manual inventive processes that inventors have used throughout the ages. The law, therefore, is already starting to break down in the face of automated inventing. We see this as patent law continues to grapple with computer ... more

If you fit any of the following profiles, you need to initiate a business valuation: • You have been solicited by your competition or a third party about your willingness to sell your business • You know it is time to begin serious estate planning • ... more

You receive the personal financial management certificate after you complete a debtor education course. You must complete the course to obtain your bankruptcy discharge. Most of the counselors that conduct the pre-filing counseling also conduct the ... more

Only lawyers and lawyer-mediators can draft binding mediated contracts for other people in Virginia. With a lawyer-mediator you get two professionals for the price of one. More importantly, when you and your spouse reach an agreement through the ... more

No. The lawyers, IRS, and the judges are not breaking the law by sending a person to jail, if a third party reported the payment of wages to the IRS, and the IRS came to collect the tax on those wages, and the person did not either pay the tax on ... more

Well, the City of Boston has gotten a lot of legal opinions over the years in their fruitless quest to sell our park. A more recent legal opinion solicited from one of the biggest law firms in Boston, Palmer & Dodge LLP, clearly states that this ... more

When a lender has a lien on your property, they have a right to take the property if you stop making payments. Lien stripping involves the reclassification of a second or third secured lein to unsecured. Once we are able to reclassify the lein as ... more

The Ortho Evra patch works the same way as oral birth control pills, except it is a thin plastic patch that adheres to the skin releasing a constant supply of hormones through the skin. These hormones are absorbed into the bloodstream and help ... more

An overdraft must, in general, be charged against the account of the depositor who wrote the overdraft check. However, problems have arisen with respect to overdrafts affecting a partnership and an individual partner. It has been held that a bank ... more

Born ca. 1564 and died ca. 1616 during the Renaissance period (1450-1599). One of the greatest writers of all time, Shakespeare, the peerless poet of the Sonnets and the creator of such dramatic masterpieces as Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and King ... more