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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Medical malpractice is negligence committed by a professional health care provider—a doctor, nurse, dentist, dental office or staff, pathologist, neurologist, oncologist, cardiologist, toxicologist, pharmacologist, technician, nursing home or staff, ... more
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The tobacco deal is no different from many other deals negotiated by plaintiff's lawyers, except for its size. Attorneys who have brought suit to recover state and federal Medicaid expenditures will get contingency fees of between 3 and 33 percent, ... more
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Lawyers who represent a class for money damages are generally paid out of the recovery. Attorney fee awards are subject to court review and approval. Twenty-five percent is a typical amount, although the award may be adjusted higher or lower by the ... more
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