One of the first things any law school student will learn in what is usually a 2L Legal Drafting course is that punctuation, grammar, and sentence structure really do matter. I remember my professor telling us that the placement of a single comma affected whether the plaintiff in a case would be given a $2+ […]
What if you opened up your browser, surfed over to Google.com, and while you were typing in your name into the Google search box, the words “rapist”, “satanist”, and “prison” were produced as suggestions? You might laugh off the error, but what if you are somebody whose reputation and/or business is affected by people searching […]
The University of South Carolina and University of Southern California have had their fair share of battles this year. Both schools have mostly defeated the competition, each with only one loss thus far this season. The two schools have also had to deal with NCAA scrutiny. Southern California has a 2-year bowl ban, 4 years’ […]
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All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, […]
When you think of lawyer, do you think of someone who is Jewish? That would be called a stereotype, and while there is nothing wrong with you thinking that way, is there something wrong with playing up on the idea that Jewish attorneys are more desirable than non-Jewish attorneys? The Jewish American Bar Association is […]
Earlier this week, Sports Agent Blog referenced a lawsuit between Chad Morton and Leigh Steinberg and many of his companies and affiliates. While that post is largely focused on a man named David Meltzer and a company called Sports 1 Marketing, this post will look at the pending lawsuit itself, and scrap out the facts […]
Roughly a week ago, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decided that vacant unlicensed spectrum between TV channels will be open for use by wireless devices. Not too long ago, low-quality spectrum was freed up by the FCC, which became unlicensed spectrum. That decision lead to the creation of Wi-Fi. Could the new release of unlicensed […]
A no-poach agreement is just slightly different than a non-compete agreement. A majority of states permit employers to place non-compete clauses in employer contracts and even have standalone non-compete agreements with employees that are separate from the employment contracts that are executed. California is known as being one of the few states that rarely permits a […]
While many are talking and writing about AOL Inc.’s purchase of TechCrunch for a reported $40 million dollars, another tech story was published today, which displays another young tech company’s growth in a short amount of time. MySpace, a service that once rivaled Facebook in capturing the attention of young people (it was not always […]
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“I never tried to prove nothing, just wanted to give a good show. My life has always been my music, it’s always come first, but the music ain’t worth nothing if you can’t lay it on the public. The main thing is to live for that audience, ’cause what you’re there for is to please […]