Interesting article from MSNBC about the pressures that employees face when their employers ask them to return to work from Family and Medical Leave before they are ready: “Many workers . . . have faced this conundrum [of being pressured to return to work early from leave], and it’s only gotten worse during this economic [...]
The Importance of Mediation
In lieu of a more substantive post, I offer this quote from the great Irish statesman, Edmund Burke: “All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.” Let me know if I can help you resolve your case through mediation or arbitration.
Top 25 Blawgs
The Minnesota Bar Associate’s Practice Law Blog is trying to identify the Top 25 Minnesota Blawgs (Legal Blogs). I’d appreciate your nomination if you are so inclined.
Knowing when it’s time to leave your law firm
This article in the Legal Intelligencer probably falls in the “duh” category, but I link to it as a public service to all of my law firm readers. According to Molly Peckman, director of associate development at Dechert , you know it’s time to leave your firm when: You start drinking on the job [...]
Hewlett-Packard’s Board: Inept, spineless or both?
I thought this article by Joe Nocera from Saturday’s New York Times on the Mark Hurd/Hewlett Packard fiasco was really interesting. As you will recall, Hurd was the CEO of HP before he was fired for fudging his expense reports in order to hide his relationship with Jodie Fisher, a former soft-core porn actress [...]
Dealing with alcoholic employees
One issue that makes employers very nervous is dealing with employees who have problems with alcohol. A new decision by a federal district court judge in St. Paul will help to clarify an employer’s obligations. The plaintiff in the case, Buzzard v. Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad Company, has a long history of chronic [...]
How to be entrepreneurial
Coming hard on the heels of the post on how to be happy, here is a great list from Jay Goltz,a small business owner in Chicago, on how to be a successful entrepreneur: 1. Look for opportunities to do something better than just about everyone else. 2. Accept risk as a necessary evil. It makes for [...]