Social Media – Trashing a Business Isn’t Without Repercussions

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Social Media – Trashing a Business Isn’t Without Repercussions
Years ago a world renowned inventor hyped his new invention and said it would be a life changer for everyone – that cities would have to be redesigned to accommodate his futuristic invention and that this device would be the most significant change in our lives to date. This device would be indispensable, and we’d all have one or two in our household. The inventor was Dean Kamen, and the invention turned out to be the Segway. Don’t you own one? Yeah, it was an overall dud unless Read More +

Will Your Family Physician See You After Your Car Wreck?

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Will Your Family Physician See You After Your Car Wreck
So, you’ve been in a car crash and you’re achy and sore. You didn’t go to an emergency room because you knew you didn’t have any broken bones, internal injuries or bleeding. Will your long term family doctor now see you to assess the injuries? Well, of course, my family doctor will see me. Why wouldn’t he? I’ve been a patient for years! There’s about a 50-50 chance your primary care physician will want nothing to do with you after a crash. Is it because they can’t Read More +

To Shred or Not to Shred…..*

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Many businesses and even households are going paperless by storing documents on CDs or DVDs. What to do with the old paperwork? The questions arises, do I have to shred everything? Some businesses have so much paperwork that they have to hire these mobile shredding trucks to come out and just mulch it all up en masse rather than stand there feeding each piece of paper into the loud shredder which inevitably jams on the 6th inserted document. Is this really necessary? Actually, the reason Read More +

What Not To Wear To Court

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A court of law is not the Casino at the Monte Carlo. Tuxes and evening dresses are not required. What is required is common sense. But here are two quick stories about what happens when you dress inappropriately for Court: First, I was in Small Claims Court before it was in session: We were all waiting to be called when a woman appeared looking confused. She was obviously subpoenaed to be there because she was holding a court pleading with this address, courtroom and time. Read More +

This Graduation Season and the Power of the Media

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Congratulations High School Grads! Every year around now I think of a creative way I helped out a client in a unique way that was both satisfying and fun… “Kate” was a single mother of twin girls and she pretty much lived for these girls. She sacrificed just about everything to give them all the privileges that weren’t afforded to her as a mother on welfare. The most important priority for Kate was their education and it paid off. Each girl was talented enough to Read More +

No, Not Every State Allows a “No-Contest” Clause in a Will – Florida Doesn’t….

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Recently, I was listening to a national cable show and their estatexpert for the day was an estate planner. Prattling on about how you don’t really need a lawyer to do your own estate planning, he advised going to a website and downloading a Will form, and added, don’t forget to put a “No-Contest” clause in your Will. “That way, if Junior ever contests his share from your Will, he won’t get a penny!” He went on to say, “All states allow a No-Contest Clause Read More +