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Ask the No Nonsense Lawyer about doing business in Greater China: an interview with Nicholas V. Chen on July 22

Posted on July 08, 2009
Doing business outside of your home country always presents a special challenge. Besides language and cultural barriers, you may also encounter unexpected legal hurdles. The rule of law may be less developed than you’re used to. Contracts may be viewed as more fluid and less enforceable than you’re used to, and concepts you may take [...

Patents and legal leverage

Posted on July 01, 2009
Today’s Wall Street Journal has an interesting article about how Toyota is leveraging it’s investment in product development with patents. More specifically, Toyota has been diligently patenting the inventions resulting from the engineering developments associated with its best-selling hybrid Prius brand automobile...

Jersey Boys stole my heart

Posted on June 29, 2009
The past few years I’ve been to NYC I’ve been unable to get tickets to the Broadway show Jersey Boys, the story about the rise to success of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. When the Broadway South series recently brought the show to Raleigh, NC my husband surprised me with tickets for my birthday...

Smart cost saving move

Posted on June 23, 2009
A tip of the hat goes to the law firm of Howrey LLP who announced a new apprenticeship type program for new associates. More specifically, program aims to train the novice lawyers on the firms’ dime, not the clients’. That’s great news for client budgets ...

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Outrageous arbitration award ? $4.1 billion

Posted on June 18, 2009
In a classic example of what not to do, fellow blogger Michael D. Young tells how iFreedom Communications International Holdings Ltd wound up with a whopping $4.1 billion arbitration award against it in a case involving the termination of a senior level employee without cause...

Are Strippers Independent Contractors?

Posted on June 16, 2009
Wage and hour claims have been on the rise and among the latest claims to be filed is a class action against a strip club outside of Minneapolis alleging the entertainers have been misclassified as independent contractors. It remains to be seen whether Minnesota will follow the court and labor commission rulings of Alaska, California, Oregon [...

Employment law is hotter than ever

Posted on June 14, 2009
Wage and hour litigation is at all time highs. The Department of Labor estimates that more than 70% of all employers out of compliance with wage and hour laws. A shaky economy has employers reducing their workforce and looking for alternate means of reducing labor costs...

Your partner: Uncle Sam?

Posted on June 14, 2009
Our government impacts business through legislation and regulation. It creates the legal playing field that all legitimate businesses operate on. When companies cross the foul lines and Uncle Sam prosecutes, the government may elect to become your business partner and help you nurse your business back to compliance through the use of deferred prosecution agreements, as AIG discovered [...

Quote of the day: business strategy

Posted on June 10, 2009
Litigation . . . is a matter of business strategy. Kazumi Kuriyama, general manager of Pioneer’s intellectual property unit as quoted in “Asian Electronics Makers Waging All-Out Patent War,” June 10, 2009. A flat-screen TV typically contains memory, image-processing chips and technologies from multiple companies...

Privacy Piracy with Mari Frank on KUCI 88.9 FM

Posted on June 09, 2009
Please join me tomorrow evening, JUNE 10TH, 5-6 PM Pacific Time (8-9PM Eastern), on KUCI 88.9 FM in Irvine, CA and audio streaming on WWW.KUCI.ORG ( http://www.kuci.org/ ) when I’m interviewed by PRIVACY PIRACY host, MARI FRANK. Among the questions I’ll answer are: 1...

Ask the No Nonsense Lawyer Interviews New York Super Lawyer Elise Bloom on June 16th

Posted on June 04, 2009
I am delighted to announce that on the next edition of Ask the No Nonsense Lawyer, I will be interviewing New York Super Lawyer Elise Bloom, a partner at the NY firm of Proskauer Rose, LLP where she specializes in a wide range of labor and employment issues...

The MBA Oath: promises, promises

Posted on June 03, 2009
It’s nice to see ethics and corporate social responsibility rising to the top of MBA student agenda. In case you missed it, the NY Times recently reported that nearly 20% of the graduating class at Harvard Business School had signed The MBA Oath...

New era of hard comparison advertising carries legal risk

Posted on May 28, 2009
Aggressive comparison advertising is on the rise. Just last week, for example, Sara Lee sued Oscar Mayer over a hotdog ad that implied a certain type of Oscar Mayer frank beat the entire Ball Park Frank product line in a national taste test. With everyone fighting tooth and nail for customers and market share, I thought [...

Quote of the day: focusing on the big picture

Posted on May 27, 2009
We were concerned about the possible disruption to our business and more importantly to our customers. Qualcomm General Counsel Donald Rosenberg, commenting on Qualcomm’s decision to pay rival Broadcom Corp $891 million over four years to settle a patent case over handset technology...

The dog fight

Posted on May 25, 2009
It’s Memorial Day, the unofficial start of summer and the livin’ is supposed to be easy - sandy beaches, shady hammocks, and cookouts filled with grillin’ goodies, including lots of hotdogs. Unfortunately, the two biggest hot dog-makers are headed to court for a dog fight...

The reluctant juror

Posted on May 20, 2009
What’s your first response when you get that jury duty notice in the mail? Are you eager to step up to your civic duty? Or do you bemoan the fact and try to get yourself excused? I’m not here to judge your reaction. But I do want to share with you what happened to one young [...

Quote of the day: Turning off the learning button

Posted on May 13, 2009
If you offend a student, they turn off the learning button and then you won’t get anywhere. Dawn Zweig, environmental studies teacher at Putney School, a private academy in Vermont, as reported by the New York Times. Perceptions of disrespect and outright anger make most people shut down...

FDA warns Cheerios

Posted on May 13, 2009
Is Cheerios, the “breakfast of champions,” soon to be a breakfast “drug”? Maybe. Seems the Food and Drug Administration has their knickers in a twist over certain language the makers of Cheerios are using to describe their product...

Marveling at Marvell

Posted on May 08, 2009
The case has been around for almost a decade. Jasmine Networks claims that rival Marvell Semiconductor stole its trade secrets and engaged in an unfair trade practice by hiring away Jasmine’s engineering group. Sounds like a classic lawsuit except that part of what has kept this case alive for so long involves a phone call made [...

Bratz lesson

Posted on May 06, 2009
Bratz dolls are the brain child of toy designer Carter Bryant and are made by MGA Entertainment. A big hit with the pre-teen set, in some parts of the world their popularity has eclipsed Mattel’s Barbie doll as the number one selling fashionista doll...

Mixed media sends mixed signals

Posted on May 04, 2009
Today I was reminded of a bad date I went on many years ago in the pre-cell phone age. We were supposed to meet in front of a Greek restaurant for dinner. We were both on time and we both thought we were at the front entrance. Mine was on the pedestrian mall side...

New on AllBusiness.com ? The No Nonsense Lawyer?

Posted on May 01, 2009
I’m pleased to announce that in addition to providing you Legal Literacy news you can use at this website, you’ll now be able to get even more information by following my Business Law blog on AllBusiness.com. Today’s posting (Do you say too much?) can be read by clicking here.

Quote of the Day: Furious is a better word

Posted on April 28, 2009
First thing is, I’m annoyed - furious is a better word - that I wasn’t told. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg commenting on the Department of Defense photo shoot near the site of the former World Trade Center. Yesterday office workers on both sides of the Hudson River, experiencing 9/11 déjà vu, panicked when they saw a [...

I never thought I?d say this, but

Posted on April 25, 2009
I’m not good at apologies. Are you? Even though Jay Leno did it, more doctor’s are doing it, and Lloyd Blankfein, the chairman of Goldman Sachs almost did it. Most of use have difficulty apologizing much beyond a quick “I’m sorry...

Quote of the Day: Decreasing benefit of e-mail

Posted on April 20, 2009
Every communications medium has its own costs and benefits. But with e-mail, the costs grow over time as the benefits shrink. Mike Elgan, “How to kill e-mail (before it kills you),” Computerworld, April 11, 2009. E-mails are unstructured documents...

A Viral Media Mushroom @ Domino?s

Posted on April 16, 2009
We all know that social media accelerates the pace of communication, including miscommunication. But most of us still underestimate how quickly one thing, even a silly thing, leads to another and can mushroom into a mini public relations crisis. That’s what happened to Domino’s Pizza earlier this week according to the NY Times...

Tax refund or amount due?

Posted on April 14, 2009
Why does getting a tax refund, especially a really big refund, feel so much better than having to write a check for taxes due? After all, deep down inside we know that a refund is nothing more than an interest free loan to the government. It’s not the best personal financial strategy...

Quote of the Day: ?Someone?s Gotta Go?

Posted on April 08, 2009
We asked the two men how they were handling the legal quagmire when it comes to revealing details of employees’ personal evaluations on national TV. They got all coy on us, blushing prettily and declining to discuss sordid details. From Lisa de Moraes’s article “They Get Fired, You Get to Watch,” Washington Post, April 8, 2009 Oh [...

Avoiding the Mason Effect

Posted on April 05, 2009
Mason couldn’t help himself. The aroma overwhelmed him and when he nibbled around the edges it tasted like more. So he ate until it was almost gone. It wasn’t until much later and $519 worth of medical tests that Mason’s gastrointestinal problem was traced to the verbena he had been eating in the garden...

AIG?s Legal Literacy Lessons

Posted on March 30, 2009
If you were angry about the $165 million in bonuses paid out by AIG a few weeks ago, you’re not alone. Outrage is what many felt in the furor over the $165 million bonuses handed out by AIG. Anger by taxpayers who felt betrayed about being forced to bear the economic burden of a privileged few [...

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