Posted in Blog, Social Media Law. January 18th, 2010
A recent article in The Florida Bar News brought home the stark realities that lawyers in Florida must face if they want to continue to participate in the online and social media evolution: The Bar’s Standing Committee on Advertising on December 29 approved guidelines to help lawyers meet the Supreme Court’s new rules regulating the [...]
Posted in Blog, News. January 10th, 2010
We are very proud to announce some expanded service offerings in 2010. We are now offering Accounts Receivable Recovery Services for foreign produce suppliers, and expanded Workers’ Compensation legal services. Contact us today for a consultation on these or any other of our services. We look forward to a year of helping clients through our [...]
Posted in Blog, News. January 7th, 2010
In a recent ruling, a federal court in Texas determined that the ads used by an applicant disclose all of the limitations of the asserted claims, including each of the claimed chemical components, as well as the stated function of oral administration to a human to speed muscle recovery, allowed a person of skill in [...]
Posted in Blog, News. January 6th, 2010
The NJ appellate court held that the arbitration clause contained in an employee manual and acknowledgment form was insufficient to compel the plaintiff to submit his discrimination claim to binding arbitration because it was too general to put the employee on notice that he or she was giving up his or her rights to a [...]
Posted in Blog, News. January 5th, 2010
The Florida Fourth District Curt of Appeals ruled that a trial court’s decision to admit into evidence a Broward County Civil Rights Division “no reasonable cause” determination was an abuse of discretion and constituted reversible error because it was an abuse of disction in admitting the determination letter “because the conclusory nature of the BCCRD’s [...]
Posted in Blog, News. December 31st, 2009
Julien Sharp, LSG’s Content & Marketing Specialist, wrote and article that was featured today on MSNBC.com. A frequent writer on social media and marketing for Entrepreneur.com and Entrepreneur Press, this article is the first one to be picked up by the major online news portal. The article, entitled Focus Your Social Media Strategy, provides tips [...]
Posted in Blog, News. December 20th, 2009
Marty Davis of Legal Solutions Group is forming a consortium of local non-profit organizations, with the goal of combining resources and talent within each organization to better serve the at-risk youth population in South Florida. “Our goal is to bring all of these wonderful organizations to the table and taking note of what one organization [...]
Posted in Blog, Uncategorized. December 16th, 2009
A recent post on BizCloud.net discusses how small businesses focus solely on sales as a way of maximizing profit/revenue, while not paying enough attention on the fact that cutting costs and expenses also contributes to a healthy bottom line: There are certain costs that can be cut with minimum risk of negatively affecting the quality [...]
Posted in Blog, News. December 9th, 2009
As recently published on the New York State Labor Department website: Starting on October 26, 2009, employers must give newly-hired workers written notice of the rate at which they will be paid and their regular payday, under Section 195.1 of New York’s Labor Law. The notice must be given to new employees before they do [...]
Posted in Blog, News. December 9th, 2009
This week, LegalWeek.com, a site that provides daily news alerts, blogs, wikis, user-generated content and archive of over 27,000 stories relating to the law, published two very telling articles about rising legal fees and the growing perception among in-house legal teams that the value provided by outside law firms is diminishing. In the first article, [...]