How To Save Electricity Distribution Companies From Dying
Chairman of NERC wearing safety helmet I’m very skeptical of single narratives, i.e. arguments that view an issue from just one angle so in writing this I’d like to state…
Courteville Issues Profit Warning One Year After Blowing N1 billion On New Head Office
Courteville Business Solutions has issued a profit warning claiming that they expect their 2015 full year results to be bad. According to the company, they expect additional write-offs of about…
There Is No Future for Pay Secrecy
Salaries and compensation used to be highly-guarded information. Employees generally didn’t know what their colleagues were making or how much they earned relative to the cubicle next door. But pay…
Tidal Wave of Students Seek Debt Forgiveness
The year of the 2015 will now be marked as year of the student loan-crisis. Last year, the number of students who applied to have their student debts forgiven under…
Plaintiff Entitled to Attorneys’ Fees in City of Laguna Beach Case
In a rather circuitous line of cases generally revolving the issue of free speech, a plaintiff in Laguna Beach California successfully convinced the Ninth Circuit that he was entitled to…
Backroom Compensation Deals Keep Women Down, Suit Alleges
Despite bringing in $24 million dollars in business and generating nearly $8 million in revenue, former LeClairRyan partner Michele Burke Craddock says her success was devalued and diminished — not…
First GM Ignition Trial Crashes and Burns After Plaintiff’s Fraud
It was a rough start and quick finish for the first trail over General Motors’ defective ignition switches, which have left over 124 dead and many more injured. The first…
Supreme Court Further Limits Juvenile Life Without Parole Convictions
Four years ago, in Miller v. Alabama, the Supreme Court ruled that mandatory life sentences without parole were an unconstitutional violation of the Eighth Amendment. Since then, there has been…
Should Lawyers Use Peer-to-Peer Payment Apps?
There are apps for monitoring your billing, apps for tracking your time, apps for invoicing clients. There are even apps that allow you to send and receive cash with the…
ABA to Beef up Ethics Rule on Workplace Discrimination
A new proposal to amend the ABA rules of Professional Conduct is on the table. Its aim is to address workplace discrimination. Not that you weren’t being careful about what…