Precisely what Illinois attorney Marvin Gerstein should have asked himself. He had helped his union-member client obtain an arbitration hearing with the client’s employer, Kraft Foods. Although the union had a lawyer at the arbitration representing the client, Gerstein was there too in a “nonrepresentative capacity.” When the arbitrator asked…
(If you have seen this entry before, SORRY! The site gets a lot of new visitors.) The American Bar Association selected Legal Juice as one of the 100 best websites by lawyers, for lawyers (though Legal Juice is really for regular folks, which obviously excludes most lawyers.) If you want…
If you’re a neighbor of 15-year-old Ryan Bowen, you could always move. (One poor family did.) So what do you have to do to get the court to issue an ASBO (Anti-Social Behavior Order) against you? And to take the unusual step of naming you? (The ASBO imposes a curfew,…
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It looks like she made a damn good decision. Mergers and acquisitions lawyer Laura Saperstein (pictured above) was making $200,000 per year in London when she decided to give up the law. (She also owns 12 flats in London, and runs a building business.) The 36 year-old took up boxing…
The German “Hugh Hefner” is suing a 19-year-old girl for age discrimination BECAUSE SHE WOULD NOT HAVE SEX WITH HIM! Read it here.
Due to popular demand (okay, by me), Legal Juice now features an e-mail subscription option. On the home page, on the right, just enter your e-mail address in the “Subscribe by Email” box. You’ll then get an e-mail each day with a few sentences about (and a link to) each…
As reported in The Huffington Post, Patrick Syring, who “apparently” is a former State Department foreign service officer, really, really dislikes Arabs and the Arab American Institute. (He’s been indicted for threatening the staff at the Arab American Institute.) Here are a few voice-mails and e-mails: [Voice mail to the…
Due to popular demand (okay, by me), Legal Juice now features an e-mail subscription option. On the home page, on the right, just enter your e-mail address in the “Subscribe by Email” box. You’ll then get an e-mail each day with a few sentences about (and a link to) each…
Unless you’re a shut-in, at some point in your life, you’ve probably been frustrated over an airport baggage issue. It is unlikely, though, that you reacted as Congressman Bob Filner allegedly did at Dulles Airport a couple days ago. Per the airport police, Filner, an 8-term Congressman who is Chairman…