During  Estimates hearings of the Senate Finance and Public Administration Committee  on Monday (08/02/2010), The Greens Senator Bob Brown raised with the Governor General's Official Secretary (F&PA 44-46), the issue of unsuccessful nominations for honours (446 of 738 nominees or 60% w ...

As attorneys, mediators or negotiators we are in the communication business. Our success or failure is directly related to what we say and how we say it. How we communicate determines in large part whether people see us as “civil,” “competent,” “credible,” “professional’ and “ethical.” This is tr ...

Cover of Mr & Mrs Smith [Blu-ray]The U.K.'s best-selling newspaper, the Sunday tabloid NewsoftheWorld, is bracing for a libel war with Hollywood glamour couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.While Pitt, 46, and Jolie, 34, watched the Super Bowl Sunday from a private box in Miami's Sun Life stadium (to ...

The First Two Delaware Decisions. In the past two months, I have reported on decisions by two Delaware bankruptcy judges in the In re Washington Mutual, Inc. case and in In re Premier International Holdings, Inc. (aka, the Six Flags case), taking opposing views on whether Federal Rule of Bankruptcy ...

Richmond Times Dispatch "I'm aware of the problem," Cuccinelli, a Republican and former state senator who sponsored a bill changing Virginia's eminent domain statute, said in an interview Thursday. "It strikes a sensitive nerve for me because of the property rights issue, and the ...

The January bankruptcy filing basically held steady to December, according to the new bankruptcy statistics now available from Automated Access to Court Electronic Records (AACER). There were just over 102,000 total bankruptcies spread over the nineteen business days in January....

Good morning and Happy Monday, Saints fans. As our more astute readers will have noticed, the “Posted by” name at the bottom of this post is neither Bruce Carton nor Robert J. Ambrogi. I wouldn't even dream of referring to myself as Bob's “replacement” -- it's not hard to see the impact he's had in ...

Bankruptcy and its affect on credit is unquestionably the biggest concern of most bankruptcy clients. The ironic aspect is that often bankruptcy, especially Chapter 7 bankruptcy, is the quickest road to credit recovery.Everyone knows that credit score dictates a person’s ability to borrow. What ma ...

The venerable CBS Sunday morning show Face the Nation took a break from politics today to talk, with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell as the program’s main guest. Among the topics on the agenda: traumatic brain injuries, a subject that has been much in the news here in Oregon with the recent enactment ...

The Virginia General Assembly has passed legislation increasing the maximum speed limit for certain rural areas from 65 miles per hour to 70 miles per hour. As has previously been posted (see Dinwiddie County Reckless Driving for 11 mph over Speed Limit), the speed limit is already 70 miles per ho ...