Of the many discussions about "information overload" as it relates to email, on of the biggest frustrations that people deal with is the shear volume of stuff coming at them. It's an easy topic for newspapers and magazines that want to talk about personal productivity. I hold that the best way t ...

Attrells funeral chapel will pay $62,500 to settle an Americans With Disabilities Act ("ADA") lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") on behalf of Barbara Jackson. According to the lawsuit Attrells failed to allow amputee Jackson an almost two-year employee, to continu ...

Attrells funeral chapel will pay $62,500 to settle an Americans With Disabilities Act ("ADA") lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") on behalf of Barbara Jackson. According to the lawsuit Attrells failed to allow amputee Jackson an almost two-year employee, to continu ...

February 6, 2010 An accident in Newark has left two critically injured after their car rear-ended the vehicle of a drunken man who parked in the middle of the road and went to sleep, reported The Star-Ledger. A drunken Rolondo Ibarrafreire, 29, of Linden, parked his Ford pickup truck in the south ...

Commissioner Louis Aguilar, in remarks at SEC Speaks last Friday, called for a revamping of the Commission’s 2006 Statement on Corporate Penalties, discussed here. While Commissioner Aguilar makes a good point, any reassessment should begin by carefully undertaken in the broader context of evaluati ...

EEOC claimed that a funeral chapel refused to allow an amputee who had successfully worked for the company for a year and nine months to continue working as a secretary once she required the use of a wheelchair. The suit settled for $62,500 and other relief. EEOC Press release 02/03/2010: A ...

I’m currently reading a book on modern legal drafting (read: ‘plain english for dummies, I mean, lawyers’). It is very good so far, but I think this is a telling stat about lawyers: 127 pages are devoted to why clear, modern english is a good idea. That is 22 pages more than are de ...

Just about every day you can find commentary on the impact of social media on the world of business. These might be mind blowing statistics about social media (from my brother, no less); or you might read 7 Questions Key to Social Networking Success from InformationWeek; or you might hear loud a "W ...

By FELICIA FONSECA, Associated Press Writer  AP – This undated image provided by James Ray International, shows James Arthur Ray. FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Motivational speaker James Arthur Ray was arrested Wednesday afternoon on three counts of manslaughter for deaths that happ ...

Just think. If you write in public, it is both easier to find you AND when they do, the conversation can be at a higher level. Luis Suarez has been doing his darnedest to kill off work-related email in favor of internal social software. He has been at it since February of 2007 - yes, two years! ...