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Foreign Asset Disclosure Program [Video]

by Sanford Millar on 5/14/2012

Foreign Asset Disclosure and the Voluntary Program. This is the program that anybody with clients who have assets off shore should be aware of. Why? Because it's an opportunity for your clients to come forward and...more

Mediation and Arbitration have their limitations when it comes to trust disputes.

by Charles E. Rounds, Jr. on 4/1/2012

Unless the fiduciary issues and the representation issues in a trust dispute are properly sorted out in advance, there is a very real risk that an ill-considered rush to mediate or arbitrate will prove an expensive and...more

The Interest on Lawyers Trust Account Scheme (IOLTA): Could the medical profession get away with fleecing patients in this way?

by Charles E. Rounds, Jr. on 3/1/2012

It is coming on a decade since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the IOLTA scheme constitutes a collective taking by the state of the property of clients. Still the scheme continues. Nothing has changed. Why? Charles E....more

E386 Recent Cases: 1. Text Messages between Parents Not Automatically Harassment. 2. Personal Use Does not Permit Growing...

by Kenneth Vercammen, Esq. on 2/2/2012

Kenneth Vercammen, Esq. email newsletter E386...more

LAW SCHOOLS NO LONGER ADEQUATELY EQUIP THEIR STUDENTS TO THINK LIKE LAWYERS: THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF DECONTEXTUALIZING...

by Charles E. Rounds, Jr. on 11/1/2011

The process of paralegalizing the American legal academy is now complete. It was inevitable. A course in Contracts does not a complete lawyer make. The curricular marginalization of two of the other critical enforceable...more

Top 5 Reasons to Change Your Will

by Jason McGrath on 10/28/2011

There are many reasons to update your will. Here is our top 5....more

E378 1. Selecting A Guardian in Your Will for Minor Children. 2. Objection to Lab Report Starts After all Reports Provided. 3....

by Kenneth Vercammen, Esq. on 10/19/2011

E378 1. Selecting A Guardian in Your Will for Minor Children. 2. Objection to Lab Report Starts After all Reports Provided. 3. Dispatch of Suspiciously Parked Car Permits Questioning. 4. Join AVVO and rate Kenneth Vercammen,...more