If you’re buying a home, make sure you are well informed about closing fees to avoid fraud. For those of you who are considering buying a home, there are a lot of expenses involved and you need to know about…

Workplaces can get mighty ugly if someone is retaliating against a company or person for a perceived injustice. Things don’t get much worse than a toxic workplace where someone is deliberately withholding necessary information on a project, spreading vile rumors…

Some feel putting a dollar figure on injuries is demeaning to the victim. Compensation is the only method the law provides to a victim of negligence. “Some people feel that trying to figure out a dollar amount for someone’s injuries,…

Not many people know what Qui Tam is or what it means. It’s a branch of law that protects the government. Qui Tam refers to a set of rules that lets people blow the whistle (a.k.a. Whistleblower legislation) on those…

Life altering injuries are referred to as catastrophic. It means a person’s whole life has been turned upside down. Most injuries happen out of the blue; the result of a car accident, a slip and fall, a sports injury or…

Those who speak out about unsafe conditions in a workplace or other things are called whistleblowers. Most often people associate the term whistleblower with someone who “rats” out someone else for not doing the right thing. While in general that…

Just about every business or industry has its secrets. They also want to keep those secrets from getting out. When you stop to think about it, it makes sense that most businesses and enterprises have secrets; secrets that protect how…

Protecting company secrets is a big business these days. Those who sell secrets may be in hot water legally. “There likely isn’t one business or industry that doesn’t have secrets about how they do business and about their products that…

The broader a non-competition agreement is, the more problems there are enforcing it. “Typically speaking, if you have a really broad non-competition clause in your employment contract with a worker, the less enforceable it is. If however an employee has…

In tough economic times, real estate mortgage fraud generally increases. It’s a good time to buy, but buyer beware. Generally speaking, most people are honest and play it straight when it comes to dealing with mortgages. However, having said that,…