{4:48 minutes to read} It’s exciting to find yourself in a place where you can start your own business—exciting and frightening. But, if you’re leaving a place of employment to start your own shop, it’s very important to be sure that your present employer is not inadvertently going to own a piece of the work that you do…
Attorneys beware: The equivalent of the so-called “Nigerian prince who has been trying to contact you” has found out where you work! Recently I received a referral for a potential client from another attorney. The first email from this potential client, whom I will call Mr. Jones, explained that he had matters pending in three different…
When he was on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert committed to a character that has the same name as his. The character is a greenback conservative who keeps an American shield under his desk—a character who popularized the word “truthiness” (yes, it’s a real word). When Colbert took over David Letterman’s job on…