With growing acceptance of the medical and non-medical uses of marijuana, the industry is moving towards regulation. The varied and sometimes contradictory federal and state laws regarding marijuana and its legality, as well as overlapping jurisdictions make the field of…
Year: 2016
If you are a creative person, it is important that you work to protect your intellectual property. In the United States, the number of patent applications filed each year doubled to 520,000 from 1998 to 2010. When you consider that…
Have you ever wondered what happens when you get pulled over for a DUI? Learning about this process may cause you to hesitate before driving while impaired. According to NOLO, if you see police lights behind you, you should calmly…
The law, while clear to some, can be extremely confusing to the layman. What is a restraining order? What is a criminal defense lawyer? There’s a lot of terminology and loopholes in laws that it’s nearly impossible to keep everything…
Everyone has heard news stories surrounding the act of whistleblowing. In fact, Snowden quickly became one of the biggest whistleblowing cases in the media, because of all of the extradition laws that were involved. These types of media cases bring…
A DUI conviction is a criminal offense, which can affect your future in all kinds of negative ways. It can affect your ability to find a job, buy a house, get a loan, and much more. For anyone facing DUI…
UPDATED 1/22/21 In this day and age, it’s important that once you find a job that you love and are good at, you stick with it. The average person spends the majority of their week at work, and hopefully, the…
If you’ve been arrested and charged, the judge may require you to post bail. Essentially, you will deposit money with the courts to ensure that you show up for court dates. If you don’t show up, you’ll lose the bail…
If you’ve gotten into a collision, you’ve probably hurt yourself. It’s time to hire injury lawyers because you shouldn’t have to pay and suffer from emotional and physical trauma if it wasn’t your fault. At the very least, you should…
As the baby boomer generation nears retirement, millions and millions of individuals are gearing up to enter the senior care system. And with that, there’s a high likelihood that more and more precedent setting cases in the industry will become…