How businesses can protect themselves from sexual harassment claims
By Alicia Gutierrez

Proper investigations of sexual harassment are necessary not only to protect employers from suits by victims, but also to protect against claims by the accused harassers.

What the Family Leave Act requires
By Mark Glenn

Leaving work for three months to care for a newborn baby or to look after a parent in failing health, knowing that your job will be waiting when you return, sounds like a good deal to most employees.

Tips on giving job references
By Alicia Gutierrez

To minimize exposure to liability for providing a negative or inaccurate job reference, employers should consider certain steps and precautions before responding to a reference inquiry.

How to collect past-due accounts
Attorney Mark A. Glenn

You can do two things now to help collect problem accounts. Providing customers a provision of payment for attorney fees and sticking with a progressive payment system are ways to protect yourself.

You should have a living will and medical power of attorney

We recommend our clients have both a living will and durable power of attorney governing their health care – without them you can lose control of your treatment and affairs while temporarily incapacitated or in a terminal condition.

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