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02/20/2012 - WHAT'S IN YOUR INTERNET POLICY?: If you have an Internet policy that interferes with or restricts the rights of your employees to discuss working conditions, wages or hours, you might want to reconsider and revise that policy. Recently the National [...]

02/20/2012 - TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT: Risk of Liability for Defamation
Most employers have been counseled and are very careful with respect to any statements that are authorized to be made concerning the termination of an employee. However, there are exceptions. Recently an Illinois Appellate Court affirmed a jury [...]

02/10/2012 - RECOVERY OF DAMAGES FOR BREACH OF AN ILLEGAL CONTRACT
As a matter of public policy a party who suffers damages by reason of the breach of a contract to perform an illegal act may not recover damages. For example, if two parties enter into a contract to engage in a transaction the essence of which is in [...]

01/20/2012 - WHY IT IS IMPORTANT TO REVIEW YOUR ESTATE PLAN
As an estate planning practitioner, I have advocated the practice of periodically reviewing one’s estate plan in order to give due and current consideration to possible changes in a client’s family relationships, business circumstances, [...]

01/20/2012 - BENEFICIARY-CONTROLLED TRUSTS
Most traditional estate plans are designed to benefit and provide security to a surviving spouse for his or her lifetime and for the division of the decedent’s assets between and among the children and grandchildren.  As life expectancies [...]