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The BEST Marketing Investment You Can Make

June 30, 2014

With all the potential for stress, I offer this: Set your mind and resolve to make every day count toward building a more prosperous and fulfilling practice. Yes, you can make that happen.

Develop Your Personal Book of Business

June 30, 2014

Competition for business is intense, time is short, and there's no time like the present to hone your business development skills and develop your personal book of business.

BREAKING NEWSU.S. Supreme Court Says Employers Don't Have to Pay for Birth Control on Religious Grounds

June 30, 2014

A divided U.S. Supreme Court on June 30 ruled the contraceptive mandate in the federal health care law violated the religious freedom rights of corporate owners who objected to providing the coverage in employee insurance plans.

BREAKING NEWSSupreme Court Sides with Broadcasters in Fight over Online Streaming Service

June 25, 2014

Online streaming startup Aereo Inc. violated the copyrights of major television broadcast networks by retransmitting programs to users' Internet devices for a fee, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 25.

BREAKING NEWSSupreme Court Sides with Broadcasters in Fight over Online Streaming Service

June 25, 2014

Supreme Court Won't Block Same-Sex Marriages in Oregon

June 05, 2014

The U.S. Supreme Court on June 4 refused to block same-sex marriages in Oregon pending an appeal of a federal court decision striking down that state's ban.

Business Crimes Hotline

June 02, 2014

Analysis of a case out of Nevada.

Med Mal News

June 02, 2014

In-depth analysis of a recent ruling in New Jersey.

Disability Funding of Pension Contributions

June 02, 2014

Although pension plans are thought of primarily as a source of cash income for the elderly, they typically serve other functions as well. For example, they usually contain early retirement features and often provide pensions to workers who lose their jobs because of disability. The high proportion of pension plans with disability retirement features is dramatized in data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' annual survey -- none of these programs had provisions to make up employee contributions and employer matches where the employee becomes disabled during their employment years.

On the Move

June 02, 2014

Who's doing what; who's going where.

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