By: Phil Shepardson If you and your spouse executed your estate plan more than 5 years ago, you may each have included a trust as the recipient of your...
Is it Time to Revisit (and maybe simplify) Your Estate Plan?
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Eligibility Expanded for Military-Related Leave Under the FMLA Effective March 2013
By Sarah Clay Leyshock The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) provides eligible employees of covered employers the right to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid,...
Trademarks: What You Need to Know
by Mark E. Musekamp I often receive correspondence from clients in which they ask whether a particular mark is capable of becoming a federally registered trademark. Unfortunately, many of...
April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month
By: Alison De Villiers Did you know that driving while using a cell phone reduces the amount of brain activity associated with driving by 37%? Or that sending or...
Social Media Beware
By: Peter L. Cassady Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, MySpace, Google Plus, Tumblr and other forms of “social media” have permeated our culture worldwide. An enormous amount of “posts”...
Jury Awards Over $8 Million in First DePuy ASR Trial
By: Alison De Villiers On March 8, 2013, a California jury awarded Loren Kransky $8.3 million in the first DePuy ASR case to go to trial. The jury found...
Title for Foreclosed Property and the “Schwartzwald Problem”
Investors and others purchasing properties that have been the subject of a previous foreclosure should be aware of the Ohio Supreme Court decision in the case captioned Federal Home...
New Ohio Law Aimed At Making Roads Safer
Drivers are 23 times more likely to be involved in an automobile collision if they are texting while driving. In 2002, almost 12,000 teen drivers between the ages of...
Are Pregnant Women Being Discriminated Against at Work?
Heather Wiseman was a Wal-Mart sales floor associate. When she became pregnant, she began to suffer from urinary and bladder infections and started carrying a water bottle at work...
Avoiding Unnecessary Costs in Litigation and Divorce
I often joke that my clients are never happy to see me. With a practice focused on domestic relations and general civil litigation, most of my clients are either...