Virtual Legal Department

05/27/2014

No head for business: De Blasio's refusal to help Citi Bike is keeping the company from meeting untapped demand.

But the group that makes and maintains the bikes is bankrupt.

05/23/2014

I was going to highlight the 30-year Baltimore Sun veteran who just discovered he's allergic to newspaper ink as a study in why worker's compensation insurance is so important . . . and then I saw that a CNN anchor had filed a $25MM lawsuit accusing Johnny Manziel of terrorizing her with his incredibly small p***s and had to go with that instead.

We don't really know what to make of this, but a tipster just sent along a motion for a restraining order that a woman named Samantha Schacher recently filed against Johnny Manziel in Florida. The motion asks for $25 million in damages, and contains lines like: "On Christmas Eve, 2013, Johnny Manzie…

05/22/2014

Using for business documents is like flushing money down the toilet . . . though on the positive side it wastes less water.

05/21/2014

How government-sanctioned collusion in the health care industry makes medical residents indentured servants.

Two years ago, I received my first employment contract. Not long after Match Day, I did what 115,000 physicians in training did that year and will do again this year: I signed the contract promptly and returned it. I tried to read the contract carefully, but it didn’t really matter. Unless you...

05/20/2014

Explain this: University tuition skyrockets; grads leave loaded with debt . . . and professors are starving.

College costs more and more, even as it gets objectively worse. Only people worse off than indebted grads: adjuncts

05/15/2014

NYT fires executive editor in classic study of how retaliation lawsuits come about. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2014/05/why-jill-abramson-was-fired.html

05/14/2014

Manhattan's largest apartment complex is on the auction block . . . again.

Stuyvesant Town, the largest apartment complex in Manhattan, is likely headed back to the auction block after lenders moved to foreclose on loans at the property Tuesday.

05/13/2014

By any standard the US Post Office is bankrupt, and political inertia is blocking needed changes.

Last week, United States Postal Service announced a $1.9 billion loss for the first quarter

05/12/2014

What are your employees up to? GA deputy fired for having s*x on duty (even skipping a call to finish).

A Georgia cop has turned in her gun and badge after investigators discovered her naughty habit of having s*x on the job.

05/12/2014

Gen Y thinks being an entrepreneur is cool . . . but doesn't realize it's a lot of work.

Right now, I am sitting on a balcony in Tamarindo, Costa Rica, looking out at the sunset and sipping an ice-cold beer. It’s one of those fiery, red-rubber-ball skies tonight, the kind that doesn’t ...

05/09/2014

Some hackers are part of international crime syndicates. Some are moron rednecks. All can hurt your business.

Three days after the offensive, typo-riddled ad was posted on Craigslist - seeking 'personable white people' and 'no welfare chasers' - it has been flagged for removal. Dunkin' Donuts' corporate office blamed hackers for its posting for a shop in Trussville, Ala.

05/08/2014

How universities parlay patents into profits.

A few weeks ago, administrators at Penn State University did something they believed had never been attempted in American academia: The school put about 70 engineering patents up for auction and tried to sell them to the highest bidder. They weren’t so successful—not many patents sold—but the projec…