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Fri Nov 8, 2013

Posted in Corporate Litigation, Employment Law by Gene Killian | Share

With the widely reported financial fraud that has taken place over the past few years in numerous high-profile cases, in-house lawyers are often placed in a very difficult position. On the one hand,...

Wed Oct 23, 2013

Posted in Employment Law by Gene Killian | Share

Insomniac that I am, I was recently watching the iconic 1971 Clint Eastwood movie “Dirty Harry.” In the movie, there’s a scene where Harry (the hero cop) is standing on a trash can...

Thu Oct 3, 2013

Posted in Corporate Litigation, Employment Law by Gene Killian | Share

Social media is a wonderful tool for making friends and discussing the issues of the day, but it also brings out the worst in everyone. Since you’re not face-to-face with your partner in the...

Wed Sep 11, 2013

Posted in Corporate Litigation, Employment Law by Gene Killian | Share

I once heard a speaker describe an appearance before a hostile audience as saying he felt like “a fire hydrant at a dog convention.”  I sometimes think that description is apt for the...

Thu Aug 15, 2013

Posted in Employment Law, Negotiation by Gene Killian | Share

I remember once watching a college football game in which a running back absolutely flattened a linebacker who had come up to tackle him.  The announcer said, “See, just because...

Mon Jul 29, 2013

Posted in Employment Law by Gene Killian | Share

If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?  The New Jersey Supreme Court recently considered this philosophical question in the context of a retaliation...

Fri Jun 28, 2013

Posted in Corporate Litigation, Employment Law by Gene Killian | Share

A wise person once wrote:  “Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.”  As any lawyer who’s participated in litigation involving a closely-held family business (or,...

Thu Jun 13, 2013

Posted in Corporate Litigation, Negotiation by Gene Killian | Share

I often recommend that lawyers starting out in the profession read Larry Donnithorne’s little gem of a book, “The West Point Way of Leadership.”  Despite its title, it’s...

Thu May 16, 2013

Posted in Commercial Litigation by Gene Killian | Share

Years ago, I handled a wild real estate dispute in which my client leased a building to a recycling company.  Coke syrup leaked out of the cans onto a cement floor and literally ate the cement...