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Tue Nov 26, 2013

Posted in Negotiation by Gene Killian | Share

Yogi Berra is supposed to have said once: “if you don’t know where you’re going, when you get there, you’ll be lost.” That's so true in negotiation and mediation. Too...

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...