Periodically, there are human interest stories about our brothers and sisters who are handicapped and cannot gain access to basement stores or offices in Brooklyn or ones with narrow hallways. These out of the way stores are just inaccessible to someone in a wheelchair or on crutches. Many ...
The FBI is knocking at your door, and you feel it is better to talk to them and cooperate; after all, you don't have "anything to hide." Even though this might be your first approach, it is best to avoid it and have a wiser strategy. Although there are many reasons why a federal agent would want to contact you, it is best to never talk to the FBI without a lawyer present.....
As it is well-known, that according to Jewish law there are many strict rules for wills and inheritance (Yerusha in Hebrew). The basic rules that people commonly wish to circumvent are the requirement that a man's sons are his sole heirs, and the bechor (legal firstborn) would receive a double s...
You will soon be able to purchase weed in New Jersey, like buying a six-pack of beer. On November 3, approximately 2 million New Jersey residents (67% of voters) voted to amend the state's constitution legalizing marijuana, opening the door to a multi-billion dollar marketplace bursting with pote...
Have you ever heard of the term “short sale”? If you are a lawyer, did you ever represent a buyer purchasing from a seller who was either in default on his mortgage or against whom a foreclosure action had already been commenced? If you are buying from a homeowner whose property is in foreclosure...
Owners of small businesses continually fail to realize that their corporation or LLC is a separate legal entity that owes certain duties to its creditors. While it is tempting to lend money to your company in times of hardship and to pay yourself back once some money comes in, there...
This past year has shown that many famous men had covered up their predatory sexual abuse of women (and sometimes other men) by non-disclosure agreements. $45 million dollars were paid by or on behalf of Fox News host Bill O'Reilly to settle sexual harassment claims, almost none of which was pub...
Obtaining discovery in a Beth Din is quite a lot different than in court or in the more national, secular, arbitration tribunals. The Federal and State judiciary forums have developed extensive and comprehensive rules of exchanging documents in discovery and obtaining pretrial depositions in ord...
Oftentimes, businesses would like to monitor their employees (beyond standard security reasons) during work hours to keep on top of the situation. This is especially prevalent in construction sites, warehouses, and the like but are sometimes used within standard offices as well. The question is,...
Live Webinar on April 3, 2017 @ 3:00 PM. Register Here! The mortgage contingency clause is one of the most important clauses in real estate contracts. However, many attorneys don't bother to read it. This is a mistake since the terms of the clause, which may differ from contract to contract, can...
March Madness is here, and all over America people will be furiously filling out their brackets. Whether you join an office pool or a competition with friends, everyone usually throws a few bucks in the pot for the winner. According to the American Gaming Association, 40 million people fill out ...
New Protections for Freelance Workers Many employers that do not want to commit to hiring a permanent employee with the accompanying expenses such as medical benefits, often hire freelancers for such things as public relations, computer programming, care-giving and housekeeping. Many times the...
How you hold your residential apartment will have enormous legal consequences. The three major ways of doing so is renting, as a co-op, or a condominium. However, many people do not realize the differences between them. The most familiar one is renting. A landlord rents one o...
Many people, like our former Secretary of State, consider their work e-mail as their own private lifeline to the outside world. Crude jokes, funny stories about your bosses or put-downs of minorities are exchanged. However, doing so can get you fired because your emails are not private. Your e...
In many of our families, grandparents play a special role in the lives of our children. They are the source of free babysitting and frequently they are intimately involved in our children's lives. But what happens when there is discord between grandparents and their children and they are...
People get injured and they look to blame someone and if that someone has an insurance policy, a lawyer may be there to help. Not every injury is awarded compensation. For instance if you trip over a inch difference in the grade of a sidewalk, the courts will not likely award you an...
Do you employ a nanny for your children, a housekeeper or a companion for your sick or elderly parents, pay them in cash and fail to keep records of their employment? If so, you are leaving yourself open to a costly lawsuit. Since 2010, household workers in New York are covered by the...
Perhaps the most prized possession of an average American is his or her home (although the iPhone is catching up). While it still retains its status as the ultimate expression of achieving the American Dream, at no time in US history was this dream subject to peril as it has been after the...
SCHOOL INTERNS SLAVES NO MORE In 1865 the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution outlawed slavery. In 1938 the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act set a minimum wage for all employees. In 1964 Title VII and New York's Human Rights Law protected paid employees from harassment and ...
Spring is here bringing with it the thoughts of another baseball season. It can also bring with it thoughts of death and severe injuries. While there have been only two fans so far killed at professional league ballparks, at least 49 fans have died at amateur games and countless oth...
Robert in New York receives a telephone call requesting he deliver a container of his pickles to Toronto from a buyer he never dealt with. Robert agrees and delivers the pickles. Shortly thereafter, the customer complains that the type of pickles he ordered was not delivered. Robert wants to...
CLE Lecture for Continued Legal Education Two of the partners at Novak Juhase & Stern will be presenting a lecture on The Mortgage Contingency Clause and Ethical Issues in Residential and Commercial Real Estate Contracts. It will be presented by Alexander Novak and Kim Juhase. A 2-hour lectur...
Sometimes it happens when you buy land, you get a new survey taken of the property, and it shows that a neighbor's fence or hedges encroaches on your land. You want that fence or hedge removed and set on the property line. You go to the neighbor and ask real politely, and it is like talki...
Under Orthodox Jewish practice, a Jew is not supposed to sue another Jew in secular courts. Instead, they are to arbitrate their disputes before a Beth Din, which is an arbitration panel of rabbis. In order ensure that the parties will follow this rule an arbitration clause is included in a cont...
Last week, the United States IRS Commissioner John Koskinen made a startling apology in Congress. He apologized for the IRS seizing the bank accounts of businesses merely because they deposited a lot of cash. In most of these cases legitimate small business owners were depositing say $8000 c...