Employees have many legal protections that independent contractors simply do not get, including health insurance, paid sick days, overtime, disability plans, retirement benefits, occupational safety laws, and anti-discrimination safeguards. Recognizing the hardship...
Mandatory vaccine use for COVID-19 is starting at many universities and a few employers. Many more employers will soon mandate vaccines for employees and perhaps visitors to the workplace. Some people believe they have a legal basis to challenge such requirements. As...
Any decent person who saw the video of the police officer suffocating a man on the ground was horrified. Why was it a news story when the jury found the officer guilty? It was newsworthy precisely because the crime captured a national conversation about policing and...
“Expungement” refers to the legal process of setting aside a criminal conviction. A growing recognition that many people deserve second chances has led to the expansion of this opportunity. When Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed the new law, she proclaimed, “This is a...
Did you file for unemployment during the COVID-19 pandemic, and now you’re being told that you have to pay back your benefits? It has to be maddening! First you had to battle the bureaucracy to get the financial help you so desperately needed; now after all that, you...
Announcing the selection of Attorney David A. Nacht among America’s Top 100 Criminal Defense Attorneys® for 2021. Selection to America’s Top 100 Criminal Defense Attorneys® is by invitation only and is reserved to identify the nation’s most exceptional White-Collar...
This story, "Florida school principal, daughter arrested for allegedly hacking student accounts to cast homecoming votes", is a distraction from real life but it tells us a bit about ourselves. I am not sure that state law enforcement should be focused on...
In my last blog post, "Violence Against Women", I discussed how misogyny plagues our society and results in assault rape and murder and how fear of the same alters the socialization of women and the role of women in our culture. I want to focus on another aspect of...
Fraud or other illegal activity in the workplace can hurt careers and expose employees to potential criminal liability. Reporting an employer’s illegal activity that harms the public interest is an act of civic service, and protections exist under Ohio law for...
There are many conversations worth having as a result of any tragedy. The Atlanta massage parlor murders should cause several. One is the view of Asian women in our culture; another is the view of Asian-Americans of both genders. These issues have gotten...
