At NachtLaw, we regularly represent students from all public and private schools, colleges, and universities when they need tough education lawyers to stand up for their rights. Our most recent success story is a student who was dismissed from a nursing process for...
In January 2021, firm principal David Nacht won a victory for a real estate entrepreneur who left his former employer to consult for an innovative start-up real estate agency. The entrepreneur was hit with a thirteen-count lawsuit alleging everything from breach of a...
In the late 1960s-1970s, China empowered young people to accuse elders of thought crimes and hidden capitalist agendas. Professors and other intellectuals were made to face public shame and removed from their positions. Sometimes they were sent to re-education...
As readers of this blog know, I have called attention to the dangerous and widespread practice of allowing police to lie to suspects. Obviously, sometimes this tactic works. But one cannot prove that this tactic works by looking to a confession as proof of guilt....
Most non-Black Americans will be surprised to learn that a quarter of all African-American employees report experiencing racial discrimination during the past year. Many white people find themselves frustrated with the attention paid to racial difference and...
Why should police officers be allowed to lie to citizens? They should not— but it is a standard practice and, amazingly, legal. Routinely, interrogators obtain confessions by lying to defendants. “We already have your fingerprints—just tell us what happened” when...
It is one thing to know about slavery and about racial segregation. But whites, including me until well into adulthood, tend to be unaware of the scale of violence visited by whites on blacks in the 20th century. One good place to begin is Isabel Wilkerson’s The...
On November 24, 2020, the Michigan Court of Appeals issued an opinion in Sikkema v. Professional Benefits Service, Inc., which highlights why it is so critical to (a) have an employment law attorney review any offer letter, employment agreement, or compensation plan...
Shortly after the terrible attacks of 911, on Sept. 11, 2001, the Federal Government created a database of people that it held could not board an airplane. Many of these people were US citizens and had never been convicted of a crime. But when they tried to buy an...
On November 3, 2020, the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division published an opinion letter regarding when the FLSA requires employers to pay non-exempt employees (i.e., overtime eligible employees) for time spent in voluntary training programs. The general rule...
