Legal Articles, Civil & Human Rights

Attorney's Fees [Fee-Shifting to Losing Defendant]

Chapter in MSBA Maryland Employment Law Deskbook, 2014, on Attorney's Fees [Fee-Shifting Against Losing Defendant]

Medicaid Coverage Of Hospice Care

Though talking about hospice care is never easy and can be emotional, many ill individuals will have to go on hospice care to get them through the final days of their illness. The patient and family will also have to find a way to financially cover the hospice case costs, which can be substantial.

Sexual harassment prevention

Sexual harassment prevention

Gender identification discrimination bill reintroduced in US Congress

Gender identification discrimination bill reintroduced

Missouri legislature considering bills to make it easier to discriminate, harass

Missouri legislature seeks to make it easier to discriminate, harass

Missouri Chamber threatens values of safety, respect at work

Missouri Chamber of Commerce is trying to rewrite laws to protect corporations that discriminate against workers.

DUI Checkpoints: Is your Sobriety Checkpoint Legal?

DUI checkpoints are not legal unless fully compliant with the 4th Amendment. A DUI lawyer representing a citizen seized for drunk driving at a sobriety checkpoint can find where police officers have cheated by skipping important steps in the DUI checkpoint approval and implementation process.

WHY YOU NEED AN ESTATE PLAN

Considerations in favor of creating an estate plan

An Interview with Laurence Tribe

Frank Housh interviews Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe about his book "Uncertain Justice"

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