Norton On Real Estate
I was recently enjoying one of my favorite pastimes (hint — it has 18 “elements,” involves walking and takes about four hours). I was with a banker, a trust officer and an import-export broker. The latter asked me where I…
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Health insurance bill kills community rating
After a 90-minute floor debate, the New Hampshire House earlier this month voted 280-89 to pass Senate Bill 125, a measure pushed by Gov. John Lynch that undoes most of the touted reforms of SB 110, a measure that has…
Small businesses can benefit from fraud examination
It may be difficult for the small-business owner to identify with the huge dollar amounts of fraud recently uncovered at such companies as WorldCom, Enron and Tyco, just to name a few. It may even be more difficult to believe…
SBA fills in funding gap for Nashua start-up
It took 2-1/2 years and nine different banks before Christine Pedzik got her small-business loan. “After the eighth try, I was almost about to give up,” said Pedzik, 40, of New Boston. But thanks to the New Hampshire office of…
NLRB changes its mind about non-union Weingarten rights
In June 2004, the National Labor Relations Board overruled its 2000 decision in Epilepsy Foundation of Northeast Ohio and held that employees not represented by a union are not entitled to the presence of a co-worker during investigative meetings/interviews that…
Can your business protect the data it collects?
There recently have been many disturbing data security breaches. Some have been high-tech (transaction data intercepted in the payment system) and some have been amazingly low-tech (laptops and tapes were stolen; rogue employees sold protected information). But one thing is…
When less is more: enforcing non-compete agreements
In May, the New Hampshire Supreme Court issued a decision in Merrimack Valley Wood Products Inc. v. Near, a case that served to further define when non-competition agreements are enforceable under New Hampshire law. Past court decisions have established under…
Top Shelf
For further information: OK, let’s get one thing straight — I hate pinot noir. Blasphemy, I know, to all the pinot heads out there — as well as pigeon-holing the fact that I don’t know my palate from, well, a…
Last Word
I opened the registered letter and was shocked. My best clients were joining together in a class-action lawsuit against me. The letter stated that I had promulgated a false allusion of success by having them follow the 80-20 rule. The…
Flotsam & Jetsam
Lying low It took two trials, 26 jurors, armies of lawyers, months of testimony, weeks of deliberation and countless witnesses for a decision to be reached on former Tyco International bigwigs Dennis “Livin’ Large” Kozlowski and Mark “I Know Nothing”…
