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...practicing as a traffic lawyer, Bernace studied at New York University before studying law at Harvard...
...instead of flying to New Hampshire for cross-country pre-season training, she stepped onto an Entergy plane with her brother, mother, and father, a lawyer for the company that provides power to Louisiana and much of the South, leaving behind a city that was silent, still, and mostly boarded up, bracing for Hurricane Katrina's blow...
Consumers offended by a business's religious bent can take their dollars next door. Employees don't have that freedom. Bosses break no laws by expressing their faith, hosting prayer picnics or painting passages from the Bible on the walls. What they can't do, says Washington lawyer Eric Siegel, is create hostile work environments for nonbelievers or discriminate by religion when hiring or firing. In 2004 courts found that Hewlett-Packard was justified in firing an employee who posted antihomosexual passages from the Bible on his cubicle and that Cox Communications could fire an evangelical Christian worker who criticized...
...years since Bratter started it, Project Renewment's cheerleading, brainstorming and 1960s-style consciousness raising have helped launch some impressive second acts. A former health-care executive has just returned from a photography tour of India and is mounting a gallery show. A corporate lawyer became a court-appointed special advocate for abused and neglected children. An ex--probation officer is now an actor...
...illegally raiding her trust to buy a lavender Porsche for his young floozy. The wife could ask her husband to redraft their trusts so that a bank or one of their children would have to sign off on withdrawals of principal. If he refused, she could hire her own lawyer, revoke her trust and leave everything outright to her kids. In marriages like yours, estate lawyers say, such arrangements are rarely necessary. They are cumbersome, cost more and can incite strife in a grieving family. Most of all, in a case like yours, it would make trouble where there...