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A Checklist for Hiring a Competitor’s Employees 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

A Checklist for Hiring a Competitor’s Employees

Coca Cola hires Pepsi’s top-notch public relations manager. Dunkin’ Donuts snags Starbucks’s chief financial officer. Yahoo steals away Google’s vice president for search products. Fictional or not, doesn’t it sound kind of fun to consider hiring the star employee of your competitor? The mere suggestion of poaching a rival’s talent pool is both thrilling and scary. Thrilling…

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Sleeping Pills and Nursing Home Falls: Are They Related? 150 150 Dan Frith
  • Dan Frith

Sleeping Pills and Nursing Home Falls: Are They Related?

As a Virginia attorney who represents nursing home residents, I admit it’s rare that I will hear about someone getting good medical care in a nursing home setting. Instead, here’s what I see: Out-numbered, over-worked, and under-paid staff trying to care for too many patients;   Corporate ownership more focused on squeezing out a few extra…

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Informed Consent: Just What Does It Mean? 150 150 Dan Frith
  • Dan Frith

Informed Consent: Just What Does It Mean?

I handle medical malpractice cases against Virginia hospitals, doctors, dentists, and other health care providers. In almost every case, the issue of “informed consent” is present. If you have ever had surgery or any other involved medical procedure, you gave your doctor  your “informed consent” to replace your heart valve, remove that cancerous tumor or…

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Why Non-Competes Are Bad for Virginia’s Doctors 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

Why Non-Competes Are Bad for Virginia’s Doctors

We need more jobs, right? Need more Virginians working to support their families? And in the process of putting people back to work, don’t we generally favor competition in the marketplace? Doesn’t competition typically benefit the consumer because businesses will try to get customers, reduce rates and provide better service? The answers to all of these…

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Hey, New Grads: What You Need to Know About Contracts 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

Hey, New Grads: What You Need to Know About Contracts

It’s graduation season. I have been invited to attend a number of college graduation parties this month. No, not graduation age – just a “friend of the family.” Not that these super capable, smart and educated young people are asking for career advice from me – they aren’t – but if they were, I would share…

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When Virginia Doctors Make Mistakes: Say You Are Sorry 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

When Virginia Doctors Make Mistakes: Say You Are Sorry

A friend of mine sent me a wonderful article recently published in the Washington Post written by a physician who advocates that health care providers should admit mistakes when they are made. Yes, you read that correctly: the editorial says that doctors should fess up and admit their mistakes if they hurt a patient. Tell the family.…

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Book: “How to Beat Your Virginia Non-Compete” 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

Book: “How to Beat Your Virginia Non-Compete”

You’re here because you have a Virginia non-compete agreement.  So why not check out our book, How to Beat Your Virginia Non-Compete? We answer common questions about Virginia non-compete law, including recommendations for employees and business owners.  Could we have called the book, “Non-Compete for Dummies”? No way. You’re no dummy (lots of people have signed non-competes…

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When a Doctor’s Failure to Diagnose is Negligent in Virginia 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

When a Doctor’s Failure to Diagnose is Negligent in Virginia

Sadly, we see them all the time: a case where a Virginia doctor failed to diagnose a medical condition. The emergency room doctor thought meningitis was the flu, and sent a patient home. The radiologist believed a tumor was a cyst and nothing was done. The family doctor thought it was migraines, and instead the…

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Hey, Virginia Employee! Look Before You Leap 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

Hey, Virginia Employee! Look Before You Leap

So you want to start a company? The great American dream can be yours, right? What kind of company? What kind of clients? What kind of services? Do you hope to stay in the same business you are in now? Serve the same clients or customers? Use your years of experience to start a better business?…

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Uncovering Elder Abuse and Neglect in Virginia Nursing Homes 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

Uncovering Elder Abuse and Neglect in Virginia Nursing Homes

Today, I was reviewing a survey by the Virginia Department of Health of a local nursing home. What’s a survey? It’s basically a long report where the investigator, a surveyor, comes into the nursing home to see whether the facility and its staff are actually following the law and properly treating residents. These investigations typically…

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Another Compounding Pharmacy Cited by the FDA? Already? 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

Another Compounding Pharmacy Cited by the FDA? Already?

According to the Miami Herald, a compounding pharmacy in St. Petersburg, Florida, has been shut down pending an investigation by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) into their practices. Sound familiar? Maybe heard this one before? You know, the one where a group of chemists create, mix and compound drugs in unsanitary conditions?  The Florida case follows an investigation…

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What Are the Best Hospitals in Roanoke? What Are the Best Values? 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

What Are the Best Hospitals in Roanoke? What Are the Best Values?

Last week, I compared the price of Pampers Swadlers (Size 2) between three different stores and an online seller. Why? Because diapers are a necessary but expensive item on my shopping list these days and I didn’t want to miss a good deal. So I was interested to read in today’s Roanoke Times a wonderful article on the…

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