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How to Beat Your Virginia Non-Compete for Lawyers 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

How to Beat Your Virginia Non-Compete for Lawyers

Now available for employees – and attorneys – we are offering a 60-minute online seminar, “How to Beat Your Virginia Non-Compete.” Our goal is to help employees and attorneys better understand their workplace rights under Virginia law. Topics include how to avoid a lawsuit, ensure a smooth transition to a new job, and do so…

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Virginia Non-Competes: What You Read vs. What Your Boss Reads 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

Virginia Non-Competes: What You Read vs. What Your Boss Reads

I love Google Alert, that fabulous daily reminder of what is being written online about a certain topic. Perhaps you have an RSS or Google Alert on Jessica Simpson or the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Mine are mostly work related: “non-compete” and “non-solicitation.” This morning, Google Alert brought my attention to a new book written…

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“Blue Penciling” in Virginia 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

“Blue Penciling” in Virginia

Remember in 4th grade when your teacher started grading your assignments with a red pencil? She was correcting your work, stating, “This is wrong.” A check mark meant an answer was correct. What if your teacher had re-written your answers instead – giving you credit but unilaterally changing your answer from X to Y? Would…

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What Happens When Radio Talent Goes Online? 150 150 Dan Frith
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What Happens When Radio Talent Goes Online?

The radio industry is sensitive to the issue of losing talented broadcasters and for good reason:  a particular personality may be the only reason listeners pick one channel over another during their commute. Typically, most radio stations require their broadcasting talent to sign non-compete agreements that prevent employees from moving across town and setting up…

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“Right to Work” in Virginia 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

“Right to Work” in Virginia

A few years ago, my mission in life became clear. To educate my fellow Virginians on what it really means that Virginia is a “right to work state.” Most Virginians think that “Right to Work” law means, one of the following: Your boss cannot prevent you legally from accepting a job elsewhere if you get…

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How We Treat Our Elderly 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

How We Treat Our Elderly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKDXuCE7LeQ&sns=em It is no surprise that too often, we as a society cast aside our weak, our frail, our older members. We place them in homes where they wait to die, sometimes without family or friends to remind them they are loved, are special, that their lives matter.

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Proving Abuse or Neglect in a Virginia Nursing Home 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

Proving Abuse or Neglect in a Virginia Nursing Home

I took a stack of records home last night to look through them. No, not music records: medical records and nursing home records. I spent time pouring through each page trying to decipher the following: 1. Did the nursing home recognize this patient’s needs? 2. Did they plan to provide for these needs? 3. Did…

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They Sued Me: Can I Sue Them for Preventing Me from Working? 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

They Sued Me: Can I Sue Them for Preventing Me from Working?

Here is a common scenario if you wait too long to review your non-compete contract. A client has left their job and wants to start a new business or join a competitor. After a careful review of the non-compete contract, we offer the following no-nonsense advice: “Your contract seems valid under Virginia law – it’s limited…

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Right to Privacy at Your Desk in Virginia 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

Right to Privacy at Your Desk in Virginia

I just love true or false quizzes. Seriously. LOVE. THEM. So here is one for a spring Monday afternoon: POP QUIZ 1. You have a right to privacy at work. Which protects your personal email if accessed on company phone / computer / etc. TRUE OR FALSE ANSWER: FALSE 2. You have a right to…

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Don’t Be Unprepared in Caring for Elderly Parents 150 150 Dan Frith
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Don’t Be Unprepared in Caring for Elderly Parents

Caring of our elderly parents can be a tough job.  It gets even more difficult when we can no longer care for them ourselves and consideration must be given to placement in an assisted living facility or nursing home.  As the USA Today described in an article today, caring for elderly parents catches many unprepared. The article…

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For-Profit vs. Non-Profit: Which Type of Nursing Home Provides the Best Care? 150 150 Dan Frith
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For-Profit vs. Non-Profit: Which Type of Nursing Home Provides the Best Care?

Our experience tells us that “non-profit” nursing homes (typically facilities operated by churches) provide the best care to its residents.  For example, there are 3 or 4 nursing homes in and around Roanoke, Virginia for which we have never heard one complaint in the 15 years we have handled nursing home abuse and neglect cases. Why?  In…

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Fatal Beating in Nursing Home Inexcusable 150 150 Dan Frith
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Fatal Beating in Nursing Home Inexcusable

I just read a disturbing report of an inexcusable death in a Chicago area nursing home. The family of an elderly man who was beaten to death by a fellow resident of a nursing home last month has filed a lawsuit against Oak Park Healthcare Center (Cook County, Illinois) claiming the facility failed to protect the…

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