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EMERGENCY ROOM MISTAKES 150 150 Dan Frith
  • Dan Frith

EMERGENCY ROOM MISTAKES

So many things can happen in your local emergency room. Staff may have the time and ability to provide for all of your needs. or Staff may be too busy or too understaffed to provide for your needs such that mistakes, errors occur. What kind of errors? Given the wrong medication. ED staff fails to…

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LITIGATION MOTIVATION IN NON-COMPETES 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

LITIGATION MOTIVATION IN NON-COMPETES

I am not a psychologist, despite my best attempts at trying to understand what motivates people. I am however, an observer of human behavior and have seen the following trends in non-compete / employment contract litigation. Situation 1 Litigation occurs when an employee breaks his or her contract, takes secret information and tries to use…

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ADVICE GIVEN TO YOUR BOSS ABOUT YOUR NON-COMPETE 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

ADVICE GIVEN TO YOUR BOSS ABOUT YOUR NON-COMPETE

Want to know what legal advice companies receive regarding drafting non-competes such that you employees stay in line? Here it is: http://www.virginiabusinesslitigationlawyer.com/2010/08/noncompete-agreements-getting.html Always good to know what the other side is doing.

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CANCER AND MALPRACTICE 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

CANCER AND MALPRACTICE

I took the Trolley home at lunch today to let the dogs out – and back to work. While on the way back I met a very nice lady named Beth who was riding our local trolley because she had radiation this morning and a bone scan of some kind this afternoon in a different…

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VIRGINIA CODE/ STATUTE ON NON-COMPETES 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

VIRGINIA CODE/ STATUTE ON NON-COMPETES

We get the following question, search query, google question all the time: WHAT DOES THE VIRGINIA CODE SAY ABOUT NON-COMPETES. I could lie and say that in section 8.01-5329046 the Virginia Code says:    “Non-compete agreements are to be disfavored in Virginia… unless of course the employee was a jerk and took some stuff she…

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WILL A VIRGINIA COURT RE-WRITE YOUR NON-COMPETE? 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

WILL A VIRGINIA COURT RE-WRITE YOUR NON-COMPETE?

Often clients will wonder out loud, over email to my office, or over the phone: “Can the court re-write the non-compete if they find it to be overly harsh or over broad?” My answer as of late has sounded something like this: “Thank God No Virginia Court will or has blue-pencil your agreement…. yet!” What…

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END OF SUMMER READING ON NON-COMPETE CONTRACTS 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

END OF SUMMER READING ON NON-COMPETE CONTRACTS

We have seen a few trends in the world of non-compete litigation / review. The following trends are true in our office (please note, I am not stating the following trends are true everywhere else since thankfully I only work here): Most of the people who call us to have their non-compete reviewed so they…

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FOOTBALL COACHES AND NON-COMPETES: ARE YOU KIDDING? 150 150 Dan Frith
  • Dan Frith

FOOTBALL COACHES AND NON-COMPETES: ARE YOU KIDDING?

Nope…I’m not kidding. I am a big college football fan and closely follow the Virginia Tech Hokies. I just ran across an article from a Birmingham, Alabama newspaper titled, “The Next Big Thing in contracts: Will more coaching deals include non-compete clauses?”The article recounts the stories of several SEC football coaches who have moved from…

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HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ROOM WAIT 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ROOM WAIT

I am reading a lot these days about hospitals advertising how long patients must wait in their Emergency Departments before they are seen by a doctor or nurse. In my hometown of Roanoke, Virginia our local HCA hospital (Lewis-Gale Medical Center) has placed an ad on an electronic billboard (which also advertises restaurants and other…

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COSMETIC SURGERY RESULTS IN DEATH 150 150 Dan Frith
  • Dan Frith

COSMETIC SURGERY RESULTS IN DEATH

This is a sad report about a Virginia women who sought cosmetic surgery (a “mommy makeover”) after the birth of her fourth child. According to news reports of the medical malpractice case, Dr. Matthew Galumbeck and his staff allowed Maritess Lopez to go home an hour after her cosmetic surgery, even though she was having…

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LOUDOUN COUNTY VIRGINIA NON COMPETE CASES 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

LOUDOUN COUNTY VIRGINIA NON COMPETE CASES

When I think of Loudoun County Virginia, I think of Oatlands – where I got married. I think of all the money I spent (and didn’t have) at Magnolia’s in Purcellville, or the time I spent at the Outlet Mall in Leesburg. I think of the coffee shop that is no longer next to the Tally…

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EMPLOYEES RIGHTS AND TRADE SECRETS 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

EMPLOYEES RIGHTS AND TRADE SECRETS

Virginia employees are sometimes surprised to know, that even without a written employment contract, they are not allowed to use, take, or copy the confidential trade secret information of their employers. No really. Its against the law to take their private information. And when you leave your company, and go compete in the same industry,…

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