Month: October 2014

Like Al-Qaeda before it, the terrorist organization ISIS is now a term most Americans recognize immediately. And along with this recognition, comes a deep a fear and a strong desire to erode the enemy by any means necessary. What is unexpected to most Americans, united in the goal to end terrorist organizations from threatening our national safety, […]

In more cases than not, appeal law firms do not handle simple cases. (If the cases were simple, they would not require appellate attorneys or sometimes even criminal appellate lawyers.) On Monday October 6, The U.S. Supreme Court will tackle one of the most controversial pregnancy discrimination cases in recent history. Before it was escalated […]

There is no question about it. Americans — and, in fact, people all over the world — commit horrible crimes and atrocities each and every day, and sometimes the sheer levels of cruelty, apathy, and barbarism can be unfathomable. With innocent children or beloved husbands and wives, or brothers and sisters murdered in cold blood, […]

According to a Stanford University study, “at least 4% of all people who receive the death penalty are innocent.” That may seem like a relatively insignificant amount, but that accounts for more than 1,000 innocent people since 1980. Courts can make snap judgments, especially in emotional cases with victims who were tortured, raped, brutally beaten, and/or murdered. […]

Do you have any Kleenex? Are there Band-Aids? These are all things you may have heard — without reading much more into it. Both of these questions are, however, examples of advertising that was so effective the namesake company ended up regretting it. Why? Once consumers begin to regard a brand name as synonymous with any given […]