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  Fowler White Boggs attorney Jennifer Roeper is working to keep veterinarian neurosurgeon Salvador Galindo from being deported over Kafkaesque paperwork glitch:...

  Shari talks about how developers are growing during credit-pinched times: http://tampabay.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2009/08/31/story1.html

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With companies increasingly being sued for overtime pay by employees who checked email after hours, John Robinson offers insights on how companies can best cope....

Shari talks about what just-released housing numbers mean to homeowners - and investors and lenders. http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1218274505&play=1

Employment attorney John Robinson offers guidance for small employers, facing the specter of a fresh outbreak of the H1N1 pandemic in North America this fall. http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/aug2009/sb20090817_193959.htm

Record foreclosures in July Home loans failed at a record pace in July, despite ongoing federal and state programs to avoid foreclosures, reports CNBC's Diana Olick. Shari Olefson, of Fowler White Boggs, shares her insight.

Shari Olefson, a real estate attorney, and Stephen Moore, of the Wall Street Journal editorial board, debate whether we need President Obama's loan modification program

Taking aim at tort lawyers Why we haven't heard about tort reform, with Steven Yerrid, trial attorney and CNBC's Dennis Kneale.

Asian lift: international business stirring in Bay area law firms Asian investors and businesses, particularly those from mainland China and Taiwan, are creating a bonanza of legal work for some multi-lingual Bay area lawyers. For Jason...

Foreclosure loses its stigma Had you asked Americans three years ago if they or anyone they knew had ever been through a foreclosure, the response in most cases would have been an uncomfortable, even defiant, "No." The word conjured up...

Next collapse may be worse The weakening commercial real estate market is braced for a bust that experts say could cause even more damage to the local economy than the housing meltdown. "Any projects built in the last five years,...

There's no excuse for being unprepared. As of May 6, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported 642 human cases of swine flu in 41 states. The World Health Organization has declared a Phase 5 pandemic alert level, meaning...

It's termite-swarming season in Florida, and homeowners should take care to avoid being victimized by the pests - or unscrupulous pest control companies. Pete Cardillo, a Tampa lawyer specializing in termite damage claims, offers the...

At first glance, the Tampa Bay business community seems 100 percent focused on managing, if not just surviving, the ugliest recession in recent memory. Peel a few layers back, though, and new initiatives, ideas, collaborations and visions...

State lawmakers and Congress are trying to tackle Ponzi schemes through legislation, but lawyers are skeptical about whether new laws can stop the scams, much less snare them. With plenty of fraud statutes already on the books, attorneys...

The photograph snapped in 1946 shows a bartender standing stoically in front of a wall full of liquor bottles. Sixty-three years later, the new owners of that old saloon near the University of Tampa say that's all the evidence they need...

WATCHING 40 percent of your life savings evaporate in 2008 may have left you reeling — and angry over the investment advice you have received. But there is an upside to all the turmoil: while smaller firms are lining up to lure you away,...

The struggling economy means changes must be made

At her previous job, Samantha Smith, was the lone conservative in a 10-person office -- something her more liberal co-workers were happy to tease her about after she shared her views on hot-button issues like same-sex marriage and the...

Two Cases Cite Little-Known Protections For People Who Aren't Disabled But Care For Those Who Are; a Husband's Health Costs

Over the summer, as Americans fired up their grills, the Topps Meat factory here scrambled to produce thousands of frozen hamburger patties for Wal-Mart and other customers, putting intense pressure on workers.

When Amber Edwina Hampton began searching for her first post-college job last spring, in addition to praying, the recent convert to Islam took advantage of her new religious connections to network. As a result, a classmate at an Islamic...

Hamburger Recall

Office gossip, though rarely talked about or researched, has taken on new dimensions in this high-tech age, becoming a dynamic force that can build camaraderie but can also destroy work relationships or careers.

Two weeks into a new job, an MBA's first-choice employer made a fantastic offer. Now what? Fortune's Anne Fisher explains what to do next.

Fewer than 1 in 10,000 startup companies gets funded by VC firms, according to a report on small business finance by Dr. Bill Bygrave, professor at Babson College. Bygrave discusses results of the 2006 GEM Finance Report with Smart...

You can't screen out potential hires based on looks. Your decision should be made according to their ability to perform job functions

New York Times By EILENE ZIMMERMAN Q. How real is the threat of violence on the job, especially from co-workers? Should you be worried that your workplace isn't safe enough? A. Recent fatal shootings at an accounting firm in suburban...

The Politico Paul Abercrombie Like many Americans, I'm disgusted and embarrassed that my country sends people to other nations to be tortured under so-called “extraordinary rendition” programs. And that the CIA operates secret prisons...

New York Times By MATT VILLANO Q. You often see two colleagues flirting with each other in the office, and their behavior offends you. What can you do? A. Speak up. Paul A. Falzone, chief executive of eLove, a dating service in New York,...

Debating whether insider trading should be legal, with Nick Gillespie, Reason Magazine Editor-In-Chief; Burton Wiand, Fowler White Boggs & Banker Head of Securities; and CNBC's Michelle Caruso-Cabrera

Tort reform may render it the last blockbuster of its kind By Natalie White Contributing writer In one of the largest medical malpractice verdicts in U.S. history, a Florida jury awarded $216.7 million to a Tampa man left brain-injured...

The New York Times Damon Darlin and Matt Richtel Despite the California attorney general's assertion that he has enough evidence to press charges against people inside and outside Hewlett-Packard, a criminal case may be hard to prosecute,...

Wall Street Journal By Nanette Byrnes A couple of years ago, you couldn't escape the metrosexual. He was everywhere, with his Paul Smith pinstripes, $100 haircuts, and chemical tan. This character became so much a part of the zeitgeist...

TAMPA - Latour Lafferty's office at Fowler White Boggs Banker radiates big-money lawyer. He's got the 18th-floor view of downtown. He's got his name engraved in fancy letters on a brass plate by his door. But all around him, Lafferty has...

With revelations that a Harvard sophomore pinched passages from several books, questions raised about the authorship of Dan Brown's megabestseller, and now concerns that Ann Coulter may have cribbed from others for her latest book, I have...

From Fueled Generators To Satellite-Phone Kits,Firms Find Readiness Niche The Wall Street Journal By CHRISTINA CHEDDAR BERK With the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicting another active hurricane season this year,...

One Tampa Lawyer Brings in Laterals On His Own The Wall Street Journal By DOUGLAS MCCOLLAM Doing Things Differently, a new feature on the Online Journal's law page, examines the people and institutions breaking away from law's time-bound...

Wall Street Journal By John Hechinger Florida's attorney general is investigating whether Florida Metropolitan University, a for-profit college, used misleading sales tactics to sign up students for courses and degrees that often wouldn't...

Associated Press By DAVE CARPENTER CHICAGO (AP) - Dreams of a more satisfying life helped spur Dale Vnuk to choose a new career after more than a quarter-century in the same line of work. So did the constant grousing of co-workers who had...

Ever since humans started wandering around for business and pleasure, we've been big consumers of travel information -- where to stay and what to eat, see and do. While the tips have changed, our hankering for good travel advice hasn't....

Newsweek By Karen Springen After years of tweezing facial hairs, waxing her bikini line and dealing with bumps and ingrown hairs from shaving her underarms, Vicki Winston has had enough. So last month, the 37-year-old Knoxville, Tenn.,...