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Overview: Today's Law Review features the last of a five part installment on estate planning, this column focusing on revocable living trusts (everyone should have one) and charitable trusts, the perfect way to have your cake and eat it too. Well the good news is that this is the last of our five estate planning [...]

Overview:  This week's Law Review is the fourth of our five part series on Estate Planning, focusing on saving taxes and doing the right thing by contributing to charitable organizations, enjoy.           This is the fourth of our previous published estate planning series, and we start with the question: Do I need a will? That [...]

Overview:  This week's Law Review is installment three of our Estate Planning for Dummies series, collect all five and send them to your family and friends.  15 minutes may save you a lot more than 15%. “WE MAKE A LIVING BY WHAT WE GET; WE MAKE A LIFE BY WHAT WE GIVE.” Winston Churchill * [...]

Overview:  ‘Everything is handled, nothing to worry about’ is our parent’s common reply when the kids ask if the family estate planning is taken care of. Don’t you believe it, chances are nothing is taken care of.  Find out what you can do in the second of a five part series on estate planning  in [...]

Overview: This week's Law Review column is the first installment of a five-part series on Estate Planning, beginning with how the family should approach their parents to ask Mom and Pop if they have an estate plan; chances are they will say 'yes' when their will or trust, if any, is woefully obsolete. A strange [...]

Overview:  Holy Copyright Law, Batman!  So starts the Ninth District Court of Appeal's opinion in DC Comics v. Mark Towle; seems Towle made and sold replica Batmobiles in his 'Gotham Garage' with no authorization from the Batman copyright holder, so if you are a Batman fan, read this weeks Law Review.  Zowie! “We are asked [...]

Overview:  This week's Law Review showcases again the 2015 winners of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest where writers submit samples of bad writing, opening paragraphs of imaginary novels, and if you like funny awkward writing, a specialty of mine, you will love this. The Bulwer-Lytton contest challenges entrants to compose bad opening sentences to imaginary novels. [...]

Overview: This week's Law Review features clever writing of contestants of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, complicated and awkward first paragraphs of make believe novels; always worth a few laughs, and a break from our normal boring legaleze. The Bulwer-Lytton contest challenges entrants to compose bad opening sentences to imaginary novels. It takes its name from [...]

Overview:  This weeks Law Review injects a bit of humor into an otherwise humorless profession, providing a list of questions you may not ask a job applicant, including the clever “Why are you so old?” which technically does not ask how old the applicant is, and ‘Are you a member of the Communist Party and [...]