Co-authored by: Colleen Cone, VP of Talent & Culture, Dyn Employee engagement and retention are not new concepts for companies. Employers have worked to maximize the potential of their workforces since the
Published in the Union Leader (3/28/2016) Q. I have saved up a good amount of money working in the hospitality field and believe I have what it takes to successfully
Lessons that companies can take away from NFL’s problematic probe Football is a game of rules. Even the most talented football teams can be stalled by penalties. Good coaches command
Published in the New Hampshire Business Review (March 18, 2016) House bill seeks to level the playing field in determining misclassification In 2014, NH Department of Labor Commissioner Jim Craig
Recently, the responses of independent schools to reports of past abuse of students by faculty have received intense scrutiny by the news media, social media, survivors, victim’s lawyers and alumni.
Published in New Hampshire Bar News (March 16, 2016) In today’s law firm environment, 85 percent of paralegals spend time performing clerical and secretarial tasks on a weekly basis. Time
Irrevocable trusts, as the name suggests, sound as though they are incapable of being revoked or recalled. The word “irrevocable” is defined as “not possible to revoke” or “unalterable.” Yet
In New Hampshire, creditors must exhibit their demands within the first six months and file suit within the second six months of the appointment of the administrator to preserve their
Q: We provided services for a customer and were timely paid for the work. A couple of months later, the customer filed for bankruptcy. We recently received a demand from the bankruptcy
The United States Environmental Protection Agency recently modernized its implementation of its two primary self-disclosure incentive policies – the Audit Policy and the Small Business Compliance Policy – by creating a centralized, web-based “eDisclosure” portal to
Published in the Union Leader (2/29/2016) Q: My company has a group of employees ready to embark on a project in South America, and we are concerned about their being
The entity status has to be tended to and respected for its liability protections to be effective. Tom James has just pulled into his driveway with his two and four
As the NH Bar Association’s delegate to the ABA House of Delegates, I attended the American Bar Association’s Midyear Meeting in San Diego, Calif., earlier this month. The policy-making body
Co-authored by: Robert Cheney One of the lead negotiators in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) gave a presentation last month at a joint meeting of the NH Bar Association International
Q. How can I qualify for a cap-exempt H-1B visa? A. There is a dire shortage of H-1B work visas. U.S. companies need skilled workers by the hundreds of thousands,
Q. I recently formed a small but growing company. We enter into various contracts with distributors, vendors and customers, and someone told me I should include a mandatory arbitration clause