Thursday June 8, 2023

Overtime for Using the Phone

In a recent column, we discussed the lawsuit where an employee sued his employer for overtime pay spent using the company issued BlackBerry after hours.  Turns out, this has the potential to spread like wildfire as more employees are watching closely and considering their own lawsuits.  A. Harrison Barnes, lawyer and president of LegalAuthority.com, says […]

Maybe He’s Not the Prize

A black mark against the legal profession as a whole has once again been placed, this time by a Wisconsin district attorney who’s used his power to gain sexual favors. Calumet County District Attorney Kenneth Kratz texted an abuse victim, who turned to his office for help, that “I am the prize”. Apparently Stephanie Van […]