Tough Negotiating for Tough Times

If you’ve ever read the lists for Top Ten Stressors, losing your job or looking for a new one is right up there with life altering events. After finding that dream job, you hold your breath hoping the right amount of money is offered. That little stressor is guaranteed to give you hives, insomnia or worse, little crow’s feet right around your perfectly smooth eye-area. Relax. Chances are if...

A Stress Free Career? Are You Living in Dreamland????

  Stress doesn't really scare me. It is part and parcel of our lives. Why, might you ask, would anyone say that?  Probably because in the second half of my work life, I have found the secrets to a relatively stress free career.  Article after article has been written about stress.  It’s the same old, same old:  manage your stress, have a plan, stay positive,...

Are Good Manners A Requirement for Business Success?

Guest Blogger: Stacey Wagner   “Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners.”  Laurence Sterne  As I sat down to write this business etiquette blog for The Estrin Report, I wondered, are good manners a requirement for business success?  Not surprisingly, the answer is an unequivocal no.  Anyone who has worked in corporate...

New Concordance course worth the investment

Emerging Litigation Technologies, LLC and Spectrum Consultants are pleased to announce a joint venture in providing legal professionals with a series of E-Learning Modules on Concordance® document management software from LexisNexis®. Colette Perkins and Sara Youngers are certified professionals with over fifteen years of combined, hands-on experience applying and educating on nationally...

10 Unknown Google Tips

Someone sent me the following list of neat Google tricks.  I wish I could give credit to the writer, so forgive me about that. If anyone knows, let me know. However, here are new ways to use Google that we all can use:1.         DefinitionsPull up the definition of the word by typing define followed by the word you want the definition...

Paralegal Sentenced to 3 Years for Mortgage Fraud

  This isn't the kind of thing we want to hear.  The New York Law Journal reports that a paralegal who took part in a multimillion-dollar mortgage fraud and foreclosure scam was sentenced to three years in prison. Apparently, from 2004 to 2007, the paralegal, 33, and 26 others including mortgage brokers and loan processors at the Brooklyn-based firm AGA Capital NY...

Top DOJ Paralegal Fired for Whistleblowing

According to the Huffington Post, new questions are surfacing about political intrigue at the U.S. Justice Department after former White House political strategist Karl Rove provided his long-awaited responses to House Judiciary Committee staff Tuesday about allegations that he pressured prosecutors to target Democrats nationally. Few details have emerged about Rove's questioning on such...