It seems like every day new information about the coronavirus, or COVID-19, comes out. Few things are more important to your health and safety than knowing how to protect yourself. To that end, new policies and laws are getting passed every day. However, the situation seems to impact each state differently. Therefore, it’s important to [...]
If you remember the movie Office Space, three friends loathe their dull lives as slavish office drones working every day in the most lifeless, soul-sucking work environment imaginable. In their existential angst, they decide to con the company. How? Every wired transaction that comes through the business includes fractions of pennies under the dollar. So, [...]
You’ve heard it before in gangster movies and TV shows. “He runs a drug racket out of a pizza shop.” “That gang runs the local protection racket.” You hear that word “racket” thrown around. But did you know it’s not just slang? It’s actually what’s behind the legal charge of racketeering. In this week’s blog, [...]
“Mens rea.” Maybe you’ve heard that term thrown around involving your case. Maybe you remember it from this scene in Legally Blonde (2001). What is mens rea? What does it have to do with the law? What significance might it play in your case? As we continue our Mark W. Catanzaro blog series on legal [...]