Business Ethics
In the last couple of weeks, I helped a client settle an age discrimination complaint by an ex-employee for $600.00 at a state's human rights' agency. I don't want to be too specific about the details due to confidentiality & ethical concerns. The complaint was baseless. The employer is a great social services organization. The [...]
Charles Krugel provided our organization with highly effective legal advice. Chuck understands not only how the legal systems works, but also the particulars of smaller non profits that may not deal with employment issues often. Not only did he resolve our case satisfactorily, but he was always available when we needed him on more than [...]
I recently completed my 3rd union negotiation & dispute resolution resolution of the past 6 months. One case involved a successful union decertification, & the other 2 involved settlements before the NLRB. For a variety of reasons, I won’t identify my clients or the unions we dealt with. The reasons for confidentiality include confidentiality agreements [...]
Today, I got a response from Avvo to yesterday’s post (and other posts) criticizing them. Below is the comment to that post. Conrad from Avvo said, December 5, 2010 @ 10:26 am Charles – not every lawyer appreciates the transparency that Avvo has brought to the legal industry, yet this is exactly what consumers want and [...]
On the heels of my most recent Avvo post, over the past week, I received the following communications from an attorney who wishes to remain anonymous and who has had his own difficulties with Avvo’s bizarre rating and registration system. My chief criticism, and why I primarily think it’s a scam, is because you can’t [...]
