Your case is failing before you even walk through my door. I smell the stale coffee in my mug and I see the desperation in your eyes, but that does not win a wage theft… 

I smell like the bottom of a cold coffee pot and the stale ink of a freshly printed subpoena. Litigation is not the sanitized drama you see on television. It is a slow, grinding machine… 

Sit down. Drink your coffee. The law does not care about your feelings, and it certainly does not care that you were alone in the breakroom when the harasser made that comment. I watched a… 

The brutal reality behind your employment agreement The air in my office smells like strong black coffee and old paper. Most clients come to me after the damage is done. I tell them their case… 

The Brutal Reality of Employment Litigation I smell the burnt aroma of black coffee every morning at 4:30 AM while I review the wreckage of cases that should have been won. Most people walk into… 

Sit down and drink your coffee. It is black, cold, and bitter, much like the reality of the employment contract currently sitting on your desk. You believe those fourteen pages of legalese protect your company’s… 

The air in the deposition room was stale, smelling of burnt coffee and cheap toner. I watched a client lose their entire claim in the first ten minutes of a deposition because they ignored one… 

The air in my office smells like strong black coffee and old paper because that is what truth requires. You think your worker’s comp claim is a simple matter of reporting an injury. You are… 

Proven Strategies to Document a Hostile Work Environment Without Physical Assault Sit down and drink your coffee. If you think a hostile work environment requires a punch to the jaw or a shoved shoulder, you… 

I recently spent 14 hours deconstructing a contract that was designed to be unreadable, only to find the one clause that changed everything. It was tucked between a non-compete and a generic force majeure provision.…