About David Levine
David Levine is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, American Heritage, and dozens of other publications. He is the author, co-author, or ghostwriter of seven books, including the basketball books Life on the Rim (Macmillan) and In the Land of Giants (Little, Brown). His latest book, The Hudson Valley: The First 250 Million Years, was published by Globe Pequot Press in 2020.
Articles written by David Levine
How Do I Prove Age Discrimination in a Lawsuit?
If you were laid off or given a demotion as part of a "reorganization" that seems to have targeted older employees, you may have an age discrimination claim under federal and state age discrimination laws. For legal advice on whether you have an age discrimination claim, contact a discrimination law attorney. Signs of Age Discrimination How can you tell if it's an age discrimination lawsuit? Employment law attorneys agree: Age discrimination cases are tough to argue. "It happens a lot in …
Can I Get Workers' Compensation in Texas?
In 1911, Wisconsin became the first state to pass a comprehensive workers’ compensation law. By 1920, 42 states had workers’ compensation laws on the books. Today, every state requires companies to carry workers’ comp insurance. Well, not every state. “Texas does regulate insurance,” says Matthew Lewis of MLF Legal in Dallas. “But there are no minimum requirements for what a work injury policy would cover outside of the state’s regulated workers’ compensation …
Auto Correct
Erin K. Tenner helps car dealers buy and sell businessesErin K. Tenner grew up in Michigan, the car capital of the world, and has been representing buyers and sellers of auto dealerships since 1986. So you might be curious what kind of car she drives. “I have driven an Acura since 1990,” she says. “I was literally driven over by a semitruck in my first Acura, an Acura Legend, and my husband and I both walked away relatively unscathed. … A lot of dealers have tried to get me in other cars, but there is something about me and Acuras. … …
Protect Your Business from Litigation Over Performance-Based Termination
Terminating an employee is never an easy thing to do, but employers in Georgia have a lot of leeway in letting an employee go. Since Georgia, like most states, is an at-will state, “You can be terminated for any reason except an illegal reason,” says Ken Winkler, with Berman Fink Van Horn in Atlanta. “An unfair termination doesn’t mean it’s illegal. I can be a bad employer and say, ‘You know what, you don’t fit in, it’s time to go,’ but that doesn’t make it illegal.” So …
Wanting to Talk About It
How Mark Robertson serves the LGBTQ communityWhen he was in second grade, Mark Robertson was walking with his father in downtown Kansas City when they witnessed a bus crash into a car. In the aftermath, his father, a Methodist minister, gave his card to the car’s driver. When Robertson asked why, his father responded: “There are people who do bad things to others because of the color of their skin.” The car’s driver was Black, Robertson remembers. “I grew up with a sense of social justice,” he says. Robertson, a business …
Comes a Horse Lawyer
Why Andrew J. Turro helps clients in the horse racing industry“I had no idea it was going to take me down this path,” says Andrew J. Turro, an animal law attorney who heads his firm’s Equine and Racing Law practice. Growing up, Turro says he was merely a casual fan of horse racing. “I would follow the Triple Crown,” he says, but “I rarely went to the track, no more than once or twice as a kid.” He wouldn’t have been able to tell you the difference between, say, standardbred and thoroughbred racing. For the record: The former is where …
A Learner, Rather
Why Michelle D. Da Rosa knows a little bit about almost everythingIs there better legal training than helping adolescents get along? “Tell people you teach middle school and they all confess how they were in the seventh grade,” says Michelle D. Da Rosa, a one-time teacher at Waldorf schools in California and Oregon, who now practices real estate law at eponymous offices in Portland and Olympia. “You see a lot of conflicts among kids, parents, colleagues. It’s good preparation for the law.” Da Rosa was first drawn to the Waldorf philosophy as a …
Is Workers’ Comp Insurance Worth the Investment?
Workers’ compensation claims in the state of Georgia are usually pretty straightforward. Here’s one that wasn’t. An employee reported that he injured his back at work. The employer (a food/agriculture business) and its insurance company accepted the claim and paid him for lost time and medical treatments, including lumbar fusion. But six months later, when the employee stopped complying with his medical care, the case was sent to Gregg M. Porter of Savell & Williams in Atlanta. “We …
An App for That
Beth Schroeder’s new tech helps employees alert management to problemsFor decades, Beth Schroeder heard all the reasons employees fail to sound the alarm over problematic company matters—fear of reprisal, inability to reach HR—and she often wondered why there wasn’t a safe, simple way employees could contact HR or another corporate officer. Something like an app. “I thought about this for years,” says Schroeder, a partner at Raines Feldman Littrell in LA, who reps medium- and small-sized companies over issues like harassment, discrimination, and …
NYPD, J.D.
How Ankit Kapoor went from cop to family lawyerWhen police officers trade in badges for bar memberships, many go into criminal defense. Not Ankit Kapoor. He went from working the night shift in one of Brooklyn’s busiest precincts to practicing in one of the busiest areas of law. “When someone calls 911, they’re in a stressful situation. When someone calls a matrimonial attorney, they’re usually in a stressful situation as well,” he says. “So I figured this area of the law would be a good fit for me.” Born in India, Kapoor came …
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