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.
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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 …
Texas DUI vs DWI: Know Your Rights if Pulled Over
First, let’s talk about the difference between DWI and DUI. DUI (driving under the influence) applies only to drivers under 21, says Mark Thiessen, a Houston-based attorney who focuses on this area of law. “Texas has a strict no-drinking policy for drivers under 21,” he says. For those drivers, any detectable amount of alcohol—on the driver’s breath or clothes or in the air from an open container in the vehicle—is an automatic Class C crime, like a speeding ticket or other moving …
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 …
‘This is People’s Lives’
Erin Lee’s immigration work includes a newspaper columnIt wasn’t a lie, but it wasn’t wholly the truth, either. But it’s how Erin Lee wound up in immigration law. After studying economics and music at UC San Diego, Lee interned at the Orange County DA’s office and worked as a legal assistant at a small bankruptcy firm. The DA’s office, she felt, “was pretty cool, kind of like Law & Order. I thought I could do a lot of different things with a J.D.” Except she got that J.D. in 2009, the height of the Great Recession, when law firms …
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