About Steph Weber
Steph Weber is an award-winning journalist specializing in healthcare, business, and law. She has written for Physicians Practice, Medscape, and Rheumatology Network and created content for several other industry publications, companies, and colleges. As a frequent Super Lawyers contributor, she enjoys drilling down complex legal topics into bite-sized, actionable advice for readers and interviewing the nation’s leading attorney voices, highlighting their most memorable achievements and lessons learned. She lives in Northern Indiana.
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The Fine Print
Making sure business contracts work for youWhen a local bakery owner asked Daniel Blomgren to review a new commercial lease, a seemingly innocuous word caught his attention. “There was a section about a step up in rent, and it said ‘and’ instead of ‘or,’” says Blomgren, who represents entrepreneurs and small business owners at Coepio Legal in San Francisco. “I calculated the difference in cost over the course of the lease due to that one single word, and it was tens of thousands of dollars,” he says. “A bad …
California Business Contracts: Clauses To Include for Safety
When a local bakery owner asked Daniel Blomgren to review a new commercial lease, a seemingly innocuous word caught his attention. “There was a section about a step up in rent, and it said ‘and’ instead of ‘or,’” says Blomgren, who represents entrepreneurs and small business owners at Coepio Legal in San Francisco. “I calculated the difference in cost over the course of the lease due to that one single word, and it was tens of thousands of dollars,” he says. “A bad …
From Southwestern Indiana to West Point
C. Erik Chickedantz spent the '60s in service to his countryWhen C. Erik Chickedantz arrived at the United States Military Academy at West Point in the summer of 1959—a long way from his small southwestern Indiana hometown of Washington—he began his “plebe year” with a grueling eight-week basic training session known as “Beast Barracks.” “It was very regimented. Reveille every morning at 0530, except on Sundays. A lot of military training,” recalls Chickedantz. “We’d march to classes and to the mess hall for three square meals. You …
Don’t Be an Easy Target
How to reduce your company’s data-breach ‘attack surface’California is the winner of an unwelcome title: the state with the most data-breach incidents (1,500—twice as many as runner-up New York) and exposures of consumers’ personal records (5.6 billion total) since 2008. The state’s size and concentration of tech and internet companies no doubt has much to do with these metrics, but the problem is worrisome for all business owners who increasingly rely on data as the currency of commerce. “You’re looking at a situation where …
How Do I Reduce My Company's Cybersecurity Risk?
Reduce your company's cybersecurity risk with penetration testing assessments, multifactor authentication, review of contractual obligations, and developing written policies. Cybersecurity management requires a risk assessment and data inventory, establishing employee training, access controls, and developing an incident response plan. Companies must also ensure regulatory compliance, cyber insurance, vendor due diligence, and security policies to reduce third-party risk. Talk to security …
All the Angles
From the minutia to the big picture, Deborah J. Caruso has it coveredOn Sept. 6, 2016, the Carmel-based ITT Educational Services, Inc., one of the nation’s largest for-profit post-secondary educators, abruptly closed, shuttering nearly 140 ITT Technical Institute campuses in more than three dozen states. The closure resulted in 8,000 employee layoffs and left 40,000 students in limbo. Ten days later, ITT filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Deborah J. Caruso of Rubin & Levin in Indianapolis was appointed the bankruptcy trustee by the U.S. Trustee’s office. …
Decoding Stephen Reynolds
Stephen Reynolds was a coder before becoming a prominent IP litigator and data security mavenAt 10, Stephen Reynolds was one of several classmates selected to participate in a weekly computer skills pull-out program conducted at Florida State University’s Supercomputer Computational Research Institute. “[The] lab had a supercomputer and little terminals and the students would learn how to use the internet, including telnet, HTTP, FTP and the first internet search engine I can remember, WebCrawler,” says Reynolds. By the time middle school approached, Reynolds was tinkering with …
Charades in the High Court
And more of Jim Strain’s memories of being a SCOTUS clerk“Justice Rehnquist saved me from New York,” says Jim Strain. In the early 1970s, Strain was practicing with a New York-based firm and was hoping for a change when President Nixon nominated William Rehnquist to the U.S. Supreme Court. “One of my law professors, Bill Oliver, had been a law clerk at the same time that Rehnquist was a law clerk. They used to play poker together,” Strain says. So Oliver called Strain and asked permission to nominate him for a clerkship. “What do you …
Leading the Class Action Cavalry
How Richard Shevitz put his class action know-how to use for Holocaust victimsIn 1995, 50 years after the end of World War II, the U.S. government began declassifying war-related documents. They revealed that some of the institutions in Switzerland, a neutral country, had profited from questionable financial transactions with the Nazis. “When I say profited, I mean they profited from the harms inflicted on the victims of the Holocaust,” says Richard Shevitz, a partner at Cohen & Malad in Indianapolis. After the Nazis made it illegal for Jewish Germans to transfer …
The King of Uphill Battles
Unlikely causes don’t faze personal injury attorney Terry NoffsingerWhen Terry Noffsinger graduated from law school in 1969, he put his legal career on hold and joined the service. His first year was served as a Signal Corps officer for the 52nd Air Defense Artillery Brigade in New Jersey, where he manned the artillery brigade’s communications center. But a week after finding out his wife, Cheryl, was expecting their first child, he received new orders that took him a bit farther from home: Vietnam. He was assigned to the 101st Airborne infantry division, but …
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