9/21/2019· Internet Marketing
The Rise of Vaping - How Viral Marketing Techniques Might Fuel Adoption
By: Brent Coker, PhD
I was recently invited to provide informal pro-bono advice to a law firm organizing a class action lawsuit against JUUL – a supplier of vaping products. Part of their argument was the idea that JUUL were engaged in unlawful viral marketing – inciting peer pressure by using advanced marketing techniques.
9/21/2019· Telecommunication
Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) Compliance: A Checklist
By: Ray Horak
The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) was passed into law in 1991. At the time, consumers were plagued by sales calls which it seemed always came at the most inconvenient times...In an effort to address a growing number of telephone marketing calls and certain other telemarketing practices...
9/13/2019· Recreation & Sports
Death of Female Iranian Soccer Fan Puts FIFA and Asian Soccer Body in the Dock
When Sahar Khodayari this week set herself alight in front of a Tehran courthouse, she indicted world soccer body FIFA, its Asian regional group, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), and their presidents, Gianni Infantino and Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa.
9/12/2019· Addiction Issues & Substance Abuse
Dealing With Drug or Alcohol Abuse Issues? Be Proactive!
By: Dr. Linnda Durré
If not dealt with, addiction can be a greased pole to self-destruction and bankruptcy. For people in powerful positions, such as CEOs, doctors, executives and company founders, attempting to conduct business without the use of their full faculties is a very dangerous proposition.
9/10/2019· Foreign Affairs - Geopolitics
A Bird's Eye View of Asia: A Continental Landscape of Minorities in Peril
A bird’s eye view of Asia produces a picture of a continental landscape strewn with minorities on the defensive whose positioning as full-fledged members of society with equal rights and opportunities is either being eroded or severely curtailed.
8/19/2019· Nonprofit Organizations
The Secret to Starting a Successful Nonprofit
By: Jess Birken, Esq
Here's the secret to getting your nonprofit idea off the ground: knowing for sure that it should be a nonprofit in the first place.
7/23/2019· Documentation Examination & Analysis
A Weak Forensic Document Examiner's Opinion Helps Win Case
By: Mike Wakshull
You have hired a forensic examiner to analyze evidence for your civil case. After a thorough examination of the evidence, the forensic examiner delivers a weak forensic opinion toward favoring your theory of the case. Will the examiner's weak opinion help you in trial?
6/13/2019· Telecommunication
Rumplestiltskin, LLP: The Dark Side of Dialers
By: Ray Horak
Most of us know, at least in general terms, about the restrictions on unsolicited telemarketing calls to consumers and the national Do-Not-Call (DNC) list designed to end those annoyances...or opportunities, depending on your perspective. Just to refresh your memory, the TCPA states "It shall be unlawful for any person within the United States, or any person outside the United States if the recipient is within the United States—(A) to make any call (other than a call made for emergency purposes or made with the prior express consent of the called party) using any automatic telephone dialing system [ATDS] or an artificial or prerecorded voice
6/10/2019· Finance
Elder Abuse Awareness Day (6/15): How to Protect Your Parents from Financial Abuse
By: Marguerita Cheng
Did you hear of the case out of Wisconsin that involved a younger couple and their neighbor, a 92-year-old retired teacher who never married and had dementia? After befriending the woman, the couple took control of her home and nearly $2 million of her savings before they were eventually found out.
5/7/2019· Telecommunication
Rumplestiltskin, LLP: Volume I - The Dark Side of Fax
By: Ray Horak
In an effort to address a growing number of telephone marketing calls and certain other telemarketing practices thought to be invasions of privacy, Congress enacted the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA), codified at 47 U.S.C. § 227.
