Governor Jennifer Granholm signed a new Michigan law modifying foreclosure and loan modification rights (2009-PA-0029, 2009-PA-0030, 2009-PA-0031) to help financially distressed homeowners on May 21, 2009. The new foreclosure law takes effect on July 5, 2009. I have posted a copy of the new Michigan foreclosure law. [PDF - all acts] Individual [...]

With massive layoffs, Wall Street bonuses, and employment contracts in the news, many people are taking a close look at their own employment contracts for the first time and focusing on new concerns and questions about job security and performance: What does the contract say about your right to continuing employment? What would [...]

As part of the No Worker Left Behind law [PDF], Michigan has created a Green Jobs Initiative which provides statewide, regional and local resources and training opportunities in alternative energy, green building and construction and retrofitting, and sustainable business practices.
If you’re unemployed or looking to re-educate and change careers, you can identify training opportunities for [...]

Courtesy of Rep. Barney Frank and the New York Times’ Dealbook: a copy of the AIG Financial Products Corporation 2008 Employee Retention Plan (aka the “AIG contract”).

I stated in the previous post that “Contracts are good.” I didn’t, however, say that contracts were sacrosanct or could never be broken (or that you can wave the word “Contract!!” like a magic wand, as if to repel the snakes from Ireland). But that is indeed the argument advanced by several media pundits [...]

Do you have an internet business? Do you sell into Nevada or Massachusetts? E-commerce companies who do business in these states, or with customers in these states, are now subject to data privacy laws requiring not only notification of data breaches — but encryption of stored or transmitted personal data.
In 2008 both Nevada and [...]

The Kindle 2 released by Amazon last month is thinner and faster and has access to an increasing number of book titles. So popular that it flew off the shelves last Christmas despite the economic downturn, Kindle 2 continues to revolutionize the e-book and traditional publishing industries.
One of the latest features of the Kindle [...]

Social media’s social activist moment is officially here. Votereport.com is using Twitter and special applications for the iPhone and Android cell phones, to monitor polling conditions, voting wait times, voter registration problems, and voting machine dysfunction in the US presidential election.

Anyone with a Twitter account, or with an iPhone or Android phone, can participate:

http://twittervotereport.com/spread-the-word/

RDR Books, based in Muskegon, Michigan, won’t be publishing Steven Vander Ark’s much-anticipated “Harry Potter Lexicon.” Not any time soon, and not any time. A US District Court judge in Manhattan has issued a permanent injunction against publication of the work, finding that it infringes copyrights in the popular Harry Potter series of [...]

You can download a copy of the judge’s Opinion and Order in Warner Brothers Entertainment and J.K. Rowling v. RDR Books here at Arborlaw (PDF).
Many thanks to Dineen Pashoukos Wasylik for pulling this down off PACER.