I am trying to understand if a friend is a victim of a hostile work environment and harassment.

Everyone has heard this term "hostile work environment." It almost never means what people assume it to mean. "Hostile work environment" is a...

School changing dress code?

What's the problem? Dress codes typically provide that you have to wear appropriate clothing. No tube tops or mesh athletic shirts or short...

Business Shares and Tax Implication

For the life of me I don't understand why someone involved in a complicated business transaction presumably involving interests which are worth a...

Are debt collectors allowed to ask who you reside with?

Why wouldn't they be allowed to ask you this question? Their job is to ply you for information that can help them get money out of you, either now...

14 yr old son w/ autism accidently broke a monitor at a pizza play place. Am I legally responsible to pay for it?

If you were responsible for supervising your autistic son so that he did not cause damage, but he did in fact cause damage, the business could...

If you had brought the plastic to the attention of the restaurant, they might have refunded your money or given you a different cone. The...

"can an attny., change from criminal attny to divorce attny overnight to represent a friend?"

For some reason people love putting lawyers into category boxes. I have never been able to figure this out. A lawyer has a law license which...

The following article published in The Wall Street Journal last year may illuminate this subject.

Does Sam have a "true" legal cause to sue her attorney for malpractice if he didn't submit her bills to the insurance company?

This reads like a fact pattern a teacher wrote for an exam. Please don't ask Avvo lawyers to do your take-home exams for you.

A mortgage company employee used company computer and access sites to obtain a background check on me. Is this illegal?

Hard to answer this question in a general way. It's not clear what information this person obtained about you. There is a great deal of...