USLegal Newsletter – November 2009
Welcome to USLegal’s November Newsletter. As the holidays approach, we’re touting a selection of shiny new forms packages below, and trumpeting a nation wide announcement of our Build USLegal program. As newsletter readers know, USLegal Paralegals is one initial success of Build USLegal. If you know a paralegal, forward them this news! Read on for details.
At USLegal, customer satisfaction is our greatest asset and goal. If we’ve made your legal life easier, please tell your friends and family about us. If you have a routine legal need, make us your first stop. And now, our news:
Shiny New Forms Packages – From Photographers to Farmers
Photography and Modeling Package
This package is an important tool to promote and protect the interests of those involved in the photography or modeling business. Forms included cover a wide variety of issues, such as contracts for production and sale of photographic works, releases, assignments, and more. Purchase of this package is a savings of more than 50% over purchase of the forms individually!
Child Care Services Package
This package includes essential forms for the promotion and proper operation of a child care service. The forms included are designed to protect the liability of the child care provider and minimize the potential for future litigation. Purchase of this package is a savings of more than 50% over purchasing the forms individually.
Author Publishing Package
This package includes essential forms for defining the rights and obligations of an author and publisher of written and/or electronic works and preventing future disputes. The forms included are designed to handle the potential issues that may arise in a wide variety of transactions. Purchase of this package is a savings of 50% off purchasing the forms individually!
Pet Services Package
This package is designed to assist a person providing pet care services, such as boarding, grooming, training, and breeding, to deliver such services in a professional, legal, and protected manner. Purchase this package and save up over 50% over purchasing the forms separately!
Accountant Package
This package is designed to assist in the efficient operation of an accounting business. Forms provided cover a wide variety of issues involved with the effective promotion of an accountant and management of accounting matters. Purchase of this package is a savings of more than 50% over purchase of the forms individually!
Farm Package
This package is designed to assist a farm owner in operating a farm, in matters such as employment, financial, and leasing transactions. The forms included are essential tools for promoting the farm’s operation in a legally protected manner. Purchase this package and save 50% over purchasing the forms separately!
Build USLegal: Host and Manage Your Legal Content with Us
Our newsletter recipients have been some of the first responders to our Build USLegal program, and we’ve now gone nation wide with a press release. Join USLegal and help us continue to make USLegal the premier destination for legal information, products and services – and make money! To contact us about Build USLegal, and for more information on the program, click here. We’re searching for legal Authors, Subject Matter Specialists, Publishers, CLE Providers, and Legal Forms Databases. If you have written legal subject matter or form books, articles or seminar materials, learn how to leverage the power of USLegal to turn the works into continuing revenue. Manage your content with us and earn income on a continuing basis.
‘USLegal Paralegals’ – Networking, News, Info and Articles for Paralegals and Attorneys
USLegal Paralegals is our new paralegal resources website. Managed by pioneer paralegal and author Carole Bruno, the new portal provides networking benefits and features for paralegals and attorneys alike. The website sprouted from our Build USLegal program, which aims to transform USLegal into a community covering every legal subject, maintained by content managers drawn from legal experts nationwide.
USLegal Paralegals professional networking tools include a ‘Paralegal Job Connection’ that allows attorneys the opportunity to review a private online database of resumes of highly qualified paralegals available for employment nationally, whether permanent, freelance or virtual. In addition, USLegal Paralegals offers an internship program featuring an online database of paralegal students located throughout the nation available to work as paid or unpaid interns. If you know a paralegal, please forward this news to them.
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Legal News In Brief
We track breaking legal news at the USLegal Reporter. Check in regularly to stay updated on top national legal stories. These are some of the items of interest we’ve spotted in the last month:
Compulsive Gambler Blames Casino For Luring Her
The Supreme Court in Indiana is hearing an appeal in a case involving a compulsive gambler who in one night lost $125,000 advanced to her by the casino. On March 18, 2006, Jenny Kephart went to Ceasars Riverboat Casino, now the Horseshoe Southern Indiana casino, where she lost $125,000 in credit provided by Caesars at a blackjack table. Kephart admits that she’s a pathological gambler. She claims that the casino knew of her addiction and wealth and was preyed upon.
NSA to Build $1.6 Billion Storage Facility to House Personal Surveillance Data
The National Security Agency is planning to build a $1.6 billion storage facility in Utah to warehouse personal data. The giant facility will contain more than 1 million square feet of data center space. Construction is scheduled to begin in June 2010 and be completed by March 2013. The new facility is estimated to require as much electricity as all of Salt Lake City. All forms of electronic data will be stored at the center, such as intercepted phone calls, e-mail messages, Internet searches and other communications intercepted by the agency.
Feds Announce Policy Not to Prosecute Medical Marijuana Users
Under new legal guidelines issued by the Obama administration, federal drug agents won’t target pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers in states that allow medical marijuana. “It will not be a priority to use federal resources to prosecute patients with serious illnesses or their caregivers who are complying with state laws on medical marijuana, but we will not tolerate drug traffickers who hide behind claims of compliance with state law to mask activities that are clearly illegal,” Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement.
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Law and Legal Definitions
Social Security
Social security is designed as safety net national insurance system to protect individuals from financial distress caused by unforeseen catastrophes. In the United States, the Social Security Program was created in 1935 (42 U.S.C. 301 et seq.) to provide old age, survivors, and disability insurance benefits to workers and their families. Unlike welfare, social security benefits are paid to an individual or his or her family at least in part on the basis of that person’s employment record and prior contributions to the system. The program is administered by the Social Security Administration (SSA) and since 1965 it has included health insurance benefits under the Medicare program. While social security benefits under the act are most often associated with old age, survivors, and disability insurance, in its broadest sense, they also includes federally funded welfare programs and unemployment compensation.
The Federal Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) pays out monthly benefits to retired people, to families whose wage earner has died, and to workers unemployed due to sickness or accident. Workers qualify for its protection by having been employed for a minimum amount of time and by having made contributions to the program. An employer who fail to deduct the required employee’s share of these taxes makes that employer liable for the full amount. Once an individual has qualified for protection, certain other family members are, as well. Financial need is not a requirement.
For the rest of our information on Social Security, read the full entry.
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