Law Office of Thomas J. Crane (LexBlog France)

I had a dream a couple of nights ago in which I visited the netherworld. Felt this overwhelming desire to assure those brave men buried at the Aisne-Marne American cemetery in France that the President’s comments were wrong, all wrong. For those of us with a modest bit of PTSD, Pres. Trump’s comments stung. Those...

Arbitration is more and more with us, all of us. Every consumer signs some arbitration agreement sometime, somewhere. Arbitration is increasingly found in the work place. Many employers require their employers to sign agreements to submit any dispute to arbitration. SCA Promotions paid a $10 million dollar bonus to Lance Armstrong years ago for winning...

As lawyers, our time is often not our own.  We have to adjust our priorities for our clients, opposing parties and the Court in general.  One Minnesota lawyer has learned that the hard way.  Tayari Garrett had a trial scheduled at the same time her brother was getting married in France.  She filed a motion...

The party hardy guys from France are going home.  The two French brothers were arrested because they broke into the Bexar County Courthouse after a night partying on the Riverwalk and elsewhere.  The initial concern was that they were terrorists – apparently because they were of Moroccan descent and their motive for breaking in was...

 Workplace bullying leads to insomnia, even for those co-workers who merely observe the harassment.  In a study conducted of middle aged persons in France, men and women who suffered some harassment at work were twice as likely to suffer sleeping problems.  For the study, they defined bullying as hostile actions designed to offend or oppress...