Carl Kanowsky, Esq. You’ve probably heard the proverb, “Never criticize someone until you’ve walked a mile in his shoes.” Well, for Jose Robles, this old saying has come to haunt him. Jose worked for Liquid Environmental Solutions for four years. He’d been a fine employee, apparently. That...

Carl Kanowsky, Esq. Joan applied for the receptionist job at Imagoner Funeral Home. She was tired of her job at Tilted Hooters and wanted something not as exhausting – and a job where people looked at her eyes, not elsewhere. Joe Curious, manager at Imagoner, received Joan’s resume while looking...

Carl Kanowsky, Esq. My new best client, Chief Hank Sawgas of the Hallnew tribe, came to see me the other day. The tribe had leased a location in Mayo to the slightly shady developer Donald Trumpet. Everything looked great until the Trumpet declared bankruptcy, apparently for the fourth time this decade....

Carl Kanowsky, Esq. Now, I’m not asking you for sympathy for lawyers. That would be like saying you should feel sorry for the crocodile because it sheds a tear while devouring a baby zebra. But with this story, maybe you’ll at least realize that attorneys are, for the most part, human. Most of us...

Carl Kanowsky, Esq. “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Ah, that Shakespeare, what a romantic. In this quote from “Romeo and Juliet,” Juliet is trying to convince Romeo not to let his last name control his destiny. We know how that worked out. Breaking...

Carl Kanowsky, Esq. Let me pose a hypothetical situation. Suppose you are an employer with some employees. Some of your employees drive their cars to work and rarely use those same cars to do some errand or other business-related function for you. Suppose further that one of these same employees is leaving...

Carl Kanowsky, Esq. Peter Jones, Paul Smith and Mary Johnson decided to form a new California corporation. The company made fire-retardant clothes. They named it Puff Inc. They filed the articles of incorporation, signed a lease for their new offices, and elected the three of them to the board of directors. Business...

Carl Kanowsky, Esq. With all of the press and publicity over sensational cases like Rep. Anthony Weiner (unfortunate last name, that) and Wal-Mart, you’d think employers across the United States would have learned from the boneheaded mistakes of their predecessors. To be honest, there has been some...

Carl Kanowsky, Esq. Angelina Jolie’s boobs. Got your attention, right? That is what that pair has been doing (quite effectively, I might add) since the movie “Hackers” in 1995. They’ve been in the news, but for a different reason than their prior allure. As probably 95 percent of the world population...

Carl Kanowsky, Esq. Pity poor Bill Koch.  He’s not the world’s wealthiest man.  He’s only the 92nd richest American, and just No. 329 in the world, worth a measly $4 billion.  Boy, I don’t know how he gets up in the morning. Adding insult to injury, he bought 2,669 bottles of wine at one auction...