Your poor heart. As you sit there, reading while eating or texting or otherwise multitasking, your heart is hard at work. It has the singular purpose of moving nutrients, oxygen and cleansing your body. It is a muscle that contracts harder than a sprinter’s leg muscle and consistently beats about 2.5 billion times by the…
On January 18, 2012, the tech community in Silicon Valley gathered in front of San Francisco’s City Hall to protest the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) bills being considered by Congress and the House of Representatives. PIPA was approved by a senate committee and is now pending before…
Happy 2012! The quaint days of the Y2K bug are firmly behind us—not only have we actually made it to the new millennium, we have soundly surpassed the first decade mark. We once might have associated 2012 with flying cars and a clear universal vision but now, across the threshold of “the Future” we cross…
Palo Alto Law Firm has 2 A-/B+ offices and 1 cubicle for sublease with a qualified subtenant near California Avenue train station and the Palo Alto County Courthouse. Conveniently located near El Camino Real and Oregon Expwy./Page Mill Rd. Reception area, use of large conference room, kitchen access, furnished or unfurnished, free parking, daily cleaning….
Volunteers Needed to Judge the 2012 Philip A. Harley Memorial Mock Trial Competition! When: 6:00-8:00 p.m. on January 11, 12 & 31, and February 2, 7, 9 &16. **Volunteers may sign up for one or more of the evenings** Where: Alameda County Superior Court Administration Bldg, 1221 Oak St., Oakland Attorneys are needed to score…
This holiday season, PAABA members disperse into the four corners of the world and the by-product, for a while anyway, is frayed family nerves from your failing to put phones/lap tops/tablets aka “that thing” down for one moment. Unbeknownst to them, you reduced technology use by fifty percent the moment you disembarked. Proof: As they…
Ganka Hadjipetrova, Esq. A growing number of small businesses are being unpleasantly surprised with letters from performing rights organizations, such as the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), with indirect or direct threats of copyright infringement. The performing rights organizations, or PROs, which manage musical copyrights on behalf…
The Palo Alto Area Bar Association (PAABA) holds service to the community as a core value. In this spirit, PAABA held a book drive to benefit the San Mateo County Law Library in Redwood City. The Law Library provides FREE access for all to legal information and resources, including treatises, law reviews, and legal reference…
The Palo Alto Area Bar Association developed out of a need for community. The meetings started out small, as lunches between fellow practitioners and neighbors. It was the early 1930s, before the concept of “power lunches” and the proliferation of books on networking. Commutes wound through orchards and along marshlands. Luncheon debates of the day probably concerned the nation’s…