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Unless you live under a rock, you are most certainly aware of the recent decision by the United States Supreme Court which held that rules prohibiting same sex marriage violate the Constitution.  This decision opened the...

We live and have an office in Saratoga Springs, where today is opening day of the Saratoga Race Course, one of the oldest horse racing venues in the United States.  It's a day that...

Over the past several years we've noticed a move by many businesses towards attempting to classify workers as either “independent contractors” or what are known as “exempt” employees.  This may not seem like a big deal to the employee at the time, however the classification can make a very big difference.

With the recent US Supreme Court ruling in favor of gay marriage, many would think that equal rights would be extended to gay men and women in most other areas of life.  This would be wrong.  As it stands the laws protecting gay men and women from being free from discrimination in...

This is a question that we frequently receive – will my case go to trial? The short answer is – we can't say for sure. Statistically the large majority of lawsuits are resolved before trial, often through settlement. Personal injury lawsuits may be settled early, at...

Many people share a common fear about going to the doctor.  They are afraid that they will find out that something is wrong.  They don't want to hear it, so they put off going.  Most of the time when they do finally go things turn out okay. What most...

July 2015

You're driving down the road and things are fine.  A split second later, they're not. We're lucky – we live in a time when automobile safety standards are advancing and cars are becoming much...

Surgical items left in patients, or “foreign object” cases, happen more frequently than you would imagine in New York. This is almost always negligence Surgery is common.  It happens thousands of times per day at hospitals across the country.  Most of these surgeries are successful, some are not.  Most...

The Albany Times Union features a story about a D'Orazio Peterson employment discrimination client – a female firefighter who alleges severe sexual harassment over a period of many years.

https://youtu.be/BzkCvw7_wMM The website Medium.com recently published a fascinating, and extremely frightening, excerpt from a book entitled The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype and Harm at the...

The United States Supreme Court issued two decisions yesterday that adversely impact Plaintiffs in an already difficult employment law field. The first, in the case of Vance v. Ball State University, focused on how to define the term “supervisor”, which under Title VII of the Civil Rights act is significant. The Court...