Discipline: Law

 Pick a country of which you have very little knowledge and find out everything you can about negotiating in that country.  Write a brief paper (one page, single spaced should be sufficient – you can go to two pages, but please stop there) telling me some things you learned 

  You represent a dentist who is accused of performing an unnecessary root canal which went bad, resulting in the patient losing the tooth and having to get an implant.  During settlement discussions, the dentist tells you he wants you to use certain information he claims he gleaned from the patient while he was under […]

Reflect on what you learned this week about empowerment in organizations. In this week’s YouTube video we look at empowerment and discuss differences between empowerment and control. What are your thoughts about the video and its message? If empowerment is so effective, why don’t we see more of it in the workplace?

 Readings for this assignment:   Dresang, Dennis. The Public Administration Workbook. 7th ed. New York: Routledge, 2016. please use the above reading alone with supported documentation AND a biblical reference ! OVERVIEW Read these instructions and the grading rubric carefully before beginning your Administrative Memorandum: Public Management Assignment. You are responsible to read and understand […]

Read over Noam Ebner’s discussion on pages 156 – 164. In each of the situations below, describe which of the challenges you think this represents, then discuss how you would handle it in a paragraph. The other side responds to your emails by simply saying “thanks”, or “appreciate it”, or “I’ll get back to you.” […]

For this hypothetical, don’t worry about whether you fully understand the legal niceties here – just give me a couple of paragraphs of ideas about how to solve the problem. You represent the buyer of an apartment complex.  You find out there is an old mechanics lien on the property that doesn’t appear to have […]

You receive an email from the other side of a negotiation which you know was not intended for your viewing.  Assume the Rules of Professional Conduct governing attorney behavior in your state follows Model Rule 8.4(c), which says “it is professional misconduct for a lawyer to engage in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation.” […]

 According to the article What Works? Short-Term, In-Custody Treatment Programs, there are a number of risk-needs-responsivity model programs that have shown significant promise to effect real change in long-term offender rehabilitation (Lizama et al., 2014). However, in this article, the authors are more concerned with the successful application of such programs inside short-term correctional settings, […]

  After reading Slater’s Prison Break article, which discusses both the Norwegian prison system and the Prison Chief Bertsch’s application of those principles in the NDDCR, discuss the following points: What is your opinion of Leann Bertsch’s attempt to model the North Dakota state prison system after the Norway prison system? Do you believe the […]

In your opinion and based on what you have learned thus far, would an employee be better off if covered by Federal Workers’ Compensation type programs or State Workers’ Compensation programs.  Explain and support your answer in detail.