Author Profile: JLGI
Airbnb: Dedicated to “Weeding Out” Criminal House Guests, as These Users Found Out the Hard Way
August 30, 2017
These Washington, D.C. roommates living in Mount Pleasant often use Airbnb to rent out their house while they are away. This time, they returned home to a...
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DC Enacts Physician-assisted Suicide Law
December 20, 2016District of Columbia Mayor Muriel E. Bowser quietly approved legislation making the District the seventh jurisdiction in the United States to allow termina...
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DC Council to Vote on Paid Family Leave
November 29, 2016The long-debated proposal to increase family leave benefits is moving closer to a vote by the DC Council. The proposed legislation, which appears to have t...
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The Right to Die with Dignity
August 29, 2015George F. Will, in the Washington Post, writes a thoughtful piece about some of the ethical and legal aspects of a person's right to end his or her life h...
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Are Uber Drivers Employees or Contractors?
June 18, 2015Johnson Law Group business clients often ask us about the advantages anddisadvantages of hiring employees versus hiring contractors, and what each approach...
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Is There a Right to Die?
February 15, 2015Three states have laws on the books that provide a right to die, including Vermont, Washington and Oregon, with a recent case making the news in Vermont. S...
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Robin Williams and Careful Estate Planning
February 12, 2015The importance of thoughtful estate planning can't be over-emphasized. Even the estate Robin Williams, which likely benefited from the expenditure of consi...
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Middle-aged (or older), Single and the Law
February 5, 2015We recently penned an article in collaboration with Angela Beckham for the February 2015 newsletter of a prominent "older-person" support organization that...
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D.C.’s Continued Struggle with “Pop-ups”
February 2, 2015The District government continues to struggle with balancing housing, economic development and aesthetic concerns in its attempt to regulate "pop-up" housi...
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Je Suis Charlie Hebdo and Law
January 10, 2015In the aftermath of the tragedy that unfolded in France, David Brooks has a recent interesting piece in The New York Times that makes the point that while ...
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