Archive for August, 2008

Entrepreneurship and Job Contracting

The entrepreneur who starts a small business is almost always an owner-employee, performing the tasks of that business in addition to managing the business itself. A webpage creator or a software programmer who starts out his own business does the programming and, in addition, does the marketing and management of the business.

Bar Tips (Atty. Joan De Venecia’s Lecture)

The entire phbar community would like to express its gratitude to Joan for sharing her time and effort in giving a lecture during the 2nd Gathering of the phbar community. Joan placed No. 1 during the 2005 Bar Exams. The summary of the lecture is reproduced at phbar.org. The full presentation is attached at the [...]

Time to Relax: Long Weekends for August

All work and no play kills a lawyer, well, everyone. Maybe I don’t need to cite statistics to prove that work-related stress and pressure are the usual culprits in illness/sickness (and, unfortunately, death) among lawyers. True, so many of us have learned to cope and deal with stress, but that’s not a guarantee that stress [...]