Terra Extraneus
"Commentary on the law and the practice of law by an attorney and a journalist/paralegal. Our legal interests lie especially in commercial litigation, with particular attention in insurance, securities and other investments, employment, environmental and intellectual property."
Author: Rodney J. Heggy is the director of Heggy & Associates in Oklahoma City and of counsel with Federman & Sherwood, which has offices in Oklahoma City and Dallas. Terry Hull is a paralegal for Federman & Sherwood in Oklahoma City.
Blawg Related Categories: Insurance Law • Securities Law • Trials & Litigation • Juries • 10th Circuit Court • States • Oklahoma • Paralegal • Solo / Small Firm
Recent Posts from Terra Extraneus
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Email Insecurity
The case reported by Professor Ross Runkel issued by a New Jersey appellate court, Stengart v Loving Care Agency, held that privileged communication by the former employee with her attorney through her employer’s computer retained…
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Business Heaven – A Stifled Legal System
The federal government is prosecuting far fewer fraudulent stock schemes than eight years ago, according to Eric Lichtblau of the San Diego Union Tribune, in December. Darla Mercado of Investment News reported today that the…
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Who’s Minding the Store? You’ll Never Believe The Answer!
How did Bernie Madoff, the hands-down all-time winner of the title “world’s greatest thief,” get away for so many years with bilking so many investors out of so many billions of dollars? Madoff awaits sentencing…
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Forfeitures – Will the Commercial Bank Broker Dealers Resort to Employee Fines?
The investment banks, the wirehouses, and the large broker-dealers, which have all but ceased to exist, had a love - hate relationship with “at will” employment law. Even the late and great Merrill Lynch, once…
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Don’t Get Mad – Get JP Morgan
The New York Times reported on January 28, 2009 that JP Morgan conducted a “wide ranging review” of its hedge fund exposure. JP Morgan asked Bernard L. Madoff’s funds questions and did not like the…
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Dogs Win Over Free Speech
In Oklahoma, on a slow news day, you can be sure each local television news broadcaster will have a story about a dog complete with video footage. Movie industry executives also seem to have concluded…
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Will the Protocols Stand?
There is an old saw that compares lawsuits to two men armed with knives circling each other in a dark room, not knowing whether they can ever put the knives down. During the raiding wars…
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The Upgrade Penalty
Lawyers are generally technology shy because of the time required to master new software. Thus, when this blogsite was the victim of some sort of mishap, it was clear from researching the plague on the…
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The BlueHippo Failure
NewsOK.com reported on December 2, 2008 about a Jackson County man ripped off by BlueHippo, a company that sold inexpensive electronics at inflated prices and then never delivered about a third of the sales, continued…
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Let’s Blame the Sick People!
During the sub-prime crisis, many people started out by blaming the poor people. You know, the dead beats that could not pay their mortgages. They were the people that tricked the billion dollar banks into…