June 2026 WHEN PROTESTS TURN VIOLENT: CAN FEDERAL LAW REACH THE CHAOS AT DELANEY HALL? If the name Delaney Hall doesn’t immediately ring a bell, it should. The privately operated immigration detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, has become a focal point in the national debate......
May 2023 SOCIAL MEDIA AND OUR CHILDREN If you are reading this article, that probably means you have put down your phone, at least temporarily. But where is it? Is it within arm’s length? Have you separated from your phone for more than a few......
April 2023 IN YOUR JOB AND YOUR LIFE, ARE YOU DOING YOUR DUE DILIGENCE? “Due diligence” is a buzzword in legal circles, and for good reason. Due diligence generally describes the research one performs in order to learn important information about another person, company, or......
March 2023 STAYING ONE STEP AHEAD Attention small business owners: if you had to choose, would you characterize your daily business practices as proactive or reactive? Of course, we recognize that often this is not a binary choice and that your business practices likely fall......
FEBRUARY 2023 RISK-MITIGATION IN THE FORM OF SPEAKING UP As attorneys handling criminal matters, many times we meet clients for the first time after they are charged with criminal offenses. Of course, this makes sense; oftentimes our clients do not anticipate being charged with crimes......
JANUARY 2023 NEW YEAR, NEW LAW-RELATED RESOLUTIONS Happy New Year from your friendly neighborhood attorneys at Kingston Coventry LLC! For those of you who are new to our “Legal Corner,” let us introduce ourselves. We are small-business owners of a service-disabled veteran-owned law firm right......
DECEMBER 2022 HOLIDAY DO’S AND DON’TS The holidays are upon us and that is often the time when we collectively take our feet off the gas, when we unwind a bit, and we celebrate the joy of the season with family, friends and colleagues. We......
NOVEMBER 2022 DOES YOUR COMPANY NEED OUTSIDE GENERAL COUNSEL? If you own or operate a business of any size, you certainly understand many of the risks associated with your livelihood. Oftentimes, however, business owners are so singularly focused on bottom line profits that they may......
OCTOBER 2022 Watercooler Workplace Rules As more people are heading back to the workplace and leaving remote work behind in the wake of the pandemic, we thought it might be helpful to remind people of some basic Do’s and Don’ts in the workplace. We represent......
SEPTEMBER 2022 Cybersecurity – What Is It? Why Should You Care? What Can You Do? For many, the word “cybersecurity” is as confusing as the concept of information technology (IT). The word “cybersecurity” entered American lexicon in the early 1990s and, since then, it has......
AUGUST 2022 READ THE FINE PRINT! As lawyers we pride ourselves on reading the fine print for our clients. We perform due diligence and ensure contracts are free from unconscionable or one-sided provisions. That said, we recognize that most small businesses enter into contracts every......
JULY 2022 MERCY We thought we would take the time in this issue to talk about one of the most fundamental concepts long embedded in the fabric of our government: the concept of mercy. Mercy is a concept that some may think is better discussed......
JUNE 2022 EMBROILED IN A DISPUTE? TRY MEDIATION! You might have heard the phrase, “justice delayed is justice denied.” That adage describes the unfortunate but all too common legal scenario where an aggrieved party seeks relief from the court system, but the relief from the......
MAY 2022 ARTICLE POSTED IN DANIEL ISLAND MAGAZINE “LEGAL CORNER” In 2019 federal authorities announced charges against more than 50 parents, coaches and college administrators in a wide-ranging conspiracy known in law enforcement circles as “Operation Varsity Blues.” The object of the conspiracy was simple:......
MARCH 2022 ARTICLE POSTED IN DANIEL ISLAND MAGAZINE “LEGAL CORNER” If you are a small business owner who struggled to make financial ends meet during the COVID pandemic, chances are you may have benefitted from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The PPP is essentially a......
FEBRUARY 2022 ARTICLE POSTED IN DANIEL ISLAND MAGAZINE “LEGAL CORNER” Are you a business owner? Do you manage a staff of employees? Perhaps that “staff” you manage every day are your children? Whatever your managerial position, wherever you rank in the organizational hierarchy of your......
JANUARY 2022 ARTICLE POSTED IN DANIEL ISLAND MAGAZINE “LEGAL CORNER” As a brief introduction, we are former federal and state prosecutors, we both ran large prosecutor’s offices, and one of us also served for years as a state juvenile court judge. We also happen to......
This week the New Jersey Supreme Court, under the banner of promoting transparency and accountability, blessed two directives issued last June by NJ Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal. These directives ordered law enforcement agencies, like those I recently oversaw, to publicly disclose the names of......
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