Topic: Houston (Texas)

Brief explanation of my personal motto

One thing that I have always done is to learn one thing from everyone that I have come into contact with, this can be something you want to learn to do, keep from doing, or just remember so that when a situation arises you have the ...READ»

A Little Goes A Long Way

In any career, a little effort goes a long way. And too little effort can leave a lasting, bad impression on your customers. Yesterday I had the unfortunate task of visiting my father in the hospital. Memorial Hermann ...READ»

Avoiding Phone Slamming

Phone slamming, and lately domain slamming, have become popular ways to get subscribers to switch phone services and/or Internet providers without their consent.READ»

Assault May Mean Different Things

Many people think of assault as being an assault directly on a person, when in reality it may be defined in a different manner depending on the actual facts of the case.READ»

Criminal and Civil Law Cases Are Different

Not a lot of people truly appreciate the differences between a civil and a criminal case.READ»

The Crime of Assault

When the economy gets bad does crime rates increase?READ»

Health Fraud on the Rise

It's interesting that people who commit health care fraud think they are doing nothing wrong and that those big companies have lots of money and won't miss any.READ»

#2 Economic Survival Tip: Learn New Best Practices

Last week, we began a three-part series on surviving—and even thriving—in a miserable economy. This week, consider if there are new practices your company could adopt to rapidly boost your effectiveness in critical customer-facing ...READ»

Rising Star: Prison Entrepreneurship Program

Catherine F. Rohr, CEO Houston, Texas pep.org A large percentage of inmates come to prison as seasoned entrepreneurs, having run highly successful enterprises such as drug rings and gangs. What if these influential leaders were ...READ»

Rackeetering Is An Organized Crime

The business of running a racket is called rackeetering.READ»

The Crime of Murder in Texas

Murder isn't just plain and simple in Texas.READ»

Mail Theft, the Number One White Collar Crime

You might not know this, but when you find out the reasons for mail theft being about the number one white-collar crime, you'll understand why.READ»

Active Warrants Search

"In an interesting twist to the police being one step ahead of offenders with outstanding arrest warrants, people are now able to search online for their own active arrest warrants," indicated Daniel H. Wannamaker of Wannamaker and Associates, of Austin, Texas, with offices in Dallas and Houston.READ»

The Slam Game Hits Domains

Slamming isn’t just alive and well in the telecommunication industry. It is now rearing its ugly head on the Internet and relates to domains.READ»

Attorney Daniel Wannamaker Discusses the Increase in Crime in a Bad Economy

When the economy gets bad, one of the first things that seems to come apart at the seams is the crime rate. It goes up.READ»

Big Fish White-Collar Offenders

There are plenty of fish in the sea of white-collar crime, ranging in size from small to whoppers, but it's not always that easy to catch the big ones.READ»

When Mortgage Fraud Lurks Around the Corner

The latest crime to hit the papers is mortgage fraud. There is no question it is on the rise.READ»

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Medical Tourism / Our May cover story -- on Silicon Valley startup Ning and its CEO, Gina Bianchini -- attracted plenty of interest, but it was a thornier subject that drew the broadest range of comment: the outsourcing of health care ...READ»

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Escape from the Red Zone

Peter Naylor and Claire Crittenden have a revolutionary approach for confronting the business world's last taboo: emotion.READ»

Organized Protection Scams

While we don't really hear this word too often, other than on TV crime shows, racketeering is alive and well in the U.S.READ»

Online Identify Theft More Common Than You May Think

It's not too surprising to note that online identity theft is actually a much worse problem than you might think.READ»

An Aggravating Crime

There is a "regular crime" then there is an "aggravated crime," but what does this mean in the scheme of the American justice system?READ»

American Petroleum Institute Demonstrates How to Screw Up a Grassroots Event

It's no secret that oil and gas companies don't like the Waxman-Markey climate change bill. After all, Exxon and its ilk stand to lose a lot of cash if they have to buy emission permits for all the greenhouse gases they let loose. But ...READ»

Have Web, Will Travel

Don't fire your travel agent -- yet. But surfing the web before packing your bag lets you pick the right seat on a plane, check out hotels before you check in, and arrange a great weekend in a new city.READ»

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