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Attorney Jeffrey Possinger Awarded Martindale-Hubble AV Preeminent Peer Rating

March 9, 2018
Possinger Law Group, PLLC is pleased to announce that Managing Member, Jeffrey Possinger was awarded a Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Peer Rating on February 5, 2018. These awards are determined through a secure online peer review survey where a lawyer’s ethical standards and legal ability in a specific area of practice is assessed by their peers. Once the review process is completed, an attorney may receive recognition with their Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Rating™. According to the company’s nomination requirements, the rating...
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WASHINGTON STATE SUPREME COURT EXPANDS SCOPE OF WASHINGTON’S LAW AGAINST DISCRIMINATION (WLAD)

May 22, 2014
In a decision issued today (05-22-2014), the Washington Supreme Court expanded the coverage of Washington’s Law Against Discrimination (WLAD) Chapter 49.60 RCW to require reasonable accommodation of an employee’s religious practices. Kumar v. Gate Gourmet, Inc. No. 88062-0  In a decision written by Justice Sheryl Gordon McCloud, the Court articulated an expanded duty for employers to accommodate the religious practices of their employees. In this particular case the employer’s policy of requiring employees to eat food provided by the employer violated the religious dietary requirements of several employees. The trial court’s previous dismissal of the Plaintiffs’ claims...
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HAS COMCAST BECOME THE LATEST TARGET?: LATEST DATA BREACH POSES COMMUNICATIONS CHALLENGES FOR COMMUNICATIONS GIANT

February 10, 2014
No matter how this data security breach story develops, if you are a Comcast customer, you should probably change your passwords now. In what may be the latest in a series of high-profile computer security breaches, Comcast had at least 34 of its servers hacked on February 6, 2014 by NullCrew FTS. After publishing a list of Comcast’s mail servers and a link to the root file with the vulnerability it used to penetrate Comcast’s system on Pastebin (Read Here),...
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Excellent Article on Entrepreneurial Stress

January 29, 2014
In a recent article appearing in “Inc.”, titled “The Psychological Price of Entrepreneurship” author Jessica Bruder discusses some of the unique psychological challenges faced by entrepreneurs. The article addresses the fact that for all of the success stories that are out there concerning business ventures that make it big, even for the successful business person the road to that success has often been marked with bouts of anxiety and despair. As a lawyer, I have seen some of these issues...
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MOVING TARGET: DATA BREACH NOTIFICATION IN PRACTICE

January 14, 2014
The recent Target (and now Neiman-Marcus) data security breach provides a clear illustration of the challenges faced by businesses that must comply with the various data breach notification laws. As of the writing of this article, what is known is that for 19 days (between November 27 and December 15) computer hackers gained “unauthorized access” to Target’s customers’ names, credit or debit card numbers, card expiration dates, and three-digit CVV security codes. [link] Target initially revealed on December 19 (four...

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