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Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and most people have something to be thankful about. It might be for getting a short work week, finding out that there is yet another extension on the student loan moratorium, or getting a cheat day on your diet.

But as many of us plan to get together with family and friends, in the back of our minds we wonder if there will be an argument or a fight over politics.

Why has Thanksgiving become divisive? Mainly it was due to Donald Trump’s unexpected presidential win in 2016. Soon after the election results, fresh with surprise, anger, and frustration, there were opinion pieces in well-known publications that advocated (and in some cases, even demanded) people be more vocal about political positions at the family gathering. They encouraged making family members feel uncomfortable, getting into heated arguments, and creating divisions. The rationale is to find out who is

Donald Trump was either the dumbest CEO in America, or he participated in a whole lot of crimes. His company’s lawyers are hoping to convince a jury of the first in the criminal prosecution of the Trump Organization underway in Manhattan.

The goal here is to present former CFO Allen Weisselberg, who pleaded guilty to charges that he participated in a decades-long scheme to use pre-tax dollars to pay for his apartment, cars, and various other perks, as the lone criminal mastermind seeking to defraud the company. To that end, Weisselberg’s longtime right hand man, comptroller Jeff McConney, spent three days on the witness stand purporting to have thought it was very cool and very legal to keep a second set of secret books documenting the declining balance of top executives’ salaries.

The problem with this strategy, as Daily Beast reporter Jose Pagliery, who has been livetweeting from the courtroom,

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed rule Tuesday for Affordable Care Act (ACA) plans in 2024. The agency hopes the changes will increase healthcare access, streamline the plan selection process and simplify enrolling in coverage.

To advance access to care, CMS is proposing adding two essential community provider (ECP) categories for 2024: mental health facilities and substance use disorder treatment centers. An ECP is a provider that mostly serves low-income and medically underserved populations. Adding these categories will improve healthcare access by requiring medical qualified health plan issuers to offer a contract to at least one substance use disorder treatment center and at least one mental health facility that qualify as ECPs in each county of the plan’s service area, a CMS spokesperson said in an email.

Additionally, CMS currently requires health plans to contract with 35% of all ECPs in their area. In the

Rebranding your law firm? You’re probably wondering if it’s better to use the term “attorney” or “lawyer” for search engine optimization. Often interchanged, Google may prefer one over the other. It’s important to distinguish which term is best for your law firm and your practice and use the term that will drive the most traffic to your website. Continue reading to learn which terms rank higher in SEO for law firms.

Why is SEO so Important?
Search engine optimization (SEO) is at the core of online marketing. This method helps websites rank higher in Google and other search engines. Most potential clients search for law firms online. Many will not look past the first page of search results.

An effective marketing strategy involves using keywords that prospective new clients will use when they search, so they will find your firm on that first page of results when looking for a

The need for law firms to set themselves apart from their competition is clear. Applying Search Engine Optimization (SEO) practices in current marketing strategies have become increasingly important for law firms over the past couple of years. Simply searching for a “lawyer near me” brings up a list of thousands of lawyers located close to the user. Law firms that appear at the top of Google’s search engine results are highly ranked due to Search Engine Optimization. If you wonder why your law firm does not appear on the first page of a Google search, there are steps you can take to improve and optimize your law firm’s website ranking.

Ways to Increase Your Law Firms Search Engine Ranking
There are various reasons why a law firm’s website is not ranking high enough to show up on the first page of a Google search, but the good news is that