Last week the American Bar Association kicked off its series of interaction sessions aimed at eliminating gender inequality in the legal field, something experts said manifests itself in both blatant and unconscious ways.

With football season, and friendly office pools, now in full tilt, much of the U.S. workforce is either reaping the rewards of their research, cleverness and luck or cursing their favorite teams and scratching their head at the record setting 28-point spread the Jacksonville Jaguars recently enjoyed. But win or lose, their weekly foray into the wide world of sports betting is almost certainly illegal.

The role of notaries in today’s world is one of greatly increased responsibility in view of issues such as identity theft, mortgage fraud and other technological challenges, says Roger Rill, a full-time notary public in Columbus, Ohio and president of Notary One, a mobile notary public service.

The quarterly loss that JPMorgan Chase recently took as a result the $9.2 billion it set aside for mounting legal expenses is emblematic of the pain regulatory agencies' stepped-up oversight is causing banks. Its also creating a boon for many of the nation's most sophisticated law firms, according the New York Times' DealBook.