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From Mike Colwell of Biz I learned about Franchise Interviews which is another resource for those interesting in franchising.  The site has several interviews with successful franchisees, franchisors and franchise experts (including lawyers).

I listened to the interview with leading franchise lawyer Kevin Hein of the Denver office of Snell & Wilmer. ( An interesting interview but…

I am excited to announce that the Sullivan & Ward law firm will publish its Iowa Law Blog beginning in mid to late August.  The firm’s law blog will cover general legal issues inlcuding the following areas of law:

  • Utility and electric cooperative law;
  • Business law;
  • Trusts and estates;
  • Family law;
  • Real Estate law;
  • Trial &

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Michael Moore has an informative post on Developing a Record Retention Policy on his Pennsylvania Employment Law Blog.  Michael raises a particularly insightful issue:

Anticipate the arguments that may be made and inferences that could be drawn from the destruction of certain documents and weigh it against the expense of retaining and producing the

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Yesterday I had an interesting discussion with one of my buddies.  He is an executive with a Fortune 500 company out-of-state and he was expressing his frustration with lawyers – actually his own lawyers.  He just got off the phone with one of his outside counsel when I called.  After talking with him for less than 30 seconds I…

The IowaBiz.com site is gaining popularity daily.  Yours truly is one of the contributing authors but the other eleven authors have me checking this site every day and reading it through my feedreader.  I am continually impressed with the quality of the ideas and concepts developed by the authors.  A couple of my recent favorites and applicable to readers of…

Charlie Longbrief had just turned off his computer to end his day when the phone rang.  It was John Grains.  John owns the local grain elevator in Hometown, Iowa and Charlie has been his business lawyer for several years.

"Charlie, I’ve got a problem,"  he said. 

"Tell me about it," Charlie said.

"Well, I need to fire Nancy…

In today’s business environment, organizations need to respond to an increasing number of document requests, from regulatory compliance issues to internal investigations to full-scale litigation. Much of this information is available electronically. Despite the prevalence of such document requests most organizations remain reactive rather than proactive when it comes to dealing with the issue of…