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Rush Nigut is a shareholder with the Brick Gentry Law Firm in West Des Moines, Iowa. His practice includes both transactional and litigation matters including franchising and business law. Rush started his legal blog, Rush on Business, in 2006. He has been quoted or referenced by hundreds of other blogs, websites, and publications. He also is the editor of the Brick Gentry Trial Team blog and can help you identify the most qualified lawyer at Brick Gentry to handle your case. Our lawyers have a breadth of trial experience in personal injury, employment discrimination, business litigation, IP law, and class action cases.

The Virginia Tech tradegy continues to raise awareness of the growing necessity to prevent workplace violence.  Shanti Atkins of the Harassment Training Blog outlines a Seven-Step Workplace Prevention Plan for employers.  Those steps include:

  1. Develop a Management Team to develop, review and implement policies regarding workplace violence;
  2. Implement an Education and Training Program;
  3. Increase Security

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Rush on Business Podcast No. 5 is an interview with Mike Colwell.  Mike is the Executive Director of the Business Innovation Zone of Central Iowa (BIZ).  BIZ is a new regional business accelerator through the Greater Des Moines Partnership.  If you are an entrepreneur in Central Iowa you won’t want to

Tomorrow I have a podcast interview with Mike Colwell on my BlogTalkRadio channel page.  Mike is the Executive Director of the Des Moines Partnership’s new business accelerator, BIZ.  The live interview is scheduled for 4:00 p.m. and will be also be available in podcast format on this blog.

Hope you will listen.  If you

Judge Rosenberg gave preliminary approval today of a $179.95 million dollar settlement in the Iowa consumer class action against Microsoft.  Unlike other settlements across the country, Microsoft has agreed to pay cash to consumers as opposed to vouchers for future purchases of software.  As I predicted, the settlement is substantial and actually in line