Today I’ll be pinch hitting for Brett Trout at the Des Moines Partnership’s Biz Networking Luncheon. I will cover how to stop doing things online that will land you into court. The best part of this presentation is I get Brett’s material. I hope to see you there today.
This event will be held
This Wednesday morning (Jan. 16th) I will speak at the IowaBiz breakfast series on the How To Avoid Legal Surprises for Your Company. The presentation begins at 7:30 a.m. at the Professional Solutions Insurance Services’ Building, 14001 University Avenue, Clive, Iowa.
Thanks to our hosts from Professional Solutions Insurance Services. So far, the series has been
The Pennsylvania Employment Law Blog posts on how Lockheed’s failure to take discrimination complaints seriously led to liability.
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If you are looking at a franchise opportunity perhaps you should beware if your prospective 
franchisor says the following:
Roger Clemens has sued his former trainer for defamation in an attempt to regain his Hall of Fame reputation. The WSJ Law Blog has a great story on the lawsuit.
The interesting question will be whether the trainer will file a counterclaim for defamation. Why not? McNamee now has to protect his reputation and Clemens
Iowa trial lawyer Joe Gunderson was featured this past week during the Iowa Caucus on the Wall Street Journal Law Blog. Joe had the following comments regarding what it’s like to have Iowa in the national spotlight:
It’s fabulous because we get a rejuvenated civics lesson every four years. Our newspapers for the past
Is your business in need of a buy-sell agreement? Don’t know how to get started?
An excellent resource worth considering is a book from Z. Christopher Mercer called Buy-Sell Agreements: Ticking Time Bombs or Reasonable Solutions? A blog post from Mercer worth reading also raises an excellent point regarding buy-sell agreements:
If you are in the process of
Iowans turned out in record numbers for the caucus! My precinct almost doubled the turnout from 2004. The energy was infectious and everyone could feel something special was happening.
Congratulations to the winning candidates but the real winners are Iowans.
Today is the day. The Iowa caucus is finally here. I saw this report fromYahoo that approximately 2.75 million Iowans won’t caucus today. That means only approximately 10 percent (or less) of Iowans are expected to caucus. Let’s hope we blow that figure away.
I was a little surprised when one of my friends
Tomorrow is the Iowa caucus. As my friend Michael Libbie pointed out in a recent comment on this blog, we are so lucky here in Iowa. We get to meet the candidates, ask questions and receive hundreds and hundreds of phone calls. (Well, two out of three isn’t bad).
Caucus locations and information for Democrats can be found
