Brick Gentry’s Austin Kennedy is now live with his new immigration law blog. The blog was designed by our friends at Lexblog.
Austin chairs Brick Gentry’s immigration and naturalization law practice group, with an emphasis on employment-based immigration (ie., work visas), employer immigration compliance (ie., avoiding and recovering from ICE raids) and investor
Juice Magazine recently interviewed me for an article on how to start your own business. I offered the following tips to new business owners:
The Ohio Practical Business Law Blog examines the new Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD) a recent post. The new FDD rules began in earnest on July 1, 2008.
Previously I posted on some of the key differences between the old UFOC rule and the new FDD rule including:
I received word today from conference organizers that the inaugural Midwest Small Business Conference has been canceled.
Hopefully organizers can give it try again next year. I thought it was a great lineup. Too bad it didn’t fly.
The bailout is not universally popular with Main Street America but the International Franchise Association says a bailout is needed because our credit crisis "threatens to derail the future growth of franchised businesses because it undermines the health of credit markets as well as equity markets."
There is no doubt Wall Street is hoping against all hope
Congress recently passed the amendments to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) that will go into effect January 1, 2009. It is anticipated President Bush will sign the law soon.
Read all about the new ADA amendments on my blog post for IowaBiz.
The Midwest Small Business Conference is now set for October 10 & 11, 2008 at the Des Moines Marriott. This event is rescheduled from the previous announcement on this blog because the original date conflicted with the Iowa-Iowa State football game. (Conference organizers learned that not even business gets in the way of football). Fortunately the conference was able to
I am honored to be included among the Alltop franchising news selections. Some exciting things have been happening for me on the franchising front including developing the franchise disclosure document and franchise agreement for a new local franchisor, the opening of a client’s new Max Muscle franchise location just on Thursday and the completion of a franchise
Anita Campbell of Small Business Trends hosts her Back to Business Blawg Review #177 this week. Anita was kind enough to include my post from IowaBiz on the Most Important Legal Axiom in the Business World.
For those of you not familiar with the Small Business Trends site, it is one you should follow through your
From the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council I found this comparison of where Obama and McCain stand on the key issues of concern to U.S. small businesses.
I have not independently researched the comparison document myself but I have heard the candidates refer to many of their plans and it appears the SBE Council has
