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Stephen R. Hampton, Executive Officer of Wage Payment and Minimum Wage for the Iowa Division of Labor offered up the following to explain the changes to Iowa’s new minimum wage law in the April 2007 edition of the Iowa Lawyer. The law took effect April 1, 2007.
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Filewrapper.com is the latest Iowa law blog to hit the blogosphere by the Des Moines law firm of McKee, Voorhees and Sease. The blog will focus on intellectual property law including patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and other related issues.
Several representatives from MVS attended our Lawpportunities blawg seminar last November. I am glad…
A regular reader asked whether I was going to write my annual baseball post. Well, he is in luck and I can actually mix in a little law with it.
If you love baseball and e-commerce law (don’t we all?) you will want to check out Blawg Review #103 from Jonathan Frieden of E-Commerce Law…
Doug Mitchell of Moments of Clarity points out that Forbes Magazine has ranked Des Moines as the 4th most desirable place in the U.S. to do business. Doug says it is No. 1 in his book.
Adam Steen of Growth Capitalism writes about the Generation Iowa Commission whose goal is to address the "brain drain"…
The Limited Liability Company is a hybrid form of doing business that combines characteristics of the corporate structure and the partnership structure. It is a separate entity like a corporation and therefore carries liability protection for all of its members/owners, but is generally taxed like a partnership which has the benefit of flow-through taxation.
The…
Drew McLellan of Drew’s Marketing Minute recently celebrated the 1,000th comment on his blog. He now has over 600 blogs linking to him. Quite amazing considering his blog is only seven months old.
Drew is just one of the great business bloggers you can read on the Central Iowa Bloggers News River. For example…
I read an excellent article by Adam Siegelhiem of Stark & Stark concerning Restrictive Covenant Agreements for Franchises. Although his post is intended for franchises it is advisable for any business to consider restrictive covenant agreements for their employees.
Somewhat surprisingly, many of the small business owners I talk with are reluctant to enter…
The federal government has launched a new initiative aimed at cracking down on discriminatory hiring practices. According to this law.com article that is exactly what happened to Walgreen Co. when the EEOC decided to file a class action against the company for alleged discrimination against African-American workers.
The initiative is called E-RACE (Eradicating Racism and…
I read with great interest this recent article entitled, 100 Ways to Become a Better Entrepreneur. In general the article gives pretty solid advice. But it always concerns me when articles automatically assume the entrepreneur is unable to afford paying a lawyer to draft a business contract. (See No. 74).
I understand that…
If you are thinking about starting a corporation in Iowa, here is a checklist of steps you might consider before starting your business:
1. Find out the availability of your corporate name. You can do a quick search on the Iowa Secretary of State’s Web site to see whether your name is available. If…