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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"…
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…
Go to Lawpportunities for a little lawyer humor from the Negotiation Law Blog and the Bar and Grill Singers (all lawyers). All the profits from the proceeds of the CD sales of the Bar and Grill Singers go to the Volunteer Legal Services of Central Texas. It really is laugh out loud funny. Of…
Tomorrow I am the luncheon speaker for the Des Moines Sertoma Club. The topic is my Iowa business law practice and how this blog fits into that practice. When I started Rush on Business one year ago I never could have imagined all the great things that would happen to me in just one…
Problem: You need to train your existing employees on new manufacturing techniques but you don’t have the necessary funds to complete it.
Solution: Consider a grant under the Iowa Jobs Training Program (260F) through the Des Moines Area Community College Business Resources. A client recently obtained this grant to train his employees. He…
Sullivan & Ward, P.C. seeks a lawyer with 15+ years experience and an established practice to join our business law firm. Sullivan & Ward is an AV-rated law firm located in West Des Moines, Iowa with 14 lawyers. The firm’s practice includes representation of many rural electric cooperatives and generating cooperatives throughout the state of…
I had a fun meeting this morning with Mike Colwell, the Executive Director of Business Innovation Zone (BIZ). BIZ is a new regional business accelerator program through the Greater Des Moines Partnership.
What is BIZ and what will it do for Central Iowa businesses?
To find out stay tuned for a Rush on…