The BIZ is host to a great event this coming week featuring Dwolla COO Charise Flynn as she takes questions on life behind the scenes at the high growth start-up. I’ve had the opportunity to serve on a speakers’ panel with Charise and I find her personal journey and insights fascinating. Charise is a
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RAGBRAI and Law Intersect
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Posted in Current Affairs, Events
The Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa (RAGBRAI) begins today. Earlier this year my RAGBRAI inspired Blawg Review #147 received kind comments from my fellow legal bloggers and it was a little deviation from the typical posts you see on this site.
I am still taking a little break but new posts will return…
Iowa: Two out of Three Ain’t Bad
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Forbes Magazine ranks Des Moines as the fourth best metro nationally for business and careers. Iowa City ranked second in the smaller metro category.
Unfortunately for Iowa we also apparently rank first in the nation for corporate tax rates (and I don’t mean in a good way).
But the tie breaker is that we are cool. …
Anonymity, the Internet and Free Speech
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Posted in Current Affairs
Recently I posted about how the identity of anonymous bloggers may be revealed in situations where the anonymous blogger has engaged in defamation.
My friend, Michael Libbie, thinks its wrong to duck responsibility in publishing. I could not agree more. As I stated in my previous post:
If you are a modern day
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