Bigger isn’t always better. Victoria Herring is a successful sole practitioner who practices in the areas of civil rights and discrimination law in Des Moines. She is a believer in cutting-edge technology including the latest Apple technology, Web-based communication and online research. She will lend her expertise in how professionals can start their businesses on
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Women Need to Consider Asset Protection Too
Penny J. Ummstattd-Cope of the Joplin, MO Business Blog points out that today’s women need to be just as concerned about protecting their assets as men. Penny says:
Women should start thinking about protecting their assets before they get married or even enter into a living arrangement with a man. Why? More and more women
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Timothy Johnson: Iowa Business Conference Speaker Profile
All politics are local. Including the office. Do you know how to play the game or is the game playing you?
Timothy Johnson is a business consultant, author and adjunct professor in the MBA program at Drake University in Des Moines. We are excited to have Timothy share his insight, wit and wisdom on office…
Blogging is Like Baseball
When the Don of the Central Iowa Blogga Nostra asks you to do something – you oblige. So here is my addition to the conversation Liz Strauss started on blogging as a metaphor.
For me, baseball is life. Steve Rubel once compared blogging to baseball when he said:
Baseball is a good metaphor
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Mitch Matthews: Iowa Business Conference Speaker Profile
Are you a professional in need of a kick in the pants? If so, you won’t want to miss the upcoming Secrets of Successful Professionals Revealed Seminar in Clive, Iowa on July 20th to hear Mitch Matthews talk about Life/Work Balance along with some great motivational messages. Mitch is the Head Coach of a Kick…
Secrets of Successful Professionals Revealed
Come join us for the LAWpportunities sponsored "Secrets of Successful Professionals Revealed" business conference on July 20, 2007 at the Professional Solutions Insurance Services Center in Clive. It is a seminar you won’t want to miss featuring many of Central Iowa’s top professionals and renowned law blogger and entrepreneur, Kevin O’Keefe of Seattle, …
Memorial Day Blawg Review #110
I invite you to check out a special Memorial Day Blawg Review #110 from Norman Gregory Fernandez of Biker Law Blog. Fernandez describes Memorial Day this way:
You see Memorial Day is a day that is set aside each year to honor those men and women who have lost their lives in the Service
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Iowa’s New Targeted Small Business Law
Governor Culver recently signed into law a bill providing $4 million in funding for Iowa’s Targeted Small Business Program. To qualify under the program a business must have sales of less than $3 million and be at least 51% owned, operated and managed by women, minorities or persons with disabilities.
If you have a…
Iowa Film Promotion Act: Lights, Camera, Action!
Iowa – the new Hollywood? It may sound crazy but Governor Culver and lawmakers are hoping to snare more filmmakers with the passage of a new law that provides incentives for movie producers who create their films in Iowa.
The Iowa Film Promotion Act (House File 892) offers 25 percent tax credits for local filmmaking…
Iowa Expands Civil Rights to Cover Sexual Orientation
Iowa Governor Chet Culver signed a bill today expanding housing and civil rights protections to the LGBT community. In signing the bill Governor Culver said,
“It is unacceptable that members of the LGBT community are denied the same protections as every other Iowan, and that is why I made a promise to do whatever necessary
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