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			<title><![CDATA[Proliferation of Local "Pay to Play" Ordinances]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Spurred on by good intentions to take the next &ldquo;logical&rdquo; step, some municipalities have begun to adopt &ldquo;redeveloper pay to play&rdquo; ordinances.&nbsp; These ordinances purport to impose limits or outright bans on political contributions by redevelopers and redevelopment professionals.&nbsp; Our most recent survey identified at least eighteen towns in New Jersey that already specifically regulate contributions by would-be redevelopers and their professionals &ndash; even though there is no legislative authorization for these ordinances.&nbsp; Redevelopment designations and redevelopment agreements have never before been viewed as public contracts, nor have they been subject to public bidding laws.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:10:32 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[When Court-Approved Secrecy Can Kill You]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI) described the problem well in his testimony last December 11 before the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights: "Far too often, court-approved secrecy agreements hide vital public health and safety information from the American public, putting lives at stake. The secrecy agreements even prevent government officials or consumer group from learning about and protecting the public from defective and dangerous products."]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:28:49 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ACLU FOIA Request Yields Thousands of Pages]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The American Civil Liberties Union today released thousands of pages of documents related to Navy investigations of civilians killed by Coalition Forces in Iraq, including the cousin of the Iraqi ambassador to the United States. Released today in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by the ACLU filed in June 2006, these records provide a vivid snapshot of the circumstances surrounding civilian deaths in Iraq.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:32:37 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Public Hospital = Public Salaries]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[An Iowa hospital has lost its fight to keep secret the salaries of its employees. District Judge Michael Mullins ordered the Davis County Hospital in Bloomfield to turn over payroll records that Bloomfield resident Kenneth Turner requested last year. Hospital officials declined to comment Monday. Last June, the county-owned hospital denied Turner's request to learn the salaries of its employees. The Des Moines Register then sought access to some of the same information.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[White House Office of Administration Not Subject to FOIA]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The White House Office of Administration is not required to turn over records about a trove of possibly missing e-mails, a federal judge ruled Monday. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly found the agency does not have "substantial independent authority" so it is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act. The decision means the White House does not have to disclose documents relating to its troubled e-mail system. That system developed problems that may have caused millions of White House e-mails to be unaccounted for.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Government Contracts - A Market Approach]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[This is pretty cool stuff...INPUT, the authority on government business, announced that it has opened its electronic library containing thousands of federal and state and local contract documents to the public. "We have over three thousand government contracts and task orders acquired under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) available now with more added every day," said Ashlea Higgs, senior manager, INPUT Network. "Government FOIA offices are overloaded and requests often take several months to complete. By making our library available, we hope to offload some of the volume of requests to FOIA offices and provide immediate access to these documents to citizens and organizations that have a need."]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[An Important Story Often Overlooked: The Many Other Statutes That Hide Things]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Here is a great story from my pal Kirsten Mitchell on an often overlooked issue: the many statutes that work like mini-exemptions in federal law. This is a story that ought to be replicated over and over in state after state! Government information as wide-ranging as the names of people who grow watermelons or olives, information on tax returns, and the location of endangered plants and large caves is shielded from Americans under at least 140 provisions scattered throughout federal law.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[An Oldie But a Goodie: Oldest Pending FOI Requests]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Several federal agencies are running more than 15 years late on public record requests sent under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) when the first President Bush was still in office. The Energy Department has the tardiest public record request, according to a review by The Hill of annual FOIA reports published by Cabinet-level agencies for the last fiscal year. It still has not answered one request from Dec. 6, 1991, although other departments are not far behind.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Leon Bayer]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A practicing attorney since 1979, Mr. Bayer is a founding partner in the law firm of Bayer, Wishman & Leotta (1989) and is a Certified Specialist, Consumer & Small Business Bankruptcy Law, by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization. 

He has served as President, 1995-1996 of the Los Angeles Bankruptcy Forum; Member - Los Angeles County Bar Association Committee on Commercial Law & Bankruptcy, 1988; Law Advisory Commission-Personal & Small Business Bankruptcy Law of the State Bar of California, 1996-2000. 

His publications include ?The Essentials Of Chapter 13,? Daily Journal Report, December 18, 1987; Contributing Editor, Basic Bankruptcy, California Practice Handbook, Matthew Bender 1992, 1993; and as Reviewer and Contributing Author for the new CEB bankruptcy practice guide, Personal and Small Business Practice in California, 2003.

Mr. Bayer has been a frequent law lecturer for numerous programs, including the semi-annual Bridging the Gap program for the Los Angles Lawyers Club and the Daily Journal Corporation, 1999, 2000, 01, 02, 03 and ?04, State Bar of California Annual Meetings, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989; California Bankruptcy Forum, and numerous educational programs presented by the United States Trustee.

Media presentations include TV: KCAL9-Various interviews as Bankruptcy expert for 2 part series with Reporter Alan Mendelson,  How to Survive the Recession, 3/02; also  Unmasking a Debt Negotiation Scam, 5/02; 11/03, EXTRA - various interviews as legal expert regarding celebrity bankruptcy cases including Burt Reynolds, Anna Nicole Smith; RADIO: Frequent guest-bankruptcy expert on the Benjamin Dover Show, KFI;  SundayEdition, public affairs program-1/03, 97.1 FM, and Your Legal Rights (2/04, 07/04) on KALW-FM Public Radio (91.7), San Francisco, California; Morning Edition KGIL AM Radio.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:31:19 CST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Michael Maehl]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Following his graduation from Northern Illinois University and subsequent service as an infantry officer in the Marine Corps, Mike began his investment career in New York City in 1973.  

Subsequently, Mike worked as a financial advisor in Chicago and Anchorage.  He was selected to be a branch manager for a member firm of the New York Stock Exchange in 1984.  He relocated to Washington State in 1993, continuing to serve as a branch manager until March, 2008.  At that time, Mike decided to become an independent advisor based in Spokane.

Mike holds the Certified Wealth Manager (CWM), Certified Senior Advisor (CSA) and Certified Retirement Financial Advisor (CRFA) designations, in addition to his Certificate in Personal Financial Planning.  He has been awarded the Five Star quality designation by the Paladin Registry.  To be admitted to the Registry, advisors must rank within the top10% of their profession nationwide.  Mike is a member of the Financial Planning Association.

Mike has a web site at www.mywallstreetguy.com  On the site is a link to his blog.  He uses the blog to provide daily commentary on the markets, the economy and other broad investment topics.  His blog was selected by Forbes magazine to be part of their national blog network.  In addition, he also writes a bi-monthly newsletter specifically for women investors.

Mike provides strategic wealth management counsel to small to medium businesses and professional practices, women investors and pre and post retirees.  

He and his wife of 27 years, Diane ? a professional photographer ? live in Spokane.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:51:30 CST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Misti Burmeister]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Imagine living in an unfamiliar city with no friends or professional contacts with only $37 to your name and having just quit an unfulfilling job as a government contractor. 
This is exactly where Misti Burmeister found herself at the age of just 24. After literally picking herself up off the ground, she saw two choices: sit there and wallow or stand up and do something.  What happened next? She spent the next six months conducting more than 150 informational interviews and in the process discovered her passion ? generational diversity in the workplace.  Born out of her own experiences, she began to realize what an important issue this would (and has) become. As ?Boomers? begin retiring and organizations begin competing in the war for talented young professionals, they are shocked to realize that these young professionals are entering the workforce in much lower numbers than previous generations. Burmeister saw an opportunity to help companies and their people learn to navigate the generational divide ? and retain young people, known for changing jobs almost as easily as they change shoes. So at age 25, she started Inspirion Inc. to make a difference. 
Through Inspirion, Burmeister coaches both Fortune 500 companies and government agencies to align their individual contributors with the organizations vision and mission, ensuring better success in recruiting and retaining diverse talent.  As CEO of Inspirion Inc., a Virginia-based, woman-owned consulting company, she is dedicated to increasing organizations profits and productivity across multi-generational workforces through customized leadership development programs, executive coaching and key note speeches. Her unique presentation style captures audiences of all backgrounds and encourages the free and open discourse that effectively begins to break down the communication barriers.
Bestselling author of From Boomers to Bloggers: Success Strategies across Generations, Burmeister speaks on the following topics: Generational Awareness, Leading across Generations, Mentoring across Generations, Five Shifts to Common Understanding and Powerful Communication. She facilitates programs on leadership and employee effectiveness, intergenerational communication and mission development. She has been credited by one client with ?her work means millions of dollars in increased workforce productivity.? 

Burmeister brings more than a decade of professional experience to her work with diverse clientele, including organizations like AT&T, UPS, Marriott International, Choice Hotels, U.S. Army and Navy, Wal-Mart and Johnson & Johnson Company. As a result of her hands-on coaching, clients have seen significant improvements in employee retention, ultimately contributing to their bottom lines. One organization saw a 90 percent reduction in its turnover rate!

Her timely contributions are catching the attention of the media, businesses and even the government. Shes been quoted in the Washington Business Journal, The Washington Post and The Washington Times.  Combining humor with hard-hitting information delivered with ?an amazing amount of energy,? shes earned acclaim for providing real, quantitative and effective steps that empower and bring out the best in multi-generational organizations ? immediately.

Just recently, Ms. Burmeister was recognized by the Washington Business Journal as a ?Rising Star? among ?Women who mean Business.? Last year, Burmeister was selected as a finalist for the Elizabeth Dole Young Entrepreneur Scholarship for outstanding leadership in her community and entrepreneurial ventures.  In 2005, she was awarded the International Femtor Award for Emerging Leaders by the eWomen Network.  That same year, she was also named a ?Community Fellow? by the Foundation for Community Leadership as an acknowledgement for her commitment and vision to empowering young people.

To learn more about how Burmeister can help your organization increase retention and improve communication across the generations, please visit www.InspirionInc.com.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:33:15 CST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Brian Beck]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Brian J. Beck, PHR, M.H.R.O.D., has worked in the human resources field for over 15 years, focusing on  recruitment/retention, HR strategic planning, organization and leadership development. That experience was seen in both the health care and staffing industry sectors. He currently works for Lovelace Westside Hospital as their Director of Human Resources.  He has been PHR certified (professional in human resources) since 1995 through the Certification Institute of the Society for Human Resource Management. Mr. Beck holds a Masters in Human Resources and Organization Development from the University of San Francisco. He is also a part-time instructor at the University of New Mexicos Anderson School of Management and has published several articles related to human resource strategy and theory. Mr. Beck can be reached at 505-727-2255 or by e-mail at brian.beck@lovelace.com.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:23:20 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Buddy Baker]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Walter (Buddy) Baker has over 30 years of experience in international trade finance. In September 2005 he joined Atradius Trade Credit Insurance, where he was responsible for assisting exporters and banks with structuring financing for export receivables.  Headquartered in the Netherlands, Atradius is the second largest credit insurer in the world, covering over $600 billion in world trade each year.  Prior to Atradius, Buddys career was on the banking side, most recently including 10 years with ABN AMRO Bank as Global Head of Technical Trade Advisory/Compliance.

Buddy is a recognized expert in trade finance and author of numerous magazine articles and the books Users Handbook for Documentary Credits under UCP 600, Documentary Payments & Short-Term Trade Finance, and The Regulatory Environment of Letters of Credit and Trade Finance.  He makes frequent presentations for national associations of exporters, importers, bankers, and lawyers.  Despite his move from banking to insurance, Buddy continues to serve as a member-at-large of the National Letter of Credit Committee of the International Financial Services Association and to be actively involved in establishing national and worldwide standard practices for L/Cs, such as the latest revision of the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits (referred to as ?UCP600?), the official ICC guide for examining letter of credit documents, called the International Standard Banking Practices for the Examination of Documents under Letters of Credit (?ISBP?), the recent ?eUCP? supplement to the UCP, dealing with electronic documents, the International Standby Practices (?ISP98?), and Article 5 of the Uniform Commercial Code.  He acts as an advisor to the Wolfsberg Group, an international group that includes most of the largest banks in the world whose purpose is to set standards for combating money laundering, and to the Institute for International Banking Law and Practice.  He has also served on the Board of Directors of the FCIB, a multinational association of export credit managers.

Buddy received his undergraduate degree from Yale University and his MBA from Northwestern. Baker now is a freelance consultant specialized in numerous areas of the international trade finance, insurance and banking industry.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:54:14 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Richard Pennington]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Richard Pennington, is Of Counsel in the Denver Government Contracts Practice Group of McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP.  His law practice focuses on the federal, state, and local procurement environments.  Richard previously served as the Colorado State Purchasing Director and, later, director of the Division of Finance and Procurement, Colorado Department of Personnel & Administration.  The division included the office of the State Controller, State Purchasing Office, State Buildings and Real Estate Programs, and Central Collection Services.  He received the 2005 Manager of the Year Award from the Colorado State Managers Association.  Previously, Richard served with the state of Colorado as assistant attorney general, specializing in procurement and fiscal law, construction law and litigation, and bid protest litigation.  Richard remains an honorary member of the National Association of State Procurement Officials and received the NASPO Presidents Award in 2007.  Richard is a retired Air Force Colonel; he began his career as a B-52 pilot and ended it as an Air Force judge advocate, specializing in government contract law.  He was a distinguished graduate from the United States Air Force Academy with a B.S. in Engineering Mechanics, received his law degree from the University of Denver (Order of St. Ives), and has a Master of Laws degree in government procurement law from The George Washington University.  He is a Certified Purchasing Manager (C.P.M., Institute of Supply Management) and a Certified Public Procurement Officer (CPPO, Universal Public Procurement Certification Council).  Richard has  taught, presented, and written about public procurement, contract negotiation, UCC, intellectual property management, legal issues in project-based management, and organizational development (www.scopevision.net).]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:28:04 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Scott Gregory]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Scott Gregory is a QuickBooks Specialist, QuickBooks Enterprise Specialist and CPA. He has been helping businesses gain a better understanding of QuickBooks software and improve their accounting systems for over twenty years. Scott has trained hundreds of QuickBooks users as an instructor at his local community college. Prior to forming Bottom Line Accounting Solutions, Scott was the CFO for a manufacturing company, with direct oversight of the accounting, IT, inventory control, purchasing and HR departments. Contact Scott today at www.BetterBottomLine.com.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:43:30 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Bob Faulhaber]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Bob is one of three principals with AEI, Architects Engineers and Planners.  He serves as vice-president responsible for firm management, planning and business development.  A registered professional engineer, Bob serves as principal in charge of AEIs civil engineering projects including commercial site development, infrastructure improvements and residential subdivision design.  As a civil engineer Bob incorporates Low Impact Development (LID) design strategies into all of his site and subdivision designs and focuses on working with the natural features of a site rather than against it.  

Bob also heads up AEIs sustainability efforts and is involved with implementing green design strategies into all of AEIs projects.  He is a LEED Accredited Professional and a local and national member of The United States Green Building Council (USGBC).  In his efforts to educate other design professionals and the public, Bob has authored numerous articles and regularly gives presentations on sustainable or green design.  He is also actively engaged with public officials in an effort to educate them about the advantages of sustainable design.  ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:55:17 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Michael Clark]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Michael E. Clark, a former federal prosecutor, has extensive trial experience in business and professional matters. He serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law, as a faculty instructor for NITA, is widely published, and speaks regularly on issues of importance to businesses and professionals. Within the ABA, he serves on the Standing Committee on Publishing Oversight; is the outgoing chair of the Business Law Sections White Collar Crimes Committee (and an Editorial Board member of The Business Lawyer); serves on the Governing Council for the Health Law Section and is the outgoing chair of its Publications Committee; and serves on the Planning Committee for the National Institute on Securities Fraud.  Mr. Clark is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and he developed and serves as the Editor-in-Chief of a treatise published in 2007 by BNA and the ABA Health Law Section about pharmaceutical law.  Mr. Clark has been Board Certified in Criminal Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and the National Board of Trial Advocacy since the late 1980's.  

Houston's Top Lawyers for 2008 (H Texas Magazine); NITA Faculty (National Institute of Trial Advocacy, 2006); Fellow, American Bar Foundation (2005); LL.M. (Health Law) (University of Houston Law Center, 2000) Attorney General's Director's Award (U.S. Department of Justice, 1996) LL.M. (Taxation) (University of Houston Law Center, 1996)
Special Licenses/Certifications: Board Certified, Criminal Trial Advocate (National Board of Trial Advocacy, 1989); Board Certified, Criminal Law Specialist (Texas Board of Legal Specialization, 1988)
 
Bar/Professional Activity: Member, Standing Committe on Publishing Oversight (American Bar Association, 2007); Governing Council, ABA Health Law Section (2007); Former Co-chair, South Texas Region, White Collar Crimes Committee, ABA Criminal Justice Section (2007-2008); Former Chair, White Collar Crimes Committee, ABA Section of Business Law (2005-2008); Former Chair, Publications Committee, ABA Health Law Section (2005-2008); Advisory Board, University of Houston Law Center, Criminal Justice Institute (2005)
 
Pro bono/Community Service: Adjunct Faculty, University of Houston Law Center, Intersession Course: Taking and Defending Depositions, 2008
 
Scholarly Lectures and Writings: Author, Bribes, Creative Accounting Don't Cut It in International Business, Houston Business Journal (2008); Panelist, Webinar: Federal Sentencing Update After Kimbrough vs. The US, ALI-ABA; State Bar of Texas, 2008, Author, Health Care Fraud Redux, Business Crimes Bulletin, 2008, Speaker, Webinar: Pharmaceutical Payments and Generic Competition: Recent FTC Litigation and What Can be Done to Avoid Liability?, BNA LegalEdge, Life Sciences, 2008, Author, Evaluating and Minimizing the FCPA Risks when Conducting Business in Emerging Markets, The Practical Lawyer, ALI-ABA (April 2008), 2008, Editor-in-Chief, Pharmaceutical Law: Regulation of Research, Development, and Marketing (BNA/ABA Health Law Section) is an 800+ page treatise that addresses the fraud-and-abuse risks unique to this submarket of the health care industry; off-label marketing-selling of a drug for a purpose other than its intended use; and other hot risks areas facing this industry--including the potential for antitrust, securities law, and other compliance problems, Pharmaceutical Law: Regulation of Research, Development, and Marketing, 2007, Author, Evaluating and Minimizing the Research Misconduct Risks, CCH Health Care Compliance Letter, 2007, Author, Complying with The FCPA in Emerging Markets after SOX, Business Crimes Bulletin, 2007, Chapter Author, Antitrust and Intellectual Law Issues for Pharmaceutical Companies, PHARMACEUTICAL LAW: REGULATION OF RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND MARKETING, 2007, Chapter Author, Securities Law Issues and Disclosure Considerations for Pharmaceutical Companies, PHARMACEUTICAL LAW: REGULATION OF RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND MARKETING, 2007, Moderator, Foreign Corrupt Practice Act Issues in Emerging Markets: How to Evaluate and Minimize the Risks, ABA Section of Business Law, ABA Annual Meeting, 2007, Member, Institute Planning Committee / Moderator, Perspective and Proportion: Keeping Civil and Regulatory Matters out of Criminal Court, ABA's Second Annual National Securities Fraud Conference, 2007, Panelist, Trade Secrets and Confidential Business Information, ABA's First National Institute on Computing and the Law, 2007, Author, Stock Option Trading-Where Were the Lawyers and Auditors?, Business Crimes Bulletin, 2006, Author, A Step Forward in Recognition of Compliance Efforts: The SECs January 2006 Statement Concerning Financial Penalties, CCH Health Care Compliance Letter, 2006, Chapter Author, The Growing Importance of Securities Regulation for Publicly Traded Entities in the Post Sarbanes-Oxley Marketplace, 2006 HEALTH LAW and COMPLIANCE UPDATE (Aspen Publishers), 2006, Author, Patient Euthanasia After Hurricane Katrina -- The Government's Role, The Health Lawyer, 2006, Member, Institute Planning Committee / Moderator, Internal Investigations, ABA's First National Securities Fraud Institute, 2006, Moderator, Managing Parallel Proceedings in Securities Investigations, ABA Section of Business Law, Spring Meeting, 2006, Presenter, Current Update & Critical Developments in Anti-Fraud & Abuse/Stark & Physician Ventures, Virginia Bar Association's Second Annual Virginia Health Care Practitioners' Roundtable, 2006, Co-author, Corporate Cooperation in the Face of Investigations, The Health Lawyer, 2005, Author, Statements During Negotiations as Evidence in a Criminal Trial, Business Crimes Bulletin, 2005, Author, The New Advisory Role of Federal Sentencing Guidelines after Booker-FanFan, CCH Health Care Compliance Letter, 2005, Author, Daubert Motions in Business Crimes Cases, Business Crimes Bulletin, 2005, Chapter Author, Antitrust and Managed Care, MANAGED CARE LITIGATION (BNA/ABA Health Law Section), 2005, Panelist, Managing Complex Litigation, ABA & AHLA's Antitrust in Healthcare Seminar, 2005, Panelist, The Erosion of Attorney-Client Privilege: Is there Anything Left to Protect?, ACI's 3rd Annual Corporate Counsel's Guide to Conducting and Managing Internal & External Investigations, 2005, Panelist, Regulatory Inquiries: Is There an Alternative to Cooperation?, ABA Section of Business Law, ABA Annual Meeting, 2005, Moderator, Handling Complex Litigation Involving the Healthcare Industry, ABA Health Law Section's Sixth Annual Conference on Emerging Issues in Healthcare Law, 2005, Institute Chair, Internal Investigations, CLE International's Internal Investigations Seminar, 2005, Chapter Author, 2005 HEALTH LAW and COMPLIANCE UPDATE (Aspen Publishers), 2005, Author, Hamstrung or Properly Calibrated: Federalism and the Appropriate Role of Government in the Post-Sarbanes-Oxley World, International Journal of Disclosure and Governance, 2004, Author, Prosecuting Energy Trading Fraud Under the CEA, Business Crimes Bulletin, 2004, Panelist, Liability of Accountants: The Aftermath of Enron, The 22nd Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime, 2004, Moderator, Federal Sentencing Guidelines and Criminal and Civil Damages, ABA's 14th Annual National Institute on Health Care Fraud, 2004, Panelist, Protecting the Company During Securities Investigations, ACI's The Corporate Counsel's Guide to Internal and External Investigations, 2004, Panelist, Placing Bankers on the Front Line, The 22nd Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime, 2004, Moderator, A 12-Step Program for Effective Corporate Compliance and Corporate Governance in the Post-Sarbanes-Oxley World, ABA Section of Business Law, Spring Meeting, 2004, Moderator, Trends in the Use of the False Claims Act Against the Healthcare Industry - Innovative Theories or Overreaching?, ABA Health Law Section's Fifth Annual Conference on Emerging Issues in Healthcare Law, 2004, Author, Steering a Course Between Antitrust and Patent Laws: Generic Drugs and Patent Fraud, BNA's Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Law Bulletin, 2003, Chapter Author, Legal Issues in Clinical Trials, 2003 HEALTH LAW and COMPLIANCE UPDATE (Aspen Publishers), 2003, Moderator, Fundamentals of White Collar Crime and Practice, ABA's 13th Annual National Institute on Health Care Fraud, 2003, Panelist, Implications of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for Internal Investigations, Corporate Compliance, and Covenants not to Compete, Institute for Law & Technology's 41st Annual Program on Intellectual Property Law, 2003, Moderator, Criminal Securities Enforcement in the New Era: Simple Designs to Use for Living Well in Today's Environment, ABA Business Law Section, ABA Annual Meeting, 2003, Panel Moderator, Sarbanes-Oxley: The First Eight Months, ABA Section of Business Law's Spring Meeting, 2003, Author, Science Panels and Improving how Courts Address Expert Evidence: Seeing Both Sides, ALM's Medical Malpractice Law & Strategy, Health Care, 2002, Author, Clinical Research and the False Claims Act: The Next Wave of Enforcement Emphasis?, BNA's Medical Research Law & Policy, 2002, Whether the False Claims Act is a Proper Legal Tool for the Government to use for Improving the Quality of Care in Long-Term Care Facilities, The Health Lawyer, 2002, Moderator, Fundamentals of White Collar Crime and Practice, ABA's 12th Annual National Institute on Health Care Fraud, 2002, Panelist, Keeping the Government Outside the Boardroom, ABA Business Law Section, ABA Annual Meeting, 2002, Panelist, Understanding the Characteristics of Global Crime, International Summit on Cyber Crimes, 2001, Panelist, Criminal Enforcement Steps into the Boardroom (An ABA Presidential Showcase Program), ABA Business Law Section, Annual Meeting, 2001, Panel Moderator, Grand Jury Investigations, ABA's 9th Annual National Institute on Health Care Fraud, 1999, Panelist, Crime and the Business Lawyer: The Loss of Innocence - How to Avoid Indictment in Kansas City and Elsewhere, ABA Business Law Section, Annual Meeting, 1999, Panelist, Using the Internet in Health Law Practice, Annual Conference (State Bar of Texas), Practical Computing Course, 1999, Author, Nothing to Hyde? The Flood of Wrongful Recovery Suits has not Materialized, Criminal Justice, 1999, Panelist, Crime and Medicine: Today and Tomorrow, ABA Business Law Section, Annual Meeting, 1998, Presenter, Swimming in Stark-infested Waters while Focusing on Practicing Good Medicine, Texas Society of Internal Medicine & Texas Academy Chapter of American College of Physicians (Annual Meeting), 1998, Panelist, Crime and Medicine: What Health Care Providers Never Learned in School, and What You Need to Teach Them, ABA Business Law Section, Annual Meeting, 1997, Panel Moderator, Federal Sentencing Law: A Guide to the Guidelines, Federal Sentencing Law (State Bar of Texas / U.S. Sentencing Commission), 1997, Panelist, DOJ's Bankruptcy Fraud Initiative, Parallel Procedures and Forfeiture Issues, National Association of Attorney Generals (Annual Meeting), 1996, Panelist, Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Law Enforcement but Were Afraid to Ask, National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association (Annual Meeting), 1996, Author, A Prosecutor's Postmortem: How Two Companies Fared as Criminal Targets, ALM's Corporate Counsellor, 1996
 
Other Outstanding Achievements: Adjunct Professor, Food and Drug Law; Antitrust & Health Law, Health Law & Policy Institute, University of Houston Law Center; Adjunct Professor, Civil Trial Advocacy; Criminal Trial Advocacy, University of Houston Law Center; Faculty, NITA Southern Regional Program (SMU); Faculty, NITA Deposition Program (University of Houston Law Center)]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:00:07 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Jonathan Nirenberg]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Jonathan I. Nirenberg has dedicated his career to representing employees in discrimination and employment cases in New Jersey and New York since he graduated from Cornell Law School. He has extensive experience in writing and arguing appeals and has participated in several recent landmark decisions, including Zive v. Stanley Roberts, Inc. and Myers v. AT&T, two disability discrimination case which made it easier for New Jersey employees to have their discrimination cases resolved by juries, as well as Padilla v. Berkeley Educational Services of New Jersey, Inc., Brennan v. Norton and Muller v. Exxon Research and Engineering.

Prior to co-founding the firm of Resnick Nirenberg & Siegler  (now Resnick Nirenberg & Cash) in 2006, Mr. Nirenberg was a Partner with Deutsch Resnick, P.A. Mr. Nirenberg is the author of the articles When Does the Employer Have the Burden of Proof? (New Jersey Law Journal, March 17, 2008), Are Some Employees Entitled to More than 12 Weeks of Pregnancy Leave Under State and Federal Law (New Jersey Labor and Employment Law Quarterly, Spring 2002) and When Is an Employer's Failure to Provide Notice of FMLA Rights or Designate FMLA Leave Actionable? (New Jersey Law Journal, March 29, 2004).

Mr. Nirenberg is also a member of the International Network of Boutique Law Firms, an organization of highly credentialed boutique law firms that have been hand selected as outstanding in their respective fields of law, as well as the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) and the National Employment Lawyers Association of New Jersey (NELA-NJ).]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Valerie Bailey-Rihn]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Professional Experience 
Valerie Bailey-Rihn, a partner in the Madison office, concentrates her practice in the areas of commercial and business litigation, ERISA litigation, consumer litigation arising under federal and state regulations, and creditors rights/bankruptcy. Ms. Bailey-Rihns recent experience includes: 
1. Oral arguments to the Wisconsin Supreme Court and Seventh Circuit.

2. Significant experience in shareholder/partner disputes.

3. Representation of entities in Unfair Sales Act litigation. 


4. Representation of companies in connection with the Wisconsin Fair Dealership Act including a trial in the District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin.

5. Successful representation of a company seeking damages in excess of several million dollars as a result of a dispute involving pharmacy network services.

6. Defending a defendant in a temporary injunction hearing involving a non-compete agreement and representing a plaintiff in a TRO hearing regarding an easement matter.

7. Representing sellers in litigation involving business sales.

8. Several oral arguments in front of the Seventh Circuit involving ERISA issues.

9. Representing preference defendants in a significant preference action involving a large retail grocery chain. 


10. Representation of a significant stakeholder in the U.S. Airways and Kmart bankruptcies and in restructuring obligations in connection with a possible bankruptcy.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:24:18 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Dean Phillips]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dean Phillips counsels private and municipal corporations on some of the biggest construction and transportation projects in the Portland area. His work includes major light rail initiatives and airport terminal expansion, as well as school district bonded remodeling. Dean provides counsel and arbitration and litigation assistance in a wide range of construction issues, including construction claims, design-bid-build and fast track arrangements, eminent domain and relocation issues, construction defects, and government contracting matters.

Recent Articles
Co-author, ?Legislature sends builders back to school,? The Daily Journal of Commerce, August 23, 2007 
Co-author, ?Legislative changes sweep up chimney workers, more,? The Daily Journal of Commerce, August 24, 2007 
Author, ?Home resell industry spurs host of myths,? The Daily Journal of Commerce,
June 28, 2007 
Author, ?Construction managers can help - in most cases,? The Daily Journal of Commerce,
June 22, 2006 
Author, ?Construction defect claims leave water, water everywhere,? The Daily Journal of Commerce, Jan. 26, 2006]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:04:11 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Victoria Pynchon]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[After a 25-year career in complex commercial litigation and trial work, Victoria Pynchon, author of the Settle It Now Negotiation Blog and founder of the IP ADR Blog, became a full-time attorney-mediator.  Ms. Pynchon received her LL.M. in Conflict Resolution from the prestigious Straus Institute and her law degree, Order of the Coif, from University of California at Davis King Hall School of Law .    

Ms. Pynchon mediates the same type of complex commercial case she litigated for more than a quarter century with such firms as the Philadelphia-based Pepper, Hamilton; the Los Angeles-based Buchalter, Nemer and the San Francisco-based Hancock, Rothert & Bunshoft (recently merged with Duane Morris)  She is a neutral for the Southern California ADR firm, Judicate West  and serves as a mediator on her own specialty ADR panel, Settle It Now Dispute Resolution Services.      

Ms. Pynchon's broad buisness background gives her commercial mediation practice unusual depth in industry practices, management and finance.  She spent her commercial litigation career litigating "bet the company" antitrust, unfair competition, intellectual property and insurance coverage actions.  She has also prosecuted and defended nationwide consumer class actions and litigated securities fraud and professional liability actions.  Her clients have been in the garment and import-export industries, as well as in the health care, entertainment, banking and finance, manufacturing and insurance industries. 

Ms. Pynchon's credentials include extensive academic and practical teaching experience at the undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate levels, including more than a dozen years of teaching experience with the National Institute of Trial Advocacy.

Since commencing a full-time neutral practice, Ms. Pynchon has taught negotiation skills at the Summer Entrepreneurship Institute, Anderson School of Management, U.C.L.A., at the Straus Institute as an Adjunct Faculty member and as a guest lecturer at the University of Southern California School of Law.  

Ms. Pynchon has given her continuing education Negotiation Seminar to prominent international law firms located in the greater Los Angeles area, including O'Melveny & Myers; Mayer, Brown & Platt; Katten, Muchin; Squire, Sanders & Dempsey; Musick, Peller; Heller, Ehrman, Rutan and Tucker, among others. 

Ms. Pynchon has published widely in the field of dispute resolution in both the academic and professional press.  She is a frequent contributor to and columnist (the Human Factor) for The Complete Lawyer and a Featured Blogger at Mediate.com.  

Ms. Pynchon was recently appointed to the California State Bar's Standing Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution.   Her term in office begins at the end of September 2008 and will continue through September of 2010.

Ms. Pynchon blogs here at writes about Intellectual Property ADR issues at the IP ADR Blog, which she maintains with her colleagues at IP ADR Services. 

Some of her recent professional publications include:

Why Lawyers are Unhappy, The Complete Lawyer, Vol. IV, Issue One 

Take Steps to Ensure that Mediated Settlement Agreements Can Be Enforced (with Deborah Rothman) The Los Angeles Daily Journal, October 20, 2006, reprinted at Mediate.com

Ten Settlement Conference Traps for the Unwary, Douglas County Bar Association Newsletter, November 2006

Some of her recent professional presentations include:

Settlement Techniques that Give You the Winning Edge, Pincus Professional Education Seminars, Los Angeles, November 13, 2007 (soon to be available as a home study course). 

IP Litigation and Dispute Resolution Conference Conference: IP ADR in the USA: Big Ideas and Fresh Perspectives, London, England, October 2007. 

ALFA Annual 2007 Labor and Employment Seminar: Point-Counterpoint: the Pros and Cons of ADR with DHL Senior Legal Counsel Joshua Frank and San Diego Employment Litigator James M. Peterson, October 2007 Half Moon Bay, California. 

Ms. Pynchon's short fiction, literary non-fiction and poetry has been extensively published in the small University Press.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:36:33 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Steve Kaplan]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Steven B. Kaplan is a principal in the Hartford law firm of Michelson, Kane, Royster & Barger, P.C., where he practices in construction and surety matters, and civil litigation. He received his J.D. degree from the University of Connecticut School of Law, where he was editor in chief of the Connecticut Law Review. He received an M.A. degree from the University of Massachusetts and a B.A. degree from Columbia University. Mr. Kaplan has taught ?Law of Public Construction Contracts? at the University of Connecticut School of Law, and he also teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in ?Construction Law? and ?Construction Documents? at Central Connecticut State University for the Program in Construction Management. Mr. Kaplan is a member of the American Bar Association Forum Committee on Construction Law and the ABA Surety/Fidelity Law Section, as well as a founding member and vice president of the Connecticut Bar Association Executive Committee on Construction Law. He is a member of the board of directors of the Hartford County Bar Association, as well as co-chairman of the HCBA Technology and Intellectual Property Committee. He also is a panel member of the American Arbitration Association (arbitrator and mediator for construction and commercial disputes) and a member of the AAA Advisory Board for Connecticut, as well as a panel member for American Dispute Resolution Center and Dispute Resolution, Inc. Mr. Kaplan is a frequent lecturer and has authored numerous texts and articles on construction law issues. ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:36:35 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Brandon Alexander]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Brandon Alexander is responsible for oversight of various company marketing materials including brochures, advertisements and postcard mailers. In addition, Alexander is responsible for collection and distribution of marketing data. 

Mr. Alexander joined Modtech? in September 2005 as Strategic Marketing Analyst. During his time with Modtech, Alexander has been personally involved with the marketing and promotion of one of the first green classrooms built using Off-Site Construction. As part of this effort, it was necessary to learn technical details of the building and convert into customer benefits.  Prior to Modtech, Alexander was Marketing Manager for a national recreational vehicle manufacturer. Alexander has approximately 10 years of experience in marketing and has 8 years of experience in the construction/manufacturing field. He holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Business Administration degrees from the University of California, Riverside.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:20:17 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Michael Murphy]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Michael K. Murphy, LEED AP, was an elected member of the board of directors for the Detroit Regional Chapter of
USGBC. Mr. Murphys background includes over $300 million in construction of industrial, commercial, educational and
health care projects. As a member of Turners Michigan Green Team, Mr. Murphy supported the construction of Turners
green projects, including: the Blue Cross/Blue Shield Parking Deck (Certified); Haworth, Inc. Corporate Headquarters
(Gold); Harper Woods Library (Silver); Metropolitan Hospital (Gold); and Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital (Silver).
His current assignment is manager of engineering for Turner Construction Company in Salem, Oregon. He is working on
a ?green? Patient Care Tower at the Salem Hospital campus, which is seeking certification under the Green Guide for
Health Care (GGHC) rating program.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:05:10 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Paul Josephson]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Paul P. Josephson is a partner of Hill Wallack LLP. He is partner-in-charge of the firms Regulatory & Government Affairs and Gaming Law Practice Groups.

Mr. Josephson concentrates his practice in Regulatory Law, with a focus on Redevelopment, Gaming, Government Procurement, Complex Civil Litigation, Election and Campaign Finance, Government Ethics and corporate compliance issues.

An accomplished commercial and administrative litigator, he has represented many national and state corporations in legal disputes and advised numerous State agencies on licensing, enforcement, procurement and real estate development and redevelopment matters. He is also experienced in all aspects of the gaming industry, including casino, horse racing, lottery and Internet issues. He has also published numerous articles on gaming and ethic law. He spearheaded the historic merger of the New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Parkway and the successful effort to fix EZ Pass. Mr. Josephson has also served as counsel to numerous Senate, House and Gubernatorial candidates, including Governor Jon S. Corzine, and has represented many of New Jersey's other top elected officials. Mr. Josephson was listed in the top tier of PoliticsNJ.com's list of most influential attorneys in New Jersey for 2002 and 2004, and recognized for distinguished legislative service by the New Jersey State Bar Association. 

Prior to joining Hill Wallack, Mr. Josephson served Chief Counsel to the Governor and as Chief of Authorities, representing the Governor on more than 50 bi-state and state authorities including the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, New Jersey Transit, the Casino Control Commission, the State Ethics Commission and the State House Commission. He later served as Assistant Attorney General and Director of the Division of Law within the New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety. In that capacity, he managed a 550-attorney division responsible for all civil representation of the State of New Jersey.

Mr. Josephson is a 1987 graduate of the University of Michigan, from which he graduated with a B.A. degree in Political Science and served as Student Body President. He is a 1990 honors graduate of George Washington University Law School. 

Mr. Josephson is admitted to practice in New Jersey and in the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the District of New Jersey. He is a member of American Bar Association, the New Jersey State Bar Association, and the International Association of Gaming Attorneys. ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:18:01 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Terry Francke]]></title>
			<guid>http://www.resourcegovernment.com/blog/terryfrancke/</guid>
			<link>http://www.resourcegovernment.com/blog/terryfrancke/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Since 1980 Terry Francke has been helping journalists, citizens and public officials understand and use their First Amendment, open government and public information rights.

Francke and his daughter, Emily, founded Californians Aware in the spring of 2004. The idea setting this nonprofit, nonpartisan public interest norganization apart is that working with public-spirited citizens, journalists and government officials and employees at the same time can effect a change in the overall landscape, and improve the public trust while also making openness more convenient for those at the gates. 

Francke previously served 14 years as executve director and general counsel for the California First Amendment Coalition, after a 10-year post as legal counsel for the California Newspaper Publishers Association.

Over all these periods Francke has fielded tens of thousands of phoned and e-mailed queries on press and citizen rights; written the most widely used guidebooks to the law governing open meetings, open courts and public records in California; served as an advisory panel member to the National Center on Courts and the Media; taught journalism law at the Department of Communication at Stanford University; and served as an expert contributor to the 1994 major revisions to the Ralph M. Brown Act and Propositioin 59 of 2004, making open government a basic right of citizens under the California Constitution.

Francke is a 1967 graduate of the University of Notre Dame and a 1979 graduate of McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific. Prior to his legal career, Francke worked as a weekly newspaper editor and in military and local government public affairs positions.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:01:52 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Mike King]]></title>
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			<link>http://www.resourcegovernment.com/blog/mikeking/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Michael R. King is a founding partner of Gammage & Burnham, P.L.C., a Phoenix law firm with diverse areas of emphasis. His practice primarily centers around bankruptcy and creditors rights, commercial litigation, including uniform commercial code cases, and real estate and business law. Mr. King is a former of the Creditor/Debtor Rights Committee and is a current member of the Bankruptcy, Real Estate and Construction Law Sections of the State Bar of Arizona. He is the past chair of the Board of Trustees of the Maricopa County Bar Foundation. Mr. King is an active alumnus of The University of Arizona, where he received his B.A. and J.D. degrees, with distinction and high distinction.

Gammage & Burnham P.L.C. was founded in 1983 by three former partners of a large, established Phoenix firm.  The firm is guided by an entrepreneurial spirit, and is dedicated to providing high quality legal services and achieving the best possible results for our clients.  Over the years, the firm has greatly expanded its client base and areas of practice.  The firm now has thirty five talented lawyers with superb credentials and a shared commitment to providing outstanding legal work for our clients.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:30:52 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Charles Davis]]></title>
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			<link>http://www.resourcegovernment.com/blog/charlesdavis/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Charles N. Davis is an associate professor at the Missouri School of Journalism and the executive director for the National Freedom of Information Coalition, headquartered at the School.

Davis' scholarly research focuses on access to governmental information and new media law, including jurisdictional issues, intellectual property and online libel. He has earned a Sunshine Award from the Society of Professional Journalists for his work in furthering freedom of information and the University of Missouri-Columbia Provost's Award for Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching, as well as the Faculty-Alumni Award. 

Davis has been a primary investigator for a research grant from the James S. and John L. Knight Foundation for NFOIC and another from the Rockefeller Family Fund for the study of homeland security and freedom of information issues. He was a co-investigator for an award from the U.S. Department of State for a curriculum reform project for Moscow State University in Russia. 

Davis worked for newspapers and as a national correspondent for Lafferty Publications, a Dublin-based news wire service for financial publications, Davis reported on banking, e-commerce and regulatory issues for seven years before leaving full-time journalism in 1993. He completed a master's degree from the University of Georgia's Henry W. Grady School of Journalism and Mass Communication and earned a doctorate in mass communication from the University of Florida in 1995. He received his bachelor's degree from North Georgia College. 

Davis participates in numerous professional organizations, including the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, the Society of Professional Journalists and Investigative Reporters and Editors.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:37:39 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Glen Gallucci]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Glen Gallucci, also known as "A Seasoned Investor" actively buys, rehabs and sells residential properties. He has invested, renovated and built numerous residential and commercial projects during his 30-year career. A well diversified businessman; Glen is also engaged in real estate education. From the trenches, and with his down to earth "tell it like it is" teaching style, makes Glen the "real deal" and a sought after speaker around the country as his business experience proves invaluable for the beginner as well as the seasoned investor regarding the successful structure of starting a wholesale or rehabbing business as well as securing private lenders when investing in "quick turn real estate." 
 
After attending one of Glens dynamic sold out seminars, a student said, ?His easy-going and charismatic personality makes learning exciting and motivating.?  Glen is an active participant in real estate investing associations through out the region. In one of his most prominent roles, he was the 2007 president of the 800 member Garden State Real Estate Investors Association (GSREIA). Glens annual bus tour of his investment properties has been featured on the front page of the real estate section of the New York Times?.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:32:53 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Caryn Tijsseling]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Ms. Tijsseling is an associate in the firm's Construction and Commercial Litigation practice groups. She practices primarily in the areas of bankruptcy and commercial and business litigation.

Ms. Tijsseling was previously with Beckley Singleton, which partnered with Lewis and Roca in 2007. Prior to joining the firm, she worked for the law firm of Beesley Matteoni, Ltd., where she gained extensive experience in the areas of commercial bankruptcy and business litigation. After graduating from law school, Ms. Tijsseling conducted a judicial clerkship with the Honorable Connie J. Steinheimer of the Second Judicial District Court in Washoe County, Nevada. 

Professional Activities include: Ms. Tijsseling is a member of the Northern Nevada Attorney Disciplinary Panel and the Northern Nevada Women Lawyers Association. 

Court Admissions: Ms. Tijsseling is admitted to practice in the United States District Court, District of Nevada. Bar 

Affiliations: Ms. Tijsseling is a member of the State Bar of Nevada, the Washoe County Bar Association and the Nevada Bankruptcy Bar Association. Education: California Western School of Law, J.D., 1997 University of Nevada, B.A., 1994]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:18:28 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Jennifer Monty]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Jennifer Monty works in the Litigation & Defense department in the Cleveland office of Weltman, Weinberg & Reis Co., L.P.A.  Ms. Monty earned her B.A. cum laude in Communications from DePauw University (2000) and her J.D. from The Ohio State University, Michael E. Moritz College of Law (2003).  A member of the Ohio State and Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Associations, Ms. Monty is licensed in Ohio and is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court (Northern District of OH).  Ms. Monty has been published in the Employee Relations Law Journal and the Pennsylvania Association of Community Bankers publication, Transactions.

Weltman, Weinberg & Reis Co., L.P.A., celebrating over 75 years of experience, provides comprehensive collection and litigation services to creditors throughout the nation including major banks & financial institutions, mortgage & lending companies, commercial creditors, government entities, insurance companies, credit unions, service organizations, medical and utility companies.  Practice areas include bankruptcy, collection services, real estate default, title and closing services, legal action recovery, litigation & defense, probate, subrogation and corporate & financial services.  The firm has offices in Brooklyn Heights (OH), Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Detroit, Grove City (OH), Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:05:48 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Ed Craine]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Ed Craine is the CEO of award winning Smith Craine Finance, one of the oldest independent Mortgage Companies in San Francisco, California.  A 25+ year veteran of the real estate financing industry, Ed has originated and negotiated loans in excess of $2 billion, to include both commercial and residential properties.  He has simultaneously held such notable positions as Vice President of the California Association of Mortgage Brokers (CAMB), as well as serving as the Public Relations Committee Chairperson of the 5,000 member strong association during 2007, the year in which the mortgage industry received more media attention than in recent history. Ed currently also serves as 1st Regional Vice President of the Certified Commercial Investment Member Institute (CCIM).  He will be inducted as Vice President of the Southwest Region of CCIM in September 2008.

In recent years, Ed has put his years of experience to use educating others in various mediums.  As a certified instructor for both the California Association of Mortgage Brokers and the National Association of Mortgage Brokers, Ed has instructed thousands of colleagues through various continuing education seminars.  He is a regular contributor to Mortgage Originator, National Mortgage Broker, Scotsman Guide and Broker Agent Magazines.  

Ed is also regularly interviewed by national media outlets for his input on topical mortgage and finance subjects. He has appeared on KGO-TV and MarketWatch.com TV in San Francisco, as well as all KCBS, KNBC, KABC, and KLTA TV in Los Angeles. He has been quoted in print publications including the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury, and in electronic media outlets including CNBC.com, Forbes.com, Investors.com and more.  

Additionally, Ed teaches courses for such organizations as Lorman Seminars, The Learning Annex and The Learning Exchange.  He has also been a featured speaker at Crittenden Conferences.

In 2007, after long holding a position as an Executive Director for Business Network International (BNI), Ed became a contributing author to a New York Times Best Selling Book for the third time.  His contributions appear in Masters of Sales, Masters of Success and Masters of Networking.    Prior to these contributions, Ed co-authored two books, The Lazy Millionaire and The Lazy Millionaire Workbook.

Ed currently serves as a co-founder and featured speaker for Commercial Lending and Strip Mall Conferences, which have attracted thousands of attendees in just over a year.

In October of 2008, Ed will become the new publisher of the professional trade journal Broker Banker Magazine, which reaches more than 10,000 banking and lending professionals each month.  

Ed holds an MBA in Finance and Marketing from Cornell University.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:46:42 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Christopher Olmsted]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Christopher W. Olmsted is an attorney and shareholder with the San Diego law firm Barker Olmsted & Barnier, PLC.  He advises clients regarding legal compliance with state and federal labor and employment law. Mr. Olmsted also represents businesses clients in state and federal employment law litigation, as well as in connection with agency enforcement actions. Mr. Olmsted can be reached at 619-682-4040 or cwo@barkerolmsted.com. For additional articles, visit www.barkerolmsted.com]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:42:30 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Peter Arsenault]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Peter J. Arsenault, AIA, NCARB, LEED-AP is an architect and Senior Sustainability Consultant with Stantec in the Rochester, NY office. Peter has nearly 30 years of experience in the design, planning, and construction of buildings and communities of many different types and styles.  A 1977 graduate of Syracuse University, he earned degrees in both architecture and sociology with an emphasis on urban design and environmental planning.  Since 1980, even before the term ?green? architecture was popularized, he has focused his work on the principles of energy consciousness, environmental sensibility, and sustainable design.  Mr. Arsenault has served clients throughout the Northeastern United States including large and small U.S. corporations, Federal and State government agencies, not-for-profit associations, and private individuals.  His innovative work includes research and design of energy-efficient, livable buildings and systems using measures such as passive solar design, natural daylighting, ventilation, and building envelope techniques.  Additionally, he is known for his experience in affordable housing and sustainable community work.  Results of some of his work have been published in technical journals, books and magazines.

Peter is recognized as a committed leader within the profession, currently serving as a National Vice President of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), having served in the past as President of the New York State and Central New York chapters of the AIA. He is a LEED Accredited Professional, a member of the US Green Building Council, and served as the charter president of a green advocacy organization known as Greening USA.  He has led or participated in multiple green design ?charrettes? and presentations in American cities with an emphasis on identifying action plans and recommendations for greener, more sustainable cities and communities.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:45:59 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Rosanna DiFilippo]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Ms. DiFilippo provides MFA's publicly-held and private clients with winning solutions to their increasingly complex business issues. Rosanna delivers tax compliance and consulting services to a broad range of multi-state entity types, such as corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies. She is experienced in a wide variety of industries including manufacturing, software development, high-tech, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, wholesale/distribution, retail and service.

Rosanna has significant expertise in FAS 109 Accounting for Income Taxes, FIN 48 Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes analysis, multi-jurisdictional tax planning and IRC Section 382 consulting. Additionally, she assists companies in making the appropriate tax elections and establishing a structure that will minimize income tax expense.

Prior to MFA, Rosanna worked five years with PricewaterhouseCoopers focusing on the Boston middle market and high technology fields.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:24:03 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Roger Minch]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Roger Minch was born and raised in Fargo, North Dakota and graduated from North Dakota State University in 1974 and The University of North Dakota School of Law in 1978. Mr. Minch joined the firm in 1978 and became a stockholder and officer in 1984. Mr. Minch's past and present activities include serving as the past chairman of the Continuing Legal Education Committee of the State Bar Association of North Dakota, and as member of the Information and Service Committee of the State Bar Association of North Dakota. He is a current member of the Bankruptcy Rules Committee of the State Bar Association of North Dakota, the Commercial Law League of America, the bankruptcy section of the Minnesota State Bar Association and the American Bankruptcy Institute. He has written numerous Continuing Legal Education outlines and text for legal seminars for the State Bar Associations of North Dakota and Minnesota, banks, savings and loans, credit union associations and private suppliers of continuing legal education programs concerning bankruptcy, collections and real estate foreclosure. His areas of concentration include bankruptcy, loan documentation, collections, foreclosures and workouts. He served as a Board member of the Fargo/Moorhead Symphony for seven years and for one year as its President. He is chairman of the North Dakota Chapter of the Nature Conservancy. Mr. Minch is licensed to practice law in all Courts in North Dakota and Minnesota and in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. He is one of two North Dakota Attorneys certified as a Creditor's Rights Specialist by the American Board of Certification sponsored by the American Bankruptcy Institute and the Commercial Law League of America.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:34:54 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Langdon Owen]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Langdon T. Owen, Jr. is a member of the law firm of Parsons Kinghorn Harris, p.c. in Salt Lake City, Utah. Mr. Owen is a transactional lawyer who practices in the areas of estate and tax planning, business and commercial transactions involving both corporate and partnership taxed enterprises (including tax, employment, and benefit issues relating to such transactions),  loans and creditors' workouts, pension and profit sharing plans, health care law, probate, and real estate. He has practiced law since 1977.  He has published articles and spoken to a variety of bar, accounting, and business and professional groups on a number of tax and estate planning issues.  He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Utah (1977) and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley (1973, with great distinction).  He was a Comment Editor of the Utah Law Review (1975-1977).   Mr. Owen has served as an arbitrator for the Utah State Bar Fee Arbitration Committee, FINRA (formerly the National Association of Securities Dealers and New York Stock Exchange), the American Health Lawyers Association, the American Arbitration Association, and the National Arbitration Forum.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:41:57 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Stephen Kirkland]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Stephen D. Kirkland, CPA, CMC, CFC is a compensation consultant with Atlantic Executive Consulting Group, LLC, based in Columbia, South Carolina.  He helps businesses and tax-exempt organizations structure compensation plans for their executives.  He also serves as an expert witness in U.S. Tax Court cases involving the reasonableness of executive compensation across the United States.  He can be reached through www.ReasonableComp.biz .]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:45:12 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Michael Simpson]]></title>
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			<link>http://www.resourcegovernment.com/blog/michaelsimpson/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Michael Simpson has over 19 years of experience leading US HR/OD divisions in the healthcare, professional services, manufacturing, and retail industries for $500MM+ organizations. In each of his leadership positions, Michael transformed administrative HR functions to innovative business partners. Michaels passion for individual and organizational development also resulted in HR initiatives across the US, Canada, Asia, Europe and Latin America.

In addition to his professional experience, Michael taught various HR and HRD courses at DePaul and DeVry Universities. Michael published numerous articles on HR and HRD topics.

Clients enjoy working with Michael as he brings a significant knowledge of HRM, HRD and OD as well as his creative energy to solve his clients' business challenges. Michael brings a unique value proposition to his customers by efficiently developing customized and scalable business solutions. 

Michael has been an active member of SHRM (Society of Human Resource Management), ODI (Organizational Development Institute), and AHRD (Academy of Human Resource Development).]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 07:35:51 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Janna Shearman]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Janna Shearman is vice president and manager of the Louisiana office of First American Exchange Company, a division of The First American Corporation (NYSE: FAF), Americas largest provider of business information.  She has worked in the exchange industry since 2004 and has attained the designation of Certified Exchange Specialist?.  As a frequent lecturer on 1031 exchanges, she provides continuing education credit courses for attorneys, accountants, title insurance agents, and Realtors?.  Ms. Shearman facilitates all types of 1031 tax-deferred exchanges, including simultaneous, delayed, reverse, and construction exchanges of both real and personal property.  She has had articles published in several trade journals.  Before joining First American Exchange, she worked as a commercial real estate paralegal and licensed title insurance agent.  She is a member of the New Orleans chapter of Commercial Real Estate Women and currently serves on the Programs Committee and is also a member of the Federation of Exchange Accommodators.  Janna delights in delivering personalized service to clients, backed by the financial security and strength of a Fortune 500? parent company.  She can be reached at 800-247-4035 or jashearman@firstam.com.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 08:54:05 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Rod Stephens]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Rod brings a unique perspective to the table in that he represents management and employees. We feel this allows us to offer a broader perspective to our clients in that we understand cutting edge employment law issues and how they are perceived by management and employees. Employment law matters can require immediate response in times of crisis. On those occasions, you can take comfort in the knowledge that we are prepared to provide the type of response that takes advantage of years of experience.  It is our hope that you will also engage our services to provide you with preventive legal care such as training and seminars for management and non-management employees, employment handbooks and revisions, and updates on recent cases such as those provided in our Blog for Washington Employers (www.employmentadvisoryblog.com).

Rod has been selected as one of Washington Law & Politics magazines Super Lawyers from 2000 to 2007.  In addition, Mr. Stephens firm has been recognized in the 2006 Martindale-Hubbell Bar Registry of Preeminent Lawyers and is AV rated by Martindale Hubbell.  He is a past president of the South King County Bar Association and a past member of the Washington State Trial Lawyers Association Board of Governors.  Mr. Stephens is a regular speaker at educational seminars for lawyers and  human resource professionals.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:01:43 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Eric Odum]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Eric Odum is a veteran in the real estate and financial services industry with over 13 years of experience.  Mr. Odum holds a Masters in International Business in Finance from the University of South Carolina (consistently ranked as one of the top International Business Schools by US News and World report).

He is a real estate agent in the State of Florida, focusing on cash flow income property investments, IRS Code Section 1031 real estate exchanges and other tax-advantaged real estate strategies.  Mr. Odum is an active participant in several real estate trade associations, such as the International Association of Shopping Centers (ICSC), Tenants in Common Association (TICA), and the National Association of Realtors.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:43:53 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Charlotte Kuhn]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Charlotte Kuhn is a RIM specialist, presenter and educator in the area of Records Management for Inactive Records Storage.   Her expertises are in, archival records, vital records, inactive record storage, personnel and medical files and secure shredding.  She is a Lorman presenter on writing a records retention program for small businesses.  Charlotte has a B.S. in education from the University of Missouri St. Louis with teacher certification and a CPS certification from IAAP.  She is a member of ASLAA, SAA, IAAP, and ARMA.  She is currently working on her certification for CRM.  She earned the SELECT award from her company for excellence in her roll as records coordinator.   She has dealt with mergers, acquisitions, and spin-offs in relation to records and their ownership and storage.   She also writes retention schedules for insertion into web interfaces.   Charlotte currently works for a fortune 500 company and covers the records retention for inactive storage for all of North America.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:11:46 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Langdon Owen]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Langdon T. Owen, Jr. is a member of the law firm of Parsons Kinghorn Harris, p.c. in Salt Lake City, Utah. Mr. Owen is a transactional lawyer who practices in the areas of estate and tax planning, business and commercial transactions involving both corporate and partnership taxed enterprises (including tax, employment, and benefit issues relating to such transactions),  loans and creditors' workouts, pension and profit sharing plans, health care law, probate, and real estate. He has practiced law since 1977.  He has published articles and spoken to a variety of bar, accounting, and business and professional groups on a number of tax and estate planning issues.  He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Utah (1977) and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley (1973, with great distinction).  He was a Comment Editor of the Utah Law Review (1975-1977).   Mr. Owen has served as an arbitrator for the Utah State Bar Fee Arbitration Committee, FINRA (formerly the National Association of Securities Dealers and New York Stock Exchange), the American Health Lawyers Association, the American Arbitration Association, and the National Arbitration Forum.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:03:59 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Scott Saunders]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Scott R. Saunders, Senior Vice President with Asset Preservation, Inc. Scott has an extensive background in Internal Revenue Code ?1031 tax deferred exchanges, having been involved in structuring and overseeing over 50,000 transactions during his sixteen years in the exchange industry. Asset Preservation, a subsidiary of Stewart Title Company, is a leading national IRC ?1031 ?Qualified Intermediary? and has successfully completed over 130,000 1031 exchanges throughout the nation.

Scott dedicates a significant portion of his time speaking to accountants, attorneys, real estate brokers and principals nationwide. He has spoken at the annual National Bar Association conference, Colorado Association of Realtors, GMAC Real Estates Annual Convention, Ohio Bar Association, Washington D.C. Bar Association and many other state and local associations. In addition, he is a regular presenter of 8-hour C.L.E. approved classes to attorneys and CPAs arranged by Lorman Education.

In addition to being an accredited speaker in numerous states, Scott has been on the Board of Directors for the Federation of Exchange Accommodators, the national trade association, and was a contributing author to the book Real Estate Exchanges: Using the Tax Deferred Exchange in Real Estate Investment Management.

Scott received his bachelor degree in Business Economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:00:25 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Cynthia Stamer]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Cynthia Marcotte Stamer, is nationally and internationally recognized for her work assisting businesses, governments, and other entities to develop creative strategies for dealing with employee benefit and related human resources, insurance, health care and finance concerns.  Ms. Stamer helps businesses design, administer and defend cost-effective employee benefit other human resources programs, policies and procedures to meet their budgetary and other business objectives.

An attorney board certified in Labor & Employment law, Ms. Stamer is frequently sought out for her experience assisting public and private employers, staffing and outsourcing companies, insurers and others to coordinate and properly manage the risks and relationships between labor and employment, employee benefit plans and ERISA, outsourcers and other vendors, corporate risk management, insurance and health care matters.  Ms. Stamer applies her extensive experience regarding employment, employee benefit, tax, and other related laws to assists clients in a wide range of business and litigation contexts.  Ms. Stamer regularly advises employers, plan administrators, insurers, managed care providers and others about the design, implementation, administration, and defense of self-insured and insured employee health and other employee benefit, workers' compensation, and employment practices.  She also has extensive experience advising and representing employers about the use, documentation, and design of employment,  outsourcing, contract labor, administrative service and other services contracts and relationships, severance, non-competition agreements and other similar arrangements, workforce reduction and re-engineering strategies and procedures including severance pay arrangement, employee waivers, early retirement windows and other incentive retirement arrangements, settlement agreements, and other risk-management strategies and compliance obligations under COBRA, WARN, discrimination, and other applicable laws.  Moreover, Ms. Stamer also advises and assists clients to implement human resource-related changes arising out of corporate mergers, acquisitions, reductions-in-force, and other significant corporate and business events.  In this regard, Ms. Stamer drafts and amends personnel policies, employee communications, employee benefit plans and other related documents, advises and assists clients regarding the organization of employee meetings, and provides other assistance with the details required to implement human resource decisions and changes.  Ms. Stamer also regularly provides advice to organizations about statutory and regulatory employment, health, immigration, employee benefit, tax worker's compensation, pension, social security, education, and other legislative and regulatory reforms in the United States and other nations and has assisted government and private clients to design and craft legislation and regulations in these and other areas.  For instance, she served as a principle legal advisor to the Government of Bolivia on the crafting and drafting of legislation to reform and privatize its pension and social security system. 

In the rapidly changing health care/employee benefit environment, Ms. Stamer also regularly helps a wide range of clients to design, negotiate, draft, and evaluate health benefit plans, wellness and disability management and insurance programs, contracts and agreements and to design, administer and defend those programs.  Examples of these include self-insured and insured health and other employee benefit plans, managed care contracts, insurance and HMO contracts, administration agreements, staffing and a wide range of other managed care agreements.  Ms. Stamer also advises many clients, including insurance companies, plan sponsors, third-party administrators, employee leasing and staffing companies, hospitals, physicians, health maintenance organizations, preferred provider organizations, and other managed care providers, and insurance and employee benefits consultants about a wide range of health care, regulatory compliance, and other matters.  She has worked extensively with health care providers, health plan sponsors, third party administrators, health insurers, and their vendors to comply with applicable HIPAA, claims and prompt pay, and other federal and state laws and regulations.

Listed in the International Whos Who of Professionals, Ms. Stamer plays a leadership and is an active member of numerous human resources, health care and civic organizations.  Ms. Stamer presently serves as the Vice Chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) Real Property, Probate & Trust Sections Welfare Benefit Plan Committee, Chair of the ABA Health Law Sections Managed Care & Insurance Interest Group, and Vice Chair of the ABA Tort & Insurance Practice Section Workers Compensation Committee.  She is a past Chair of the Dallas Bar Associations Executive Compensation and Employee Benefit Committee.  She also has founded the Patient Empowerment and numerous other initiatives to improve and promote the affordability, accessibility and quality of health care and health care coverage in her role as the immediate Past President and Board Member of the Alliance for Healthcare Excellence, a coalition of employers, insurers, and health care providers to improve and promote access to quality affordable health care.  As a current Dallas Board member, and a former member of the State Executive Committee, State Board member and Regional Chair of the Texas Association of Businesses & Chambers of Commerce, Ms. Stamer works as an advocate for business in health and employee benefit, workers compensation, human resources, education and other public policy reform matters.

Ms. Stamer also plays an active role in the Labor, Tax, Tort & Insurance Practice, and Health Law Sections of the American Bar Association and the Employee Benefits Committee and Health Law, Labor and Employment Law, Insurance Law and Tax Sections of the Texas, Arizona and Dallas Bar Associations, the Southwest Benefits Association, and the Dallas Benefits Society, the Self-Insurance Institute of America, the American Management Association, the American Compensation Association, the Society For Human Resources Management, the American Health Lawyers Association, the International Foundation of Certified Employee Benefits Specialists, an adjunct faculty member for the University of Dallas Graduate School of Management, as a Whistle stop Speaker for WEB, A Network of Benefits Professionals and is active in numerous other organizations and committees. She also previously has served on the Board of Directors of the Southwest Benefits Association, the Dallas Benefits Society, the SHRM Consultants Forum, the Richardson Development Center for Children and numerous other organizations.  She also previously has served on the Board of Directors of the Southwest Benefits Association, the Dallas Benefits Society, the SHRM Consultants Forum, the Dallas Council on World Affairs, the Richardson Development Center for Children and numerous other organizations.  She regularly conducts speaks and authors works for these and many other organizations.

Ms. Stamer also presently serves or previously has served member of the Editorial Advisory Board of several publications, including the human resources, employee benefits and health care related publications of The Bureau of National Affairs and Health Care & Compliance Quarterly  Her insights on health and employment matters have been widely published and quoted in numerous national and local publications including the Wall Street Journal, the Dallas Morning News, Business Insurance, and a host of other publications.  She is a widely published and highly sought after author of numerous publications on health care, employment, employee benefit and other human resources matters, as well as a wide range of other related topics.

Ms. Stamer is a popular speaker and widely published author and regularly serves as an adjunct faculty member of several college, university, and seminar faculties including publications and presentations for the American Bar Association, World At Work, Aspen Publishers, The Bureau of National Affairs, Spencer Publications, and others.  A sampling of some of her publications and presentations is attached.

Ms. Stamer is a graduate of Arizona State University and a graduate of Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. She and her husband, Doug, are the proud parents of two boys, Max, age 11, and Luke, age 6.  In her spare time, she enjoys sports, travel, cooking and entertaining, and gardening.
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			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:08:07 CST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Robin Foret]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[PRACTICE AREAS
Civil Litigation, Labor & Employment

Board Certified in Labor & Employment Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization

EXPERIENCE

Robin Foret practices in the areas of employment law, commercial litigation and specialty insurance defense claims.  She handles a variety of employment matters such as theft of trade secrets, breach of employment agreements, non-competition agreements, wage and hour issues under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), discrimination and harassment issues under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) and the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act (TCHRA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) issues, and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). Robin has handled a wide variety of employment law matters for employers, as well as for executive-level employees, before agencies, and state and federal courts. Robin litigates employment cases in both the judicial as well as administrative forums, which includes the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Texas Workforce Commission and the Department of Labor.  In addition to employment law related disputes, Robin also advises numerous companies on how to avoid employment law pitfalls that lead to claims and possibly, litigation.  This includes giving seminars, authoring articles, preparing employment handbooks, preparing and reviewing employment agreements, and rendering advice on a wide variety of employment-related matters to assist companies comply with state and federal employment laws.  

EDUCATION

Robin received her J.D. from Temple University Law School of Law in 1991 where she graduated cum laude.  Robin was the Articles/Symposium Editor of the Temple Law Review, and organized and coordinated a symposium on the ADA. 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

?  Member of the State Bars of Texas and Pennsylvania
?  Member of the Dallas Bar Association
?  Member of the College of the State Bar of Texas

SPEECHES and PUBLICATIONS

Robin co-authored:  Sarbanes-Oxley: Expanding the Scope of the Federal Whistleblower Protection Laws, which was presented as a seminar through the Dallas Bar Association and Lorman Educational Services.   In addition, Robin has written numerous articles on a variety of employment law topics and has given seminars on various subjects such as: the ADA and FMLA, Title VII Discrimination and Harassment, FLSA issues, Independent Contractor Status and Non-competition Agreements, to associations and to private company employers.    
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			<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:20:29 CST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Monica Williams]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Monica Williams is principal in Monica B. Williams Co. LPA, a firm focusing on business transactions for privately held companies. She works with business owners who want to avoid the legal potholes involved in buying/selling a business. Her experience ranges from a $100,000 sale of a steel service companys assets to a $44M acquisition of a tool manufacturer. She advises on legal aspects of company restructurings, mergers and acquisitions and works with tax and accounting professionals to structure transactions to protect and benefit clients. 

Before forming her own firm, Ms. Williams served as an in-house counsel for nine years for a major financial services holding company, where she concentrated on mergers and acquisitions, with related work in securities and corporate law. She has taught as an adjunct professor at Cleveland Marshall College of Law, where she developed and taught a course on small business enterprises. Ms. Williams is the author of four texts and numerous monographs on limited liability companies, partnerships and corporations. She has 20+ years of experience. She is legal counsel to the Cleveland Chapter of American Women in the Metal Industries and is a member of the Ohio Bar Association. She received her B.S. degree summa cum laude from Ohio University and her J.D. with cum laude from Cleveland Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:32:35 CST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author David Keene, II]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[David Keene, an associate in Baker Donelsons Tri-Cities office, concentrates his practice in the area of labor and employment law.  Mr. Keene has experience in a multitude of labor and employment areas including negotiating collective bargaining agreements for both private and public sector employers; representing employers in grievance and issue arbitrations;  representing employers in all matters, including elections and unfair labor practices, before the National Labor Relations Board and state labor boards;  helping clients maintain union-free workforces; handling unemployment claims from initial applications for benefits through court appeals;  counseling clients on a multitude of federal employment laws, including the ADA, FMLA, ADEA, and FLSA; litigating employment discrimination claims; and representing individuals against unions.  Mr. Keene has been published in The Labor Lawyer, Labor Law Journal, and numerous other publications, and has taught seminars on a wide variety of labor and employment topics.

Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC, was ranked by The National Law Journal in 2006 as one of the 100 largest law firms in the country. Through strategic acquisitions and mergers over the past century, the Firm has grown to include more than 500 attorneys and public policy and international advisors. Baker Donelson has offices located in five states in the southern U.S. as well as Washington, D.C., plus a representative office in Beijing, China.  Baker Donelson represents local, regional, national and international clients. The Firm provides innovative, results-oriented solutions, placing the needs of the client first. Our state-of-the-art technologies seamlessly link all offices, provide instant information exchange, and support clients nationwide with secure access to our online document repository. 

Baker Donelson is a member of several of the largest legal networks that provide our attorneys quick access to legal expertise throughout the United States and around the world. 
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			<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:41:11 CST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Chris Young]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Rainmaker Group is a human talent maximization company specializing in helping organization maximize their bottom lines by improving employee retention, hiring the best talent possible, and strategic talent management and coaching services.  From the Fortune 50 corporation to the small medical office, The Rainmaker Group guarantees lasting organizational change via a unique blend of energy, insight, and science to maximize talent, transform organizational culture, and provide strategic intervention.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 23:47:16 CST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Michael Newman]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Michael Newman is a Partner in the Cincinnati office of Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, where he chairs the firms Labor & Employment Appellate Practice Group.  He represents a broad range of business clients, both large and small, in the state and federal courts.

	Mr. Newmans ADR resume is extensive.  He often serves as a mediator or arbitrator, and attended Harvard Law Schools Advanced Mediation Program in 2004.  He serves on the American Arbitration Associations panel of neutrals, and has written about alternative dispute resolution for a national audience in The Federal Lawyer magazine.	

His Bar Association work includes service on the Cincinnati Bar Association Board of Trustees, President of the Federal Bar Associations Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky Chapter, and Sixth Circuit Vice President of the Federal Bar Association, an elected position.
  
Mr. Newman graduated with honors from the American University Law School in Washington, D.C. and attended New York Universitys Film School.  He is active in the arts, and has completed the Business on Board training with the Fine Arts Fund.  Recently, he was appointed Chair of the Friends of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. 
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			<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:48:16 CST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Michael Newman]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Michael Newman is a Partner in the Cincinnati office of Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, where he chairs the firms Labor & Employment Appellate Practice Group.  He represents a broad range of business clients, both large and small, in the state and federal courts.

	Mr. Newmans ADR resume is extensive.  He often serves as a mediator or arbitrator, and attended Harvard Law Schools Advanced Mediation Program in 2004.  He serves on the American Arbitration Associations panel of neutrals, and has written about alternative dispute resolution for a national audience in The Federal Lawyer magazine.	

His Bar Association work includes service on the Cincinnati Bar Association Board of Trustees, President of the Federal Bar Associations Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky Chapter, and Sixth Circuit Vice President of the Federal Bar Association, an elected position.     
  
Mr. Newman graduated with honors from the American University Law School in Washington, D.C. and attended New York Universitys Film School.  He is active in the arts, and has completed the Business on Board training with the Fine Arts Fund.  Recently, he was appointed Chair of the Friends of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. 
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			<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:48:00 CST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Dru Beguelin]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dru Beguelin is a Partner at A-SALT Group, LLC where he is a member of a growing practice in the state and local tax arena. A-SALT Group is a dynamic company comprised of professional individuals who bring over 38 years of combined state and local tax experience to bear on your tax needs. His company offers a variety of services focused in the area of Sales and Use Tax, Canadian Sales Tax, and Property Tax. He is confident that their service, experience, passion, and understanding make them superior in the state and local tax consulting field. Dru does not service clients in a cookie cutter fashion. Instead, he tailors services to fit their needs. His focus is to listen to our clients issues and concerns, getting to know their business and how it operates, recommending solutions that are cost effective and make sound business sense. His group acts as an extension of their department. Dru has been in the state and local tax area for over twenty-five years. His professional experience started in the corporate sector where he worked for British Petroleum of North America, Inc. (BP). He served as company representative on the Trans Alaskan Pipeline System Tax Subcommittee. He also gained experience managing the tax planning, research, audits and compliance for The BOC Group, Inc. He then switched sides of the table to be a consultant working with such companies as DuCharme, McMillen & Associates, Inc., as Northeast Regional Director of the State and Local Tax Division, and Burr Wolff as Northeast Vice President of Sales & Use Tax Services, where he worked closely with clients to develop and implement tax-planning strategies that resulted in future savings, and in the review of sales & use tax matters including automated compliance software, compliance agreements and managed audits. Dru's tax consulting experience includes manufacturing, retail, wholesale, leasing, telecommunications, oil and gas, and transportation. Dru holds a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting from Thomas Edison State College. Dru is a Vertex Certified TDM Specialist and has had formal Taxware training. Dru is a member of the Institute for professionals in Taxation (IPT).]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:41:43 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Stuart Freeland]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Mr. Freeland represents businesses and institutions both as outside general counsel and in a broad range of transactions, particularly real estate related activities.  His clients include a major Boston area university, real estate development firms and organizations involved in a variety of business activities. Mr. Freeland assists clients to organize and operate their businesses in a tax efficient manner.  

Notable Experience
Represents clients in the formation of all types of business enterprises, including corporations, limited liability companies, joint ventures and partnerships, including advice regarding selection of the appropriate business entity; 

Advises individuals and organizations regarding federal and state income tax consequences of business transactions and investments, including tax free exchanges; 
Represents clients in the purchase and sale of businesses, including asset and stock transactions, leasing and problems of ownership; 

Represents clients in commercial real estate transactions including purchase and sale, leasing and financing arrangements; 
Prepares shareholder and stock redemption agreements; 

Represents clients regarding corporate reorganizations; 

Represents clients regarding private offerings of securities; 

Represents clients in debt financing transactions, including asset based loans and mortgage loans; 

Counsels clients in employment and consulting arrangements, including confidentiality and non competition agreements.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:15:51 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Holly J. Culhane]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Identified the need for human resource and organizational assistance for small- and medium-sized business?es and formed Profes?sional Administra?tive Systems in 1987. Now known as P A S Associates, this firm combines specialists in the fields of human resources, labor and employment law, affirma?tive action, and substance abuse policies and education, providing an unsurpassed Human Resource Center. Ms. Culhane publishes a bi-monthly update, "Employer Essentials" and produced "Employment Essen?tials", a radio program which aired for two years on KERNTALK 1410AM assisting Kern County employers in various areas of human resource management. 

Ms. Culhane's professional and community involvements currently include the Rotary Club of Bakersfield, the Society for Human Resource Management, the Greater Bakersfield Chamber of Commerce, International Christian Ministries, Kern County Youth for Christ, and the National Board of Trustees for YFC/USA. 

Ms. Culhane's well-rounded business and community efforts assist P A S Associates in working with clients to provide such services as customized Employee Policy Handbooks, Employee Maintenance Programs (off-site and on-site human resource assistance), human resource related training, Employee Satisfaction Surveys, Job Descrip?tions, Operating and Administra?tive Procedures Manuals, and Organizational and Compensation Surveys. 

Ms. Culhane's rare gift for relational and substantive training has made her a popular choice by associations, private organizations and the public sector alike for training and presentations in the human resource field.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 07:52:30 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Trey Wood]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Trey has made it his professional mission to assist clients in maximizing employee relations and minimizing employee claims.  This means being attentive to a clients needs and providing the type of advice that will fit within the framework of an individual clients own philosophy.  But when creative problem solving will not satisfy a litigious employee, it is good to know that Trey has been practicing as a trial attorney for over eighteen years.  He has tried many employment cases in both federal and state courts across the country and has represented clients before various state and federal agencies such as the EEOC, OSHA, Department of Labor, the Texas Commission on Human Rights and the Texas Workforce Commission.  Trey is board certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in the area of labor and employment law and is a frequent speaker before various trade organizations on all aspects of employment law.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:51:47 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Kelli Hill]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Kelli Hill is an associate of Constangy, Brooks & Smith in the Macon office.  Constangy, Brooks & Smith limits its practice to labor and employment law counseling to management and has done so, exclusively, since 1946, when it was founded in Atlanta, Georgia.  Constangy, Brooks & Smith, now has thirteen offices in nine states and represents management throughout the United States.  Kelli received her undergraduate degree from The University of Georgia in 2001 and earned her J. D. degree from Mercer Universitys Walter F. George School of Law.   Kelli is a Member of the State Bar of Georgia, the Georgia Defense Lawyers Association, the Macon Bar Association, and she is the Vice-President of the Young Lawyers Division of the Macon Bar Association.  Kellis primary focus is representing employers in workers compensation disputes and the defense of management in employment litigation on issues such as Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), and the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) at all administrative levels, mediation, and Federal and State court.  She also performs in-house training for employees and management on sexual harassment, recent developments in labor and employment law, and workers compensation defense, and  reviews corporate policies for guidance assistance and compliance.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 07:31:38 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Doug H. Moy]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Doug H. Moy is a nationally recognized author, consulting specialist, seminar instructor and educator. He has an undergraduate degree from Willamette University and a Masters degree from Washington State University. Since 1979, Mr. Moy has consulted to attorneys, tax practitioners and their clients, as well as assisted practitioners representing clients before the IRS Conference of Right and Appeals Division and Settlement Conference Negotiations. He is noted for his ability to communicate his unparalleled knowledge and experience to practitioners at all levels in his field of expertise; namely, estate/gift taxation and planning, with special expertise in living trusts; community property; lottery prize winnings; structured settlement trusts; extricating clients from abusive trust tax shelters; designing effective estate plans; and preparation of Form 706 Estate Tax Returns and 709 Gift Tax Returns. He offers particular assistance and exceptional skill designing creative, practical solutions to challenging and difficult estate planning situations.

Mr. Moy was instrumental in obtaining from the Oregon Department of Revenue the first declaratory rulings favorably issued in regard to Oregon lottery prize winners, involving the transfer of payments to a revocable living trust. A highly sought after educator, having been keynote speaker at thirteen consecutive annual national estate and gift tax conferences for the National Society of Accountants (NSA), Mr. Moy also designed and coordinated twelve of those conferences. He has taught at many tax conferences for the National Association of Tax Professionals (NATP) and teaches continuing professional education courses at Portland Community College to CPAs, accountants, Enrolled Agents and insurance producers.

A former member of NSAs prestigious Federal Taxation Committee, Mr. Moy has been the recipient of the ?Golden Quill Award,? presented by the NSA in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the education offerings of the Society. He has also been recipient of the ?Speaker of the Year Award,? presented by NSA in recognition of having attained the highest rating as a speaker at any educational conference during the year. To date, Mr. Moy remains the only person to have ever been honored with both awards in the same year and the only person to have been awarded the ?Golden Quill Award? within two consecutive years. Further, he designed and taught the most successful ?Seminar at Sea? ever offered by NSA. 

Author of the NSAs position paper Proposed Repeal of the Federal Estate, Gift and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax, which was prepared for presentation to Congress and adopted by the NSA as its official position on the subject, Mr. Moy also authored the NSAs position paper Income Taxation of Trusts and Estates, which was additionally adopted by NSAs Board of Governors as its official position.

An author for both Aspen Publishers and John Wiley & Sons, having authored nine books to date, including Living Trusts; and Wealth Preservation: How to Start and Develop an Estate Planning Practice, he has also been published frequently in Tax Management Estates, Gifts and Trusts Journal; National Public Accountant; The Monthly Digest of Tax Articles; and TAXPRO Journal. Mr. Moy is a former faculty member for the College for Financial Planning and served on its Curriculum Advisory Board. He is an active member of NATP and an instructor on the Lorman Education Services faculty. He has served on several community-affiliated boards of trustees, including the Meridian Park Hospital Medical Foundation; Loaves & Fishes, Inc.; and the Lake Oswego Public Library.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:23:13 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Cynthia Umphrey]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Cynthia Umphrey helps families and business owners make significant personal and professional life decisions. Ms. Umphrey calls upon over 10 years of experience in estate planning, probate administration, business structuring and business exit planning to guide you though lifes most important choices.

Estate Planning & Post-death Administration: Ms. Umphrey walks her clients through the entire estate planning process with care. Some concerns she will help you resolve include: how to set aside money and assets for your family, who should make decisions for you if you are incapacitated, and who should care for your children if you are unable to do so. She will ensure your future plans are followed as much as possible without court interference.

Business Planning: Ms. Umphrey understands that business owners are faced with day-to-day questions as well as major quandaries. She handles everything from troubleshooting on employee or collections issues to engaging in strategic planning and protecting your family and business in the event of a death. Ms. Umphrey works proactively to create a plan that puts you in the best possible legal and financial position now and in the future.

Exit Planning: As an exit planning strategist, Ms. Umphrey helps owners of closely held businesses scale back their involvement, retire or transition their companies to new owners. Her transition plans allow owners to leave their businesses on their own terms and maximize the value received, or to keep their businesses as a source of income even as they retire. Techniques involved in this process can include: mediation of family issues; creation of incentives to key employees; tax advantaged sale or purchase of businesses; sophisticated gifting strategies; legal audit; and solving legal and tax problems before they become critical.

PRACTICE AREAS:
Business Law, Exit Planning, Estate Planning and Probate

EDUCATION:
B.A., Oakland University, magna cum laude J.D., University of Michigan, cum laude
BAR ADMISSIONS:
State Bar of Michigan

MEMBERSHIPS:
State Bar of Michigan (Council Member, Business Law Section) Oakland County Bar Association Member of The Institute of Continuing Legal Educations Business Law Advisory Board

OTHER ACTIVITIES:
Ms. Umphrey is a frequent lecturer for The Institute of Continuing Legal Education, Lorman Education Services, the National Business Institute and other organizations. The Detroit Legal News, the Oakland Legal Press and Bottom Line Business Publications have published or quoted her articles and she has appeared on the Business Reality Network.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:53:34 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author David Dorfman]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[David Alan Dorfman is a founding member of the New York Chapter of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys.  He has a dynamic, growing office practicing Elder Law including Medicaid and Medicare, Trusts, Estate Planning and Administration, Guardianships and Advanced Directives.  A holistic approach assures meeting the legal needs of our clients.  Committed to the highest standards of professional performance since its inception, our reputation for excellence is earned.

David Alan Dorfman received his B.A. with honors from Boston University in May 1988 and his J.D. from Boston University School of Law in May 1991 and participated in an L.L.M. program concentrating in Health Law at New York University School of Law in 1993. 

He has held leadership positions as the Chair of the Young Lawyers Sections of the New York County Lawyers Association and the Brooklyn Bar Association. He serves on the Public Relations Committee of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys and is a member of the National Association of Long-Term Care Professionals, the Elder Law Section of the New York State Bar Association and serves on the Committee on Legal Problems of the Aging at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

Publications include articles that have appeared in the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys News, The Elder Law Attorney, the Brooklyn Barrister and Lawyers Cooperative Publishing's Serving Elderly Clients.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:29:00 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Jacob Stein]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Mr. Stein is a partner with the law firm Boldra, Klueger and Stein, LLP, in Los Angeles, California.  The firms practice is limited to asset protection, domestic and international tax planning, and structuring complex business transactions.  The firms goal is to provide the highest quality legal work that is usually associated with only the biggest law firms, in a boutique firm setting.

Jacob received his law degree from the University of Southern California, and his Masters of Law in Taxation from Georgetown University.  Mr. Stein has been accredited by the State Bar of California as a Certified Tax Law Specialist and is AV-rated (highest possible rating) by Martindale-Hubbell.

In the arena of asset protection, Mr. Stein assists high net-worth individuals and successful businesses in protecting their assets from plaintiffs and creditors by focusing on properly structuring asset ownership and business structures and operations. 

In the arena of tax planning, Mr. Stein structures complex domestic and offshore income and estate tax planning transactions.

Mr. Stein is an author of numerous tax and asset protection articles and a frequent lecturer to various attorney, CPA and other professional groups on topics ranging from asset protection to choice of entity planning, and offshore tax planning to advanced real estate exit strategies.  Jacob is an instructor with the California CPA Education Foundation, National Business Institute and Lorman Education Services, teaching courses on advanced tax planning, asset protection and trust law.  He is an adjunct professor oftaxation at the CSU, Northridge Graduate Tax Program.  He is the past-chair of the Tax Section of the San Fernando Valley Bar Association, and a member of the tax sections of the American, California and Los Angeles County Bar Associations. ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:37:07 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Frank Rudewicz]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Frank Rudewicz is a Managing Director at UHY Advisors FLVS, Inc. An attorney and proven leader, he excels in building organizations and cultivating relationships across multiple disciplines. He has twenty-six years of experience integrating the law enforcement, legal and corporate communities. He has significant domestic and international experience in designing and managing corporate asset protection programs, information protection, anti-violence and employee conduct programs, as well as conducting investigations into anti-trust/anti-competitive, harassment, internal fraud, ethics and other employment related conduct.

Frank Rudewicz professional experience includes; Ethics and Compliance Monitor for high profile entities in several states, Project Manager Bankruptcy/Asset Analysis re: Adelphia Communications, Director of Corporate Security and Emergency Management, super-regional financial institution, a 14 year law enforcement career with the Hartford Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as well as other various positions.

He co-drafted industry guidelines for Information Protection for the American Society of Industrial Security (?ASIS?)and co-drafted industry guidelines for Workplace Violence Prevention and Response for ASIS.

He is a recognized expert on security, investigations and workplace violence prevention, he lectures and teaches frequently on investigative and security issues throughout the country.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:30:38 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Frank Rudewicz]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:28:22 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Pierre Coupet]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A long and distinguished professional career spannning a number of disciplines over a period of 34+ years.  Author, prolific lecturer, speaker and trainer on Virtual Organization Management and inventor of patent-pending best practices, policies and procedures for operating in a virtual environment and managing a virtual organization.  Recognized worldwide as the World's Foremost Expert on Virtual Organization Management.  Experience includes: Chairman, CEO & Chief Virtual Organization Management Consultant, NetWEB Elite Solutions, Inc., a Virtual Organization Management Consulting and ebusiness solutions company;  Founder, CEO & Dean of newly formed Virtual Organization Management Institute - a div of NetWEB Elite Solutions; Founder, Chairman & CEO, The Finex Group Incorporated - a national executive search firm - representing blue chip clients for over 13 years; held a number of management consulting positions as well as Auditor and Sr. Tax Accountant positions with various local CPA firms; former member of the California Air National Guard and active duty member of the 10th Aerospace Defense Squadron, USAF.  ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:36:46 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Eugene Boyle]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Eugene A. Boyle is a member of Neal Gerber Eisenbergs Labor & Employment Practice Group. Gene works closely with companies of all sizes, helping them anticipate, avoid, and when necessary, resolve issues and disputes that arise from the complexities of the employment relationship.  He regularly assists and supports clients and human resources professionals in such areas as strategic planning, policy development, legal compliance, training, union avoidance, labor negotiations, and employment issues arising in the context of mergers, sales, and acquisitions.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Blog Author Jamie Charter]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Jamie Charter, consultant, trainer and author, has been providing employment and litigation consulting services for 23 years through Charter and Company employment resource consultants in Soquel, California. Areas of specialization include development and implementation of disability management programs, case management, EEOC/FEHA/ADA consultation, return-to-work facilitation, CalPers job description services, job analyses, conducting training seminars for employer groups on sexual harassment prevention and discrimination and litigation /expert witness services in Forensics. Jamie has assisted numerous City, County, school district and small employers with compliance matters, resulting in a positive and proactive outcome. 
 Jamie holds a Masters Degre