Medical Marijuana Industry Rattled By the Moves of Federal Prosecutors
10/30/2011 Steve Berg, a venture capitalist believed he had an unquestionable business model. His San Francisco firm, the ArcView Group, vowed to find “angel investors” for business startups that offer products and sevices for the $1.5 billion medical marijuana industry in California. But last week, the U.S. prosecutors in the state announced legal actions […]
Plaintiffs Attorneys in Preemption Dispute Finds Favor with Feds
10/29/2011 A case before the U.S. Supreme Court that is getting the interest of a number of groups will determine if plaintiffs attorneys have a new industry to take on in asbestos lawsuits. The issue revolves around the federal Locomotive Inspection Act, which preempts state law claims against business outfits involved with the design, […]
Hispanics Miss Work In Protest Of Immigration Law
10/29/2011 The Mexican restaurant along Main Street in the small town of Albertville in Alabama was closed. Lights were out at a Hispanic-owned grocery store and it was also dark at a bank that caters to Spanish speakers. A chicken processing plant nearby was also silent with its usual hum missing. Businesses that are […]
Threats to Change Dodd-Frank Downplayed by Gensler
10/28/2011 The head of the futures regulator in the U.S. on Tuesday defended the extensive new measures to watch over the swaps market and dismissed efforts in Congress to introduce changes to the sweeping financial reform that regulators are a couple of months behind in putting in place. An aggressive time table to finish […]
Blogging Help Law Firms Share Expertise
10/28/2011 One of the biggest law firms in Portland, Verrill Dana, recently launched its latest blog, Banking Law Update, with plans to follow it through with a maritime blog and another blog for human resources professionals. These legal blogs are part of the strategy of the firm to use social media to hook up […]
Obama Increases Pressure on Legal Marijuana
10/27/2011 The top prosecutors of the Obama administration are implementing a combined drive to go after the biggest medical marijuana operations in the state of California. The prosecutors claim that these businesses are breaking the law and making an illegal profit. For the first two and half years of the presidency of Barack Obama, […]
Industries in Southwest Alabama are Losing Migrant Workers Due to Immigration Law
10/27/2011 A Mobile roofing company owner recently saw 7 of his former employees cleaning up at a Florida convention center. Although they are in the country legally and possessed proper documentation, they fled Alabama because of the tough immigration law of the state. This was revealed by Jay Reed, the president of Alabama Associated […]
Litera Welcomes Microsoft Veteran Norm Thomas as Business Development Vice President
10/26/2011 Litera recently announced that Norm Thomas, who has served as director of Microsoft Corporation’s industry market development for legal and professional services for the past eight years, has joined the firm as its new vice president of business development. Litera is one of the leading providers of advanced productivity solutions designed for legal […]
U.S. Law Firm Mergers and Acquisitions is Booming
10/26/2011 A new report by the consulting firm Altman Weil revealed that this year’s mergers and acquisitions of law firms from January through September were up 79% on the national level compared to the same period last year. However, the report also stated that in Pennsylvania, the number of those types of moves has […]
Prison Remedy Proposed by State Agriculture Official to Worker-Strapped Farm Groups
10/25/2011 The tough new immigration law of Alabama may be stripping farmers of their workers but a state agriculture official said that prisons could be a quick fix. The Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries commissioner, John McMillan, revealed in an interview Thursday that inmates, through a work-release plan, could become a labor source […]