Publications and Presentations


Date	Title

March 15, 2010	Succession Planning - How to Effectively Pass the Torch For owners of family owned businesses, one thing is certain, the withdrawal of the owner of the family business is inevitable. This creates a need to develop a mechanism for the successful transition of the family business. ...more

March 10, 2010	Obtaining Stimulus Funds Comes With "Green" Strings Attached On February 17, 2009, President Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The Act is an extraordinary response to the slowdown plaguing the United States economy. ...more

March 2, 2010	Is Your Bank's Security System Adequate? Statistics regarding payment systems in the United States are by now well-known. Check usage hit all-time highs in the 1990s, but has been on the decline since. Meanwhile, debit card, credit card, and electronic or automated clearing house (ACH) payments have sky-rocketed. ...more

March 2, 2010	MSHA - Whose Plan Is It? The frequency of this question being posed to coal lawyers has increased dramatically in the past few years. In particular, issues about ventilation and respirable dust compliance as well as extended cuts have frequently been raised in the context of plan disputes. ...more

March 2, 2010	Ohio Supreme Court Enforces Prevailing-Wage Penalties Today, in a 5-2 decision, the Ohio Supreme Court held that in a private action by employees, the penalties set forth in the prevailing-wage statute, R.C. 4115.10(A), are mandatory penalties that must be imposed against a party found to have violated the prevailing-wage law. ...more

March 1, 2010	International Business Alert - Winter 2010 At its Fall Meeting in Brussels, at the National Bank of Belgium, the International Chamber of Commerce Commission on Banking Technique and Practice voted to approve a new revision of the Uniform Rules for Demand Guarantees (ICC Publication 758). ...more

March 1, 2010	Tips for School Administrators on How to Handle "Sexting" A high school boy receives, via text message, naked photos of his girlfriend from her. Later in the week, the boy shares the photos with several of his classmates, and forwards the text messages to several of his basketball teammates and others. ...more

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