KMOX Interviews Jeff Michelman about Trademarks

Listen as Doug McElvein and Debbie Monterrey interview Jeff Michelman, an intellectual property attorney with Danna McKitrick, about the importance of registering trademarks and why it it helps to protect brands. They also discuss the move by athletes to protect their “catchphrases.”

Click here for the full interview:  Total Information AM on KMOX
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Vanderbeek’s Workers’ Comp Article Referenced in “Human Resource Executive” Blog

Christopher D. Vanderbeek’s recent article, “Missouri Supreme Court Limits What Constitutes an Accidental Injury in Work Comp,” was highlighted in the Human Resource Executive Online’s blog “The Leader Board.”

In “Worker’s Coffee-Making Injury Not Compensable,” Kristen Frasch references Vanderbeek’s summary of a recent workers’ compensation case in Missouri.

The Leader Board is written by the editorial staff of Human Resource Executive Online® specifically for human resource directors and vice presidents.

Read the Human Resource Executive Online post here.

Read Vanderbeek’s original article here.

Michelman and Murphy Speak on Critical Issues for Manufacturers: Missouri Enterpise

Several Danna McKitrick attorneys recently presented at a seminar with Missouri Enterprise on issues critical to manufacturers.

Patrick J.  Murphy, a CPA and attorney,  and  Jeffrey L. Michelman, an intellectual property attorney, were featured in “Seminar Explores Three Issues Critical to Manufacturers,” an article on the seminar in Impact!, a newsletter published by Missouri Enterprise and distributed to manufacturers across the state of Missouri.

Read the article … Impact!

Ruth Binger on Lack of an Exit Plan: Missouri Enterprise

“Lack of an Exit Plan =  Dead Company Walking,” an article by Attorney Ruth Binger on the importance of succession planning and exit strategies, was published in a recent issue of Impact!, a newsletter published by Missouri Enterprise for manufacturers and distributors.

Read the full article … Impact!

Binger on Social Media Best Practices for Construction Trade

Corporate law and digital media law attorney Ruth Binger‘s article “Making Social Media Trades in Construction Trades” was recently published in the St. Louis Construction News and Review newsletter. Binger addressed best practices for social media risk management in the construction industry.

Read the full article … St. Louis Construction News and Review

Ruth Binger Shares Insight on Discovery of Lies After Hiring

St. Louis Small Business Monthly recently ran a “Board of Directors” column titled ”How do I handle an employee who lied in the interview process?” They asked Attorney Ruth Binger for her insight on how to deal with situation where an employee lied about his experience and education that was not uncovered until several years after hiring.

Read Ruth’s response here.

Fewer Business Bankruptcies in St. Louis: Bankruptcy Attorney Tom DeWoskin’s Perspective

Tom DeWoskin, a seasoned bankruptcy attorney with over three decades of experience, weighs in on the dramatic decrease in business bankruptcy filings in the St. Louis area in 2011 over last year. In an article on 2nd quarter 2011 business backruptcies in the St. Louis Business Journal, DeWoskin commented on the state of bankruptcies in greater St. Louis.

“It seems to me that everybody in St. Louis who is going to fail has failed,” DeWoskin said. “You can only hang on for so long. After some period of time it’s going to kill you.”

But is that good news for the St. Louis area? Read more of DeWoskin’s thoughts …. the St. Louis Business Journal.

Read more on business bankruptcy in DeWoskin’s blog, “Protecting Against Preference Demands in a Bankruptcy Case.”

Workers Can Now Sue Each Other for Negligent Acts

Appearing today in Associated Industries of Missouri’s E-Voice newsletter is an article authored by Brian Weinstock discussing unintended consequences of 2005 Workers’ Compensation Reforms.

Here’s the article: Workers Can Now Sue Each Other for Negligent Acts.

The Future and Success of Small Businesses Discussed in St. Louis Post-Dispatch with Ruth Binger

St. Louis Post-Dispatch interviewed Ruth Binger in an article entitled, “Five Questions:  Ruth A. Binger, lawyer and adviser to small businesses.”

“To me, a business is like a person.  in helping a new business, you create a living thing,” says Binger… Small businesses are not “cookie cutter” endeavors.  They are all very different and complicated.  But one thing I would focus on is getting the right people on the bus.”

A new business becomes you.  You’re thinking about it all the time.  If you have a really great idea, maybe you can find investors, but most people don’t want to invest in something new.  You have to make people want to buy from you.

Read more… St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Cheryl Beebe-Snelle Quoted in Family Business Succession, “Sowing the Seeds, It’s All in the Family”

“I say to people, ‘You love your children equally, but you treat them based upon their abilities and their needs’… The most important thing is to be able to separate the family from the business,” Cheryl Beebe-Snell says.

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Published: August 2008