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.

Print version only -  CEO St. Louis
Published: August 2008

Good Fit, Rapport Key to Finding the Right Legal Relationship

It’s about getting to know the person and the firm he or she works for, said Daniel Tobben and Ruth Binger, principals with the Danna McKitrick law firm in Clayton. The relationship between a client and attorney should be one of advocacy, communication and dependability, so personality is as important as capability.

Read more… St. Louis Business Journal
Published: February 1, 2008

Protecting Innovation, an Enormous Growth Area For Local Law Firms

Binger’s goal is bringing a business perspective to a medical field. She runs a business roundtable for 14 local companies (offshoot of work that was started by the RCGA). Dana McKitrick has 25 attorneys on staff, and four work primarily in the area of biotechnology development. Binger’s personal work is with venture capitalists, dealing with the intellectual component and working with university researchers.

Read more… St. Louis Commerce Magazine
Published: May 2007

(Cyber) Space for Rent

Print version only – St. Louis Small Business Monthly
Published: December 14, 2006

New Bankruptcy Law Produces Unforeseen Results, Experts Say

Tom DeWoskin talked about the disparity in the application of the means test. “So whether or not I have to pass the means test is determined by the size of my house. I’m sorry; I just don’t see the logic in that,” he said.

Read more… The Countian (PDF)
Published: September 28, 2006 (posted with permission)