
Something that women and/or minority
business owners may want to consider is registration with the
Indiana Department of Administration Minority and Women's Business
Enterprises Division to become certified as a minority-owned or
woman-owned business.
Established in order to give such businesses an equal opportunity
to participate in the state purchasing process, the criteria
considered for such certification include that the minority/woman
member possess:
- ownership of the business (at least...
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FIRM JOINS INNOVATION SUMMIT AS SPONSOR
For the second year in a row, the
firm committed to this year’s Innovation Summit as the Plenary
Panel Sponsor.
This annual event brings together entrepreneurs,
executives and policymakers for learning, dialogue and debate on
the central challenge of today’s economy – turning today’s ideas
into tomorrow’s business breakthroughs. The Summit includes keynote
speakers, breakout sessions on a variety of innovation related
topics, and dozens of trade and...
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One of my favorite aspects of building a business law / private
equity firm is seeing clients set and reach business goals.
Many clients face complicated issues that need careful legal
analysis and creative planning. Unfortuantely, most attorneys
focus on the problems with the complicated deals and have trouble
finding creative ways to navigate the legal minefield.
Alerding Castor Hewitt takes a unique approach on business law in
that we consider ourselves "deal makers" rather than what...
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Gather 'round kids, this one is interesting. The decision
actually came out in May, 2010, and I regret that I haven't had a
chance to blog on it until now, but it is still a very interesting
order that should have implications to privacy litigation, and
litigation in general. In EEOC v. Simply Storage Management,
LLC, Docket No. 09-CV-01223, the Southern District of Indiana was
faced with the issue of discovery of social networking profiles of
two individuals that claimed sexual harrassment by...
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This
morning I attended the
Techpoint event: What it Takes
to Lead a Successful Entrepreneurial Venture Today and was
reminded of some fundamental leadership qualities that I see in
many of the successful business owners we work with as a business,
entrepreneurial and information technology law firm.
Speaking today were Daniel DeHayes, a Professor Emeritus of
Business Administration with the Indiana University Kelley School
of Business and Delphia Croft, the Managing Principal of...
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Your friendly Indianapolis attorney and Partner In Success at
Alerding Castor Hewitt, LLP here with another post, this time for
both business entities and lawyers who find themselves in the
trenches of business law, SaaS law, internet laws, and privacy
litigation and probate litigation.
Partner and fellow blogger Dave Castor sort of beat me to the bunch
by pointing out a great blog post by Michael P. Alerding (ACH’s
Mike Alerding’s father) at Alerding & Co., LLC, which Dave
re-posted below. I...
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The post below is fantastic. It is by Michael P. Alerding,
CPA (my business partner's father) at his accounting firm's new
blog site. He gave me permission to re-post it here (thank
you Alerding & Co.). Check it out:
Alerding & Co. BlogWhat Happened to Business
Ethics?
By: Michael P. Alerding, CPA
Every time I get a contract to sign, I find it almost impossible to
spend the time reading the fine print and trying to understand all
of the future implications of the agreement. As my son,...
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Your friendly Indianapolis attorney at Alerding Castor Hewitt LLP
here with an issue for those of you who, from time to time, might
find yourselves embroiled in collections litigation over business
law, SaaS law, or technology law matters. How often have you seen a debtor issue a check for
payment and include on the memo line words to the effect of “as
full satisfaction of claim,” “final payment in full of debt,” or
some similar words despite the fact that the debtor owes you more
than the...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 23, 2010
Contact: Lainey Scheetz
317.403.9012
lscheetz@alerdingcastor.com
ALERDING CASTOR HEWITT, LLP CLIENT NAMED 10TH FASTEST GROWING
PRIVATE COMPANY IN INDIANA FOR THIRD TIME
Indianapolis, IN – Iasta, the leading provider of eSourcing
software and solutions, was titled as the 10th Fastest Growing
Private Company in Indiana for 2010 by the Indianapolis Business
Journal (IBJ). A third time honoree, Iasta boosted its
three-year growth rate at 134 percent.
The report...
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This one is a fun little piece of pseudo-software litigation.
The basic facts are that Facebook and its majority stockholder Mark
Zuckerberg have been sued by Paul D. Ceglia, who claims 84%
ownership in the website juggernaut. The part of this story
that has been clogging the Net is that a state court judge in
New York actually issued a temporary restraining order ("TRO")
prohibiting Zuckerberg and Facebook, Inc. from disposing or
selling any of its assets. This has produced the...
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War
at its best is barbarism.
Every attempt to make war easy
and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
--William Tecumseh Sherman
Though he said these words nearly a
century and a half ago, General Sherman’s comments apply equally
well to litigation, including the world of business law, technology
law, SaaS law, and probate law.
Litigation is a serious business, not something to be undertaken
lightly. And it is often expensive –
regardless of...
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This is one of those great posts that gets to combine cloud
computing law with privacy law with political intrigue.
Before I get too far in, I want to set out my own caveat. In
my opinion, there is a data war brewing between the United
States, EU, and China and everyone if vying for the top dog
spot. The basis of this is the fact that each faction views
the protection of data very differently and they each want to be
the best. To just give you a surface level scratch of the
differences I'll...
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Your friendly Indianapolis attorney at
Alerding Castor Hewitt LLP here with a quick follow up on my first
blog regarding collections for our business law, technology law,
and SaaS law clients. A link to that
post is listed below for those interested.
One of our Saas law clients recently obtained
a favorable resolution in one of their cases to collect on a
contract from an out-of-state debtor. We had obtained a default judgment for the client and were pressing
forward with the proceeding...
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Your friendly neighborhood technology counsel here: A couple
of recent state court decisions are going to start personal injury
attorneys frothing at the mouth, and might render some sleepless
nights for defense attorneys. Both Ohio and Florida recently
issued opinions in which they applied their state's respective
long-arm statutes to garner personal jurisdiction over an
out-of-state resident for tortious conduct that transpired over the
Internet.
First, you need to know what a long-arm...
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Be
prepared: I'm going to get on a bit of a soapbox. I
read a recent article at WSJ.com entitled "Using Social Networking
as Legal Tool" (
Linked Below). There is
nothing wrong with this article. It very succinctly and
pleasantly explains how certain law firms are using social
networking and the Web to find clients for high-value plaintiff
cases. And I don't disagree with that approach. As an
attorney posting on a blog, I too hope to use social networking to
get business, and would be...
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I'm going to cheat a little on this. I read a great blog post
by Jeff Ready over at the McStartup blog (www.mcstartup.com).
The blog post is all about the importance of radical
innovation. I have a place in my heart for radical innovation
because I believe that in the legal community, we are the radical
innovators. ACH strives after its goal to be an information
technology law firm, a venture capital law firm and a business law
firm, but we go about it in a way that is radical to many...
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Every once in awhile, I have the inkling to make a blog post
that is not about developments in privacy litigation or technology
litigation or cloud computing law or foreclosures or any of the
other endless stream of ideas and legal thoughts that pass across
my desk. This is one of those times. Because, while I
think it is important for our readers to know that Mexico passed a
new data privacy law or that litigation related to CAN SPAM is
likely a rising field, I think it is equally important...
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Your Indianapolis Attorney at Alerding Castor
Hewitt here with another litigation post for the business and
technology world, this time regarding preliminary
injunctions. What is a preliminary
injunction? In simple terms, it is an
equitable remedy that you can seek asking a court to order someone
else to stop doing something or cease threatening to do something
that is causing or is likely to cause you irreparable
harm. It is another weapon in the
litigation arsenal, one to restore the status...
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You may have read that inaction by Congress is creating a lot
of uncertainty about the future of the estate tax. Unlike the
income tax, which is based on a year’s worth of activity, the
federal estate tax is based on a snapshot – the value of a person’s
estate at the date of his or her death. Unless Congress
acts, we are headed from having no federal estate tax in 2010 back
to taxing estates larger than $1 million, just like in 2002.
And, instead of the 2002 top rate of 50% on this...
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I am an Indianapolis Attorney here at Alerding
Castor Hewitt LLP. This is my first
blog post – so bear with me. As a brief
introduction, my role at ACH is working on our litigation team,
both at trial and on appeal if necessary, on issues related to
business law, probate litigation, SaaS litigation, and other
technology litigation – just to name a few of the areas.
One area often overlooked in the litigation
process is the area of collections. Some lawyers might look upon the collection process...
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