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A New – and Possibly Improved – Affirmative Action Approach
In today’s business world in general, and the government contracting world in particular, the recent Supreme Court decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, 600
The Five Commandments of Equine Sales Contracts
Horses sell every day, but when it comes right down to it, most people involved in a horse sale are not sure what facts the seller must disclose. Likewise, there are certain
Shut Your Mouth – And Computer: Defamation in the Internet Age
You’ve heard the old adage – “Telegraph, Tell-a-Farrier”. While intended as a joke, the equine world is famous for rapid transmission of gossip. While much of this is harmless, occasionally gossip spreads
Disclosure Requirements in a Horse Sale
Horses sell every day, but when it comes right down to it, most people involved in a horse sale are not exactly sure what facts the seller must disclose. The law creates
Equine Business Questionnaire
The following questions are designed to identify the details of your equine business concept, permitting us to most efficiently identify the legal and practical steps necessary for formation, day to day management,
Equine Business Health Check-up
Am I Using Appropriate Contracts? A written contract can maximize your legal protection. The wrong right contract could expose you to needless and potentially devastating liability. Use of professionally drafted contracts may
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Peer Reviewed Articles

  • Diversity Programs in Federal Government Contracting
  • Chapter 12: Socio-Economic Issues in Government Contracting
  • 50 State Indemnification Statute Summary
  • Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity Contracts
  • Socio-Economic Issues in Government Contracting: The A, B, C’s of Affirmative Action Compliance
  • Checking your IDIQ  IQ
  • Understanding and Using Indefinite Delivery Contracts: An Application Analysis
  • Building Regulations
  • Recent Developments in Lead Based Paint Abatement
  • City of Kansas City, Missouri Affirmative Action Technical Compliance Manual
  • Building Regulations
  • Supervision, Rehabilitation and Liquidation of Troubled Insurance Companies
  • Subsequent Remedial Measures: An Analytical Model for Product Liability Cases, 26 TORT & INS. L.J. 74 (Fall, 1990) (coauthor)
  • Casenote: City of Richmond v. J.A. Croson, 21 URB. LAW. 385 (Spring, 1989)

Construction & General Business

  • Contract Defenses and Obligations Under COVID 19
  • Organizing the Minority, Woman and Disadvantaged Business Entity
  • Pitfalls of the Certification Process
  • Federal Procurement Fails to Make the Grade
  • Residency Requirements Challenged Under Privileges & Immunity Clause
  • 8A May be A-OK for Your Business
  • Dollars on the Table – The Benefit of Local Certifications
  • Avoiding Certification Boobytraps
  • Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009
  • AARP Launches Auto-IRA Plan in Kansas City
  • The ARRA – Economic Stimulus Act: Show Me The Money
  • Creation of Metro Kansas City Women’s Business Roundtable
  • Growing a Business: Federal Certification Criteria
  • Kansas Unveils Details on New Minority/Women Business Enterprise Program
  • Policy at Work: Kansas Women Business Owners Recognized Nationally for Policy Work
  • Policy Rocks: Kansas Executive Order 08-08
  • M/WBE Certification: Show Me That Money!
  • SBA Delivers Lump of Coal to Women Business Owners
  • Open Mike: Women Business Owners Face Continuing Uncertainty in Federal Procurement
  • Ten Rules for Staying Out of Court
  • Nuts and Bolts of Missouri / Kansas Mechanics Lien Laws
  • Is MBE/WBE/DBE Certification Really Worth the Hassle?
  • ADR – A Cost Efficient Alternative to Litigation
  • Risk Management Through Corporate Documentation
  • Missouri’s Affirmative Action Program Under Attack!
  • Managing Risk in Business Communications
  • Avoiding Legal Landmines in Tenant Liens
  • Promoting Women Owned Businesses in Public Sector Contracting
  • Differing Site Conditions
  • Developing Issues on Lead Paint in Construction
  • Power in Prompt Payment Statutes
  • Choosing the Right Business Structure
  • The Power of Mentoring
  • Learning the ABC’s of MBE Certification
  • Testing your IDIQ IQ: Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity Contracts
  • Alice in Preference Land: A Review of Affirmative Action in Public Construction
  • When Funny Isn’t Funny Anymore: Internet Liabilities in the Workplace
  • Lead Based Paint:  Developing Theories of Liability
  • Construction Risk Management
  • Construction Contracting Tips
  • Job Order Contracting
  • Understanding & Applying Federal and State Prompt Payment Acts
  • Construction Contracting and the Three Blind Mice: Prompt Payment, Indemnification, and Pay if Paid Clauses
  • Contract Law for Paralegals
  • Understanding the Federal, Missouri and Kansas Prompt Payment Acts
  • Defending Construction Claims
  • Contracts and the Law
  • Construction Disputes and Prompt Payment Acts: A Risk and Benefit Analysis
  • Missouri’s Prompt Pay Act: A Roll of the Dice
  • Risk Management Through Contract Negotiation and Written Communication: Or How To Create a Most Excellent Paper Trail
  • The Supreme Court’s Impact on Affirmative Action in Public Contracting: What’s Going On Here?
  • Introducing 960063: Kansas City, Missouri’s New Affirmative Action Ordinance
  • KC’s  New Affirmative Action Ordinance
  • Supreme Court Alters Playing Field for Affirmative Action
  • Beware of Front Companies

Equine, Veterinary, Agriculture & Biotech

  • Keeping It Covered: Plugging Those Insurance Coverage Gaps
  • Plugging the Leaking Profit Margin
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution: A Viable Alternative
  • The Hole That Swallowed the Horse: Insurance Gaps
  • Learn Your Lien Laws
  • Good Contracts Keep You Out of Court
  • Clarifying Compounding:  A Regulatory Summary
  • Good Samaritan Acts: Or Does Any Good Deed Go Unpunished?
  • On a Handshake – and a Prayer: Verbal Agreements in the Equine Industry
  • Hot About Helmets- To Wear or Not to Wear ASTM Safety Headgear
  • Emerging Veterinary Liability Trends
  • Issues in Equine Law
  • The Horrors of Hauling
  • Horse Sense 101: Managing the Risks
  • Compounding Regulatory & Litigation Update
  • Practical Equine Risk Management
  • That Confounding Compounding!
  • Emerging Veterinary Liability Trends – FL / GA
  • Beware the Impulsive Partnership
  • Mediation – Or Using Horse Sense to Resolve Disputes
  • Emerging Veterinary Liability Trends
  • Compounding Conundrums
  • Shut Your Mouth – Computer: Defamation in the Internet Age
  • Pitiful Partnerships and How to Avoid Them
  • Missouri Mounted Patrol Searcy & Rescue Legal Presentation
  • Missouri Equine Liability Act Case Law Summary
  • When Bad Things Happen – Planning for Business Succession in the Face of Disaster
  • All Settled – The Use of Alternative Dispute Resolution in Equine Malpractice Cases
  • Internet Protocol
  • Missouri’s Equine Activity Liability Act: An Update
  • The Compounding Conundrums: What You Need to Know About Pharmaceutical Drug Compounding
  • Diagnosing your Business Requirements
  • Managing Veterinary Malpractice
  • The Horrors of Hauling, or Are You Really Insured?
  • Diagnosing Your Business Requirements
  • ADR in Equine Disputes
  • No Horseplay! An Overview of Equine Law
  • Volunteer Protection Act
  • Breeding Boondoggles
  • Regulated to Death: Humane Equine Euthanasia Regulations
  • Is Export Really an Option?
  • Equine Activity Liability Acts: How They Affect Associations and Sponsors
  • Horses, Homeowner Associations and Liability
  • Volunteer Protection Act: Statutory Protection for Equestrian Volunteers
  • Stallion Syndication: A Worthwhile Structure for the High Dollar Horse
  • Choosing the Right Business Structure
  • Tax and Business Issues for the Equine Professional
  • ABC’s of Equine Contracting
  • Equine Law Seminar
  • Equine Law
  • Equine Law & Business Seminar
  • Forbidden Substance, But Who Knows the Rules
  • Show Me The Money: How To Collect Those Equine Bills
  • Equine Sales & Disclosure Laws: The Effect of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Policy”
  • Legal Implications for the Equestrian Trail User
  • Equine Activity Liability Acts
  • Developing Liability Issues for the Equine Service Industry-Farrier and Veterinarian
  • An Equine Business Health Check-Up
  • Equine Activity Liability Act
  • Legislative Liability Limitations for the Equine Industry
  • So Sue Me-Just Hope My Liability Waiver is Working
  • Volunteers Enjoy New Protection under Volunteer Protection Act
  • Stallion Syndication: A Worthwhile Structure for the High Dollar Horse!
  • Horse Sales & Disclosure Laws: How Much Is Enough
  • Powerful Tools for Fee Collection

Presentations

  • Pitfalls of WBE Certification
  • Risk Management: The Known Dangerous Horse/Rider
  • Taking Care of Business Parts I and II; Managing your 501C3 Compliance Issues
  • Stable Risk Management
  • Mindfulness in Female Leadership Development & Dispute Resolution
  • Zoetis, Inc.: What You Need to Know About Rabies Vaccines
  • Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc. Equine Practitioner Series: Emerging Veterinarian Liabilities and Compounding
  • Merial Pharmaceuticals Ltd Educational Series: Drug Compounding and Emerging Veterinary Liability Trends
  • Drug Compounding and Veterinary Risk Management
  • Animal Health Compounding: Developing Trends
  • Killer Contract Clauses and Compounding Clarifications
  • Clarifying Compounding
  • Veterinary Risk Management
  • Compounding Conundrums
  • Racetrack Risk Management
  • Equine Risk Management
  • Equine Stable Risk Management and Clearing those Compounding Conundrums
  • Managing Your Risks on the Prepurchase Exam
  • Equine Veterinary Liability Trends
  • Veterinary Liability Trends
  • Updates in Employment Law
  • Federal Certifications and Programs
  • Women Owned Small Business Contracting 8M Program
  • If I Die Before I Wake: Contingency Planning for the Small Business Owner
  • Missouri and Kansas Prompt Payment Acts – Are They Working?
  • Social Media and Marketing
  • Powering Up the Women’s Federal Procurement Program
  • Leaving Dollars on the Table? Why Should YOU Be M/WBE Certified?
  • Public Policy: Why Should We Care
  • Building Your Leadership Voice
  • Fundamentals of Construction Law
  • Nuts and Bolts of M/WBE Certification
  • Equine Insurance and Liability Issues
  • Contracts and the Law
  • ABA Forum on the Construction Industry: Construction Law Basics
  • 50 State Equine Liability Law Summary
  • Missouri WBE Utilization & Issues
  • National Business Institute: Ethical Considerations for the Construction Lawyer – Advanced Construction Law
  • Lorman Seminars: Can This Job Be Saved: Creative Strategies for Project Completion and Litigation Avoidance in Kansas & Missouri
  • Developing Issues with Lead Based Paint
  • Alice in Contracting Land: Affirmative Action in Government Contracting
  • Law Seminars International, Inc.: Task Order Contracting
  • Lorman Seminars: Protecting Your Construction Receivables – The Federal, Missouri and Kansas Prompt Payment Acts
  • National Lead Paint Symposium: Developing Issues in Lead Paint Litigation
  • Construction Disputes and Prompt Payment Acts
  • Risk Management Through Contract Negotiation & Written Communication, or How To Create A Most Excellent Paper Trail
  • Impact of Croson and Adarand