Economic development proposals in Wisconsin have been stalled, says columnist Tom Still, who calls for the Senate to move ahead. Sure, the state budget is taking a lot of the governor's and legislature's attention, but friction between the two is leading to development ideas being...
Private information is increasingly being collected and used, and columnist Paul Gibler weighs in on cases where this has riled consumers. He also gives recommendations on how companies should approach consumer privacy and make sure their policies and employees are aligned to avoid unfortunate incidents....
Bernie Siegel was a Miami lawyer in 2002 when a cult-like organization known as the Raellians claimed to have cloned a human baby. Siegel filed a motion in a Broward County on behalf of the "baby," suspecting all along it didn't exist, and helped to...
Columnist Tom Koulopoulos has been immersed in the subject of innovation, especially in corporate settings, for the past several years, but he recently received a wake-up called that challenged his assumptions. In a talk to students at Babson College, he found evidence of an emerging...
Section 409 of the Internal Revenue Code, established as part of the Jobs Creation Act of 2004, is sending ripples through the legal community, especially for attorneys that deal with deferred compensation. In this WTN guest column, attorney Sverre Roang breaks down 409 and explains...
Midwestern life science companies struggle to raise venture capital at the early stages, but one state stands out in developing creative solutions to the problem, according to Yer Biotech Blues columnist Michael Rosen. Citing Act 255 and new proposals to boost angel and venture capital...
For leadership advice, many business executives are told to read The Art of War by Sun Tzu, but they also should be reading about Patton's approach to operational leadership and management of resources, argues columnist James Carlini. In this edition of Carlini's Comments, he says...
Petty jealousies, in-fighting, and rivalries might make for good entertainment, but they seldom contribute to the achievement of business objectives, warns Manpower's Melanie Holmes. In this edition of Contemporary Working, she outlines the pitfalls of making things personal in the office, plus more on tattoos...
Columnist Tom Still goes nuclear to advocate an under used power source in the age of global climate change. In this edition of Inside Wisconsin, Still calls out environmentalists who correctly view global climate change as THE environmental threat of the 21st century, but continue...
The expensive task of e-discovery in litigation just got more prohibitive thanks to the recent ruling of a U.S. Magistrate Judge on electronic keyword searches. In this is first installment of a new legal column called Digital Lex, attorney Mark Foley looks at the ramifications...