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Preserving the Credit Bid: A Balancing of Interests

Norton Bankruptcy Law Adviser, Issue No. 4

4/1/2012

by Robert C. Goodrich, Jr.

Article written by Bob Goodrich for Norton Bankruptcy Law Adviser concerning Credit Bids.

Clearing up confusion about employee fiduciary duties and employer trade secrets

Stites & Harbison, PLLC

3/14/2012

by Stephen H. Price

Many employees assume they are completely free to compete in any form of fashion against their employer, so long as they never signed any non-compete, non-solicitation or confidentiality agreement.  Rather, employees have a fiduciary duty of loyalty to their employer that arises inherently from the employment relationship. 

The American Institute of Architects Releases New Sustainable Project Construction Documents - An Overview of the Recent Changes

Stites & Harbison, PLLC, Client Alert

5/22/2012

by Gregory P. Parsons and Nathan V. Simon

On May 17, 2012, the American Institute of Architects (the "AIA") released five new construction documents relating to sustainable project construction, or "green" related projects and an updated scope of services documents for LEED® Certification.  This e-alert is an introduction to the AIA contracts’ practical approach to sustainable design and construction.

Is Green building here to stay?

Stites & Harbison, PLLC, Client Alert

5/4/2012

by Angela R. Stephens

Since 1998, private owners have made the choice to incorporate sustainable design and construction practices in their buildings by following the LEED Rating System established by the United States Green Building Council (“USGBC”). Starting in 2003, federal agencies began requiring that all new construction within their particular agency achieve a certain level of LEED certification.  Since that time, 22 states have now mandated that public buildings achieve certain levels of LEED certification under the LEED Rating System. 

Do you really own it? Copyrights in the Age of Cloud Computing

Stites & Harbison, PLLC

2/29/2012

by Mari-Elise Taube and Stephen J. Weyer

Presentation by Mari-Elise Taube and Stephen Weyer helping define what copyright is and what rights you do and do not have when it comes to the things you put on the web.

The EB-5 VISA Program

2/15/2012

by James C. Seiffert, Adel Elmankabady and Nirupama Kulkami

Presentation by James C. Seiffert, Member at Stites & Harbison, Adel Elmankabady, Principal at Georgia Center for Foreign Investment on Development, and Nirupama Kulkami, Indus Law Firm, Immigration and International Business at the HUB Atlanta.

Stites & Harbison again places high in national trademark rankings

Stites & Harbison, PLLC

5/15/2012

LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Stites & Harbison, PLLC, is listed among the “Top Trademark Firms” in the United States in the May 2012 issue of Intellectual Property Today magazine. 

Stites & Harbison welcomes Elizabeth Hall, Creditors' Rights & Bankruptcy attorney

Stites & Harbison, PLLC

5/14/2012

ATLANTA—Stites & Harbison is pleased to announce that attorney S. Elizabeth Hall has joined the firm’s Atlanta office.