Court and Legislative Updates – JULY 2009 By Dunn, Carney, Allen, Higgins & Tongue The Courts and the Legislature have been very busy lately.  We provide you the following summaries of some of the most significant changes and developments.  If any of these summaries raise questions, please contact us to […]

According to the San Fransisco Business Times; “Venture firms raised $1.7 billion in the second quarter, the lowest quarterly raise in more than seven years. Only 25 firms reported raising money nationally, according to data from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association. The venture capital industry raises money […]

By Bill Conerly, Businomics, Conerly Consulting LLC No leading indicator is perfect, but initial claims for unemployment insurance is fairly good.  Here’s the latest chart (data available here): It looks like the worst is behind us, but that the improvement has been very, very mild.  In other words, consistent with […]

Northwest Business Litigation Ater Wynne Attorneys at Law In an attempt to avoid some of the headaches associated with having employees, many businesses will hire workers as “independent contractors.”  The primary advantage to hiring an independent contractor is that the business does not have to pay or withhold for taxes, […]

Oregon Employment Department,6/23/09 Oregon’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose to 12.4 percent in May compared with 11.8 percent (as revised) in April. The 12.4 percent reading was the highest on record since the current series began in 1976, topping the previous high mark of 12.1 percent set in November 1982.  […]

Wells Fargo & Company: SAN FRANCISCO — July 7, 2009. Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC)’s web site has taken top honors for technological and digital innovation, ranking first out of 68 leading U.S. corporations, according to the Brookings Institution. The Brookings Institution evaluated nearly two dozen features of digital […]

Process for ADAAA Regulations Underway, Barran Liebman LLP Electronic AlertElectronic Alert, July 9, 2009 Trying To Make Sense of Email Use Late in 2007 the National Labor Relations Board issued a long awaited opinion on the right of an employer to restrict the non-work use of company email even when […]

Advertising and Quantitative Analysis: The Trial and Error Economy Comes to Madison Avenue By Bill Conerly, Businomics, Conerly Consulting LLC Back in February, Congress passed and the President signed a $787 billion stimulus package.  But the economy is still weakening.  Does that prove we need another, bigger stimulus package?  Not […]

U.S. Voters Find Too Much Regulation By Moore Information Portland, Oregon Results of our recent national survey show that by nearly a two-to-one margin, American voters believe business and industry are over-regulated in this country. Further, these data reflect an upward trend in the percentage since 1991 of the electorate […]

The Wall Street Journal reported today, “New U.S. claims for state unemployment benefits unexpectedly tumbled last week to their lowest level since the beginning of the year, as anticipated layoffs in the automobile industry failed to materialize as much as the government expected.  “Still, the data don’t necessarily imply better […]