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Blogs

Hamilton was Right…IDAs are Catalyst for Private Sector Growth!

The father of the American banking system is also the father of economic development (too bad this part of Hamilton’s legacy did not make it into the musical!). To maximize economic development, help launch new industries, support existing businesses, increase employment, and drive capital investment, government must support the private

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NDAs: 10 Points & Questions to Consider Before the Deal

  A non-disclosure agreement (NDA) is often the first legal document signed by parties intending to proceed with a transaction. It is generally perceived as a plain vanilla standard form document that should be signed quickly in order to proceed with more substantive legal and commercial issues.   But what

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The Separate Car Act: A 19th Century Civil Rights Case Worth Revisiting

By Alex McBride | COMMERCIAL LITIGATION LAW PRACTICE What did the ins and outs of the 19th-century U.S. Supreme Court decision, Plessy v. Ferguson, the rationale for Jim Crow racial segregation laws, teach us? Homer Plessy was seven-eighths White and one-eighth Black — pejoratively referred to as an “octoroon” in

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