Five Things to Know Before Starting a Business
Starting a new business can be a very stressful endeavor, often involving significant financial risk, a possible career change, and sleepless nights ensuring your business plan is ironclad. Adding to this stress, many new entrepreneurs are often working with an attorney for the first time to assist…
How to Protect Trade Secrets: Taking Reasonable Efforts to Maintain the Secrecy of Information
March 19, 2024
by Devin R. Bates
How do you protect trade secrets? You take reasonable efforts to maintain the secrecy of the information. As we have outlined in prior installments of this series, taking reasonable efforts to maintain secrecy is a key issue in answering questions such as whether customer/client lists are…
Arkansas Environmental Personnel Moves: Lisa Boyle (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers/Little Rock District) Joins Alliance Technical Group
Alliance Technical Group (“ATG”) announced that Lisa A. Boyle joined the Firm as a Project Manager and Senior Environmental Scientist in its Bryant, Arkansas office. Lisa was previously serving as the Evaluation Branch Chief in the Regulatory Division in the Little Rock District of the United…
NESHAP/Clean Air Act: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Final Rule Addressing Bulk Gasoline Terminals
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) has issued a prepublication final rule addressing Clean Air Act National Emissions Standard for Hazardous Air Pollutants (“NESHAP”) for gasoline distribution facilities and the standards of performance for bulk gasoline terminals. The final…
Hazardous Waste Enforcement: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Portland, Oregon Plating Facility Enter into Consent Agreement
United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and East Side Plating, Inc. (“East Side”) entered into a March 13th Consent Agreement and Final Order (“CAFO”) addressing alleged violations of the Clean Air Act regulations. See Docket No. CAA-10-2024-0040. The CAFO provides that East Side is…