BB&D attorneys Robert Blitz and Aaron Sanders successfully defended the Kansas City-St. Louis Regional Carpenters Council on appeal from the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by a former business agent. The lawsuit centered around allegations of wrongful termination implicating a complex area of federal law governing unions under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act. The […]
Blitz, Bardgett & Deutsch Wins $1.3 Million Arbitration Award For Construction Client
BB&D attorneys Robert D. Blitz, Jason K. Turk and Stephen M. Hoeplinger represented a design-build company in its breach of contract action against a subcontractor. Our client brought the action after the subcontractor did not provide the workers or materials to complete its scope of work in compliance with the project’s schedule. Our client had […]
Business Owners: Plan Ahead to Avoid Unnecessary Stress & Costly Litigation
ROB BRANDT – BUSINESS ATTORNEY Let’s face it, a phone call to your business attorney is typically an afterthought, not a before thought. As in, before you find yourself on the wrong end of a civil lawsuit. Hiring an experienced business lawyer early in the game helps to ensure you still have a business come […]
Legislation Modifies Missouri’s Business Incentive and Worker Training Programs
SB 68 renames the Missouri Works Training Program to the “Missouri One Start Program,” which provides flexible funding for a company’s training costs associated with a new facility, expansion or retraining project. Companies may utilize industry training funds to offset training costs for new products, new manufacturing processes, technological innovation, and productivity improvement. Under SB 68, a company is no longer required to retain its current number of employees, instead becoming eligible by maintaining at least one-hundred jobs in the year preceding the application.