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Arkansas State University announced today the establishment of the Price and Sara Gardner Pre-law Scholarship, created to help pre-law students at Arkansas State finance and fulfill education priorities. The scholarship was instituted following a gift of $25,000 by the Gardners to the Arkansas State University Foundation, Inc., and is the first scholarship established for pre-law students at A-State.

Appointment Makes Seventh for Firm’s Trust & Estate Practice Group Friday, Eldredge & Clark is proud to announce attorney Allison Cornwell has been named a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC). This appointment demonstrates her high level of experience in estate and trust law and the degree to which her peers view her work in the profession.

Michael Moore presented three separate programs at last week's (Thursday, Oct. 24) National Business Institute's Advanced Employment Law Seminar. His first presentation, "Conducting an Effective Internal Investigation," focused on what to consider during the investigation, whether to outsource or keep the matter in-house and ways to legally remedying the problem.

Attorney Jeremiah Wood spoke Tuesday (Oct. 17, 2017) to members of the Degray Chapter of the Arkansas Society of CPAs during a half-day educational seminar in Hot Springs. For his part, Jeremiah spoke about employee benefits and gave an update on qualified plans including the Determination Letter Program, Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS) and tax reform.

The attorneys at Friday, Eldredge & Clark recommend hospitals and healthcare providers perform quarterly audit reviews to provide assurance that their financial and operational controls are sufficient and to identify and repair any potential risk to the organization.

When Little Rock attorney Bill Waddell found himself in the national spotlight in August, he embraced it to spread the word on the first rural legal-medical partnership in Arkansas.

Attorney Michelle Ator took part in a panel discussion focused on malpractice litigation trends at the Arkansas Hospital Association's Annual Meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 4. The discussion titled "Tales from the Trenches: War Stories From the Defense Bar" was led by moderator Elisa White, AHA's vice president and general counsel.