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Attorney Katie Watson's article on the Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act was featured in this week's (August 14-18) Arkansas Business. The article explains what happens to these assets in terms of estate planning and what actions you should take now to ensure your assets are in the right hands later.

Attorney Bill Waddell, a key leader in the state’s access to justice movement, was one of five national recipients of a 2017 American Bar Association Pro Bono Publico Award. The honor is given to individual lawyers and institutions in the legal profession that have demonstrated outstanding commitment to volunteer legal services for the poor and disadvantaged.

The 2017 Annual Meeting of the Arkansas Association of Defense Counsel was held Friday, August 4 and Saturday, August 5 at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute atop Petit Jean Mountain. Speakers included Attorney Don Bacon who presented "Ethics and the Art of Practicing Law Civilly in a (Sometimes) Uncivilized World."

This month's (August) issue of HR Professionals Magazine profiled ERISA and Employee Benefits Attorneys Joesph B. Hurst, A. Wyck Nisbet, David M. Graf, Alexandra A. Ifrah, Brian C. Smith, Joshua M. Osborne and Jeremiah D. Wood of Friday, Eldredge & Clark.

You’ve executed your revocable trust – does that make you probate-proof? No. You still have to fund your trust. Funding your revocable trust (i.e., transferring your assets to your revocable trust) is the only way to ensure that you are probate proof.

Robert Beach spoke today (Monday, July 31) at a workshop hosted by First Security Bank. The seminar titled "The Life of a Bond" featured speakers from a variety of sectors including finance, education and legal.

Wednesday (July 26, 2017) the Trump Department of Justice filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court, taking the position that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not offer protection based on an employee’s sexual orientation. In a case now before the United States Supreme Court, NLRB v. Murphy Oil USA, Inc., the Trump DOJ has filed a brief with the court reversing its support of the NLRB, and arguing that such arbitration agreements do not violate employees’ rights under the National Labor Relations Act.