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Jamie Huffman Jones, a partner in the firm's Business and Class Action Litigation Practice Group, has recently been elected to the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel as a federation member.

Little Rock Soirée Magazine recently released its picks for Best Lawyers in 2016. Jay T. Taylor was honored for his work in Commercial Real Estate and Bryan W. Duke was awarded for his work in Corporate Finance - Mergers & Acquisitions.

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Foundation Fund recently named Friday, Eldredge & Clark attorney Bruce B. Tidwell to its board of directors. Bruce received his undergraduate degree in business administration from UALR in 1993 and earned his Juris Doctor degree from UALR William H. Bowen School of Law in 1996.

A federal court in Texas issued a preliminary injunction yesterday blocking, on a nationwide basis, enforcement of the Department of Labor's new overtime regulations raising the minimum salary threshold for the white-collar exemptions. The regulations were set to go into effect December 1, 2016. This alert explains what the ruling means to local businesses.

Last week Arkansas joined twenty-eight other states that have legalized some form of marijuana since 1996. Amendment 6 to the Arkansas Constitution passed by a vote of 53.2% to 46.8%. Sales of legal marijuana in the United States are expected to exceed $7 billion in 2016. This Alert reviews the terms of Amendment 6 and particular challenges that banks in Arkansas will face in considering whether to provide services to these newly legal businesses.

Mid-South Super Lawyers named 34 Friday, Eldredge & Clark’s attorneys to their annual listing of top lawyers.

Friday, Eldredge & Clark, LLP has been ranked in the 2017 U.S. News - Best Lawyers® "Best Law Firms" list regionally in 41 practice areas, which is the most of any other law firm in the state.