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We wanted to take a moment and share our latest Porter Wright blog with you -- the Oil & Gas Law Report - which is designed for readers to quickly and easily learn about the latest legal developments affecting producers, investors, transporters, land owners, and governing organizations.

It is prepared by members of Porter Wright’s Oil & Gas Practice Group and will cover news and information in a wide range of areas related to the industry, including:

• Oil and gas storage well leases
• Eminent domain, zoning and land use issues
• Joint operating agreements
• Drilling contracts, gas gathering and transportation contracts
• Construction matters
• Bank, financial institution and private financing agreements
• Tax considerations and incentives
• Real estate and oil and gas conveyances
• Regulatory compliance and permitting
• Environmental permitting and other issues relating to wastewater discharges and disposal, groundwater contamination
• Project finance
• Corporate mergers, acquisitions and dispositions
• Litigation
• Labor and employment, including OSHA and workers’ compensation matters
• Legislative developments

We invite you to visit the blog and let us know your thoughts.
 

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We started Employer Law Report in January 2008 to keep our clients and friends up-to-date on recent developments and trends affecting their workplace. Since then, it has become an essential part of our labor and employment practice. Earlier this week, we learned that Employer Law Report has been chosen as one of the Top 25 Labor and Employment Law Blogs of 2011 by voters in the greater LexisNexis community, and we couldn't be more pleased to have received this vote of confidence from our readers.

We feel so honored to be in such good company. I already subscribe to virtually all -- and soon, all -- of these blogs. I encourage all Employer Law Report readers to bookmark this list as a great reference on everything related to labor and employment law. While you're at it, add a 26th,since, as the fabulous Delaware Employment Law Blog notes, Seth Borden's Labor Relations Today is a stunning omission from the list. (By the way, Molly, thank you very much for the kind words. The feeling is quite mutual.) I have learned a lot from all of these wonderful bloggers and I am sure you will too. (Many of them also share additional information and insight on their Twitter feeds so be sure to follow them there too.)

Finally, at the risk of turning this into an Oscar-length acceptance speech, I also need to thank my partners and everyone else at Porter Wright who have supported our efforts by contributing their time, expertise, insight, and encouragement to everything we do. This truly is a team effort. I just get to soak up the praise.

LexisNexis has asked readers to narrow this list of 25 down to one spot for "The Top Labor and Employment Blog for 2011." If you would like to vote for any of the blogs on this list, you can do so here.

If, as the saying goes, "you're only as good as the company you keep," we take this honor as the highest of compliments.
 

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If you're in the construction industry, you won't want to miss the Construction Law Forum on September 6, 2011 at the Ohio State Bar Association. This annual program focuses on current issues in the ever-changing area of Ohio construction law. Taught by a broad-based group of experienced construction law attorneys, the program offers both introductory material and concepts on Ohio construction law, as well as detailed analysis on current developing case law and statutory construction law updates. Six hours of Ohio CLE will be offered. For more information or to register, click here (PDF).
 

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LexisNexis has selected Employer Law Report as a nominee for its Top 25 Labor and Employment Law Blogs. To narrow down to its final list of 25 honorees, LexisNexis is seeking feedback and input from the online community. If you find Employer Law Report useful and informative, we would appreciate your "vote" of support – as well as for those other blogs that you enjoy. To view the article listing us as well as other nominees, click here. To vote, you need to be a registered Community member of LexisNexis (click here for free registration) and be logged in. To vote, you then need to enter a comment to its article.

We appreciate your support of our blog!

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Employer Law Report is pleased to share with you the launching of Porter Wright's latest blog – Employee Benefits Law Report – which we have created as a resource to help guide employers of all sizes through the complex administrative and legal challenges facing their employee benefit plans.

This blog – edited by my partners Ann Caresani and Rich Helmreich – will provide the latest information in a wide range of areas related to Employee Benefits including:

• ERISA and employee benefits litigation
• Health care reform
• Retirement plans
• Audits and correction
• Benefits issues related to mergers and acquisitions
• Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs)
• ERISA fiduciary compliance
• Health and Welfare Plans
• Nonqualified Deferred Compensation/Executive Compensation
• Tax-exempt/government employers

If you would like to subscribe to Employee Benefits Law Report and receive e-mails regarding blog updates, please visit the blog and enter your e-mail address. Alternatively, you may add www.employeebenefitslawreport.com to your RSS/XML feedreader.
 

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Those of you have been reading Employer Law Report over the past six months may have noted an addition to our home page recently in the lower portion of the left column. There, you will find my most recent tweets on Twitter from @BrianDHallEsq. Sounds a bit pretentious, I know, but every usable combination of Brian D and Hall were already taken.

Twitter allows us to inform you about a lot of issues that we simply can't fit into this blog. It also allows us to get information out to you faster than we can on the blog. While the key to tweeting is brevity -- we can't use more than 140 characters in any tweet --we are able to link to an incredible array news, legal and government sources. In addition, Twitter is filled with knowledgeable human resources professionals and, yes, other labor and employment lawyers who we can "retweet" when they address topics we think you will find interesting.

So, what will you find on my Twitter feed if you follow me? Everything you see here on Employer Law Report, and more. In addition to the labor and employment legal news, I will also be tweeting about legal developments relating to our privacy as well as interesting news and events going on in Columbus and Ohio. I promise, however, I won't waste your time telling you what I had for lunch.
 

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We are pleased to share with our Employer Law Report friends that Chambers USA has ranked Porter Wright’s Labor and Employment Practice as a “first-tier practice” in Ohio in their most recent report.

To read about our review, please click here: Labor & Employment - Ohio - Ranked 1

Chambers USA also ranked five of our Labor and Employment partners individually:

Bradd N Siegel - Labor & Employment Ohio
Charles C Warner - Labor & Employment Ohio
John M Stephen - Labor & Employment Ohio
Fred G Pressley Jr - Labor & Employment Ohio
Kevin Griffith - Labor & Employment Ohio 
 

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Porter Wright is deeply honored to be ranked among the 30 elite firms in the country when it comes to client service.  In a national survey of in-house counsel at Fortune 1000 companies conducted by The BTI Consulting Group (BTI), Porter Wright ranked 22 out of 505 core firms named by in-house counsel.

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