Knives Out for Lawyers As Bielema Feud Festers
by Mark Friedman – 2 days ago
The feud between former University of Arkansas Head Football Coach Bret Bielema and the Razorback Foundation is getting worse.
The feud between former University of Arkansas Head Football Coach Bret Bielema and the Razorback Foundation is getting worse.
Earlier this month, former county employee John Powell was awarded $16,120 for lost wages and $4,030 for pain and suffering in his suit against Jefferson County and former County Judges Henry “Hank” Wilkins IV and Booker Clemons.
Sexual harassment allegations by colleagues have followed a Washington Regional Medical Center cardiologist for years.
A former Arizona politician who admitted running an illegal adoption scheme in three states involving women from the Marshall Islands was sentenced in Arkansas to six years in federal prison. read more >
Westrock Group CEO and co-founder Scott Ford and Southern Bancorp CEO Darrin Williams are among the featured executives scheduled to speak during the spring 2021 Arkansas Business Executive Leadership Academy. read more >
Cara Butler and Hannah Butler have joined Mitchell Williams Selig Gates & Woodyard PLLC in Little Rock and Rogers as associates. read more >
Hot Springs dispensary owner Dragan Vicentic's penchant for paying for cannabis in cash, disdaining electronic payments, gives marijuana cultivator reason for blacklisting. read more >
Scott Varady, executive director of the Razorback Foundation, says foundation members and fans exude optimism these days. read more >
A U.S. District Court judge ruled last week that a 2019 lawsuit can go forward over who designed the $350 million Saracen Casino Resort in Pine Bluff. read more >
A trial date has been set in the case of Dr. Ben Burris, the former Fayetteville orthodontist who is charged with bribing former state Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson. read more >
Turnabout is fair play in Jefferson County, which gained a medical marijuana cultivation center from Newport this month after losing it to the Jackson County seat more than two years ago. read more >
Arkansas' richest family has had a good year financially. The heirs of Sam Walton own publicly traded stock valued collectively at more than $205 billion. read more >
Let another pesky woman editor encourage you to embrace the spirit of Thanksgiving this year as never before, even as we must limit the traditional togetherness — a small sacrifice by historic standards. read more >
The state's largest medical marijuana merchant says Arkansas cultivators have blackballed his business, and he's planning to sue, alleging they cut off sales after he lobbied for the state to license more growers. read more >
The Arkansas Supreme Court may have handed the Arkansas Department of Transportation a loss in October, but the agency isn't licking any wounds. read more >
David L. Jones, a partner at Wright Lindsey Jennings in Little Rock, has been selected as the 2020 recipient of the Defense Research Institute Davis Carr Outstanding Committee Chair Award. read more >
As a component of the CARES Act, the Federal Reserve established the Main Street Lending Program to provide up to $600 billion in financing to businesses and nonprofit organizations negatively impacted by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. read more >
Tyson Foods suspends top officials at its largest pork plant and launches an investigation into allegations that they bet on how many workers would get infected during a widespread coronavirus outbreak. read more >
Arkansas Business and the Best Companies Group last week honored 47 Arkansas companies with "Best Places to Work" awards, which honor firms that have exceptional workplace environments. read more >
Five years after being injured in a car accident, Dr. Paul Wills is still waiting to be paid his insurance claim, joining thousands of others using the courts to battle what plaintiffs say are unfair delay tactics by insurance companies. read more >
Fayetteville mayoral candidate Tom Terminella insists that legal action taken against him was more than just an effort to collect on a debt. read more >
Simmons Bank hauled Encore Bank into court last week over accusations that include improperly luring executives and customers away from the Pine Bluff bank. read more >
The Arkansas liquor industry will likely be asking the state Legislature to pass a bill permanently allowing the delivery of alcohol. read more >
As I studied up on dozens of PPP fraud cases filed around the country since May, several common elements began to emerge. read more >
Eli C. Bauer has been hired by Dover Dixon Horne PLLC in Little Rock as an associate attorney. read more >
The popular video-sharing app TikTok, its future in limbo since President Donald Trump tried to shut it down earlier this fall, is asking a federal court to intervene. read more >
A week after the 2020 election, Republican elected officials and the Trump administration are advancing their latest arguments to get rid of the Affordable Care Act, a long-held GOP goal. read more >
Randy Eminger of Bella Vista and the Arkansas Affordable Energy Coalition are committed to keeping Arkansas as a coal customer, and he's challenging Entergy's coal-plant closure plan in federal court, arguing that state utility regulators haven't vetted it properly. read more >
A Dumas agribusinessman who admits to selling property used as security for millions of dollars in bank loans expects to be charged by federal prosecutors, but as of Wednesday he was still waiting. read more >
First National Bank of Paragould wants to move forward with its efforts to collect its debts from disgraced former Craighead County Clerk Jacob “Kade” Holliday. read more >
Randy Dennis' firm, DD&F Consulting Group of Little Rock, has been involved in something that's even more unusual than a bank acquisition in 2020: a brand-new bank charter. read more >
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP of Denver announced this week that Mark L. Pryor, a former two-term Democratic U.S. senator and Arkansas attorney general, has joined the firm as a shareholder in the Government Relations Department in its Washington, D.C. office. read more >
In the wake of a National Public Radio report on Wyoming spending political “dark money” to derail plans to shut down two Arkansas coal-fired power plants, Entergy Arkansas says it still plans to close the plants in Newark and Redfield, but that those plans are held up by a federal court case. read more >
