Business Transactions
The New Small Business Package
Small and emerging companies often forego legal services because of lack of capital in the early stage of their business to their detriment. However, Mitchell-Phillips Law provides a new affordable Small Business Package that provides the type of protection commonly needed by companies in their start-up phase. Learn More...
Corporate Finance
Venture Capitalist Getting Back into the
Clean-Tech Game
Venture capitalists appear to be heading back into the alternative energy sector, bumping up investments during the past three months by seventy-three percent (73%). Learn More…
Real Estate
The Making Home Affordable Plan
The Making Home Affordable Plan seeks to help national housing price stabilization at the consumer level through two distinct programs: the Home Affordable Refinance Program (“HARP”) and the Home Affordable Modification Program (“HAMP”). Learn More...
International Law
Ken Mitchell-Phillips, Sr. Travels to China
In July, Ken Mitchell-Phillips was selected as one of 7 faculty members to travel to Hong Kong and Mainland China to help students develop tools relevant to a global workforce, integrate current global business issues and trends into the classroom, and support Oregon economic ties to East Asia. Learn More...
Estate Planning
Long-Term Care Insurance Included in Health Reform Plan
President Barack Obama is supporting a proposal for a new national long-term care insurance program that would offer basic help for the elderly and disabled. Obama’s support could be key to the plan’s inclusion in health reform legislation. Learn More...
Business Transactions
Oregon Business Development Department, http://www.oregon.gov/OBDD/
Oregon Secretary of State Corporations Division, http://www.filinginoregon.com/
Oregon Business Information Center, http://egov.sos.state.or.us/
Oregon Revised Statutes, Private Corporations, http://www.leg.state.or.us/
Oregon Department of Revenue, http://www.oregon.gov/DOR/BUS/starting.shtml
Business News, Yahoo, http://biz.yahoo.com/
Portland Business Journal, http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/
Oregon Small Business Development Center, http://www.bizcenter.org/
Oregon Business, http://www.oregonbusiness.com/
SCORE, http://www.score.org/
Corporate Finance
Securities Exchange Commission, www.sec.gov
Yahoo Finance, http://finance.yahoo.com/
Congressional Budget Office, http://www.cbo.gov/
Internal Revenue Service, www.irs.gov
Forbes, http://www.forbes.com/business/
Oregon Securities Regulation, http://www.leg.state.or.us/ors/059.html
Wall Street Journal Business, http://online.wsj.com/public/page/news-business-us.html
CNN Money, http://money.cnn.com/
Smart Money, http://money.cnn.com/
Kiplinger, http://www.kiplinger.com/
Real Estate
Oregon Real Estate Agency, http://www.oregon.gov/REA/publications.shtml
Seller's Property Disclosure Statement, ORS 105.462 to 105.490 (2007 Edition)
Residential Landlord and Tenant, ORS Chapter 90 (2007 Edition)
Oregon Subdivision Plat and Partition law, ORS 92.010 to 92.285 (2007 Edition)
Real Estate, Property Management and Escrow, ORS Chapter 696 (2007 Edition)
Oregon Subdivision and Series Partition Control Statutes, ORS 92.305 to 92.990 (2007 Edition)
Timeshare estates, Membership Campgrounds, ORS 94.803 to 94.989 (2007 Edition)
Condominiums, ORS 100.005 to 100.990 (2007 Edition)
Oregon State Bar Real Estate Section, http://www.osbrelu.com/
Measure 37, http://www.doj.state.or.us/hot_topics/measure37litigation.shtml
International Law
Legal Research on International Issues, www.ialsnet.org
Oregon Business Development Department, http://www.oregon4biz.com/it.htm
Hong Kong Trade Development Council, http://www.hktdc.com/
Hoover’s On-Line, http://www.hoovers.com/
Reed-Elsevier, http://www.reed-elsevier.com/
Competitive Intelligence Guide, http://www.fuld.com/
Economic Intelligence, http://www.unesco.org/
IOMA Business Directory, http://www.ioma.com/ioma/direct.html
Barriers to Foreign Trade, http://www.ustr.gov/
Estate Planning
Findlaw — Estate Planning, http://estate.findlaw.com/estate-planning/estate-planning-law/
ABA Estate Planning, http://www.abanet.org/rpte/public/home.html
Oregon Probate Estates, http://www.oregon.gov/DSL/ESTATES/est_plan.shtml
Oregon Uniform Trust Code, http://www.leg.state.or.us/ors/130.html
Oregon State Bar Wills & Estate, http://www.osbar.org/public/legalinfo/wills.html
