Coblentz is pleased to announce its Fourth Annual Women in Conversation Event, featuring ODC Founder and Artistic Director Brenda Way in conversation with Pamela Duffy.
Coblentz is pleased to announce its Fourth Annual Women in Conversation Event, featuring ODC Founder and Artistic Director Brenda Way in conversation with Pamela Duffy.
“Before the first rivet was ordered for the new San Francisco 49ers stadium in Santa Clara, the owners of the National Football League team, the York family, picked San Francisco law firm Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass LLP to handle the complex negotiations that would make or break the project. The law firm is known for handling large and complex development projects and for attorney Harry O’Brien, who revels in seemingly impossible deals that move at a snail’s pace.”
“So who is Harry O’Brien, this wonk who revels in complexity? ‘He’s an absolute pro,’ says Santa Clara City Councilmember Kevin Moore, who has been a leader in efforts to get the stadium. ‘He was absolutely on his ‘A’ game.’ There’s ‘The Six Million Dollar Man.’ He’s ‘The Billion Dollar Man.’”
“He knows when to talk and he knows when to just accumulate information,” Moore says. “You can almost hear his brain ticking. He’s a lot of times steps ahead of other people in the room.”
The Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA) has issued guidelines for “ethical word of mouth advertising,” which entails disclosures of “material connections” between companies and the parties who communicate about their products through social media. The WOMMA Guidelines are intended to provide companies and their marketers with a better sense of how to comply with Endorsement and Testimonial Guidelines issued by the Federal Trade Commission in 2009.
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San Francisco has expanded its Plastic Bag Reduction Ordinance, which previously applied only to San Francisco-based supermarket and pharmacy chains. All San Francisco-based retail stores must comply with the ordinance by October 1, 2012, and all San Francisco-based restaurants must comply by October 1, 2013.
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