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24 October 2018

Overheard At NIC 2018 . . .

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Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed

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The firm’s original four partners were engaged primarily in a burgeoning real estate practice. While our real estate practice and deep-rooted involvement in that industry remains an integral component of the firm, we have grown alongside the dynamic needs of our clients and community at large. Today, the firm’s lawyers advise clients on almost every aspect of business: from copyrights and trademarks to high-stakes, high-profile litigation; from complex commercial and residential real estate issues to wealth management; from labor and employment law to healthcare; from capital raising and entity formation to corporate growth and expansion locally, nationally and internationally.
As always, the NIC Conference in Chicago is a great experience and an unique opportunity to connect owners, managers, lenders and (of course) ...
United States Employment and HR

As always, the NIC Conference in Chicago is a great experience and an unique opportunity to connect owners, managers, lenders and (of course) the attorneys that represent each of them. Interesting conversations always ensue, and here are a couple of takeaways from our interactions:

  • Operators continue to struggle with the demand for qualified, reliable staff at facilities. Many have been forced to increase wages to keep up with a rising market (thanks, Amazon!), but even increased wages are not a cure-all. As always, a good director is worth his or her weight in gold.
  • The cost of construction was also a hot topic and we had one owner at a dinner suggest that the recently re-negotiated NAFTA will result in cheaper steel from Canada with cheaper lumber to follow steel's trend. That view was met with some healthy skepticism at our table, but time will tell us who was right on this one.

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