Recently, a resident of Prairie Village sent an anonymous letter to a neighbor complaining about a recreational vehicle parked in the neighbor’s driveway. The recipients of the letter did not in fact have a recreational vehicle in their driveway and reported the incident to local media outlets. Photo credit: mazaletel / Foter / CC BY Interestingly, …
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Restaurant Week
With the advent of Restaurant Week, we thought it might be a good idea to let our friends and clients know that this is an important area of practice for The Biggest Little Firm® in Kansas City. Over the past several years, our attorneys have been working with a growing number of clients in the restaurant and hospitality industry, representing …
Estate Planning For Social Media
In this Brave New Digital World full of tweets, emails and status updates, and other undiscovered communication phenomena, different people embrace the new technologies to different degrees. We still have to face the fact that, aside from some troglodyte Baby Boomers, we live in a digital world. Photo credit: Jason A. Howie / Foter / CC BY Written …
Van Osdol Lawyers Give Thanks This November
This is a great time of year for us all to take stock and reflect on what is really important to us. Below are the thoughts of some of our lawyers: Photo credit: Korona Lacasse / Foter / CC BY “I am thankful for my friends and family and to work at a firm that not only encourages me to grow as an individual and as an attorney, but also allows me …
Kansas City Law Firm, Van Osdol & Magruder, Celebrates 75 Years
This week marks Van Osdol & Magruder, P.C.’s 75th anniversary as a member of the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce. We thought we’d look back at what was happening 75 years ago during our first year of membership: WWII was still localized in a small part of Europe. Thailand was still called Siam. The average price of a car was $700. Photo …
Should Charities Accept Bitcoins?
Bitcoins are in the news. The magic of non-government currency, the risks of the new, the evolving and the unregulated. How exactly are Bitcoins, or any other virtual currency, created, validated, valued, stored and exchanged? What happens if an owner, exchange or storage system is hacked? Or if a Bitcoin creator (“miner” in Bitcoin parlance) or …
