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Business attorney Patrick Spott was interviewed by KQDS Fox 21 for the Wednesday, November 30, 2011 9:00 pm newscast concerning wage and hour issues facing businesses and their employees. Although financial institutions are eager to loan businesses money, underwriting requirements are very high in the current business environment. As a result lines of credit are not readily available and cash flow has become a serious issue for many area businesses. The consequence is that employees are sometimes not paid in a timely fashion. Spott spoke about this problem and the steps employees should take if this happens. |
| Spott Law Office sponsors the Duluth Superior Chamber of Commerce Small Business Development Series. This program is designed to give Chamber members access to tools and resources that will assist them grow and strengthen their businesses. This series consists of 12 monthly seminars on topics that are directly related to small business. The next seminar will be November 18, 2011 and will feature Marti Buscaglia, publisher of Duluth-Superior Magazine. She will speak on Dealing With the Media from both the perspective of a small business owner and member of the media. The former publisher of the Duluth News Tribune, Marti brings more than 20 years experience in the publishing industry as well as the enthusiasm and vision that has made Duluth~Superior Magazine truly unique. |
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| Spott Law Office sponsors the Duluth Superior Chamber of Commerce Small Business Development Series. This program is designed to give Chamber members access to tools and resources that will assist them grow and strengthen their businesses. This series consists of 12 monthly seminars on topics that are directly related to small business. The next seminar will be October 28, 2011 and is entitled Sell, Sell, Sell. The speaker will be Dave Orman, owner of Raven & Associates. Raven & Associates is one of the nation’s premiere suppliers of embroidered emblems, advertising specialties, and imprinted apparel to outdoor groups, non-profit organizations, and small businesses. Started in 1997 in Duluth, Minnesota, Dave Orman has built his company and reputation by supplying the highest quality products at competitive prices, emphasizing service rather than production, and guaranteeing the quality of all of our products. |
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Business attorney Patrick Spott has been retained to facilitate the annual Duluth Area Chamber of Commerce leadership advance at Minnesuing Acres in September of 2011. The vision of the Chamber is to serve as the premier advocate for commerce and industry by facilitating interaction among business, government, education, labor, and the greater community, actively creating innovative opportunities for businesses to advance within a global economy. The objectives of the annual Advance are to establish a shared understanding of the Chamber's challenges, evaluate the value the Chamber's initiatives provide to its members, determine policy priorities and criteria for business advocacy and action, and agree on the 2012 action plan. This will be the fourth year Spott has facilitated the Advance in support of the Duluth area's business community. |
| Spott Law Office sponsors the Duluth Superior Chamber of Commerce Small Business Development Series. This program is designed to give Chamber members access to tools and resources that will assist them grow and strengthen their businesses. This series consists of 12 monthly seminars on topics that are directly related to small business. In the two most recent seminars marketing expert Parnell Thill of IKONICS presented on "The Trouble with Branding... and Re-Branding... Lessons in Misunderstanding" and "The Power of Promotionalism... the Death of the Panacea." The next small business seminar will be held on September 23, 2011. Leanne Joynes of ZMC Hotels will be speaking on "Event Planning for Small Businesses." Ms. Joynes is Vice President of Sales and Marketing at ZMC and is a Project Manager for Success Unlimited where she does major event planning. |
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| Attorney Kay Biga recently attended a Summer Intensive Workshop at University of Wisconsin Superior in August 2011. The workshop covered classroom assessment techniques and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Biga is a Senior Lecturer with the Department of Business and Economics and will be teaching Principles of Management, Small Business Management, Strategic Management and Wills & Trusts during the fall semester. Her legal practice focuses on business and alternative dispute resolution. |
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Attorney Patrick Spott has accepted a temporary appointment as Senior Lecturer with the Department of Business and Economics of the University of Wisconsin Superior. As part of this appointment Spott will teach Business Law to undergraduates during the 2011-2012 academic year. Business Law I addresses the legal principles relating to business transactions. The course Includes the legal and social environment of business, contracts, choice of business entities, and selected elements of the Uniform Commercial Code. Spott focuses much of his full time practice of law on the needs of businesses, applying the principles he teaches. |
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Law Clerk Emily Spott has been named to the Dean's Honor Roll at Hamline University School of Law for the Spring 2011 semester. As a law clerk at Spott Law Office, Emily's work has focused on litigation support, motion practice and research. At Hamline Emily is a Bakken Fellow and has competed internationally as part of the Willem C. Vis (East) Moot Court Competition. She will enter her third and final year of law school this coming fall. |
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Attorney Patrick Spott is teaching Business Law for the College of St. Scholastica to students in the Masters of Business Administration program during the summer semester of 2011. Spott is an adjunct faculty member in the College's School of Business and Technology. The School of Business and Technology combines an academic emphasis on liberal arts with experiential learning to create global leaders with strong professional skills who act with integrity and a strong sense of social responsibility. The School offers a variety of programs including: accounting, applied economics, computer science/computer information systems, finance, organizational behavior, management and marketing.
The Masters of Business Administration is offered through the School of Business and Technology. The College of St. Scholastica's Master of Business Administration program offers a broad-based business curriculum emphasizing technical and analytical skills; global and cultural acumen; and, social responsibility and ethical decision-making. Students work with mentors from the business community and are immersed in real-world situations throughout their program. Coursework includes required classes in global leadership and ethics, managerial application of technology and communication and cultural effectiveness. Students can work on a real-time global business problem through the unique Capstone Abroad seminar. Through the Professional Effectiveness seminars, students gain insights, skills and partnerships to turn their career goals into reality. |
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Attorney Patrick Spott has designed and is teaching an on line course in debtor/creditor relations for the University of Wisconsin Superior during the Summer 2011 semester. Spott is an adjunct faculty member for the University and teaches in the Legal Studies Program. He was the first faculty member to design and teach an on line course in Legal Studies at the University. This current on line offering is the fourth he has designed and taught.
Graduates of the Legal Studies Program learn about the philosophical, ethical, political, sociological, historical and practical dimensions of law, particularly within the American model but also somewhat in the global domain. Students explore the dominant and alternative paradigms to dispute resolution that exist, including the adversarial assumption, mediation and other forms of conflict resolution. They also have exposure to substantive areas of law, such as contracts, real property, personal injury litigation, family law, and gain an understanding of legal procedures in civil or criminal contexts.
This program offers coursework in law-related topics involving diversity issues, multicultural concerns and international contexts. It also explores the governmental and organizational structures within which law operates. Many Legal Studies majors pursue a Paralegal Certificate in conjunction with their program course work. |
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