Jones Walker is grateful to declare that Michael W. Magner has joined the firm’s New Orleans firm of criminal law attorneys as special counsel. Mr. Magner practices in the firm’s Business & Commercial Litigation Practice Group. His practice focuses on preventive and Litigation services for businesses and individuals in corporate and white collar criminal law matters. He additionally represents people and companies in connection with grand jury and various other investigations.

Mr. Magner’s particular competence is in anti-corruption compliance and litigation matters on both a domestic and international level. He served as a federal prosecutor in New Orleans for 20 years where he was a key member of the team that successfully prosecuted former Louisiana Governor, Edwin Edwards, following a 5 month trial. He was also the lead prosecutor in the Department of Justice‘s long term investigation and prosecution of judicial and related public corruption in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana known as “Operation Wrinkled Robe.” In recognition of his work, Mike was awarded the Department of Justice‘s highest award for litigation, the John Marshall Award, as well as the Director’s Award for Superior Performance by a Litigative Team.

Mr. Magner stated, “Joining Jones Walker and being able to work with the Jones Walker white collar team is an exciting opportunity. Their law firm has a number of former U.S. Attorneys and Assistant U.S. Attorneys, all of whom have a stellar reputation in representing clients in the defense of government investigations and prosecutions.”

Mr. Magner also has served as a director of the U.S. Attorney’s Office‘s Anti-Terrorism/Crisis Response Unit, Organized Crime Strike Force, and Violent Crime Unit, and has tried over 40 jury trials to verdict, in virtually all sections of the United States District Court for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Louisiana. He specialized in long term, complex white collar investigations and trials, including export control, mail and wire fraud, government contract fraud, bribery, money laundering, police misconduct, civil rights violations, and RICO. In 2011, he served as the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Advisor to the Kenyan Anti-Corruption Commission (“KACC”) in Nairobi, Kenya, where he was embedded in the KACC’s principal headquarters for nearly two months, and provided training to KACC’s investigators, auditors, and attorneys on corruption compliance, investigative, and prosecution matters. He has also trained foreign judges and prosecutors in Central Asia and Africa and has regularly trained federal prosecutors through the Attorney General’s Advocacy Institute.

Right before working with the KACC, Mr. Magner was with the Department of Justice’s first Counsel for Emergency Management and Crisis Response in the Office of Director, Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys in Washington, D.C. for 18 months, where he represented the DOJ at various White House level emergency exercises and planning meetings relating to the federal government’s response to major criminal events, natural disasters, and pandemics. While with DOJ, Mike was also selected as a trained evaluator of other U.S. Attorneys’ Offices throughout the country on various substantive legal areas as well as ethics and professionalism.

Mr. Magner acquired his juris doctor certification via Tulane University School of Law, cum laude; and was Managing Editor of The Maritime Lawyer. His Bachelor of Arts in Political Science/International Relations was earned from The George Washington University.

GS Battery Inc. recently publicized it’s started to present its ECO R model SLC 70-4 and SLX246-12 batteries for use in Suniva’s Balance of System Solutions. Co-Branded with the Suniva and GS Battery logo, these considerable capacity batteries supply extended life and also outstanding cycling functionality based on a great deal of practical knowledge throughout Japan.

This collaboration allows Suniva and GS Battery to optimize their alternative energy products to improve the performance and reliability of the entire PV system, thus improving the Levelized Cost of Electricity. Custom engineering support to help meet individual project needs is also available. The ECO R batteries are a significant component to Suniva’s Balance of System Solutions.

“Market interest continues to be very positive for the ECO R batteries and has been aided by Suniva’s introduction of the Balance of System Solutions (BOSS) at Solar Power International,” said Jay Northey, Executive Vice-president and General Manager, GS Battery (USA) Inc. “We are excited to continue our collaboration with Suniva as our co-branded offerings expand globally.”

GS Battery Inc. is an American subsidiary of GS Yuasa Group of Japan, a world leader in automotive, motorcycle and standby storage batteries, which serves the power sports, telecommunications, UPS, and the emergency lighting markets. GS Battery Inc. recently announced that they will enter the renewable energy photovoltaic and storage market in North America.

Suniva® is an American manufacturer of high-efficiency crystalline silicon PV cells and high-power solar modules used in solar panels. The company uses patented, low-cost manufacturing techniques and industry-leading technology to produce its high-quality products and maintain competitive costs. Headquartered in metro-Atlanta, GA, Suniva sells its advanced photovoltaic cells and modules globally.

The U.S. Small Business Administration is reminding local businesses that Feb. 24 is the filing due date regarding federal government economic damage disaster loans offered in Lee and Scott counties in Virginia. The SBA declared a catastrophe due to severe storms, tornadoes, straight-line wind gusts as well as water damage that started on April twenty three, last year.

In addition, the Small Business Administration reported this week that federal economic damage disaster financial loans are available to small businesses, small farming cooperatives, small firms engaged in aquaculture and most private non-profit associations of all sizes located in the counties of Dillon and also Horry in South Carolina as a result of Hurricane Irene that came about in August.

“When the Secretary of Agriculture issues a disaster declaration to help farmers recover from damages and losses to crops, the Small Business Administration issues a declaration to assist eligible entities affected by the same disaster,” announced Frank Skaggs, director of SBA’s Field Operations Center East in Atlanta.

Under this declaration, the SBA’s Economic Injury Disaster Loan program is accessible to suitable farm-related along with nonfarm-related entities that sustained economic losses being a direct consequence of this catastrophe. Excluding aquacultural businesses, agricultural companies, farmers and ranchers are not eligible to apply to SBA.

Financing for small business can be up to $2 million, with interest rates of 3 percent for non-profit organizations and 4 percent for small businesses. Terms can be up to 30 years. The SBA decides eligibility dependant upon the size of the prospect, form of activity along with its financial resources. The agency identifies financial loan amounts and terms dependent on each candidate’s economic condition. These SBA small business loans may be used to pay fixed debts, payroll, accounts payable, and other bills that could have been paid had the disaster not occurred. These particular small business loans are not intended to take the place of missed sales or net income.

In the aftermath of the darkest court budget cuts in California’s history, plaintiffs’ trial lawyer Michael Alder of AlderLaw, P.C. in Beverly Hills assumed the office of president of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA), the nation’s largest local association of plaintiffs’ attorneys, which is made up of very nearly 3,000 legal professionals.

“Consumer lawyers are vital, now more than ever, to protecting the civil rights of people who’ve been left without access to judicial relief, which is just about everyone except the super-rich,” said Alder. “Legal bills add up to astronomical sums very quickly, because litigation is such an intensive process. Without lawyers who work on a contingency fee basis, which means they risk their own money instead of the clients’ and agree not to be paid unless they win the case, even people with big incomes quickly find their resources drained when faced with the large legal bills that result from a contested matter. Consumer lawyers must be prepared to provide leadership, vision and most of all integrity.”

Alder is known as the steadfast proponent of plaintiffs’ couselors, otherwise known as consumer lawyers, working to raise public awareness of their importance at a time of corporate fraud and abuse. He’s been a member of CAALA for 14 years and spearheaded a city-wide billboard campaign to fund billboards that highlight the good that consumer lawyers do for society. He also is one of five founding members of the Trial Lawyers Charities, a non-profit institution that gives capital and legal expertise to individuals in need within Los Angeles.

Alder is currently working on some of the very most cutting-edge litigation work in the state. He’s tried more than seventy cases within his professional career and properly secured over $140 million in verdicts and settlements for his valued clients in 2011 alone. Most recently, in Dec last year he won a nearly $33 million verdict for Concept Chaser, Co., Inc. in the advertising fraud case Concept Chaser Co., Inc. v. Pentel of America Ltd.

CAALA officially installed Alder as its 2012 president on Jan. 21 at its 63rd Annual CAALA Installation & Awards Banquet at the Four Seasons Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills. The group also announced its new officers and Board of Governors. For more information, visit www.caala.org.

AlderLaw, P.C. is a Los Angeles criminal attorney and plaintiffs’ law firm that represents plaintiffs in personal injury, business tort and employment litigation nationwide. The firm was founded in 2000 by attorney Michael Alder, current president of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA) and past CAALA Trial Lawyer of the Year. Alder has tried more than 70 cases in his career, and works with a team of seven associate attorneys. AlderLaw, P.C. obtained more than $140 million in verdicts and settlements for its valued clients last year. For information, visit www.alderlaw.com.

Juhl Wind Inc, the Leader in Community Wind Power, has publicized the official commercial start-up and operations of the two wind turbine project regarding Gundersen Health System in Winona County, MN. The 4.95 megawatt undertaking is the first-of-its-kind in The United States to be put together specifically to handle the alternative energy concerns of a sizeable regional health corporation, in this instance, Gundersen Health System.

“This unique wind project represents the continued activity by Juhl over the past two years and highlights our strength and diversity in the community wind energy market,” explained Corey Juhl, Vice President of Development for Juhl Wind Inc. “We are seeing an increased demand for large commercial and industrial organization projects such as Gundersen’s as they fit extremely well within Juhl Wind’s area of expertise. This community-based project will provide significant economic benefits to the region. As one piece of their Envision program, the wind farm project will help Gundersen Health System achieve their goal of becoming 100% energy independent by 2014.”

“This is an exciting time for Gundersen and our Envision program. This community wind project we have done with Juhl Wind was about two years in the making, and we’re happy to report that the turbines are now creating energy,” said Jeff Rich, executive director, GL Envision, LLC.

Juhl Wind is an established frontrunner in Community Based Wind Power creation and supervision, centered on wind power projects throughout the United States and Canada. Juhl Wind pioneered Community-Based wind farms, developing the currently accepted financial, operational and legal structure providing local ownership of medium-to-large scale wind farms. To date, the Company has completed 21 wind farm projects and provides operations management and oversight across the portfolio of renewable resources. Juhl Wind services every aspect of wind farm development from full development and ownership, general consultation, construction management and system operations and maintenance. With its consolidation of the Valley View, Winona County and Woodstock Hills wind farms, the Company has now invested in and operates 21.7 MWs of wind power through its independent power producer subsidiary, Juhl Renewable Asset, Inc. Through its Next Generation Power Systems subsidiary, Juhl Wind also delivers total product sales as well as service to smaller, on-site wind and solar panel projects together with the company’s bigger Community Wind Farms.

Sufferers with gynecologic cancer have all new hope with a original technology currently introduced at the Seidman Cancer Center at University Hospitals Case Medical Center. A team of cancer specialists, led by Robert DeBernardo, MD, is among the first in the nation to launch a dedicated program using Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC) to treat ovarian, endometrial and select other cancers.

Performed as soon as possible following surgery, HIPEC delivers heated chemotherapy through a ‘hot bath’ into the abdominal cavity, where it can penetrate diseased tissue directly. After the surgeon takes away the maximum visible cancer as possible, a heated, a sterilized chemotherapy solution is distributed across the mid-section through a technologically sophisticated perfusion process to kill the residual cancer cells.

“This is a new and potentially revolutionary way of treating women with gynecologic cancers, which tend to be quite responsive to chemotherapy,” says Dr. DeBernardo, gynecologic oncologist at UH Case Medical Center and Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. “Our preliminary data and experience has been overwhelmingly positive and the therapy has been well-tolerated and effective. HIPEC promises to extend lives in a meaningful way.”

HIPEC has been used for years for public health care in patients with colon, pseudomyxomas, malignant mesothelioma and appendiceal cancer, varieties of cancer that generally aren’t responsive to chemotherapy, yet it is currently viewed as an encouraging brand new remedy for gynecologic malignancy.

The U.S. Small Business Administration stated recently that federal government economic damage disaster loans are offered to small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small enterprises operating in aquaculture and the majority of private non-profit establishments of all sizes located in the counties of Dillon along with Horry in South Carolina as a consequence of Hurricane Irene that took place in August.

“These counties are eligible because they are contiguous to one or more primary counties in North Carolina. The Small Business Administration recognizes that disasters do not usually stop at county or state lines. For that reason, counties adjacent to primary counties named in the declaration are included,” said Frank Skaggs, director of SBA’s Field Operations Center East in Atlanta.

“When the Secretary of Agriculture issues a disaster declaration to help farmers recover from damages and losses to crops, the Small Business Administration issues a declaration to assist eligible entities affected by the same disaster,” noted Skaggs.

Under this declaration, the SBA’s Economic Injury Disaster Loan program is accessible to qualified farm-related along with nonfarm-related companies that experienced financial losses as a direct result of this catastrophe. With the exception of aquacultural enterprises, agricultural producers, farmers along with ranchers are not eligible to apply to SBA.

Loan options for small business can be up to $2 million, with interest rates of 3 percent for non-profit organizations and 4 percent for small businesses. Terms can be up to 30 years. The SBA decides eligibility dependant upon the size of the applicant, type of activity along with its financial resources. The agency establishes financial loan amounts in addition to terms dependent on each and every applicant’s financial condition. The may be used to pay fixed debts, payroll, accounts payable, and other bills that could have been paid had the disaster not occurred. The small business loan financing is not intended to replace lost sales or profits.

Hazelden, among the world’s biggest and most highly regarded independent, charitable alcoholic and drug addiction treatment centers, announced today that it’ll enlarge it’s outpatient addiction treatment and psychological health related offerings to Chaska, Minnesota, in a that will assist grown ups and young people as young as 12.

“Addiction affects people of all ages, and Hazelden understands the growing need for outpatient treatment for busy families,” pronounced Mark G. Mishek, president and CEO of Hazelden. “In addition to expanding services for adults, Hazelden is reaching out like never before to young people. We don’t want them missing out on the good stuff of growing up: being with friends they can count on, figuring out what they’re good at and achieving their academic goals.”

Hazelden in Chaska will open up its doors to grown ups about March 1, and then to youth about April 1. The facility is situated on the 3rd floor of the Hazeltine Gates building, 1107 Hazeltine Blvd., having convenient access from Highways 212 and 41. The 5,400-square-foot alcohol treatment center features individual rooms for youths and older people, such as a gathering area for young people that helps bring about peer interconnection and kinetic learning. The north-facing windows open to a look at the Chaska Municipal Golf Course.

{Yung Joc could be thinking about a legal challenge immediately following Master Mind Music Inc., an Atlanta-based pop music establishment, filed legal action against the artist and his prior label Block Enterprises. Inside of the Government entities really should put into practice anti-piracy procedures included in the Digital Economy Act “as quickly as possible”, a completely independent board designated to examine the destiny of the Uk movie industry reports. The Film Policy Review Panel was basically assigned by the authorities and has now suggested that copyright infringement is causing decreasing sector earnings and that a “key element” to actually responding to the problem was in employing the options as part of the DEA.

Andrew Hurwitz, a brand affiliate in the New York City law firm Schreck Rose Dapello Adams & Hurwitz, has joined up with the contending entertainment law firm Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz as a partner within its entertainment group. The independent film dealmaker is a 1988 college graduate of Georgetown’s law university had been recently with Schreck Rose since 2007. Hurwitz’s Schreck Rose colleague Alan Sacks likewise joined up with Frankfurt Kumit.

A legal firm reported that it’s starting a class action lawsuit which would comprise stakeholders of Chemed Corporation. The complaint stems from news which originated Nov. 16 of a whistleblower lawsuit alleging that Chemed cheated Medicare. Chemed’s stock fell $6.87 per share, or 11 percent, to close at $50.65 per share that day. San Diego law firm, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd, stated it submitted the litigation on behalf of an institutional investor in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati.