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		<title>Capitol Law Group Announces Additions to Firm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BOISE, Idaho – Capitol Law Group, PLLC (CLG) is pleased to announce the addition of Robert T. Wetherell, J.D. as a partner of the firm beginning January 3, 2012. The firm also welcomed associate David H. Arkoosh, J.D this past November. Mr. Wetherell brings extensive experience in general trial and appellate practice with an emphasis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LEGAL ALERT:  Corporate Officers Can Now Opt Out of State Unemployment Insurance Coverage—But the Deadline to Decide is Fast Approaching.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New “Opt Out” Law: Under the recently passed House Bill 80, corporate officers in Idaho with an ownership interest in their company can now decline to participate in the state unemployment insurance program.  The new “opt-out” law allows Idaho corporations to forego paying the unemployment insurance taxes on corporate officer wages.   The Impending [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://capitollawgroup.com/legal-alert-corporate-officers-can-now-opt-out-of-state-unemployment-insurance-coverage%e2%80%94but-the-deadline-to-decide-is-fast-approaching/</link>
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		<title>WPA Project Built a Home for Justice in Gem County</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“With rooms and vaults built to order, modernistic furnishings and a beautiful building the [Gem] county officials will find themselves surrounded with a new dignity and a higher, more active prestige,” said the Emmett Messenger newspaper on July 27, 1939, just days before county officers made the move into the almost completed Gem County Courthouse. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://capitollawgroup.com/wpa-project-built-a-home-for-justice-in-gem-county-2/</link>
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		<title>Legal Alert:  Retaliation claims extended to third-parties.  Is it time to revise your employee handbook?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Case In a much anticipated decision, the U.S. Supreme Court in Thompson v. North America Stainless, LP recently extended the reach of retaliation claims under Title VII to third parties. Specifically, the Court held that an employee, Thompson, who was fired after his fiancée filed a sex discrimination claim against their mutual employer, North [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://capitollawgroup.com/legal-alert-retaliation-claims-extended-to-third-parties-is-it-time-to-revise-your-employee-handbook-the-case/</link>
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		<title>Legal Alert: Recovery of Attorney Fees in cases involving commercial transactions under Idaho Code Section 12-120(3)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The usual rule in the United States concerning recovery of attorney’s fees in litigation provides that each party pay for their own fees, whether they win or lose, unless the parties agree otherwise or a statute provides otherwise. One such statutory exception under Idaho Code Section 12-120(3) provides that a prevailing party is entitled to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://capitollawgroup.com/legal-alert-recovery-of-attorney-fees-in-cases-involving-commercial-transactions-under-idaho-code-section-12-1203/</link>
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		<title>Legal Alert:  Do Not Be Misled&#8211;The Obama Administration&#8217;s Immigration Announcement is NOT an Amnesty Program!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Obama Administration recently announced on August 18, 2011, the creation of a joint committee made up of the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice that will review nearly 300,000 immigration cases currently in removal proceedings. The committee will determine which cases are “low priority” and can be administratively closed. While this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://capitollawgroup.com/legal-alert-do-not-be-misled-the-obama-administrations-immigration-announcement-is-not-an-amnesty-program/</link>
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		<title>Legal Alert: Who can help you with your immigration case? When looking for immigration help, the wrong help can hurt.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Beware: There has been a recent increase in “immigrations scams” by people claiming they are authorized to give legal advice or represent you before the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Who can represent you: By law, the ONLY people who can give you legal advice or represent you before the USCIS are licensed attorneys [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://capitollawgroup.com/legal-alert-who-can-help-you-with-your-immigration-case-when-looking-for-immigration-help-the-wrong-help-can-hurt/</link>
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		<title>Legal Alert: Parking legally may not be parking safely; Carrier liability may still arise if a driver fails to use ordinary care</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Notwithstanding that a truck may be legally parked, a carrier may still be found negligent when one of its driver’s has created an obstructed view. In the case of Lawson v Safeway, 119 Cal Rptr 3d 366 (Ct App 1st Dist CA 2010), the court upheld a jury’s verdict that the truck driver was partially [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://capitollawgroup.com/legal-alert-parking-legally-may-not-be-parking-safely-carrier-liability-may-still-arise-if-a-driver-fails-to-use-ordinary-care/</link>
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		<title>Legal Alert: New Court Rule requires perspective guardians or conservators to complete an on-line class before a court will issue permanent letters of guardianship or conservatorship.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new Idaho Court Administrative Rule regarding guardianships and conservatorships went into effect this summer. The new rule, I.C.A.R. 54, requires anyone seeking appointment as a guardian or conservator to take the Idaho Supreme Court’s on-line training course as a prerequisite to becoming a guardian or conservator. Rule 54, as recently amended on September 7, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://capitollawgroup.com/legal-alert-new-court-rule-requires-perspective-guardians-or-conservators-to-complete-an-on-line-class-before-a-court-will-issue-permanent-letters-of-guardianship-or-conservatorship/</link>
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		<title>Legal Alert: Relief for Employers and Employees&#8211;IRS issues Guidance on the Taxation of Employer-Provided Cell Phones</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On September 14, 2011, the IRS issued long-awaited guidance on the taxation of employer-provided cell phones that will give many employers and employees reason to celebrate—by making personal phone calls on their employer-provided cell phones. The IRS guidance provides that when an employer provides a cell phone to an employee primarily for non-compensatory business reasons, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://capitollawgroup.com/legal-alert-relief-for-employers-and-employees-irs-issues-guidance-on-the-taxation-of-employer-provided-cell-phones/</link>
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