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Involved in the aftermath of the deepest 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 just about 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 enterprise which donates capital as well as legal services to individuals in need within Los Angeles.

Alder is currently carrying out some of the very most cutting-edge litigation labor in the state. He’s tried well over seventy lawsuits in his professional career and obtained more than $140 million in verdicts and settlements for his valued clientele this year alone. Recently, in December 2011 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 clients in 2011. For information, visit www.alderlaw.com.

Juhl Wind Inc, leading the way in Community Wind Power, has introduced the official industrial start-up and operation of the two turbine project for Gundersen Health System in Winona County, MN. The 4.95 megawatt installation stands out as the first-of-its-kind within The United States to be designed expressly to address the alternative energy concerns of a large regional health and wellness firm, in this case, 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,” proclaimed 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,” reported Jeff Rich, executive director, GL Envision, LLC.

Juhl Wind is an established innovator in Community Based Wind Power production and management, concentrated on windmill 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 along with service to smaller sized, on-site wind and solar panel developments together with the company’s bigger Community Wind turbine Farms.

Those that have gynecologic cancer have fresh new anticipation in a creative technology now offered 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.

Undertaken asap following surgical treatment, HIPEC supplies heated chemotherapy through a ‘hot bath’ into the abdominal cavity, where it can penetrate diseased tissue directly. Shortly after the doctor takes out all of the visible cancer as possible, a heated, a sterilized chemotherapy solution is circulated throughout the abdomen by way of a technologically advanced perfusion process to destroy the surviving 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, types of cancer that usually aren’t receptive to chemotherapy, however it’s now seen as an encouraging fresh therapy for gynecologic malignancy.

The U.S. Small Business Administration announced recently that federal economic injury catastrophe loans are available to small companies, small farm cooperatives, small businesses operating in aquaculture and most private non-profit establishments of all sizes found in the counties of Dillon and also Horry in South Carolina as a result of Hurricane Irene that came about 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,” explained 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 offered to suitable farm-related and also nonfarm-related businesses that experienced financial losses as a direct result of this catastrophe. Apart from aquacultural enterprises, agricultural companies, farmers and also ranchers are definitely 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 ascertains eligibility based on the size of the prospect, type of activity as well as financial assets. The agency establishes financial loan levels along with terms based on each and every candidate’s financial affliction. 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. The small business loan financing is not intended to replace lost sales or profits.

Hazelden, among the world’s most well known and most recognized privately owned, charitable alcohol consumption and drug treatment centers, publicized at present that it’s going to boost it’s outpatient drug addiction treatment and psychological healthcare services to Chaska, Minnesota, in a drug rehab center that will aid women and men and also girls and boys as young as 12.

“Addiction affects people of all ages, and Hazelden understands the growing need for outpatient treatment for busy families,” stated 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 ought to open its business to older people on March 1, and then to young people about April 1. The center is located within the 3rd floor in the Hazeltine Gates building, 1107 Hazeltine Blvd., with easy access from Highways 212 and 41. The 5,400-square-foot alcohol treatment center features separate spots for youths and grown ups, including a meeting place for teenagers that stimulates peer connection and kinetic learning. The north-facing glass windows open to a look at the Chaska Town Golf Course.

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