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Looking Back From a Feeling of Triumph

Eric Lanke

On Friday of this past week I had a business meeting in downtown Milwaukee. My job was to be the facilitator -- to guide the committee through its agenda, ensuring that all voices were heard and helping to codify the consensus view into a clear and representative document. So I told her a quick story.

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How Do You Fix a Board Power Struggle?

Associations Now

Andersson and Avery Edenfield, scholars at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Some of them are the documents that drive the board’s work. For example, the employee handbook was a relatively new document that came about because of tension over expectations of employees.

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Tax-Refund Theft: Associations on Alert for Falsified Returns

Associations Now

The people who are in the business of perpetrating this kind of fraud collect Social Security numbers all over the place,” Hockenberry told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “Rather, we believe these identities were stolen elsewhere in well-documented breaches of various kinds, and then used to try to penetrate the American tax system.”.

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Don’t Neglect Your Longest-Standing Members

Association Adviser

Is the agreement aligned with other important legal documents, such as the entity organizational documents, employment agreements, business agreements and contracts, banking agreements, and the estate planning documents of the individual owners? He is is the president of Alexander Law Offices SC in Milwaukee, Wis.,

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From the Corner Office: Michelle Mason, ASQ

Association Adviser

This month, the Corner Office spotlight shines on Michelle Mason, CAE, managing director of the ASQ in Milwaukee, Wis., documenting how you do your job) and 3) systems. By Association Adviser staff. which serves more than 80,000 individual and company members. Association Adviser: Michelle, tell us a little bit about ASQ.

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Wisconsin 501(c)(4) Group Sues Over “John Doe” Investigation

Associations Now

The current one is a so-called John Doe probe, which allows prosecutors to compel people to produce documents and give testimony and bars them from talking publicly about the investigation. Since the elections, there have been investigations into political spending during the contentious campaigns.