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		<title>Dodd Frank &#8211; Do You Know What You Need to Know?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Garry Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Expert Perspective from Grahall&#8217;s Garry Rogers   The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is aimed dead center at the heart of the financial services industry and contains substantial changes regarding the determination and reporting of executive pay and corporate governance.   These changes will impact all public filers.   Over the next few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Questions About Health Care Reform Answered NOW</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edie Kingston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ask the Experts about Health Care Reform Legislation Our clients have many questions about the implication of the recent Health Care Reform Legislation.  Just a few of the questions posed by clients and answered at our recent seminar on Health Care Reform Legislation were: 1 If I already offer coverage, can we keep the same plan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grahall’s 2nd Webinar on Health Care Reform Reveals Key Provisions that You Must Address NOW</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edie Kingston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ask the Expert about Health Care Reform Legislation There are no fewer than 20 key provisions of the health care reform legislation that take effect between now and January 1, 2011.  These provisions were thoroughly discussed during the second in a series of webinars sponsored by Grahall, LLC held June 2, 2010.   Presenters  Robert Cirkiel, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heath Care Reform: What You Need to Know NOW #2</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 23:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edie Kingston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ask the Experts: Pate Steele, Robert Cirkiel and Todd McDonald Discuss Health Care Reform and What it Means For Your Business On May 4, 2010, Grahall hosted a webinar on the new heath care reform bills signed into law in March 2010.   Presenters Pate Steele of Grahall, Robert Cirkiel of UHY Advisors  and Todd McDonald [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heath Care Reform: What You Need to Know NOW</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 01:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edie Kingston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ask the Experts: Pate Steele, Robert Cirkiel and Todd McDonald discuss ealth Care Reform and what it means for your business On May 4, 2010 Grahall hosted a webinar on the new heath care reform bills signed into law in March 2010.   Presenters Pate Steele  of Grahall, Robert Cirkiel of UHY Advisors  and Todd McDonald of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now that Health Care Reform has Passed, What’s Next for Employers”</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Cirkiel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[10:47 PM Sunday March 21st, 2010 Health Care Reform Passed the House with a Vote of 219 to 212.  About 10 minutes later the “fixes” to the Senate bill pass by one vote more. As Yahoo News Blog “House Passes Second Historic Healthcare Vote”  says: “While the senate still has to weigh in on an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain.  George Orwell “1984”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edie Kingston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ask the Expert: Robert Cirkiel Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Ingrassia and Staff Writer Imogen Rose-Smith wrote a disturbing account of the potential  risk to the country’s pension system in a lengthy article for institutional investor titled  &#8220;Trillion-Dollar Pension Crisis Looms Large Over America&#8220; . The authors say: “As the U.S. slowly pulls itself out of recession [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Handle Conflicts of Interest?  Don&#8217;t Create Them in the First Place!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Dennis Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ask the Expert: Grahall&#8217;s Michael Graham There has been much written about the challenges and problems associated with conflicted executive compensation consultants.  The SEC has proposed wide disclosure of most services provided to fees paid by publicly traded companies for consulting services in the hopes that this transparency will limit both real and apparent conflicts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grahall Comments on SEC&#8217;s Proposed Proxy Disclosure Rules</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Garry Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In July 2009 the SEC released proposed changes to Proxy Disclosure rules “to enhance the compensation and corporate governance disclosures registrants are required to make about: their overall compensation policies and their impact on risk taking; stock and option awards of executives and directors; director and nominee qualifications and legal proceedings; company leadership structure; the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sameness is the mother of disgust (and loss of talent)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Dennis Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ask the Expert:  Grahall&#8217;s Michael Dennis Graham discusses ways that companies can structure packages to attract and retain top talent. In better economic times, “throwing money at the problem” was the most prevalent approach – and a highly effective one at that. Today, for most companies large or small, TARP or not, public or private, that [...]]]></description>
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