"Setting Up and Maintaining Your Corporate Entity Documents"
Presented By:
Berna Rhodes-Ford, Esq.
Holland & Hart
Thursday, July 9, 2009
8:30 am - 12 noon
8:00 am Event registration
check-in and deluxe continental breakfast and networking
8:30 am - 12 noon - Program presentation
Embassy Suites ∙
4315 Swenson Street
Las Vegas, NV 89119
Casual Business Attire
Members $60
(Two for One Special) ∙
Non Members $275
$60
We welcome everyone! Learn and enjoy this
program at our member rate!
Ladies and Gentlemen:
This topic is so important to our businesses that I
cannot begin to share with you how much.
Because of this I have squeezed my NAWBO
program’s budget and am offering to our members a
two-for-one registration for July 9th
workshop: Setting Up and Maintaining Your Corporate
Entity Documents.
Even sole-proprietors need to keep the paperwork
up-to-date but even more so for LLCs and Corporations.
Having the correct documentation could be the difference
in winning or loosing in court or with the IRS.
Yes, the IRS can and will ask for these
documents.
Please enroll today!
Toni Jo Artz
Topics will include ways in
which to prevent the piercing of your corporate veil and
application of the alter ego theory to you. In
addition, the session will cover entity selection and
keeping your company in good standing with the Secretary
of State. Finally, the changes made by the 2009 Nevada
Legislature that impact business owners will be
discussed.
Ms. Rhodes-Ford’s practice areas include the
representation of business organizations from formation
to sale, including advice on day to day legal issues,
corporate structuring, and mergers and acquisitions.
She has extensive experience litigating employment cases
and advising clients on virtually all aspects of
employment law including employment agreements, employee
manuals, compliance programs and litigation avoidance.
She also advises clients on workers' compensation law
and, where necessary, assists the firm's trial lawyers
on employment law matters. As an attorney with both
private law firm and in-house experience, Ms.
Rhodes-Ford is uniquely qualified to represent corporate
clients.
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 Berna
Rhodes-ford,
ESQ.
Holland & Hart
Business Entities and Transaction
Mergers and Acquisitions
Employment Healthcare
EXPERIENCE
Ms. Rhodes-Ford’s practice areas
include the representation of business organizations
from formation to sale, including advice on day to day
legal issues, corporate structuring, and mergers and
acquisitions. She has extensive experience litigating
employment cases and advising clients on virtually all
aspects of employment law including employment
agreements, employee manuals, compliance programs and
litigation avoidance. She also advises clients on
workers' compensation law and, where necessary, assists
the firm's trial lawyers on employment law matters. As
an attorney with both private law firm and in-house
experience, Ms. Rhodes-Ford is uniquely qualified to
represent corporate clients.
Prior to joining the firm, Ms.
Rhodes-Ford worked as Senior Corporate Counsel for one
of the nation’s largest occupational healthcare
companies where she was directly responsible for all
employment law matters affecting the company. In
addition, while in-house, she gained experience in a
myriad of other substantive areas, including mergers and
acquisitions, bankruptcy, immigration, commercial
litigation and health care law. Based on her in-house
experience, she was nominated for Dallas Business
Journal’s Corporate Counsel Rookie of the Year Award.
Ms. Rhodes-Ford has served as a law
clerk to the Honorable Johnnie B. Rawlinson of the U.S.
Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit and staff attorney to
the Honorable Yvette McGee Brown of the Franklin County
(Ohio) Domestic Relations and Juvenile Court. She has
also served as Legislative Assistant to the Honorable
Eddie Bernice Johnson, United States House of
Representatives, 30th District.
Ms. Rhodes-Ford is admitted to
practice in all state and federal district courts in
Nevada and Texas, as well as the Fifth and Ninth Circuit
Courts of Appeals.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Secretary, National Association of
Women Business Owners, Southern Nevada Chapter, 2008
-2009 Ambassador, American Bar Association,
Business Law Section, 2009 – 2010 Member, American Health Lawyers
Association, 2008 – present Member, Healthcare Financial
Management Association, 2008 – present w Section, 2009 –
2010
Chair, Nominating and
Elections Committee, National Bar Association, Las Vegas
Chapter, 2008
Program Chair, Ask A Lawyer program, National Bar
Association, Las Vegas Chapter, 2008
President-Elect, Dallas Association of Young Lawyers,
2007
Secretary, Dallas Association of Young Lawyers, 2006
Treasurer, J.L. Turner Association (the African-American
Bar Association of Dallas), 2007
Director, J.L. Turner Association (the African-American
Bar Association of Dallas), 2006
Corresponding Secretary, J.L. Turner Association (the
African-American Bar Association of Dallas), 2004 – 2005
Vice Chair, J.L. Turner Association Foundation, 2007
Advisory Board Member, Dallas Bar Association, 2007
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
Director, Community Counseling Center, 2008 – present
Program Director, Jack and Jill of America, Inc., Las
Vegas Chapter 2008 – 2009
International Second Vice President, Alpha Kappa Alpha
Sorority, Inc., 1992 – 1994
Nevada State Advisory Committee Member, United States
Commission on Civil Rights, 2002 – 2003
Director, Texas Discovery Gardens, 2005 – 2007
Director, Suicide and Crisis Center, 2005 – 2007
PUBLICATIONS
Understanding and Preparing for the Hidden Dangers of
the Lilly Ledbetter Act, Holland & Hart News Update with
Anthony Hall, March 2009.
EDUCATION
Education University of Texas School of Law (J.D. 1996)
Southern Methodist University (B.S. 1993)
Business Administration
Southern Methodist University (B.A. 1993)
Psychology
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