North Bay Business Journal

  • Important legal changes for wine, alcohol in 2012

    November 28th, 2011

    Important laws and regulations affecting members of the California wine and alcohol beverage industry in 2012 include clarification on third-party marketing and promotions, a new direct-to-consumer wine retail license, permission for on-premise infusion of wine and spirits with flavors, a change in the definition of “distilled spirits” for taxation purposes, new state Russian River frost-protection water rules and agricultural union elections law changes.

  • Business news: Week of May 30, 2011

    May 30th, 2011

    Brief news about North Bay companies and organizations

  • Medical pot law quagmire for business

    May 16th, 2011

    NORTH BAY – Regardless of how an employer personally feels about the use of medical marijuana, they should do their best to steer clear of the sticky legal scenarios that can crop up with employees, say employment law experts in the North Bay.

  • Wine: Cecchetti wine sales rise 39%; top North Coast pruners; what is an intern?

    March 14th, 2011

    Sonoma-based Cecchetti Wine Co. reported that it had its third year of volume sales growth. Roy Cecchetti’s goal of making lower-priced wines has resulted in 200,000 cases sold in 2010, a 39 percent increase from 2009. The winery is projecting sales of 250,000 cases total this year. … Winners from vineyard pruning contests in Mendocino, Sonoma and Napa counties. … A California Department of Industrial Relations Division of Labor Standards Enforcement opinion letter has added new wrinkles to the quandary over whether student interns have to be paid at least minimum wage as employees, according to Jennifer Phillips, an employment and real estate attorney with Dickenson Peatman & Fogarty in Santa Rosa. … Graton-based custom winemaker Sonoma Wine Co., which now produces more than 5 million cases of wine from six facilities in Sonoma and Napa counties, inked a deal with Sebastopol-based Winesecrets to provide services to Sonoma Wine’s 30 clients. … Golden State Overnight and FedEx expand direct-shipping services. … Bill Hambrecht teams with Paul and Heath Dolan and Phil Hurst in the H.D.D. wine group venture. … Dry Creek Vineyard entered a sales and marketing agreement with Sonoma-based V2 Wine Group, which will manage Dry Creek’s distribution nationwide.

  • Business news: Week of March 14, 2011

    March 14th, 2011

    Brief news items from North Bay businesses.

  • Spotlight: Law firm managing partners

    March 7th, 2011

    Listed alphabetically by firm name

  • Napa-based law firm adds three in Santa Rosa

    May 24th, 2010

    NAPA – Napa-based law firm Dickenson Peatman and Fogarty said it will add three more attorneys to its Santa Rosa office to “serve the evolving needs of the North Bay community.”

  • Spotlight: Litigation Attorneys and Mediators

    March 29th, 2010

    (Listed alphabetically by firm name)

  • Risks lurk in social networking

    November 30th, 2009

    NORTH BAY — In addition to lost productivity, employers can add legal risk to the list of annoyances related to employee use of social networking at work, according to North Bay legal experts who sounded off on trends for 2010.

  • Employment Quarterly: Attorneys see rise in concern about job claims

    August 9th, 2009

    Confusing and often conflicting regulations on employee leave and disability can be a minefield for potential litigation, particularly in times of widespread layoffs, according to local employment law experts that have seen an increase in such claims.

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