Van Osdol & Magruder, PC Selected by Thinking Bigger Business Media, Inc. as One of the 25 Outstanding Kansas City Area Companies With Fewer Than 25 Employees for 2012
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
By Bob Beachy, chief strategic officer of Van Osdol & Magruder
Van Osdol & Magruder, PC was selected by Thinking Bigger Business Media, Inc. as one of the 25 outstanding Kansas City area companies with fewer than 25 employees for 2012.
Selected companies demonstrate consistent growth, commitment to the community and an ability to overcome challenges. The Biggest Little Law Firm® In Kansas City was recognized for this award on March 3rd at the Eleventh Annual 25 Under 25® Awards Dinner and Gala, called “Building the City of Entrepreneurs.”
For more information regarding the “Building the City of Entrepreneurs,” click here.
Kansas City Lawyer Mike Joyce Of Van Osdol & Magruder Appointed to Board of the Information Network of Kansas By The Governor of Kansas
Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
By Bob Beachy, president of Van Osdol & Magruder
Van Osdol & Magruder Lawyer Mike Joyce was recently appointed to the board of the Information Network of Kansas. This is a great honor, as Mike was chosen personally by Kansas Governor Sam Brownback.
Information Network of Kansas (INK) was established in 1991 to provide an electronic gateway to Kansas government information and services to the public.
Mike heads up the Biggest Little Law Firm® litigation department, handling both civil and criminal matters. He has been involved in representing individuals and companies in health care fraud and abuse related matters since 1992. He and his wife Becky live in Leawood with their two children.
Kansas City’s Van Osdol & Magruder Attorney Named To Donald H. Chisholm Planned Giving Council For Children’s Mercy Hospital
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
By Bob Beachy, president of Van Osdol & Magruder
Congratulations to The Biggest Little Law Firm® in Kansas City attorney Mindy Ward for recently being named to the Executive Committee of the Donald H. Chisholm Planned Giving Council for Children’s Mercy Hospital. The Kansas City attorney has been with Van Osdol & Magruder since 2003 and brings her expertise in taxation and estate and business planning to the table. For Mindy’s full bio click here.
VOMER Entrepreneurial Law Supports Kansas City Startups
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
By Bob Beachy, president of Van Osdol & Magruder
Duncan McQueen
Van Osdol & Magruder, The Biggest Little Law Firm® in Kansas City, has created a new internal practice group to aid Kansas City entrepreneurs and startups. The practice group, known as VOMER Entrepreneurial Law, is already on the move providing free legal seminars and affordable legal services to startups in their earliest stages, as well as expert legal counseling to entrepreneurs and startups that are closer to investment rounds. While many attorneys feel entrepreneurial law is the same as general business law, this practice group understands there are many differences and an attorney without the proper training and experience can end up causing many problems for entrepreneurs and startups as well as charging excessive fees in the process.
Christopher S. Brown
The entrepreneurial practice group insists on providing timely, relevant and experienced advice to entrepreneurs and startups so they can prevent the legal problems most entrepreneurs encounter. The practice group, lead by David Kim, and including Duncan McQueen and Chris Brown, is avoiding the traditional law firm approach and is assisting entrepreneurs with a full range of services, in keeping with the overall firm philosophy. The group can assist local entrepreneurs with every aspect of their startups from initial formation to obtaining financing, but can also connect the startups with relevant resources such as incubators, accountants, advisors and mentors, graphic designers and programmers, as well as connections to financing through loans, angel investors and venture capitalists.
David Kim
Joshua C. Rowland, the executive director of Lead Ventures, a local business accelerator and incubator, has said that VOMER Entrepreneurial Law “demonstrates the commitment and sensitivity to small business growth that we were looking for in a strategic partner.” Further, Rowland highlights that business startups need just-in-time resources which this practice group is poised to offer, and not another to do list.
VOMER Entrepreneurial Law can provide expert legal counseling to just about any entrepreneur – from the smallest one person operation to the full size startup about to scale up. Feel free to contact David, Duncan, Chris or any other member of the firm with any questions you may have.
Van Osdol & Magruder Attorney Himmelstein Elected To Jewish Federation Board Of Directors
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
By Bob Beachy, president of Van Osdol & Magruder
Congratulations to the Van Osdol & Magruder attorney Paul Himmelstein! Paul has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City. He practices in the areas of business, taxation and estate planning, business succession planning and post-death estate and trust administration. Paul graduated from both the Business School and the College of Arts & Sciences from Washington University in 1996, and from Georgetown University Law Center in 1999 while serving on the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics. He is still a very active member in the community. Paul was also selected as a 2009 and 2011 Missouri and Kansas Rising Star. We are honored to have Paul as a part of our team. Congratulations!
To read more of Paul’s bio click here.
To go to Paul’s Rising Star profile click here.