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Packinghouses Struggle to Maintain Supplies Amid Greening

Stories of the fatal bacterial disease citrus greening often focus on growers, who have seen their annual harvest decline by more than 70 percent because of greening. Just as severely impacted have been Florida's fresh citrus packinghouses, which buy a large portion of Florida's annual orange, grapefruit and tangerine harvests and sell them to supermarket chains and retailers across the U.S. and ship to export markets, including Japan, Canada and Europe.
11 minute read

Daily Business Review

Cuban Entrepreneurs Start First Private Business Group

A handful of entrepreneurs have quietly formed communist Cuba's first private small business association, testing the government's willingness to allow Cubans to organize outside the strict bounds of state control.
7 minute read

Corporate Counsel

New Federal Trade Secrets Law Yields First Award

In the first award of its kind under a new federal law on trade secrets, a jam maker was granted more than $5.2 million in treble damages. Dalmatia Import Group Inc. of Miami won the award.
3 minute read

The Recorder

Amazon Snags Morrison's Katie Thomson for New Logistics Role

In 2014, as general counsel to the U.S. Transportation Department, Katie Thomson shared a piece of advice she often gives to young lawyers: "What you do in your life is important but who you work with is equally important." Less than a year after leaving the Obama administration to join Morrison & Foerster, where she was chairwoman of the firm's transportation group, Thomson is now moving on to a newly created position at Amazon.com Inc.
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