Several Davis Brown attorneys recently published a guide to Doing Business in the United States: Iowa for Practical Law Company. The chapter is part of the PLC multi-jurisdictional guide to doing business worldwide. It gives an overview of key recent developments affecting doing business in Iowa, as well as an introduction to the legal system. It also summarizes the laws regulating employment relationships, including redundancies and mass layoffs, and provides short overviews on competition law; data protection; and product liability and safety. In addition, there are comprehensive summaries on taxation and tax residency; and intellectual property rights over patents, trademarks, registered and unregistered designs.
Authors include Kate Carlucci, Lori Chesser, Chris James, Mitch Maahs, Sharon Malheiro, Jason Ross, Sean Solberg, Tom Stanberry and Stan Thompson.