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LADDEY,
CLARK & RYAN HOSTS SUSSEX COUNTY
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BREAKFAST
Laddey,
Clark & Ryan hosted the fall kickoff Sussex County Chamber
of Commerce Business to Business Breakfast held at Perona Farms
in Andover on Tuesday, September 9th. The breakfast was attended
by 200+ Chamber Members representing businesses and entrepreneurs
throughout Sussex County. Partners Brian Laddey, Richard I.
Clark, Thomas N. Ryan and Andrew A. Fraser have a long association
and commitment to the Chamber, having been active members since
the firm’s inception in 1989. Richard I. Clark served
as President of the Chamber in 1989.
Managing
Partner Thomas N. Ryan spoke to the Chamber Members about the
changes in Sussex County over the last fourteen years and reflected
on the impact of technology and communication on all county
businesses, large and small. While acknowledging the positive
effects of business growth within the Sussex County business
community over the years, Mr. Ryan cautioned the Members on
the issues and challenges which accompany such heightened business
activity.
While internet,
email and cell phone technology were not a component of business
in Sussex County fourteen years ago, today it enables Sussex
County business owners to conduct business throughout the region,
country, and in a growing number of situations, around the world.
At the same time, the ever changing technological advancements
present the need for employers to have documented policies in
place regulating the use of such technology to protect the business
owner from employee and consumer liability.
Mr. Ryan
described today’s business environment as requiring “strategic
planning akin to putting together the pieces of a puzzle: one
piece may involve labor and employment issues, another real
estate and environmental challenges and yet another might be
estate and succession planning.” Mr. Ryan went on to describe
successfully serving business clients as “being able to
put together all of the pieces in a moving puzzle.”
Underscoring
Mr. Ryan’s theme of rising to the challenges of the current
business climate, firm Associate LeeAnn Pounds spoke at a seminar
following the breakfast presented by the Sussex County Chamber
of Commerce Human Resource Development Committee on Privacy
Issues and Confidentiality in the workplace.
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