Lee Enterprises Adds Corporate Counsel

Sept. 2, 2010 - PRLog -- Biodiesel consulting group, Lee Enterprises of Little Rock, Arkansas, is pleased to announce the addition of John Hardy as general corporate counsel, effective September 1, 2010.  

CEO Wayne Lee is delighted to have Hardy on board.  “With this year’s addition of a Harvard grant writer with a Masters in Public Administration to search, evaluate and write our grants, and an experienced corporate counsel, Lee Enterprises continues to position itself as the leading consulting group in the alternative fuels industry” said Lee.   “John brings the needed depth of legal experience and requisite capabilities Lee Enterprises desires while sharing our optimism for this industry.  We all know the inherent difficulties that America faces as it weans itself from petroleum” notes Lee, “but having in-house counsel gives us a new dimension and is of great help to our clients”.  Lee notes that the alternative fuels legal needs of the his group’s worldwide base of clients will continue to be primarily met through Lee Enterprises continuing relationship with the law firm of Stoel Rives, LLP and its 400 plus attorneys, however, the addition of Hardy as corporate counsel allows the consulting group to more efficiently and effectively access on-site local counsel for the benefit of the clients.    

Hardy received his undergraduate degree from the University of Washington and his J.D. from the University of Santa Clara School of Law.  He is licensed in both Arkansas and California and his twenty years of law practice encompass primarily complex commercial and medical litigation cases in Arkansas, and the representation of financial institutions in San Francisco’s Financial District in California.

Lee also noted that his group’s national balance, with consultants on both the East and West coasts, and in the central United States, and their fluency in multiple languages is of vital importance in dealing with international customers.  Last year, Lee Enterprises was selected by Agri Process Innovations to market their line of biodiesel products and services. Agri Process Innovations of Stuttgart, Arkansas, is a nationally recognized biodiesel design and engineering company. “With clients on six continents, Agri Process Innovations really expands our industry sphere”, said Lee. “The list of services we can provide is really quite extensive, and between our group and our strategic relationships, there really is not much in the biodiesel industry that we cannot do.  The addition of in house corporate counsel is the “icing on the cake” for us” said Lee

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Lee Enterprises is a biodiesel consulting firm specializing in project oversight & management, feasibility studies, grants, business plans, and assistance with planning, market analysis, site evaluation, feedstock selection and procurement, process technology, evaluation, offtake distribution, financing, capital budgeting, personnel, and contract negotiations (for feedstock, off-take, transportation, construction, site purchase/lease, and plant management). The group also owns National Business Brokerage, Inc., a full service business brokerage firm specializing in the buying and selling of biodiesel plants. Lee Enterprises, 1503 East Kiehl Ave., Sherwood, AR 72120. (501) 833-8511. www.lee-enterprises.com.