A new article in the Washington Post profiles Laura Jordan, an attorney who led the successful push to get benefit corporation legislation passed in Washington, D.C.:
?Attorney Laura Jordan, who runs the Capital Law Firm in the District, is the region?s go-to lawyer when it comes to benefit corporations. She chaired the D.C. legal working group that studied the legislation, and worked with business groups to get it introduced and passed. In 2010, when Maryland became the first state to pass benefit corporation legislation, Jordan incorporated the first benefit corporation in the nation, pet companion store Big Bad Woof in Hyattsville. A year later, when Virginia passed a similar law, she incorporated the first benefit corporation in that state, Farm Community Consultants. She also represents Pine Benefit Corp. and Alli Sosna Group, two of the dozens of local companies that have adopted benefit corporation status.?
Read the full story at the Washington Post here.
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