With soaring electric, natural gas and oil prices throwing a wrench into business growth plans, energy providers, The State of New Jersey and the New Jersey Business & Industry Association are helping companies maintain profitable operations through a broad range of programs. Believe it or not, there are ways to stem the rising cost of power, and this month, we reveal the many opportunities. Among other feature articles, we examine the safeguards many attorneys who are practicing employment law, are advising businesses to implement. From age, gender and race discrimination to appropriate e-mail usage and firing staff in a down economy, maneuvering this obstacle course of litigation landmines is challenging.