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The IRS guidelines for deducting travel and entertainment expenses are complex. This article will assist your firm in properly documenting these expenses and avoiding a potential tax authority audit.
Most law firms sponsor some type of retirement plan for their employees, but how many plan administrators really know their plan? As a plan fiduciary, what are your responsibilities related to the operation of your pension plan? Read on to find out about your responsibilities as plan fiduciary, key features of your plan about which you should be intimately familiar, and some common problems associated with operating retirement plans.
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From construction contracts, to supply contracts, to equipment leases, franchisors and franchisees might face the problem of litigating numerous legal disputes simultaneously. This, of course, can be devastating for a business, whether big or small. So what can you do to avoid these pitfalls?
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Franchisors and franchisees need faster, cheaper, and better ways to resolve disputes. Planned early negotiation processes and early active intervention clauses can help parties and lawyers achieve these goals.
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Highlights of the latest intellectual property news from around the country.
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Part One of this series discussed common IP settlement terms that may give rise to antitrust liability and how the analysis of whether a settlement agreement violates the antitrust laws depends upon many factors that are specific to the underlying facts. This second installment addresses recent challenges by the government and private plaintiffs to settlements between brand name and generic drug manufacturers, and how these challenges have further refined the antitrust framework for analyzing patent litigation settlement agreements in the pharmaceutical industry.
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Last year, the Southern District of New York reignited the 90-year-old hot news doctrine and applied it in the Internet context. Since that decision, a number of entities have attempted to use the hot news doctrine to prevent the unauthorized use of time-sensitive content, including most recently, financial firms and media outlets attempting to prevent news-oriented Web sites from publishing their well-researched content.
As international businesses seek to expand across borders, including by availing themselves of legal tools (such as the Madrid Protocol) to register in the United States trademarks developed abroad, there is surprisingly little guidance as to what enforceable rights under U.S. law actually result from this process. However, as shown by the recent decision, In re Casino de Monaco Trademark Litigation, even well-established foreign companies can encounter difficulties enforcing rights not grounded in traditional U.S. trademark law principles of use in commerce.
If you ask most attorneys whether they have planned for their retirement, most would answer "of course." However, for the vast majority that answer would be very misleading.
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So what's the deliverable once you finally convince Firm Management and the designated Lead Partners to buy into a Client Feedback program focused ' at least initially ' on its Tier 1 or key clients?
