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A Look At FIN 48

Peter H. Gruen & Lindsay M. LaCava

In an effort to increase comparability and consistency in how companies report income tax positions on financial statements, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ('FASB') issued FASB Interpretation Number 48 ('FIN 48'), Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes on July 13, 2006. FIN 48 changes the way companies must account for uncertain tax positions taken on federal, state and local, and international income tax returns for financial reporting purposes.

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Ten Things You Should Know About China's New Antitrust Law

Steve Yu & Peter Corne

On Aug. 30, 2007, China's National People's Congress adopted the Anti-Monopoly Law ('AML'), the first ever comprehensive competition law in the largest emerging market in the world. This was the culmination of 13 years of legislative effort and debate since the first draft of this law was originally conceived. What are the essentials of China's emerging antitrust legal regime? The following are the ten key things that you should know about this area.

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The Roberts Court on Antitrust

Wesley R. Powell & G. Shireen Hilal

By the end of its last term, the Supreme Court decided four significant antitrust cases, resulting in one of the most antitrust-focused terms in the Court's history. In rendering decisions favorable to the defendants in all four cases, the Court quickly drew the dreaded 'pro-business' label. Commentators on the left criticized the decisions as marking a hard-right turn on antitrust policy, while those on the right lauded the Court's restoration of free-market principles to competition analysis. These broad pronouncements overstate the similarities among the cases, which arose in a wide range of industries and raised quite different legal issues.

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Meeting the Section 409A Deadline

Frederick D. Lipman, Barry L. Klein & Wilhelm L. Gruszecki

With a last-minute extension by the IRS, the final regulations adopted under Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code now impose a hard Dec. 31, 2008 deadline on making necessary amendments to deferred compensation arrangements for employees, directors, and certain independent contractors of private, not-for-profit, and public companies in order to avoid federal excise taxes at a rate of 20% (plus retroactive interest).

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Movers & Shakers

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

News about lawyers and law firms in the franchising industry.

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New Briefs

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Highlights of the latest franchising news from around the country.

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Court Watch

Alexander Tuneski

Highlights of the latest franchising cases from around the country.

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Injunctions in Franchising: Comparing the Canadian and American Systems

Jennifer Dolman, Denise Sayer & Jon S. Swierzewski

This month's installment continues an exploration of the differences that franchisors in the United States and Canada will face when seeking injunctions to enforce non-competition and other covenants contained in their franchise agreements.

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Supplemental Bonuses

Anthony Lin

New York's Sullivan & Cromwell LLP plans to pay counsels and senior associates (fifth-year level and up) bonuses tied to the firm's financial performance.

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An Upbeat View: Nonlawyer Ownership of Law Firms

Milton Regan Jr.

This article examines the two main objections to outside ownership of law firms. The first is that it would permit nonlawyers to interfere with lawyers' exercise of professional judgment. The second is that the firm's duty to its shareholders would lead it to focus blindly on maximizing profits.

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