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Biden Administration Budget 2022: Employer Sponsored Death Benefits a Forgotten Planning Tool
Part One of a Two-Part Article While providing a current benefit for employees, an employer sponsored death benefit is an asset that may create needless taxation if not properly handled. Taking prudent steps will avoid the problems of loss of control and flexibility while minimizing income, estate, transfer and capital income taxes.
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Is a Federal Insider Trading Law Coming?
For decades the SEC and the Department of Justice, with the endorsement of federal judges, have used the general securities fraud statutes to patch together a complex and problematic insider trading common law. After years of criticism, however, that could now be changing.
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Upping Your New Business Game with AI
With demand for technology innovation and efficiency at an all-time high, we can look to Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to help streamline and automate proposal and RFP management, and bridge the gap between increases in RFP requests and lower win rates.
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How Mayweather v. Paul Boxing Event Came Together
The recent boxing exhibition between retired boxer Floyd Mayweather and YouTube and social media star Logan Paul became one of 2021's most successful pay-per-views, but it took some work for Mayweather to agree to the fight.
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Third Circuit Hears Case On Interaction of Publicity Rights and the CDA
Likening his client's claim to that of an athlete with a monetizable image, an attorney representing TV reporter Karen Hepp, who is suing social media websites over misuse of her likeness, recently argued to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit that the case should fit a narrow exception to a federal law that bars suits against online content providers.
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Legal Sector Insights: The Current Status and Future of the Law Firm Workplace
Most industries are navigating the effects of rapid forced changes caused by the pandemic. What sets the legal sector apart is that the pandemic served as a catalyst to accelerate trends ahead at lightning speed which have been predicted for over a decade.
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Subordination Agreements: Enforcement and Reorganization Participation
What provisions in a subordination agreement can be enforced, and can the subordinated creditor participate in the reorganization process if there is no prospect it will receive any distribution as a result of being subordinated?
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BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT: Five Simple Ways Business Development & Marketing Teams Can Make a Meaningful Difference
The benefits that business development and marketing teams can bring to the firm and to its attorneys, individually, are multi-faceted, invaluable and sometimes wonderfully unexpected.
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Process Automation: Increase Competitiveness By Going Paperless
This last year has brought an ever-increasing pressure to be competitive and retain the margin that pays salaries and powers growth. One outlet to maintain and increase competitiveness is the reduction of paper processes and increasing the use of technology.
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NY Privacy Act Stalls, Would Escalate Protections Above Other State & International Regulations
The failure of NYPA to pass is not exceptionally noteworthy. What is noteworthy, however, is that it marks an escalation of data privacy protections and restrictions not seen in other major regulatory regimes, whether in the United States or abroad. And since most believe its failure to pass was due more to the end-of-session rush than its contents, don't be surprised if it pops up again in January 2022.
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