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International Grant-Making: Best Practices for U.S. Public Charities

By EsqSocial Corporation 21/02/14

U.S. public charities are blessed, but also challenged, by a relative lack of regulation governing their grants to foreign persons and foreign entities. U.S. public charities are blessed by this lack of regulation because the rules applicable to...

Spotlight on Mississippi: Supreme Court Rules on Combined Group Member Tax Credits

By EsqSocial Corporation 21/02/14

The Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled against the Mississippi Department of Revenue (Department) in its appeal of a 2012 decision by the Harrison County Chancery Court in favor of Isle of Capri Casinos, Inc. (Isle of Capri)....

CFPB sends warning to mortgage servicers

By EsqSocial Corporation 21/02/14

Describing his message as a “tough one,” CFPB Deputy Director Steven Antonakes told attendees yesterday at the Mortgage Bankers Association’s National Mortgage Servicing Conference that “continued sloppiness” by servicers “is difficult to comprehend...

A Claim Survives IPR!

By EsqSocial Corporation 21/02/14

The PTAB’s decision in Microsoft Corp. v. Proxyconn, Inc., IPR2013-00026, IPR2013-00109, Paper 73, (February 19, 2014) is notable because for the first time a challenged claim (claim 24) survived the IPR Process, although 8 of the 9 claims for which...

Consumer Rights Directive: Significant implications for online businesses with effect from 13 June 2014

By EsqSocial Corporation 21/02/14

The EU Consumer Rights Directive (2011/83/EC) will bring into effect, from 13 June 2014, significant changes to German consumer rights. The aim of the Directive is to standardise national legislation across member states, reduce barriers to...

Another Fortune 500 Employer is Leaving California…

By EsqSocial Corporation 21/02/14

Charles Schwab announced last week that it is planning to move “a significant number of San Francisco-based jobs” out of state over the next three to five years. According to a recent article in Forbes, “Observers close to the situation blame the...

Maine Human Rights Commission Changes Process to Weed Out Weak Cases

By EsqSocial Corporation 21/02/14

In response to significant concerns about the timeliness of handling claims and the often unnecessary drain of going through the full process of responding to meritless Human Rights Commission claims, the Commission has become more aggressive about...

U.S. Ex-Im Bank Opens for Business in Burma/Myanmar

By EsqSocial Corporation 21/02/14

The U.S. Government has taken another important step in helping to reintegrate Myanmar (referred to as Burma for official purposes) into the global economy. On February 6, 2014, the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) announced the...

6 Ways Content Marketers Should Use LinkedIn Publishing

By EsqSocial Corporation 21/02/14

LinkedIn is about to become the world’s biggest publishing platform. What does that mean for your content marketing strategy?...
By: PeopleLinx, Inc.

Is Your 401(k) Vendor a Fiduciary? The U.S. Department of Labor Thinks It Is

By EsqSocial Corporation 21/02/14

If you adopted a pre-approved 401(k) plan through an outside vendor such as Fidelity, Vanguard, or one of the large insurance companies, your choices were limited to what your vendor offered. Further, the documents you had to sign to adopt the plan...

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