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IRS Publishes Safe Harbor for Monetizing Certain Tax Credits

By EsqSocial Corporation 08/01/14

Following Historic Boardwalk Hall LLC v. Commissioner, 694 F.3d 425 (3d Cir. 2012), which rejected a partnership's allocation of rehabilitation tax credits to a purported partner, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently published Revenue...

CFTC Issues No-Action Relief Regarding Annual Reports by Chief Compliance Officers

By EsqSocial Corporation 08/01/14

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight (DSIO) issued two no-action letters providing relief from certain chief compliance officer (CCO) annual report filing requirements.Pursuant to No-Action...

Finders Bill Finds Some Forward Transaction

By EsqSocial Corporation 08/01/14

Finders in securities transactions are common but their legal status is uncertain at best. Last year, I wrote that Assembly Member Donald P. Wagner had introduced a bill, AB 713, to statutorily homologate the status of finders in California. See...

Act Now Advisory: Court's Ruling That Employees Have No Blanket Entitlement to Take Employer's Confidential Documents for Discrimination Suits Provides Guidance to Employers

By EsqSocial Corporation 08/01/14

In a case that may have a broad impact, the New Jersey Appellate Division issued a decision on December 24, 2013, upholding criminal charges against a former school board clerk who took hundreds of confidential documents for the alleged purpose of...

The Law Firm Review - January 2014

By EsqSocial Corporation 08/01/14

Future Threats That a 401(k) Plan Sponsor Should Be Aware Of. What might be good today, may not be good tomorrow. What was good yesterday might not be a good today. Asbestos was a great fireproof building material until it was found to cause...

LegalZoom withdraws IPO plans

By EsqSocial Corporation 08/01/14

Online legal help company LegalZoom won’t be offering public shares through an initial public offering because of an offer from a private investor.

Beanie Babies founder deserves prison time for Swiss bank account, prosecutors say

By EsqSocial Corporation 08/01/14

Prosecutors say Beanie Babies founder Ty Warner should go to prison for hiding money in a Swiss bank account.

Here’s to these lawyer-heroes of the New Normal: the system builders

By EsqSocial Corporation 08/01/14

Controversy has a way of driving traffic.

Boston Bar opposes federal death penalty, cites ‘inevitability of error’

By EsqSocial Corporation 08/01/14

The Boston Bar Association has taken a stand against capital punishment at the federal level as prosecutors consider whether to seek the death penalty against the suspected Boston Marathon bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Hospital refuses to take patient off life support, despite family wishes, because she is pregnant

By EsqSocial Corporation 08/01/14

A Texas hospital is citing state law in refusing to take a pregnant woman off of life support. Family members say Marlise Munoz, 33, was declared brain dead by physicians, but hospital officials won't withdraw life support, despite her previously expressed wishes, because she is pregnant.

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