June 7, 2013
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and its companion bill, the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (signed into law on March 23...
June 4, 2013
In part one of this article, we discussed a recent explosion in the number of consumer product class action filings under state consumer protection...
Corporate Counsel
June 4, 2013
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals, in a case of first impression at the Circuit Court level, has determined that a subchapter S corporation tax...
Bankruptcy and Corporate Restructuring
May 31, 2013
Be prepared . . . "for any old thing," advised Boy Scouts of America founder Robert Baden-Powell. Over 100 years later, those words are...
Corporate Counsel
May 21, 2013
For years, the term "defalcation" as used in the Bankruptcy Code has been largely undefined, leaving courts to fashion their own views when...
May 17, 2013
The question is no longer whether your company should be involved with social media - it already is, whether you're leading or following. The...
The Legal Intelligencer
April 18, 2013
The Supreme Court's recent decision in Amgen Inc. v. Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds, 568 U.S. ___, 133 S. Ct. 1184 (Feb. 27, 2013),...
March 18, 2013
Third Circuit Finds Covenant Not to Sue in Patent Settlement is a License that Cannot be Rejected under Bankruptcy Code Section 365(n)
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January 17, 2013
On January 2, 2013, President Obama signed the American Taxpayer Relief Act. The income tax provisions of the law have received a lot of...
December 18, 2012
As 2012 comes to a close, plan sponsors may wish to review their employee benefit plans and programs and consider various new rules that take...
December 18, 2012
Generally, taxpayers are permitted to deduct currently (or "expense") the cost of repairs to property, but must capitalize the costs of...
October 29, 2012
Makes you well all over ... cures all aches and pains ...." In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, "snake oil" advertisements for...
New Jersey Law Journal
October 22, 2012
Election time is here again, which means that co-workers are probably talking politics in the office. It's a good time for private...
New Jersey Law Journal
October 4, 2012
On September 7, 2012, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court effectively ended a 19-year effort to litigate state-law claims arising from H & R...
October 1, 2012
Unless Congress and the President act before January 1, 2013 (or retroactively thereafter), as of January 1, 2013 the federal estate, gift and...