YourABA has published an article entitled "'Smart Soloing' Program Offers Lawyers Guide For Running Own Firm." The article recaps "Smart Soloing: Effective Strategies for Diverse Lawyers," a panel at the ABA Midyear Meeting. Panelists addressed the following topics in regards...
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YourABA has published an article entitled "Your Roadmap to Becoming Partner." The article examines traits and behaviors that may assist an associate in the competition to make partner, as discussed during "Pointers for the New Partner," a panel at the...
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YourABA has published an article entitled "Get to Know Your Opponent: The fine Art of Negotiating." The article recaps Lee Hetherington's presentation at the ABA Midyear Meeting on effective negotiation. Hetherington, in his discussion, explained that understanding different personalities, of...
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The Department of Justice issued a press release, in which it announced a guilty plea from a Virginia doctor to conspiracy involving an undeclared Swiss bank account. The press release explained that the doctor pleaded guilty to conspiracy to...
The Fiduciary Advisory Services Group of McGuireWoods LLP recently made available the following release, which provides information on a number of fiduciary cases throughout the country. Posted by Joshua Hock, Associate Editor, Wealth Strategies Journal...
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The ABA is reducing the dues that solo practitioners and government lawyers will pay on bills sent beginning in May. Solos will have their dues reduced by 50 percent, while government lawyers will save 25 percent. Currently, only around seven percent...
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McGuireWoods LLP has published a news update entitled "Anti-Money Laundering Compliance: Treasury Department Expands Information Sharing Program." The news update notes that the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ("FinCEN"), a bureau of the U.S. Treasury, has issued new regulations that allow...
On Thursday, February 4, 2010, the IRS released the following message about opportunities for interested professionals to submit their applications to become the next members of the Electronic Tax Administration Advisory Committee: WASHINGTON -- The Internal Revenue Service today announced it...
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The ABA Journal, in an article titled "Exclusive: Inside the New Westlaw, Lexis & Bloomberg Platforms," reports that the recent entrance of Google and Bloomberg into the legal research market has created legitimate competition to LexisNexis and Westlaw. The article...
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On January 27, Switzerland's executive body, the Swiss Federal Council, announced that it plans to comply with the 2009 UBS agreement even though the Swiss Federal Administrative Court found the agreement to exceed the scope of the US-Swiss tax treaty....
Mary F. Radford, Professor of Law at Georgia State University College of Law, has published "Estate Planning with Life Insurance Policies: Postmortem Sperm Retrieval and the Social Security Administration: "How Modern Reproductive Technology Makes Strange Bedfellows" in the Estate Planning...
In an article captioned "In Israel, a tangled battle over the papers of Franz Kafka," the Washington Post Times reports that Franz Kafka "wanted his papers burned after he wasted away from tuberculosis in 1924, but they're still being fought...
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The Washington Post reports that the IRS expects to answer only 71% of the phone calls it receives this tax season:If you call the IRS for help this tax season and someone actually picks up the phone, consider yourself lucky.The...
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The IRS has decided that it needs stricter oversight of the nation's 1 million tax preparers. The rules, announced Monday, require preparers to register with the federal government, pass competency tests, and take 15 hours of continuing education classes a...
Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ), has introduced H.R. 4270, the Common Sense Tax Relief Act of 2009, which would permanently extend the sales tax deduction, the child credit, estate tax repeal, the tuition deduction, and the current capital gains tax rate...
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On December 7, Senate Finance Committee member Senator Schumer, D-NY, introduced the Madoff Investors' Bill of Rights, which he said aims to provide expanded tax and retirement relief to small investors who invested all and have nothing left because of...
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Chuck O'Toole of Tax Analysts reports: The House Ways and Means Committee will likely approve renewals of the full set of so-called tax extenders, panel Chair Charles B. Rangel, D-N.Y., told reporters November 19. Rangel said he was embarrassed...
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The Wealth Strategies Journal is proud to announce that it is co-hosting its first seminar with Sandford ("Sandy") J. Schlesinger, a member of the Wealth Strategies Journal Advisory Board, as speaker. Please find below an invitation to the seminar on Estate Planning...
In an article captioned "Rise of the Super-Rich Hits a Sobering Wall" the NY Times reports that the rich, as a group, are no longer getting richer, and over the last two years, they have in fact become poorer. It...
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The IRS has issued Notice 2009-62, which extends until June 30, 2010 the filing date for certain individuals, including: (i) persons with signature authority over, but no financial interest in, a foreign financial account, and (ii) persons with a financial...
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