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By Karen C. Yotis, Esq. © Copyright 2012 LexisNexis. All rights reserved. When the Workers’ Injury Law & Advocacy Group (WILG) met in Chicago during 2012 to mark the 40th anniversary of the National Commission on State Workmen’s...

The collapse of the venerable Dewey & LeBoeuf law firm is a cautionary tale from which observers have drawn many lessons, including cautions about the perils associated with large law firm mergers and the challenges associated with various forms of...

On this edition, Elizabeth Sweigart and Lynn Loden discuss the distinctive aspects of the U.S. Tax Court's recent decision in PPL Corporation & Subsidiaries v. Commissioner and the holding's potential impact on uncertain tax position reporting...

[Editor's Note: This narrative is derived from Tax Planning for Partners, Partnerships, and LLCs, § 15.01[17][b]] [Editor's Note 2: On September 27, 2011, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Home Concrete & Supply LLC v. United...

By Diane L. Mutolo INTRODUCTION: The Tax Relief Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization and Job Creation Act of 2010 amended IRC Section 2010(c) to allow, after December 31, 2010, a surviving spouse to increase his or her applicable exclusion amount...

Prior posts have reviewed various studies that indicate that BPA has estrogenic effects. In January 2013 the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) proposed listing BPA under California's Proposition 65 because OEHHA's evaluation...

By Robert G. Rassp, Esq. Attention Lexis Online Subscribers: Citations link to lexis.com. Bracketed citations link to Lexis Advance. Call me weird, obsessed, bored, or deeply disturbed but recently while I was on my almost daily four-mile hike in...

On January 17, 2012 before the U.S. Supreme Court, Deputy Solicitor General Malcolm Stewart and Gregory Garre , partner at Latham & Watkins, LLP presented oral argument in United States v. Home Concrete & Supply, LLC, et al. In broad terms, at...

Editor's Note: View blog discussion on this site of, and hyperlink to, the January 17th oral arguments before the Supreme Court : SCOTUS Showdown: Oral Arguments Heard in Home Concrete Case ... For some time now, the tax bar has been wringing...

Introduction ... [ Prop. Treas. Reg. §§ 1.892-4 and 1.892-5 ]... partly supplement and partly replace the current temporary regulations under IRC Section 892 that have been in place since 2002 (and earlier). Importantly, the proposed regulations...

Here's a sneak peek of a recent noteworthy panel decision that will be added soon to the LexisNexis services: Attorney’s Fees; Calculation; C&R Agreements. WCAB, rescinding WCJ’s award of $66,860.30 fee to applicant’s attorney...

By Ralph R. Lorberbaum, Zipperer, Lorberbaum & Beauvais, Savannah, Georgia A record crowd of 342 were in attendance at the 34th Annual Loyola Longshore Conference held in New Orleans on March 15 and 16, 2012. Excellent speakers presented well-prepared...

By John E. Kawczynski Field Womack & Kawczynski, LLC . South Amboy, New Jersey In Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach, Florida, 2013 U.S. LEXIS 907 , 568 U.S. ____, 184 L. Ed. 2d 604 (Jan 15, 2013), the U.S. Supreme Court was asked to determine whether...

"Miracles are a retelling in small letters the very same story which is written across the world in letters too large for some of us to see." C.S. Lewis Okay, so the title of this post has a lot to do with the U.S. Post Office....which played...

By Monica F. Markovich and Jonathan A. Tweedy, Brown Sims, P.C., Houston, Texas and New Orleans, Louisiana The Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act (the “Act”) encourages the prompt payment of compensation benefits ( 33 U...