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Geri Wyle, Co-Chair of Saul Ewing LLP's Trusts & Estates Practice, will be speaking at the ALI “Estate Planning for the Family Business Owner 2024: Sustaining Generational Wealth with Tax, Business, and Employment Solutions” webinar on October 25, 2024 on the ethics of estate planning. Ethical...

Most Florida residents are aware that Florida has a homestead exemption law, but there is more to it than one might think. There are actually three different sets of laws in Florida that deal with the homestead. One of those is the “save our homes” exemption. The save our homes exemption limits how...

According to the introductory paragraph of the guidelines issued by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) of the United States Treasury, “[i]llicit actors frequently use corporate structures such as shell and front companies to obfuscate their identities and launder their ill-gotten...

or many clients, the inclusion of revocable and/or irrevocable trusts as part of their overall estate plan is an important feature. Revocable trusts can allow for probate avoidance and estate tax planning, whereas irrevocable trusts can be useful for leveraging the use of gift and estate tax...

The benefits of a Revocable Trust are three-fold. Firstly, assuming that the Revocable Trust is properly funded with all of a person’s assets, a Revocable Trust helps avoid a state’s probate procedure, which can be costly depending on the state’s specific procedure. Secondly, a Revocable Trust is...

Kayleigh Keilty, Partner at Saul Ewing LLP, will be one of the speakers at this month's ACC NTIH. This program will provide an introduction to antitrust concepts, how they impact businesses, and best practices to ensure compliance. Attendees will receive an overview of the federal antitrust laws and...

Sarah Ulibarri, an Associate at Saul Ewing LLP, will speak at the OCBA Trusts & Estates Section Meeting on September 11, 2024. The topic will be "Unhappily Married: Conflicts of Interest and Other Ethical Issues in Intergenerational and Marital Estate Planning." This program will discuss how to...

Saul Ewing LLP, a full-service national law firm, today announced that attorneys from the firm were named to the 2025 editions of The Best Lawyers in America and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America. Recognition by Best Lawyers is based entirely on peer review. Baltimore Attorneys from the firm’s...

Saul Ewing LLP, a full-service national law firm, today announced that the firm was recognized for Private Wealth Law in Maryland in Chambers High Net Worth 2024. Additionally, Jeff Glaser, co-chair of the firm’s Trusts & Estates Practice, was ranked as a Band 1 attorney. Chambers High Net Worth...

Introduction On June 18, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) unanimously agreed to submit a comment supporting a recent proposed U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) rule that would mandate the disclosure of all settlement agreements made between parties appearing before the Patent Trial...

Josh Pasker, Vice Chair of Saul Ewing's Public Finance Practice, will be speaking on May 16, 2024, during the LeadingAge Inhouse Counsel Conference. Josh's topic will be financing issues and the impact on senior living communities.

On April 18, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) collectively launched a new publicly accessible web portal to which members of the public can make reports of what they believe to be competition –...

Linda Retz of Saul Ewing LLP and Elizabeth Carter, Louisiana State University School of Law Professor, will discuss how to handle intergenerational estate planning and planning involving second (and further) marriages and the inherent conflicts and ethical issues surrounding joint representation of...

Saul Ewing LLP, a full-service national law firm, is proud to announce that Trusts & Estates Practice Co-Chair Jeffrey Glaser was included in The Daily Record’s 2024 Estate and Trust Law Power List. This group is composed of the most influential and respected practitioners in the estate & trust law...

As a Los Angeles-based estate planning attorney, I am uneasy about California’s enactment of the Online Notarization Act, which took effect on Jan. 1, 2024. The act and its related statutes authorize remote online notarization or RON by California notaries. RON is the process used when the notary...

​On February 21, 2024, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (the "PA Supreme Court") issued its decision in Ursinus College v. Prevailing Wage Appeals Board. The Pa Supreme Court unanimously affirmed the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court's decision that a construction project financed with tax-exempt bonds...

(Baltimore, MD, January 5, 2024) - Saul Ewing LLP today announced that Jeffrey S. Glaser, Partner and Chair of the Firm’s Trusts & Estates Practice Group, has authored the 19th Supplement to the Maryland Estate Planning, Wills and Trusts Library: Forms and Practice Manual . The 19th Supplement was...

Introduction The introduction to the final regulations issued under the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the United States Treasury (“FinCEN”) states that, “[i]llicit actors frequently use corporate structures such as shell and front companies to...

On November 21, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) approved a resolution allowing it to use “compulsory process in nonpublic investigations involving certain products and services that use or claim to be produced using artificial intelligence (AI) or claim to detect its use.” This allows the...