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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...

Thomas Cryan, a Partner at Saul Ewing LLP, will speak at the 59th Annual Southern Federal Tax Institute in Atlanta, Georgia. Hot Topics in Employment Taxes and Fringe Benefits This presentation will provide an overview of how the IRS computes employment tax liabilities during an audit and the...

David Shapiro, Chair of Tax and Employee Benefits Practice at Saul Ewing LLP, will moderate a session at the ABA Section of Taxation Virtual Fall Meeting on September 27, 2024. The topic will be Foreign and U.S. Taxation - Individuals & Passthroughs; Mirror, Mirror – A Look into the Tax System...

Mary Harmon, an Associate in Saul Ewing LLP's Tax Practice, will be on a panel at the ABA Section of Taxation Virtual Fall Meeting on September 25, 2024. The topic will be Sales, Exchanges & Basis; QSBS with Trusts, S Corporations, and Redemptions. Following the May meeting’s discussion of...

David Shapiro, Chair of the Tax and Employee Benefits Practice at Saul Ewing LLP, will moderate a roundtable at the IBA Annual Conference in Mexico City on September 18, 2024. It will be a r oundtable on current events: indirect taxation of the digital economy. These roundtable sessions will focus...

This month’s Friday Five discusses cases addressing the effect of continuing to receive benefits during the period of alleged disability, reliance on an employer’s records in making a disability determination, the admissibility of expert and lay testimony from a physician in a trial over LTD...

Saul Ewing congratulates the Colin Farrell Foundation on its launch. The foundation is committed to transforming the lives of individuals and families living with intellectual disability through education, awareness, advocacy, and innovative programs. Inspired by actor Colin Farrell's personal...

This month’s Friday Five explores decisions from around the country discussing differences between the scope of discovery and ability to add documents to the record on a claim for review challenging the denial of LTD benefits, LTD and LWOP policies, the breadth of discretion available to claims...

Welcome to Saul Ewing’s Public Companies Quarterly Update series. Our intent is to, on a quarterly basis, highlight important legal developments of which we think public companies should be aware. This edition is related to developments during the second quarter of 2024. If you would like to discuss...

An invention disclosure form is a document used to capture detailed information about a new invention or discovery. The first step in the patent application process, the form plays a crucial role in protecting intellectual property. A well-crafted invention disclosure form will create an accurate...

This month’s Friday Five explores decisions addressing the burden of proving accidental death, policy language and “any occupation” disability, an interpleader case where the insurer was not dismissed from the case, the weight to be afforded to non-treating expert opinions and SSDI determinations...

On June 28, 2024, in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the United States Supreme Court reversed its 40-year-old decision in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, thereby restoring the judiciary’s final authority to interpret statutes, a powerful check on administrative agency authority...

This month’s Friday Five explores recent decisions with issues spanning physician power of attorney to preexisting exclusions and the fiduciary duty of an insurance company. The Saul Ewing Employee Benefits/ERISA Litigation Team Whether a provider has sufficiently pleaded the existence of a valid...

Amid rising financing costs, issuers of tax-exempt bonds face the challenge of optimizing returns on unspent proceeds through higher-yielding investments, a strategy fraught with arbitrage risks and IRS scrutiny. This session emphasizes the critical need for rigorous record-keeping and adherence to...

David Shapiro and Mary Harmon will speak at the ABA Section of Taxation 2024 May Tax Meeting in Washington, DC. David will speak on May 3rd beginning at 12:30 p.m. on the topic "Recent Developments in Crypto Taxation." The Securities and Exchange Commission’s recent approval of Bitcoin Exchange...

This month’s Friday Five explores decisions from around the country discussing differences between LTD and LWOP policies, the breadth of discretion available to claims administrators and the always important topic of timely action by insurers in issuing claims decisions. The Saul Ewing Employee...

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...

With Kimble v. Marvel Entertainment, LLC , the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the controversial Brulotte v.Thys Co. decision, which prohibited collection of patent-based royalties that accrue after patent expiration. The Court expressly supported alternative licensing terms and business arrangements to...

This month’s Friday Five covers the treatment of job-related stress in assessing an attorney’s disability, the requirements surrounding the qualifications of a medical professional to review a claimant’s medical records in making disability determinations, the requirements for determining disability...

This month’s Friday Five covers cases relating to an alleged conflict of interest leading to discovery, two courts’ opposite treatments of subjective pain complaints, a decision that claims of fraud and misrepresentation were not preempted by ERISA and a court’s deference to an insurer’s...