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Cultivating A Trade Secret Mindset: Risk Mitigation, Reasonable Measures, and Internal Awareness To harness and optimize Trade Secret IP value, organizations must foster a robust trade secret risk mitigation mindset. In this enlightening session, the panel will explore three pivotal pillars: risk...
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...
Michael Jackson, Bob Dylan, Sting, David Bowie, Stevie Nicks, Bruce Springsteen, and now KISS. What do they all have in common? They have all sold their music catalogs in the past 10 years. Jackson and Springsteen reaped the biggest rewards at over $500M each. Catalog sales have become big business...
BOSTON, (APRIL 30, 2024) – Donald Lussier, a real estate attorney with three decades of experience representing clients in real estate, corporate and commercial lending transactions, has returned to Saul Ewing LLP following a stint at another firm. He is resident in the firm’s Boston office. Mr...
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...
It is rare for the Supreme Court to decide cases involving the Constitution’s Takings Clause, and, indeed, not uncommon for the Court to go years without considering the Clause at all; so, when the Court issues two decisions involving the Takings Clause in less than a week, attention must be paid...
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...
SIOR investment leaders provided an insightful panel discussion about preferred equity and financing opportunities. The panel, which featured both preferred equity providers and users, guided you through the intricacies of identifying and creating these opportunities and how they can help you get...
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...
With the recent emergence of Name Image Likeness ("NIL") compensation, alumni associations focused on raising funds to compensate student athletes have been on the rise. But alumni associations in some form or another have been around as long as some of the oldest colleges and universities in the...
Intellectual Property 101 / Copyrights, Patents, and Trademarks…Oh My! Thomas Edison. Henry Ford. Steve Jobs. These three household names revolutionized modern society through the protections afforded to their intellectual property by U.S. patent laws. Traditionally a copyright attaches when the...
Maryland’s intermediate court created new and binding precedent for cases related to misappropriation of trade secrets under the Maryland Uniform Trade Secrets Act (“MUTSA”). In the reported opinion of Ingram, et al. v. Cantwell-Cleary Co., Inc., the Appellate Court of Maryland held that customer...
Saul Ewing LLP, a full-service national law firm, is proud to announce that the WTR 1000 – The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals has recognized Partners Darius Gambino and Sherry Flax in its 2024 edition. Now in its 14th year, the WTR 1000 identifies the top trademark professionals in key...
"Innovation continues across industries at a rapid pace. Many companies maintain highly valuable trade secrets and private data that provide them with a competitive market advantage. The rapidly evolving technological landscape, however, leads to new and more sophisticated threats to a company’s...
Last week, the House Ways and Means Committee voted to advance the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024 (H.R. 7024) to the House floor. As drafted, H.R. 7024 would be funded entirely by limitations on the employee retention credit (ERC). Under the bill, no new ERC claims would...
(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...
As we previously have discussed, the IRS has for months been working to combat dubious Employee Retention Credit (ERC) claims, many of which were made at the urging of aggressive promoters. The IRS is offering a limited-time Voluntary Disclosure Program (VDP) to encourage taxpayers to come forward...
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...