People in the News—April 9, 2020— Philadelphia Association of Defense Counsel
The Philadelphia Association of Defense Counsel, in coordination with the Barristers' Association of Philadelphia and the Lawyers' Club of Philadelphia, conducted mock interviews with students in the Philadelphia Futures program to prepare them for summer internship interviews.
April 09, 2020 at 11:00 AM
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Events
The Philadelphia Association of Defense Counsel, in coordination with the Barristers' Association of Philadelphia and the Lawyers' Club of Philadelphia, conducted mock interviews with students in the Philadelphia Futures program to prepare them for summer internship interviews.
Philadelphia Futures provides low-income, first-generation-to-college students with the tools, resources and opportunities necessary for admission to and success in college.
Speakers
Pollock Begg, family law attorney Brian C. Vertz and Michelle F. Gallagher, a certified public accountant with Gallagher, Flintoff & Klein PLC, are slated to present a webinar Thursday.
The webinar will apprise members of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers on the details of COVID-19 stimulus laws, the benefits they might provide to legal clients and their possible impact on family law cases involving support and divorcing business owners.
"CARES Act and More: COVID-19-related Tax Updates for Family Lawyers" is set to begin at 2 p.m.
Topics to be addressed include:
- The CARES Act (stimulus payments for individuals, child support intercept, U.S. Small Business Administration Payroll Protection and Disaster Recovery loans for business, retirement distributions)
- Families First Act (paid Family and Medical Leave Act leave for coronavirus patients and parents of children whose schools and child care have closed, payroll tax credits for businesses that provide paid leave)
- Other Tax Updates (filing and payment extensions for income tax, estate/gift tax, tax installment payments)
Vertz is a partner at Pittsburgh family law firm Pollock Begg.
He concentrates on complex financial cases.
He authored "Frumkes & Vertz on Divorce Taxation," a nationally distributed legal treatise on tax strategy for family lawyers.
He is a fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers and the AAML, president of the AAML Pennsylvania chapter, co-chair of two national committees and director and a lifetime member of the AAML Foundation, its charitable wing.
Vertz is also is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association family law section council and its executive committee.
He earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and has certification in arbitration and divorce mediation.
Vertz is admitted to practice law in the state and federal courts of Pennsylvania, the state courts of Georgia, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
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