The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Kevin F. Sweeney | June 4, 2024
Taxpayers with PPLI policies and their advisers should consider proactively seeking legal advice about whether they are likely to survive IRS scrutiny and, if not, the best and most appropriate way to get back into tax compliance.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Danielle Mundekis | June 3, 2024
In this article, I am focusing on actions that happen in singular instances, and where these types of interactions with the individuals who perpetrate them, would otherwise be seen as inconsistent with who we know them to be. When actions happen on multiple occasions and especially when they occur repeatedly with prior correction and indication of a necessitated change,
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Andrew C. Kassner and Joseph N. Argentina Jr. | June 3, 2024
In 530 Donelson, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Tennessee recently considered whether orders entered by a Tennessee state court appointing and empowering a receiver deprived the limited liability company's owners of authority to file a bankruptcy case for the company.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By John Hosa | May 31, 2024
In the last few years, Downingtown Area School District in Chester County has found itself at the center of several important decisions in the realm of Pennsylvania tax assessment law.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Joseph L. Kish | May 31, 2024
On Jan. 31, 2024, Sen. Bill Cunningham introduced S.B. 2979 ostensibly to answer the call from the Illinois Supreme Court that the General Assembly "make clear its intent regarding the assessment of damages under the act" in Cothron v. White Castle.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Melissa Hazell Davis | May 30, 2024
Technology is here to stay and its role in how we lawyer will only grow. But it is important that we as lawyers learn how to use and embrace existing and future technology responsibly without shirking our professional and ethical responsibilities.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Elisa Reiter and Daniel Pollack | May 30, 2024
Advocates of the term "parental alienation" say it refers to an idea that if children exhibit certain behaviors or symptoms, those characteristics should somehow not be considered signs that the child was a victim of abuse. Instead, the very actions that were abusive are reframed, and cast against the person raising the alarm that the child has been a victim of abuse.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Will Sylianteng | May 30, 2024
As more and more nonattorneys begin to turn to artificial intelligence for legal advice and legal document drafting, more and more attorneys will have to face pro se litigants armed with artificial intelligence.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Mark Hinderks | May 30, 2024
An advance waiver contained in an engagement letter links the law firm's acceptance of the matter and corresponding ethical duties to the client with the client's willingness to accept the firm's ability to work for other clients in unrelated areas, even if adverse.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Patricia E. Antezana | May 30, 2024
Recently, in Citizens Business Bank v. Mission Bank, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California denied the plaintiff's motion to compel a forensic examination of certain electronic devices, accounts, and backup servers maintained by the defendant and the defendant's employees.
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