The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By David Draganosky | February 8, 2019
Major amendments to the Internal Revenue Code resulting from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 became effective on Jan. 1. One of the most significant changes brought about by those amendments is that, for new support order entered on or after Jan. 1, payors of alimony pendente lite (monetary support to a spouse during divorce litigation, also known as spousal support) and alimony can no longer deduct their payments.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Frank Michael D'Amore | February 8, 2019
The pursuit of new clients may be a rush, and landing them is even more fun, but a firm's bread and butter is its existing client base.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Daniel E. Cummins | February 7, 2019
Over the past year, the Pennsylvania state trial and appellate courts have continued to grapple with issues pertaining to social media discovery as well as the admissibility of social media evidence at trial.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Alan Nochumson | February 7, 2019
On Dec. 24, 2018, the day before Christmas, the Superior Court in MB Financial Bank v. Rao, 921 EDA 2018, provided borrowers throughout the commonwealth of Pennsylvania with a proverbial “lump of coal.”
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Stephen A. Antonelli | February 7, 2019
Throughout the shutdown, there were numerous news stories concerning the deadlines by which federal courts were expecting to run out of money. As a result, employment litigators and other federal court practitioners questioned whether the shutdown would interfere with their clients' filing deadlines and how it might affect their practices, generally.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Francis J. Lawall and Marcy J. McLaughlin | February 7, 2019
A debtors' ability to formulate a plan of reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code is one of its most powerful tools. In a plan, the debtor must classify its creditors by the treatment to be afforded to them.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By John P. Quinn and Adam Bronstein | February 7, 2019
In three opinions issued in 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit clarified several pleading requirements for putative class action securities complaints.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Stephen A. Miller and Chase A. Howard | February 6, 2019
The Supreme Court is considering whether a state can be haled into another state's courts without its consent. In January, the court heard oral argument in Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt, a case that will resolve whether the Constitution grants each state immunity from suit in foreign states' courts.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Sid Steinberg | February 5, 2019
The employment law implications of medical marijuana are rapidly evolving. The recent decision in Parrotta v. PECO Energy, addresses an employee's self-diagnosed use of “medical” marijuana along with a number of other practical ADA and FMLA issues.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By David L. Axelrod and Terence M. Grugan | February 4, 2019
In one of Congress's last acts before the government shutdown, it passed, and the president signed, the First Step Act of 2018 (the act). The act represents progress toward reducing the rate of mass incarceration and ameliorating the extensive personal and societal problems it has caused.
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