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Who Won Monday's SCOTUS Arguments Over Attorney-Client Privilege?

The justices were back on the bench Monday tackling hefty attorney-client privilege questions, and we asked a couple legal experts for their thoughts on how the arguments went.
6 minute read

National Law Journal

'A Big Ask.' Test That Would Expand Attorney-Client Privilege Draws Scrutiny From Justices

"I'm wondering if you would just comment on the ancient legal principle of 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it,'" Justice Elena Kagan said.
5 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Tax, Corporate Partner Boomerangs Back to Haynes and Boone

Winstead shareholder Brandon Jones returns to Haynes and Boone, where he spent the first 13 years of his career as a business planning and tax partner in Fort Worth.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Pa. Lawyers Left Prominent Firms to Start Their Own Last Year

A Kline & Specter partner, a senior M&A counsel at Holland & Knight and a voting shareholder at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney all had compelling reasons to make new starts.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

Tax Identity Theft: What's Happening and What You Can Do About It

It seems that criminals are always one step ahead of taxpayers, businesses, and tax professionals. The innocents need to be proactive and their continued vigilance against scammers is essential.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

Tax Court Rules That Loan With Appreciation Interest Is Respected as Debt

When an instrument denominated as debt has "equity-like" features, should it be respected as debt or recharacterized as equity for income tax purposes? In this edition of their Real Estate Financing column, Ezra Dyckman and Charles Nelson discuss a recent opinion from the Tax Court which came to a "taxpayer-friendly result" on this issue.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Tax Change for the New Year: Pa. Recognizes Section 1031 Like-Kind Exchanges

Pennsylvania still presents a somewhat complicated landscape for IRC Section 1031 like-kind exchanges. However, it has moved in the right direction in conforming to the federal tax treatment for such exchanges.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Deductions for Unreimbursed Volunteer Expenses

Many probably don't even know as itemizers they're entitled to deduct their unreimbursed expenses incurred in helping charitable organizations.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

Successor Liability for Taxes: 'ACI Construction'

The potential for enforcement of a transferor's tax obligations against its transferee is demonstrated by 'ACI Construction, LLC v. United States', a recent decision of the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah.
7 minute read

National Law Journal

Quinn Emanuel, Representing Billionaire CEO, Sues IRS Over Leak of Tax Documents

"The IRS's failure to established appropriate safeguards over its systems of records has been willful, and upon information and belief, IRS personnel exploited these failures to misappropriate Mr. Griffin's confidential tax return information," wrote Quinn Emanuel Urquhart and Sullivan attorney Jason Sternberg.
5 minute read

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