Insights

When a new business is formed by two or more owners, just like a new marriage, the participants often are so enamored with the new endeavor that little attention is given to the possibility that their union may one day come to an end.  Careful…
Continue Reading

On March 8, 2016, following a Trump campaign event at the Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida, Michelle Fields accused Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s campaign manager, of grabbing her and bruising her left arm. Fields, at the time a reporter with Breitbart News, wrote: “.…
Continue Reading

The United States Government and Apple are in the midst of a significant standoff. The Government has in its possession an iPhone used by Syed Rizwan Farook who was killed in a shootout with police after he and his wife murdered fourteen people on December…
Continue Reading

For owners of limited liability companies (“LLCs”) and partners in partnerships, life in a tax audit will soon change as a result of legislation that was passed at the end of 2015, specifically, Section 1101 of P.L. 114-74.  This new legislation repealed the existing partnership audit procedures…
Continue Reading

Following an unsuccessful Board of Equalization hearing, commercial real estate owners often call upon me to assist them in litigating their real estate assessment appeals before the State Tax Commission.  Before hiring me, however, some owners, fooled by the informalities of their Board of Equalization…
Continue Reading

Justice Antonin Scalia was best known for his scathing opinions, often in cases split along ideological lines.  Even in dissent, he often played integral roles in landmark appeals at the center of nation’s attention, including Obergefell v. Hodges (gay marriage, dissent), District of Columbia v.…
Continue Reading

I met my wife in high school. On our first date, I took her to an X-rated movie. She loved it. So did the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which awarded it the Oscar for Best Picture. And within twelve months, the rating…
Continue Reading