- June 28, 2019
Can your business shake a judgment of thousands of dollars in back wages, liquidated damages, and attorneys’ fees as a result of a Department of Labor audit or a lawsuit filed by employees ...
- Nebraska CPA, May/June 2019
This year, in North Carolina Department of Revenue v. Kaestner Family Trust, the Supreme Court will address the issue of whether a trust beneficiary’s residence is sufficient for a state to ...
- Edge Magazine, May 2019
Do your investments have unrealized gains which you are considering “harvesting”? Or are you currently contemplating the sale of appreciated real estate or business interests?
- May 22, 2019
Nebraska recently became the latest state to expressly prohibit residential contractors from rebating any portion of an insurance deductible. In this regard, the Insured Homeowners ...
- April 26, 2019
In the course of administering an employee benefit plan, lots of decisions must be made. Whether those decisions are being made by an individual or a committee, the process for making the ...
- ABA Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases, April 15, 2019
Let’s say you sue a defendant in state court for injunctive relief. The defendant then files bankruptcy and receives a discharge. Then, the state court says you can proceed, despite the ...
- April 1, 2019
When it comes to the federal Family and Medical Leave Act ("FMLA"), employers have long known that the devil is in the details. At its core, the FMLA requires covered employers to provide leave ...
- Nebraska CPA, March/April 2019
New Internal Revenue Code Section 1400Z creates qualified opportunity funds (QOFs) and qualified opportunity zones. This program incentivizes the reallocation of capital to
designated ... - Edge Magazine, March 2019
You can find a tutorial and a form online for practically everything, so do you really need to hire an attorney to prepare your estate plan? Here are some excuses I’ve heard from people who ...
- March 13, 2019
Many employers may recall the commotion that ensued when the Obama administration issued a final rule on May 23, 2016 that substantially increased the standard salary level for workers ...
- March 13, 2019
Can your business afford to pay thousands of dollars in penalties as a result of a workplace safety investigation? In December of 2018, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety ...
- March 12, 2019
In a decision issued March 4, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that a party must obtain a copyright registration – rather than merely place an application on file with the U.S. Copyright ...
- March 5, 2019
On February 15, 2019, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced the annual changes to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvement Act of 1976 (the “HSR Act”) pre-merger ...
- Feb. 26, 2019
Partnership income and distribution allocations between individual partners is one area in which Section 199A should be considered when designing partner allocations. With tax returns ...
- The Iowa Lawyer, Feb. 2019
Today, 80 percent of all 94 bankruptcy court districts have a local mediation rule of some type with more on the way. Of those 80 percent, however, a dozen or so bankruptcy court districts must ...
- Feb. 5, 2019
Under the proposed regulations that were published in October 2018, however, for owners of a pass-through entity who have an eligible capital gain pass-through to them the 180-day ...
- Feb. 1, 2019
An increasing problem facing employers is the threat of class action lawsuits related to their use of background checks. In these lawsuits, plaintiffs claim that employers are violating a ...
- Nebraska CPA, January/February 2019
Approximately seven months have passed since the United States Supreme Court’s decision in South Dakota vs. Wayfair, which held that a retailer without a physical presence in a state, but ...
- Edge Magazine, Jan. 2019
Most people understand trust arrangements are beneficial for their minor children. Until kids are financially mature, parents and grandparents do not want their children and ...
- Jan. 24, 2019
The fiscal year 2020 H-1B lottery season is upon us, and uncertainty remains regarding the proposed regulation to tweak the H-1B lottery program. Notwithstanding the uncertainty ...
- Jan. 14, 2019
For tax years beginning after December 31, 2017, a new centralized partnership audit regime generally applies to businesses taxed as partnerships for federal income tax purposes, and, with ...
- Dec. 18, 2018
Employer-sponsored parties are a time for employers to show appreciation for their employees and are important to employee morale. However, employer-sponsored parties can also be ...
- Dec. 18, 2018
Plan sponsors and administrators have been eagerly awaiting IRS guidance on changes to the hardship withdrawal distribution rules made by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (the "Act ...
- Dec. 10, 2018
On the eve of the Fiscal Year 2020 H-1B lottery season which opens for filing on April 1, 2019, the Department of Homeland Security has published proposed regulations to tweak the H-1B lottery ...
- Edge Magazine, Nov. 2018
What exactly is an estate plan? Webster defines “estate” as all of the things that a person owns and “plan” as something that a person intends to do. Accordingly, your estate plan sets ...
- Physicians Bulletin, November/December 2018
Following the judgement made in 2016, in a lawsuit filed by Aetna against a group of San Francisco Bay Area surgery centers, questions still arise from health care providers and suppliers ...
- Nov. 27, 2018
Mike Linder, Koley Jessen’s Environmental Practice leader, presented at an environmental conference in Washington D.C. on current trends in state and federal environmental ...
- Nov. 9, 2018
The Department of Treasury and Internal Revenue Service issued initial proposed regulations, a Revenue Ruling, and draft Form 8996 and instructions for investments in qualified ...
- Oct. 26, 2018
New Internal Revenue Code Section 1400Z creates qualified opportunity funds and qualified opportunity zones. This program is designed to incentivize the reallocation of capital to ...
- Oct. 24, 2018
- Physicians Bulletin, September/October 2018
As CMS enhances its IT capabilities, providers must be vigilant about keeping their Medicare enrollment records up-to-date or else risk suspension or loss of their billing privileges.
- The Nebraska Lawyer, September/October
As the number of states that have legalized the use of medical marijuana expands, employers are having to grapple with how they will address the questions that are likely to arise from the ...
- Edge Magazine, Sept. 2018
A recent case issued by the Nebraska Supreme Court has estate planning and family law attorneys talking. The case is Stephens v. Stephens, 297 Neb. 188, 899 N.W.2d 582 (2017), and the result ...
- American Bar Association - Preferred Returns Newsletter, Sept. 2018
Carve-out transactions create a path for sellers to discard businesses least aligned with core business strategies while also generating additional capital for the seller. Carve-out ...
- Sept. 10, 2018
As employers are well aware, premium processing is an optional service available for certain employment-based benefit requests which guarantees a response (not necessarily an approval ...
- Aug. 30, 2018
On August 8, 2018, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) raided 11 agricultural businesses and executed 17 criminal arrest warrants for business owners
and managers ...
- Aug. 30, 2018
On August 10, 2018, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed "The Massachusetts Noncompetition Agreement Act" (the "Act") into law. The Act imposes a number of new constraints on ...
- Aug. 9, 2018
For companies that have used the H-2B nonimmigrant visa program (the “H-2B Program”) over the last several years, it is understood that the demand for H-2B visas has skyrocketed. This ...
- Aug. 3, 2018
Employers are facing workplace retention challenges with increasing regularity. Whether this is the result of a shift in generational norms or a strong economy, employees seem to be more ...
- Aug. 3, 2018
It is increasingly common to see service animals in places of public accommodation, on public transit, and even in the workplace. However, the rising trend of animals in the workplace has ...
- Edge Magazine, July 2018
A Grantor Retained Annuity Trust is a planning tool that you may use to transfer assets to your beneficiaries with little, or possibly no, wealth transfer tax costs. The primary benefit of a ...
- July 11, 2018
Attorney Generals from Nebraska, South Dakota, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana collectively filed an amicus brief in an Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals case, Horton v ...
- July 11, 2018
Last month, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) and Cory Gardner (R-Colorado) proposed highly anticipated bipartisan legislation that would allow individual states to ...
- July 11, 2018
This article briefly discusses four new laws that took effect on July 1, 2018.
- Edge Magazine, June 2018
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was signed into law on December 22, 2017, doubling the amount a taxpayer may leave to his or her beneficiaries without paying the federal estate tax. However, this is one ...
- June 21, 2018
The Supreme Court announced its ruling today in the biggest sales tax case in 26 years. The ruling affects remote and online shopping by removing a limitation on a state’s ability to enforce ...
- June 15, 2018
- June 7, 2018
Transactions for the purchase and sale of businesses are rarely all cash deals. No matter the transaction structure, the use of financing to consummate the purchase creates a new dimension ...
- May 31, 2018
Consistent with Fiscal Year (“FY”) 2017, the Secretaries of Labor and Homeland Security have announced that up to an additional 15,000 H-2B visas are available for FY 2018 on a ...
- Supreme Court’s “Epic” Decision Allows Class and Collective Action Waivers in Arbitration AgreementsMay 25, 2018
The Supreme Court’s Epic decision undoubtedly favors employers who currently have, or who in the future may have, a mandatory arbitration program. However, despite what some media ...