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Food Industry Targeted

The plaintiff’s bar and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) are targeting the food industry for enforcement of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). It is important ...

April 29, 2014

Employers: Don’t Blow Your Employee’s Covenant Not to Compete!

Recently, the home health industry has been the Paul worked at a New York insurance brokerage firm for 33 years until his termination in ...

April 29, 2014

IRS Expands Tax-Free Exchanges of Real Estate

In our practice and in the real world, it is usually easier to purchase real estate than to sell real estate. This often ...

April 29, 2014

Preventing Inevitable Disclosure of Internet Company Trade Secrets

By Loretta M. Gastwirth Internet companies which are springing up all over Long Island are increasingly confronted with the threat that their key employees with access ...

April 29, 2014

Portability – A Dramatic Estate Tax Change

Recently enacted “portability” provisions authorize estate of decedents dying in 2011 or later to elect to transfer their unused $5 million exemption from federal estate ...

April 29, 2014

Lapsing 2012 Estate Planning Opportunities & large Estates Holding Businesses and Real Estate

Stephen discusses lapsing 2012 estate planning opportunities for large estates holding businesses and real estate. Stephen also explores some of the lesser-reported implications of the ...

April 28, 2014

Estate Planning for Negative Capital

A solution for real estate owners when the debt owed on a property exceeds its basis.

April 28, 2014

Default in Argentina, Repercussions in New York, Self-Settled Trusts and Choice of Law

A choice of law provision in a trust agreement, as is the case with any contract, may not be enforceable against persons who are not ...

April 28, 2014

Prop. Regs. Reduce Many Required Minimum Distributions

Howard Esterces, a member of Meltzer Lippe's Estate and Trusts Group, discusses that those who have already begun receiving required minimum distributions from IRAs and ...

April 22, 2014

SCINs Are Still Useful Tools Despite Recent Decision

A SCIN typically arises through the sale of shares of stock or an interest in real estate to a family member

April 22, 2014