Employers’ Annual Check Up By Nicholas Melito, of Meltzer Lippe’s Labor & Employment Practice Group Nicholas Melito is an attorney in Meltzer Lippe’s Labor & Employment Practice Group. He focuses his practice on representing employers and management in a wide variety of workplace law matters. Nicholas has experience handling employment law matters in state and federal court,…
Manny A. Frade is the chair of Meltzer Lippe’s Construction practice group; over the years, he’s represented a wide array of clients in the construction industry, including developers, owners, contractors, and subcontractors. In this Q&A, Manny provides an overview of Mechanic’s Liens, an important legal recourse for contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers who are owed money…
Manny A. Frade heads up Meltzer Lippe’s Construction Practice Group. He serves contractors throughout the industry, many of whom perform work for public authorities including the MTA. The NYS legislature passed a law that can effectively result in prohibiting contractors from performing government work for five years. The new law provides that if MTA contractors…
Does your company have a website, app, social media or use software or the cloud? If the answer is yes, please read on for important legal considerations you should be aware of. If your company has a website, app, social media or uses software or the cloud for its business, then it is important to…
Ira Halperin heads up Meltzer-Lippe’s Corporate/ Business Practice Group. With 25 years of experience as a lawyer and 15 years as a CPA, he’s helped make many successful M&A deals happen. In the second part of this Q&A, we asked Ira to address issues for business owners to consider when contemplating a sale, acquisition, or…
Ira Halperin heads up Meltzer-Lippe’s Corporate /Business Practice Group. With both 25 years of experience as a lawyer following 15 years as a CPA, he’s facilitated many successful M&A deals. When the Deal is closed and the money is in the bank, is it over? Question: It ain’t over til it’s over. For business owners the sale isn’t over on…
By Avi Z. Kestenbaum Avi Z. Kestenbaum is the co-chair of Meltzer Lippe’s Trusts & Estates Department, for which the firm is nationally ranked Tier 1 by U.S. News and World Report. He is frequently quoted in top-tier media outlets, including Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. In this article, he offers…
By Andrew Baron, Counsel Trust & Estates Practice Group In this article, Andrew discusses basic information about preferred freeze partnerships. These financial sophisticated structures have become a significant tool in today’s estate planning environment,. What is a preferred freeze partnership? A preferred freeze partnership is a partnership that has two distinct classes of ownership interest:…
By Jonathan D. Farrell, Co-Chair of Meltzer Lippe’s Labor & Employment Practice Group A multiemployer pension plan (otherwise known as Taft-Hartley plan) is a pension plan created by a collective bargaining agreement between a labor organization (union) and either an employer and/or a multi-employer organization to which multiple employers contribute and of which their employees…
By Richard M. Howard Introduction: What Is An Exempt And A Non-exempt Employee Perhaps the worst mistake an employer can make is to classify a non-exempt employee as an exempt employee. A non-exempt employee must, generally speaking, be paid by the hour and paid time and one half for all hours over 40 in any…
