Firm Insights
In construction law, there is no better bargaining chip than the threat of a mechanic’s lien, and that chip just got bigger. It is a given that commercial landlords subject themselves to the risk of a mechanic’s lien anytime they contract for improvements to their property. Now, as a result of a recent Missouri Court…
Read MoreIt has been about three weeks since the release of the “Panama Papers” set news outlets abuzz. The documents and related news articles identified politicians, celebrities, and other prominent public figures as clients of a Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca, and as participating in offshore entities and companies structured to hide assets and/or avoid taxes.…
Read MoreArsenio Hall, a late night TV talk show host from the early 1990s, had a segment he called, “Things That Make You Go ‘Hmmmmm’”. This past Monday, an indictment handed down by a federal grand jury in Minnesota definitely made criminal tax lawyers across the country go ‘Hmmmmm.” The indictment, brought against a 60-year-old woman…
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