Firm Insights

Landlords Beware: Tenant Improvements Subject Owners to Mechanic’s Liens

By Sheila Greenbaum / April 26, 2016 / Comments Off on Landlords Beware: Tenant Improvements Subject Owners to Mechanic’s Liens

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…

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Offshore Entities in Tax Havens: The Panama Papers Explained

By Michelle F. Schwerin / April 19, 2016 / Comments Off on Offshore Entities in Tax Havens: The Panama Papers Explained

It 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.…

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From Tax Court Judge to Tax Fraud Defendant

By Sanford J. Boxerman / April 13, 2016 / Comments Off on From Tax Court Judge to Tax Fraud Defendant

Arsenio 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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