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Trump Campaign Focuses Spotlight on Assault and Battery

By Litigation / April 5, 2016 / Comments Off on Trump Campaign Focuses Spotlight on Assault and Battery

On March 8, 2016, following a Trump campaign event at the Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida, Michelle Fields accused Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s campaign manager, of grabbing her and bruising her left arm. Fields, at the time a reporter with Breitbart News, wrote: “. . . I was jolted backwards. Someone had grabbed me…

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The Case of the Impenetrable Apple iPhone

By White Collar Crimes & Internal Investigations / March 8, 2016 / Comments Off on The Case of the Impenetrable Apple iPhone

The United States Government and Apple are in the midst of a significant standoff. The Government has in its possession an iPhone used by Syed Rizwan Farook who was killed in a shootout with police after he and his wife murdered fourteen people on December 2, 2015 in San Bernardino, California. The Government also has in…

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Now is the Time to Prepare for a Sea Change in Partnership Tax Audits

By Laura E. Krebs Al-Shathir / March 1, 2016 / Comments Off on Now is the Time to Prepare for a Sea Change in Partnership Tax Audits

For owners of limited liability companies (“LLCs”) and partners in partnerships, life in a tax audit will soon change as a result of legislation that was passed at the end of 2015, specifically, Section 1101 of P.L. 114-74. H.R.1314 – Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 This new legislation repealed the existing partnership audit procedures under “TEFRA,” which…

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