Member Articles

Contact: Henry J. Chang; Blaney McMurtry LLP (Ontario, Canada) On August 12, 2013, BlackBerry Limited (“Blackberry”), formerly known as Research in Motion Limited, announced that the company’s Board of Directors h ...

Contact: Harvey Susnick & Michael Gottstein; Berdon LLP (New York, New York, USA) On August 29th, the Treasury Department and the IRS ruled that same-sex couples, legally married in jurisdictions that recognize their ma ...

Contact: Wayne Berkowitz; Berdon LLP (New York, New York, USA) The fight goes on over the so-called Amazon law compelling e-commerce retailers to collect sales and use tax on your online purchases. The Direct Marke ...

Contact: Saul Brenner; Berdon LLP (New York, New York, USA)   Those with deposits in the overseas branches of U.S. banks cannot count on FDIC protection. The FDIC's board of directors approved a regulation¹ cla ...

Contact: Mark S. Thomas & Robert W. Shaw; Williams Mullen (North Carolina & Virginia) The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has provided clear and useful guidance on a common ERISA question: what ...

Contact: Sara Soto, Rebecca E. Swenson; Bressler, Amery & Ross, P.C. (New Jersey, USA) We recently tried a case involving a $1 million client bequest to a financial advisor.  The case reminded us of the issues ...