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Because it sets forth the terms of sale and the relative rights and obligations of the parties, the purchase agreement remains the single most important document in any real estate transaction – residential or commercial. While not all purchase agr… Read More

Estate planning is not usually a one-and-done deal. The estate plan you sign today may fit beautifully now, but over time changes in the law or in your circumstances could render your plan obsolete. Here are some recent examples to illustrate my poin… Read More

The IRS has issued inflation adjustments for certain sections of the Internal Revenue Code. Of interest to our estate planning clients, the federal estate exemption amount for decedents who die in 2022 has been increased to $12.06 million per individ… Read More

Last November, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced its Emergency Temporary Standard that would require employers with 100 or more employees to implement a mandatory workplace rule that employees either be vaccin… Read More

When done right, an estate plan can help make certain that a person’s assets will be easily passed on to the correct people after death. Not planning properly may cause family conflict, higher tax burdens, and the excessive time and costs of pr… Read More

Signed into law on November 15, 2021, the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (“the IIJA”) contains various provisions that may be of interest to small businesses and other employers. In a prior article, we advised that the Emplo… Read More

The legal profession has been a trusted source of conflict prevention and resolution for centuries, with the first attorneys in history dating as far back as Ancient Greece and Rome. But there is a growing group of 21st century computer scientists wh… Read More

Nine years ago, I wrote a piece for this forum under this same title. Hearing an interview this morning with a representative of the Better Business Bureau on the same subject (updated for 2021), I revisited my old article. My, how things have change… Read More