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Ronald Barriere	Focus - Spring 2013 In This Issue: - IRS Audits: Understanding Criminal Rights and Risks - Amazing Clients®: Ravago: A Big Company with a Low Profile - When is a Mom not a Mom?: De Facto Parenting in Massachusetts - Can the Private…more Audits, Funding, Infrastructure, Investigations, IRS	See All Updates »
Cornelius (Con) Chapman	Managing Nonprofits in Troubled Times: New Tools in Trustees’ Toolbox Non-profits, which depend on both the private economy and the public sector, suffer greatly in economic downturns such as we are experiencing at present. Take healthcare, for example. Consider what happened when the…more Charitable Trusts, Non-Profits, Trustees, UPMIFMA	See All Updates »
Anatoly Darov	Focus - Spring 2013 In This Issue: - IRS Audits: Understanding Criminal Rights and Risks - Amazing Clients®: Ravago: A Big Company with a Low Profile - When is a Mom not a Mom?: De Facto Parenting in Massachusetts - Can the Private…more Audits, Funding, Infrastructure, Investigations, IRS	See All Updates »
Shep Davidson	In-House Counsel Need to Think Like a Litigator When Drafting Contracts Memorializing an agreement in a written contract serves two primary purposes. First and foremost, a written contract should clearly set out the deal terms so that there is little or no chance of a misunderstanding as to what the…more Contract Drafting, In-House Counsel	See All Updates »
Andrea Dunbar	Gray Divorce: Retirement Accounts and Estate Planning DIVIDING RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS - There are important differences associated with dividing retirement plans that are already in pay status and those that are not. Some people divorcing later in life are already retired, and…more Divorce, Estate Planning, Grey Divorce, Pensions, QDRO	See All Updates »
Timothy Famulare	Design & Construction Practice: 2012 Year in Review It was another memorable year for the construction industry in Massachusetts. As the economic recovery continued to take hold, commercial construction market activity continued to stabilize and public projects remained a source…more AIA Construction Forms, American Institute of Architects, Bid Protests, Competitive Bidding, Construction Contracts	See All Updates »
Jennifer Green	Taxes: Protect Yourself in Divorce Married spouses who are in the process of seeking a divorce should think twice about filing a joint income tax return. That decision should not be made in haste. Although you can amend your income tax return to change your…more Divorce, Spousal Tax Relief, Tax Returns	See All Updates »
Evelyn Haralampu	HIPAA Revises Business Associate Agreement Requirements Protecting Health Information - The privacy of health information is protected by federal rules. These rules, which have been recently updated, affect the handling of “protected health information” (“PHI”) by business…more Business Associates, Covered Entities, HIPAA, Liability, PHI	See All Updates »
Renee Inomata	Gratuitous Payments Cannot Be Re-Cast as Accrued Vacation Pay Required by Massachusetts Wage Act A favorite saying of my mentor and colleague in the Labor and Employment Group here at Burns & Levinson is “no good deed goes unpunished.” Over my years of practice, I have found that this phrase oft comes to mind when an…more Employee Benefits, Illegal Gratuities, Vacation Pay, Wage Act	See All Updates »
Dennis Kelly	Focus - Spring 2013 In This Issue: - IRS Audits: Understanding Criminal Rights and Risks - Amazing Clients®: Ravago: A Big Company with a Low Profile - When is a Mom not a Mom?: De Facto Parenting in Massachusetts - Can the Private…more Audits, Funding, Infrastructure, Investigations, IRS	See All Updates »
Orlando Lopez	Alice in Patentland II – Can a Look Across the Pond Help? On May 10, 2013, the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued their en-banc opinion(s) on CLS Bank Int’l v. Alice Corp. Alice, an Australian corporation, had appealed the decision of the District Court invalidating the claims for not…more CLS Bank, CLS Bank v Alice Corp, Patent-Eligible Subject Matter, Patents	See All Updates »
Deborah Peckham	TM Owners Beware: Potential IP Scammers Are In Our Midst There are few things more annoying than the feeling that you have been duped into paying for something that you neither need nor want. IP owners, and particularly trademark owners, are common targets for scammers seeking to…more Fees, FTC, Scams, Trademarks	See All Updates »
David Rosenblatt	Maintaining Our Focus - Winter 2013 In This Issue: - Message from the Managing Partner - Amazing Clients®: ACell: Medical Miracles - The Age of Bionic Reconstruction Arrives - Rethinking Today’s “Fixed Income” Investments - Can Gray…more Bionic Reconstruction, Copyright, Extra Cellular Matrix, Fixed Income Investments, Grey Market	See All Updates »
Mark Schonfeld	Maintaining Our Focus - Winter 2013 In This Issue: - Message from the Managing Partner - Amazing Clients®: ACell: Medical Miracles - The Age of Bionic Reconstruction Arrives - Rethinking Today’s “Fixed Income” Investments - Can Gray…more Bionic Reconstruction, Copyright, Extra Cellular Matrix, Fixed Income Investments, Grey Market	See All Updates »
Matthew Tuttle	Maintaining Our Focus - Winter 2013 In This Issue: - Message from the Managing Partner - Amazing Clients®: ACell: Medical Miracles - The Age of Bionic Reconstruction Arrives - Rethinking Today’s “Fixed Income” Investments - Can Gray…more Bionic Reconstruction, Copyright, Extra Cellular Matrix, Fixed Income Investments, Grey Market	See All Updates »
Nancy Van Tine	Modification, Change is Hard I hope you all are enjoying this gorgeous weather, I love it! We have been very busy here since March with a number of modification cases, as the new Alimony Law allowed for a large group of payors to file for modification at…more Alimony, Divorce, Modification	See All Updates »

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