The News In the Journal: Member Spotlight featuring Eileen Millett (New York State Bar Association Journal)

Golden Oldies: The Music Modernization Act (Intellectual Property Magazine, July-August 2018)

U.S. Taxation of U.S. LLCs: Concerns About 'Hybrid' Tax Planning (Part 3 of 3) (TaxStringer, a publication of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants)

Zur Information - Scheinselbstständigkeit nach US-Recht - Employees vs. Independent Contractors (Sommer/Summer 2018)

Website Accessibility Suits Threaten Omnichannel Sales (Law360)

In the course of the development of the common law, with its unique dependence on a sometimes unholy alliance between enacted and judge-made law, curiosities will arise. Retailers, auction houses and others with consumer websites that support physical sales facilities have seen this recently, as lawyers around the country have driven in fifth gear to their nearest federal courthouses to file lawsuits on behalf of the visually impaired, claiming that those websites exclude the visually impaired from equal access in violation of federal law.

U.S. Taxation of U.S. LLCs: Major Considerations in the International Context (Part 2 of 3) (TaxStringer, a publication of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants)

Intellectual Property Magazine published "Seeking Approval," an article written by Technology Practice chairman, Thomas Jackson, in its June 2018 issue about the harvesting of data gathered from as many as 87 million Facebook user profiles by the former data mining firm Cambridge Analytica.

Excerpt:

"What attracted so much ire in response to the Cambridge Analytica episode was not only that collected personal data of as many as 87m Facebook users in the US but also the nature of the data that was collected and how it was used.

The data was harvested using a personality test that, unbeknown to the Facebook users who took the test, not only gave a third-party access to their personal information but also the personal information of their friends for use in a political campaign."

U.S. Taxation of U.S. Limited Liability Companies (Part 1 of 3) (TaxStringer, a publication of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants)

Decision Leaves Fate of Employee Class Actions to Congress and the Court of Public Opinion (Legal Intelligencer)

Zur Information - Accidental Franchise (Frühling/Spring 2018)

Understanding The Realities Of The ADA And Your Website (Total Food Service)

Website accessibility is a hot topic right now which means you should be checking if your website is compliant with Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). If your website is not accessible to individuals with disabilities, you might get slapped with an unwanted and expensive lawsuit.

Making Sense of Four Transatlantic Estate Tax Treaties: US-France, US-Germany, US-Netherlands, US-United Kingdom

Lauren Wachtler co-authors “If Not Now, When? Achieving Equality for Women Attorneys in the Courtroom and in ADR,” adopted by the New York State Bar Associaiton’s House of Delegates.

Going, going, but not quite gone: Trials Continue to Decline in Federal and State Courts. Does it Matter?

Zur Information - US Legal Opinions – Bedeutung und Inhalt von Capacity und Enforceability Opinions (Herbst/Fall 2017)

The Intersection of Guardianship and Matrimonial Law (New York State Bar Association, Elder and Special Needs Law Journal)

When residents reject the flip...TRY, TRY AGAIN (HABITAT magazine)

A Step Too Far From a "SEP" In The Right Direction (The Practical Real Estate Lawyer)

Is this the real life? (IP Pro The Internet)

With emerging technologies, such as virtual reality (VR), breaking into the mainstream, already antique laws must rise to the occasion.

Zur Information - Kauf und Verkauf von Immobilien in den USA (Sommer/Summer 2017)

When malls were the disruptors of retail (Chain Store Age)

International Estate Planning for United States Citizens

Most of the material appeared originally in an article in the October 2009 edition of Estate Planning magazine, a publication of Thomson Reuters.  The article has been updated from time to time since its original publication but the article does not purport to give legal advice about the laws and taxes of any of the jurisdictions discussed in the article.  Details about such laws should be reviewed with legal counsel competent to give advice about the laws of relevant jurisdictions before taking action in any way reliant on the information contained herein.

Hightailing to Better Retailing Options (New York Law Journal, Outside Counsel column)

The Separate Property Credit in Divorce Actions (New York Law Journal)

Law Firm Succession Planning (New York Law Journal)

US expatriate persons and property owners, the European Union Succession Regulation and the choice of New York law (Trusts & Trustees magazine)

The EU Succession Regulation represents perhaps the most ambitious and comprehensive effort to date to regularize the rules about choice of law that apply to the succession of decedents' estates in any part of the world. The Article highlights the significance of the Regulation not only in planning for U.S. persons who live in the European Union, but also in planning for U.S. persons who live outside the European Union but who own property there. The Article also discusses the reception that a choice of law made under the Regulation may be expected to receive in New York State–one of the most prominent jurisdictions of the United States where issues of cross-border succession planning constantly arise and for which the Regulation may be especially relevant.

Zur Information - Der US-amerikanisches Jury Trial (Winter 2016/2017)

Questions Abound: FTC Antitrust Actions Under the New Administration (Deal Lawyers)

Duran Duran Case Shouldn't Affect Paul McCartney Contracts (Law360)

Potential Effects of a Trump Administration on Corporate Boards (Bloomberg BNA, Corporate Law & Accountability Report)

Lessons from Las Vegas: The Golden Knights and Trademark Registration (IP Frontline)

Zur Information - US-amerikanisches Arbeitsrecht (Herbst/Fall 2016)

Zur Information - Die Zuständigkeit amerikanischer Gerichte für ausländische Unternehmen nach Daimler AG v. Bauman (Sommer/Summer 2016)

Court Intervention in Child Alienation Cases (New York Law Journal)

by Elliot J. Wiener and Dr. Bernice Schaul (clinical psychologist)

Why Choose New York Law? (New York State Bar Association, New York Dispute Resolution Lawyer)

Reprinted with permission from New York Dispute Resolution Lawyer, Spring 2016, Vol. 9, No. 1, published by the New York State Bar Association, One Elk Street, Albany, New York 12207.

The Hague Convention on Trusts and the Uniform Trust Code

Zur Information - Die „Doctrine of Consideration“ - Grundlegendes Prinzip des US-/ Common Law-Vertragsrechts - „Eine Falle, die es zu vermeiden gilt“ (Frühling/Spring 2016)

'Forced heirship' in the United States of America, with particular reference to New York State

Zur Information - Europäischer Gerichtshof kippt Safe Harbor (Winter 2015/2016)

Zur Information - Steueroase Delaware? Warum Unternehmen meist in Delaware gründen (Sommer/Summer 2015)

Those Were The Days (New York Law Journal)

Zur Information - U.S. Visumsarten für Geschäftsleute (Frühling/Spring 2015)

Zur Information - Rocket Dockets - Neue beschleunigte Gerichtsverfahren für Handelssachen in New York (Winter 2014/2015)

Zur Information - Successor Liability - Nachfolgehaftung beim U.S. Asset- und Stock Deal (Herbst/Fall 2014)

Zur Information - Personliche Haftung von Directors und Officers einer U.S.-Corporation (Sommer/Summer 2014)

Making Sense Out of FATCA: Essential Concepts to Understand the “Chapter 4” Withholding Rules and Regulations and the Inter-Governmental Agreements

Zur Information - Die Besteuerung deutsch-amerikanischer Erbfälle: Das deutsch-amerikanische Doppelbesteuerungsabkommen (Frühling/Spring 2014)

Zur Information - Handelsvertreter, Vertragshändler und Franchisenehmer: Gibt es einen Ausgleichsanspruch entsprechend §89 HGB auch in den USA? (Winter 2014)

When Your Art Becomes My Art (New York State Bar Association, Inside magazine)

Reprinted with permission from: Inside, Winter 2013, Vol. 31, No. 3, published by the New York State Bar Association, One Elk Street, Albany, NY 12207.

Zur Information - Steuerfalle LLC - Die steuerrechtliche Einordnung der U.S.-LLC in Deutschland durch den Rechtstypenvergleich (Herbst/Fall 2013)