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Client Alerts News NonprofitAuditing Restricted Use Scholarship and Program Funds: Preparing for the Supreme Court Affirmative Action Rulings

June 5, 2023

By Elizabeth Manchester Introduction: As the Supreme Court prepares to rule on two landmark affirmative action cases (Students for Fair Admissions Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions Inc. v. University of North Carolina), auditing restricted use scholarship funds or program funds becomes increasingly important. Educational institutions and affiliated entities must...

Client Alerts Employment & Labor NewsMassachusetts Employer Forced to Pay $24 Million for Failing to Accommodate an Executive’s Anxiety

May 31, 2023

By Michael A. Gamboli and Alicia J. Samolis Mental health issues in the workplace are at an all-time high. And with those issues come a slew of accommodation requests ranging from continued work from home to removal of stressful job duties to not appearing on camera during video calls. While the ADA accommodation process is exploited by...

Client Alerts Corporate & Business NewsBE-12 Filing Deadline is Rapidly Approaching

May 18, 2023

By Madeline Ursini and Brian J. Reilly The Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (“BEA”) conducts a benchmark survey on foreign direct investment every 5 years. The BE-12 survey is the BEA’s most comprehensive survey and produces statistics on the scale and effects of foreign-owned business activities in the United States. The most recent...

Client Alerts Corporate & Business NewsCorporate Transparency Act: Is Your Company Subject to the New Beneficial Owner Reporting Requirements?

May 9, 2023

By Madeline Ursini, Brian J. Reilly and Lawrence J. Sheh In 2021, as part of the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020, Congress enacted the Corporate Transparency Act in an effort to prevent and combat illicit activities such as money laundering, terrorist financing, corruption, and tax fraud. In furtherance of this goal, beginning on January 1,...

News Press ReleasesPSH Named as a 2023 Best Place to Work by PBN

April 28, 2023

Partridge Snow & Hahn was recently announced by Providence Business News as one of the 2023 Best Places to Work in Rhode Island, according to a two-part survey process completed by Best Companies Group. This survey and awards program was designed to identify, recognize, and honor the best employers in Rhode Island, who’s actions benefit...

Client Alerts Employment & Labor NewsNLRB Prohibits the Use of Confidentiality and Non-disparagement Provisions in Severance Agreements

February 24, 2023

On February 21, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (“Board”) ruled that an employer violated its employees’ rights under federal law by offering severance agreements that included standard confidentiality and non-disparagement provisions. By way of background, Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) protects the rights of non-management employees to engage in “concerted...

Client Alerts Commercial & Public Finance NewsLegislation Prohibiting Tax-Exempt Bonds for Professional Sports Stadiums Reintroduced in Congress

February 22, 2023

By Eugene G. Bernardo II and David M. DiSegna Legislation has been introduced in the United States House and Senate entitled the “No Tax Subsidies for Stadiums Act of 2023,” which would eliminate the tax exemption for bonds used to finance professional sports stadiums. The companion bills were introduced by Senators Lankford (R-OK) and Booker...

NewsRecent Amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act Could Affect New England Businesses

February 16, 2023

Effective as of January 1, 2023, amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) went into effect that impose additional obligations on businesses to safeguard the privacy of consumers’ personal information. The CCPA already provided consumers with a variety of rights, including the right to know the personal information collected about them, how...

Client Alerts Litigation & Disputes NewsCourt Clarifies When Duty to Preserve Evidence in Litigation Arises

February 14, 2023

By Paul M. Kessimian, Christian R. Jenner and Hannah Y. Amadei The duty to preserve potentially relevant documents and electronically stored information is an important obligation that arises in litigation, and one that litigants and their attorneys must not take lightly. But at what point does this duty arise? In a recent decision, Judge Salinger of...

Client Alerts News NonprofitNonprofits Take Note! Recent Expansion of Qualified Charitable Distribution Rules

January 9, 2023

President Biden recently signed into law the Secure 2.0 Act of 2022. The Act contains, in part, an expansion of the rules for qualified charitable distributions. A qualified charitable distribution (“QCD”) is a direct transfer of funds from an individual retirement account to a qualified charity. Two of the highlights, which are effective for the...

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