Client AlertsReal EstateUnearthed: How the Statute of Limitations Won’t Protect Tax Carryforward Balances
October 1, 2014
Client AlertsReal EstateQuestion of the Month: Are we reliving 2006, and is the Boston market a bubble waiting to burst?
October 1, 2014
“Question of the Month: Are we reliving 2006, and is the Boston market a bubble waiting to burst?”
As technological developments have greatly expanded the world of available information, the cost of harvesting electronically stored information (ESI) has risen exponentially. In recent years however, technology has also begun to offer new tools, such as keyword searches and predictive coding, to significantly reduce e-discovery costs. But as the parties learned in Progressive Casualty Insurance Co. v. Delaney, No....
By Alicia J. Samolis and Michael A. Gamboli In a surprising reversal, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia yesterday granted request by the federal government to have its full 11-judge bench re-hear the case on whether the government, by regulation, can provide tax credits to exchanges run by individual states. ...
Press ReleasesPS&H attorneys recognized as 2015 Lawyers of the Year by Best Lawyers®!
August 25, 2014
August 25, 2014 – Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP congratulates our colleagues, Melissa E. Darigan, Michael A. Gamboli, John J. Partridge and Marvin S. Silver, for being named 2015 Lawyers of the Year by Best Lawyers®. Best Lawyers® has designated “Lawyers of the Year” in high-profile legal specialties in large legal communities. These four attorneys are being recognized...
August 21, 2014 – Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP is proud to announce that 17 of its attorneys have been named to the 2015 edition of Best Lawyers in America®, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. Congratulations to the following attorneys and their respective practice areas: Normand G. Benoit, Public Finance Law Eugene...
Client AlertsEmployment & LaborNewsDueling Districts on Major Challenge to Federal Health Reform
July 23, 2014
By Alicia J. Samolis and Michael A. Gamboli Are Employers in States Without Exchanges Subject to Penalties? In two highly technical and comprehensive rulings out July 22, 2014, two federal districts came to opposite conclusions on a key remaining challenge to federal health reform. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals limited the reach of Affordable...
Client AlertsEmployment & LaborNewsWhen it Comes to Volunteers and Unpaid Interns There is No Such Thing As a Free Lunch
June 18, 2014
By Alicia J. Samolis and Michael A. Gamboli t is summertime and the schools are out. You get a call from an eager college student offering to intern at your company for free. It seems like a win-win situation, right? Your company wins by having someone finally get to those little details and back burner...
Client AlertsCommercial & Public FinanceNewsNew SEC Rules for Municipal Advisors Take Effect July 1, 2014
June 9, 2014
By Eugene G. Bernardo II and Alexandra W. Pezzello Under rules adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) last September that go into effect July 1, 2014, municipal advisors must now register with the SEC. The rules are the result of provisions in the Dodd-Frank Act and are intended to provide additional protections...
The American Society for Testing and Materials (“ASTM”) standard for Environmental Assessments was revised in 2013 for the first time since 2005. The Department of Housing and Urban Development has now adopted the updated standard, which the Environmental Protection Agency (the “EPA”) had already adopted as consistent with its All Appropriate Inquiries Rule. While the...
