The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), became law on January 4, 2011. On September 29, 2014, the FDA published for comment several proposed rules implementing the FSMA. Any interested [...]
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A Qualified Personal Residence Trust (“QPRT”) is a trust into which you transfer a personal residence. The QPRT document gives you (and often your spouse) the right to live in the [...]
Generally, IRAs are protected from claims of the contributor’s creditors under federal bankruptcy law, (with the exception of divorce). However, a recent ruling by the Supreme Court peels back [...]
This is the first in a series on post-mortem planning techniques to manage taxes and optimize estate planning following death. It’s difficult, to say the least, to alter your estate plan after [...]
Term Sheets or Letters of Intent (LOIs) are commonly used in the buying or selling of businesses or other key contractual relationships. The purpose of LOIs are to clearly state the principal [...]
Confidentiality agreements are among the most common types of commercial contracts. Businesses use confidentiality agreements to protect their valuable, non-public business information in [...]
Metz Lewis Brodman Must O’Keefe LLC  will hold a breakfast seminar on Thursday, October 3, 2013, at the Regional Learning Alliance in Cranberry, PA. This 90 minute discussion focuses on [...]
Imagine this. Your sales manager oversees a staff of fourteen sales people, about half male and half female. As sales vice president, one of the sales people comes to you (and it really does [...]
In Pulse Technologies, Inc. v. Notaro and MKPrecision, LLC, No. 6 MAP 2012 (M.D. S.Ct. PA May 29, 2013), the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania overturned a Superior Court’s decision to [...]
In Fifield v. Premier Dealer Service, 2013 IL App. (1st) 120327 (June 24, 2013), the Illinois Appellate Court ruled that post-employment restrictive covenants were unenforceable because of a lack [...]
