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Live from New York, it’s Social Media Friday—Law Enforcement Edition—Guest Post from e-Lessons Blog
April 30, 2010 – 3:31 pm | No Comment
Live from New York, it’s Social Media Friday—Law Enforcement Edition—Guest Post from e-Lessons Blog

There is no shortage of social media life/job crossover mishaps for anyone’s twitter feed.  We are jaded by the long list of private lives outed on blogs and risqué off the job clock behavior that …

Google’s Living Stories Joint New York Times Project Pushes Boundaries of News Reporting and Law via Private and Business Bloggers
April 29, 2010 – 7:04 pm | No Comment
Google’s Living Stories Joint New York Times Project Pushes Boundaries of News Reporting and Law via Private and Business Bloggers

For the past several months groups of  reporters editors from the New York Times have collaborated with Google and its experimental  Living Stories format.  Developed by Google to effectively capture and present mass currents of …

All LLC Statutes Not Created Equal: New York LLC Business Member Expulsion Not Authorized by Statute, but in NJ it is
April 29, 2010 – 10:15 am | No Comment
All LLC Statutes Not Created Equal: New York LLC Business Member Expulsion Not Authorized by Statute, but in NJ it is

Earlier we talked about how recent case law in New York makes clear that the LLC statute will not assist an LLC member is expelling another member, absent something in the operating agreement that specifically …

Can New York Design Better Tax Credit Law to Stimulate High Tech Business Growth-Pt.2? Lessons From AMD
April 28, 2010 – 12:59 pm | No Comment
Can New York Design Better Tax Credit Law to Stimulate High Tech Business Growth-Pt.2? Lessons From AMD

By: Kyle Devine
Picking Billion Dollar Incentive Figures out of German Hats
A prime example of a company qualifying for QETC is Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), a micro-chip fabrication company (“chip-fab”). And AMD is a prime …

New York City Library Small Business Resource Center
April 27, 2010 – 10:28 pm | No Comment
New York City Library Small Business Resource Center

Those looking for business educational material should not overlook the New York Public Library.  It has a number of robust resources, not the least of which is a revolving set of lectures designed to help …

Can New York Design Better Tax Credit Law to Stimulate High Tech Business Growth-Pt.1?
April 27, 2010 – 3:14 pm | No Comment
Can New York Design Better Tax Credit Law to Stimulate High Tech Business Growth-Pt.1?

The constellation of New York’s industries encompasses a wide variety of fields from finance and communication to technology. And as a world leader in the technology, New York has attempted to design incentives to stimulate …

LLC De Facto Doctrine–New York Appeals Court Unexpectedly Shapes New York Business Law
April 26, 2010 – 9:05 am | No Comment
LLC De Facto Doctrine–New York Appeals Court Unexpectedly Shapes New York Business Law

Has your business LLC been involved in a lawsuit, but the glitch is that you and your partners did not fully complete or realize the LLC formation process?  There is now a so called LLC …

California Video Game Statute Case Gets an Add On Pack via a Supreme Court Review
April 26, 2010 – 6:10 am | No Comment
California Video Game Statute Case Gets an Add On Pack via a Supreme Court Review

The Supreme Court has decided to hear Entertainment Software Association v. Schwartzenegger, the top charting violence in video games case. In the previous version, the Ninth Circuit terminated the Governator’s statute like a main boss …

Alternate Source of Stock Photography for a New York or Other Business with Caveats
April 25, 2010 – 10:45 pm | No Comment
Alternate Source of Stock Photography for a New York or Other Business with Caveats

Many startups or other businesses on a lean budget often fall prey to the temptation to “lift” photos from the net in order to add visuals to web sites or corporate collateral. There are a …

Basics of Annual Tax Forms for a New York LLC or any LLC Taxed as a Partnership
April 25, 2010 – 11:42 am | No Comment
Basics of Annual Tax Forms for a New York LLC or any LLC Taxed as a Partnership

In my practice, I advise many LLC’s with more than one member.  Often that means they have to file taxes as a partnership. This often makes clients twitch as they’ve never had to deal with …

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