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To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. The philanthropy sector is in transition. Demographic changes, technology and evolving societal expectations are redefining priorities and approaches to charitable giving, with significant implications for the philanthropic ecosystem of philanthropy advisers, non-profit organisations and wealth managers. One dimension of…

WHAT WE’RE READING By Ellena Erskine on Mar 18, 2024 at 9:56 am At 10 a.m. EDT, the justices will hear oral argument in Murthy v. Missouri and National Rifle Association of America v. Vullo. Listen live. Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the…

Home Daily News Judge’s plan to decide traffic cases before… Ethics Judge’s plan to decide traffic cases before hearing date ‘was not evil in nature,’ disciplinary court says By Debra Cassens Weiss March 13, 2024, 9:56 am CDT A Philadelphia municipal judge who ruled on 95 traffic citations one day before the hearing date violated…

Consider this: Aside from being the largest health insurance player in the country, UnitedHealth Group also Employs or contracts with thousands of physicians Owns OptumRx, one of the top three largest pharmacy benefit managers Has spent more than $41.1 billion on 25 acquisitions For years, strategists have tried to analyze how UnitedHealth Group became such…

Google launched Local Services Ads (LSA) in 2015, starting with home services-type businesses. Google made LSAs available to attorneys in 2021. Jim Christy, President of Postali, spoke with Zack Glaser, Legal Tech Advisor, about how law firms can use LSAs and their potential rewards and risks.  LSA Primer  LSAs differ from Google’s primary advertising tool,…

Cannabis companies are often unclear about what edible products are legal to manufacture and distribute. While some cannabis edibles may be legal on a state level, federal regulations prohibit placing some cannabinoids in food altogether. This legal landscape is often confusing for cannabis edibles manufactures, who see their products as a natural expansion of cannabis…

Changing a business name with the IRS can be done in one of two ways. Corporations and LLCs can check the name change box while filing their annual tax return with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). You can notify the IRS through a name-change letter if the change needs to be quicker or if you’ve…

Last week’s decision by the Alabama Supreme Court in LePage v. Center for Reproductive Medicine, P.C., is most notable for its use of the extreme rhetoric of the fetal personhood movement—calling frozen embryos “extrauterine children,” for example. Joanna L. Grossman and Sarah F. Corning quite rightly called much of the reasoning of the opinion “nonsense.”…

One of the first decisions business owners must make is what type of accounting method they’ll use to track their income and expenses. There are two main methods of accounting: accrual accounting and cash accounting. Both are useful in certain scenarios, although for larger businesses, tax authorities in some geographies generally require accrual accounting be…

I have written before about the cache associated with a handful of unpublished opinions from the North Carolina Court of Appeals. Sure, they aren’t binding, but they can be persuasive. My guess is that the Court’s December 2023 opinion in State v. C.K.D.. No. COA23-204, 2023 WL 8748032, ___ N.C. App. ___, 895 S.E.2d 923…