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Contact: Berger Singerman LLP (Florida, USA)  This month’s Tax Alert discusses a recent IRS Office of Chief Counsel Memorandum which concludes that a testamentary limited power of appointment may not be sufficient ...

By: Mary E. Pivec and Ashley W. WinskyWilliams Mullen (North Carolina and Virginia, USA)On March 19, 2012, the Mayor of the District of Columbia signed the Unemployed Anti-Discrimination Act of 2012 (the “Act”). The ...

Contact: Boodle Hatfield (London, England) In this update we look at recent announcements of significance to both commercial and residential properties including the SDLT changes made in the Budget ...

By: Anthony Amendola and Jorja CiriglianaMitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP (Los Angeles, California, USA)The California Wage Theft Prevention Act (WTPA), which became effective on January 1, 2012, requires private-sector e ...

By: John Staige Davis, VWilliams Mullen (North Carolina and Virginia, USA)Can a would-be trademark-infringer evade the trademark laws by superimposing facsimiles of two different trademarks of the same company into a sin ...

By: Mark S. Thomas & Robert W. ShawWilliams Mullen (North Carolina and Virginia, USA)In Tussey v. ABB, Inc., No. 2:06-cv-04305 (Western District of Missouri, March 31, 2012), a class action case brought by present and fo ...