Each video in our Wellness Wherever series is designed to bring wellness into your home or wherever life takes you during these unprecedented times. Shelter-in-place has put increased reliance on cooking at home and everyone is getting tired of the same old recipes. In this lighthearted session, celebrity chef Katie Chin, cooks up some recipes from her latest cookbook. Continue reading Food Fatigue (Wellness Wherever)
Each video in our Wellness Wherever series is designed to bring wellness into your home or wherever life takes you during these unprecedented times. Working parents are spending another semester juggling work-from-home with school-from-home. In this video, Licensed Marriage Family Therapist and Independent Study Coordinator, Sheryl Kolker, provides advice and best practices on helping your kids perform better in a school-from-home environment. Continue reading Juggling Homeschooling (Wellness Wherever)
Each video in our Wellness Wherever series is designed to bring wellness into your home or wherever life takes you during these unprecedented times. In this video, high performance life coach and former Olympic athlete, Jeff Spencer, shares his thoughts on creating a champion mindset, which is rooted in resilience. His experience in coaching Tiger Woods, Richard Branson, U2, and many others is based on … Continue reading Mastering Resilience (Wellness Wherever)
Each video in our Wellness Wherever series is designed to bring wellness into your home or wherever life takes you during these unprecedented times. The mental health of our children has never been more critical and challenging than during the isolation caused by COVID. In this video, nationally certified counselor and school culture expert, JC Pohl, will take you through his program on resiliency and … Continue reading Teen Truth (Wellness Wherever)
Charitable Remainder Trusts and Charitable Lead Trusts: California Attorney General Registration Rules Written by Jeffrey Davine It is common knowledge in the nonprofit community that a charitable entity operating in California is required to register with the California Attorney General. The initial registration is accomplished by filing Form CT-1 with the California Attorney General and paying the registration fee. The Form CT-1 should be filed … Continue reading Do CRTs and CLTs Need To Be Registered With the CA Attorney General?
Written by Elaine K. Kim and Elaine Nguyen The Second Circuit recently issued an important decision, In re Jackson, No. 19-480, — F.3d —, 2020 WL 4810706 (2d Cir. Aug. 19, 2020), in which it held that a state law right of publicity claim was barred on the ground of implied copyright preemption. While implied preemption—also known as conflict preemption—has come up in other copyright … Continue reading Copyright Preemption Remix – The Second Circuit Finds Implied Preemption of Right of Publicity Claim Relating to Remixes on Mixtape
Written by Sofia Castillo and Marissa B. Lewis In Tiffany and Co et al v. Costco Wholesale Corp., No. 17-2798 (2d Cir., Aug. 17, 2020) the Second Circuit vacated and remanded for trial a 2017 decision issued by the Southern District of New York that awarded fine jewelry giant Tiffany & Co. over $21 million in damages arising from Costco’s use of the term “Tiffany” … Continue reading A Jewel of an Opinion or Missing the Mark? Second Circuit Holds that Costco’s Use of “Tiffany” May Be Descriptive
Written by David S. Rugendorf Faced with logistical difficulties in producing work authorization documents (EAD cards), a growing backlog of applications and related litigation, the USCIS announced yesterday (August 19, 2020) that it would, in limited circumstances, allow paper I-797 approval notices to suffice as evidence of employment authorization, even though these notices explicitly state that they are not valid as evidence of same. US … Continue reading USCIS: Approval Notices May (Temporarily) Evidence Authorization to Work in US
What to do about potential tax hikes with a possible change in Presidential Administrations Written by Allan Cutrow A recent commentary by Philip DeMuth in the Wall Street Journal suggested that a tax hike under a Biden administration would be quite severe. In addition to warning about income tax adjustments affecting rates and capital gains taxation, Mr. DeMuth cautioned that potentially significant changes to the … Continue reading The Sky Is Falling
Written by Timothy M. Carter Following a publicized commitment to increased cybersecurity enforcement, the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) initiated its first enforcement action against First American Title Insurance Co. (“First American”) on July 22, 2020. Stemming from First American’s alleged failure to adequately safeguard highly confidential, personal consumer information – including bank account numbers and statements, mortgage and tax records, Social Security … Continue reading New York’s Department of Financial Services Initiates Its First Enforcement Action Under Its 2017 Cybersecurity Regulations
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