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The New Math
The employer mandate under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which requires large employers to provide health insurance for their full-time employees or pay a penalty, is set to take effect on Jan. 1, 2015. (A special transition rule, described below, delays the effective date until 2016 for some of these large employers.) Regulations released by the Internal Revenue Service on Feb. 12, 2014, set forth the final rules that an employer must use to determine whether it is a large employer subject to the mandate. See, 79 Fed. Reg. 8543 (Feb. 12, 2014). With just over six months to go, the time is ripe for employers to determine whether they will be considered large employers and if so, to determine appropriate next steps.
A large employer is one that employed an average of at least 50 full-time employees and full-time equivalent employees (FTEs) on business days during the preceding calendar year. That is, whether an employer is a large employer in 2015 will depend on how many full-time employees and FTEs it employed on business days during 2014. An employer must take a number of steps in order to make this determination.
Why So Many Great Lawyers Stink at Business Development and What Law Firms Are Doing About It
Why is it that those who are best skilled at advocating for others are ill-equipped at advocating for their own skills and what to do about it?
Bankruptcy Sales: Finding a Diamond In the Rough
There is no efficient market for the sale of bankruptcy assets. Inefficient markets yield a transactional drag, potentially dampening the ability of debtors and trustees to maximize value for creditors. This article identifies ways in which investors may more easily discover bankruptcy asset sales.
The DOJ's Corporate Enforcement Policy: One Year Later
The DOJ's Criminal Division issued three declinations since the issuance of the revised CEP a year ago. Review of these cases gives insight into DOJ's implementation of the new policy in practice.
A Lawyer's System for Active Reading
Active reading comprises many daily tasks lawyers engage in, including highlighting, annotating, note taking, comparing and searching texts. It demands more than flipping or turning pages.
Protecting Innovation in the Cyber World from Patent Trolls
With trillions of dollars to keep watch over, the last thing we need is the distraction of costly litigation brought on by patent assertion entities (PAEs or "patent trolls"), companies that don't make any products but instead seek royalties by asserting their patents against those who do make products.