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 This webinar will provide insights into ways to assess and litigate allegations of child sexual abuse arising in the context of child custody matters. Read more

Have you ever considered becoming a NFL Players Association certified agent? If you've been interested in helping NFL players and prospects through contract negotiations, getting certified and passing the tests involved is your first step. Marcus Wiggins, NFLPA Certified Contract Advisor, is here to walk you through the process and give you tips on what you'll need to understand in order to properly advise players. Read more

In most single-plaintiff employment cases, more time is spent in discovery than in all other activities combined. Employment cases are often lost or won in discovery. How important is it who goes first? What documents and information should employer advocates be sure to request from the employee? What documents and information should employee advocates request? How should the employer’s lawyer approach the plaintiff’s deposition, and what questions should be asked? Whose depositions should the employee’s lawyer take, and what questions should be asked? What discovery should each side pursue in later rounds of discovery? Attend this intermediate-level webinar and find out. Read more

Fraud in the California Workers Compensation System: What is it? What is the law? Who is doing it? What should we look out for to identify it? And what do we as a community need to know to avoid it and to prevent, report and punish it when it occurs? Read more

The Singapore Mediation Convention was signed on August 7 and will facilitate the enforcement of international settlement agreements arising from mediation.  The webinar will focus on the key concepts and  issues that shall be taken into account for intellectual property practitioners. Read more

This webinar offers the latest developments involving Section 285, covering cases in which attorneys’ fees were awarded based on (1) pre-litigation investigation and (2) PTAB filings, and cases granting fees before the Court of Federal Claims and denying fees on appeal. Read more

As Optivo, the world renowned anti-cancer drug, was developed by Tasuku Honjyo, the Nobel laureate, in 2017, R&D on antibody drugs has come to draw more attention than ever. In light of Japanese patent practice, pharmaceutical companies and research institutes face new challenges on the scope of patent protection when filing applications related to antibody drug patents. In his presentation, Dr. Iida will provide a brief outline of the patent practice related to antibody drugs and how you can prepare your specification to cover a broad scope of protection in Japan. Read more

State antitrust enforcers have been notably active (and notably inactive) in several recent high-profile mergers, but it is not often clear which mergers will receive scrutiny and which will receive a pass from state attorneys general. Please join us for a free webinar featuring a panel of top antitrust enforcers from New York, California, and Virginia who will share their perspectives on the types of matters that invite states’ scrutiny, discuss the procedural and substantive differences in merger investigations by state attorneys general and investigations by the FTC and the DOJ, and provide highlights from recent enforcement actions. Read more

With deferral of U.S. income taxation of foreign earnings largely gone, a working knowledge of the new and changed mechanisms for elimination of double taxation is needed by tax practitioners.  In addition to covering the new participation exemption and the many changes to the foreign tax credit regime, the webinar will cover changes to the allocation of expenses under the expanded basket system for the determination of limits on the crediting of foreign income tax, treatment of withholding taxes and distributions of previously taxed foreign earnings, allocation of distributions from foreign corporation among the various categories of previously taxed income and other earnings and profits and the election by U.S. individuals of C corporation treatment for inclusion of foreign earnings under Subpart F and GILTI under Section 962.  These topics will be covered through a series of worked examples. Read more

TCAJA introduced two alternative tax regimes available to U.S. based businesses serving foreign markets.  The two regimes are the Foreign Derived Intangible Income (FDII) available only to domestic C corporations and Qualified Business Income (QBI) Deduction (§199A).  FDII offered a 13.125% effective corporate tax for C corporations.  QBI offers an effective rate of 29.6% to individuals and noncorporate owners of passthrough business entities.  These two essentially alternative and mutually exclusive concepts need to be considered by practitioners advising clients with foreign customers.  Both provisions with emphasis on FDII will be illustrated with worked examples reflecting the latest available guidance. Read more