InformationWeek Magazine features Culhane Meadows as Leading Virtual Business
Culhane Meadows PLLC and our co-founder Kelly Culhane are featured in an InformationWeek article because we are recognized as being one of the top cloud-based law firms in the country. We are proud to be a trend-setter as we embrace technology and use outside the box thinking to build a better way to practice law! […]
Robert Kiggins quoted in Banking trade report on Large Cash Deposits
Robert Kiggins of Culhane Meadows’ New York office was consulted for and quoted in a report published on DepositAccounts.com titled: “Why you need to Be Careful with Large Cash Bank Deposits.”
Insurance Journal consults Terese Connolly on Non-Compete and Poaching Lawsuit
Our Chicago labor and employment partner, Terese Connolly, was interviewed by the national trade publication, Insurance Journal, concerning her insights about ongoing litigation over a non-compete and employee poaching lawsuit.
How EU Data Privacy Reform Will Impact U.S. Telecom Cos.
Expert Analysis by Linda V. Priebe, JD, CIPP/E, Law360, New York (March 21, 2017, 11:52 AM EDT) – Reprinted with permission. In a little more than 13 months, many U.S. communications companies, who think cross-border data protection rules don’t apply to them, will find out otherwise. It’s no secret that a new European Union and European […]
Branding in the Moment
Mobile devices have become extensions of our bodies and brains. We constantly are connected to them, using them virtually every time we want to know, find, watch or buy something. A 2016 study found that we look at our smart phone on average 2,617 times a day, for approximately 2.4 hours. Heavy users look at […]
COURT SUSTAINS “WHISTLEBLOWER” CLAIM UNDER NEW YORK’S REVISED NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION LAW
Following a multi-year effort, New York State adopted a comprehensive revision of its statute governing not-for-profit corporations that took effect in mid-2014.[1] Part of the revision was the enactment of a “Whistleblower Policy,” the purpose of which is “. . . to protect from retaliation persons who report suspected improper conduct.” N.Y. N-PCL §715-B(a). More […]
Trump Estate Tax Plan Outlook at Mid-December, 2016
Under current US law, for 2017, the estate and gift tax exemption will be $5.49 million per individual, up from $5.45 million in 2016. That means an individual can pass $5.49 million to his or her heirs and pay no federal estate or gift tax. Surviving spouses can port over each other’s unused exemptions, allowing […]
A 2016 Political Football: The New DOL Overtime Exemption Rule
Ready…Set…OH WAIT! The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) controversial new rule on overtime exemptions was to take effect this week,
COPYRIGHT OFFICE IMPLEMENTS ONLINE FILING FOR SAFE HARBOR COPYRIGHT AGENTS UNDER THE DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT (DMCA)
Following the passage of the DMCA in 1998, online service providers (such as hosts for web sites, email services, online forums or chat rooms) that wished to avoid liability for posting of copyrighted materials by third parties could avail themselves of a “safe harbor” under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c) by registering an agent with the […]
IBA Features CM Attorneys on Arctic Cruising & Taxation of Elite Athletes
The environment and cultural issues of the largest passenger cruise through the Arctic’s Northwest Passage and the tax-exposure of world-class athletes are two of the issues Culhane Meadows partners discussed at the 2016 International Bar Association annual conference in Washington, D.C. September 18-23. Robert J. Kiggins, Linda V. Priebe and David Jacoby participated at the […]
Four Partners Listed Among 2016-2017 Best Lawyers in America®
Congratulations to the following partners at Culhane Meadows who have been named to the Best Lawyers in America® listing for 2016-2017: Kevin Grierson, Technology Law (Washington, DC) James E. Meadows, Information Technology Law (Atlanta) Kevin D. Sheldon, Technology Law (Atlanta) Lynnette R. Warman, Bankruptcy Law (Dallas) Since it was first published in 1983, […]
Legal Concerns with Email Communications
Your company can’t function without email – it’s an immediate form of communication that no one can live without in today’s business world. Have you thought about what’s in those emails? What concerns should you have as your company runs its day-to-day business? Emails are governed by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) and the […]