DOL Overtime Rule: Good Intentions?
“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” On Wednesday, May 18, 2016, with good intentions to “raise middle class wages and help working families get ahead”, the federal Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued its final rule updating overtime protections. This is the first major change to the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) since […]
Establishing Global Software Product Distribution Networks
Your company (Company) has established a successful U.S. software product licensing and distribution network, and you are now considering expanding that network internationally. What steps need to be taken? Will the licensing and product support efforts be direct efforts (directly between the Company and the end user) or via third party resellers located in the […]
API Use Legal Considerations
As more and more websites interact with one another, with the express permission of one another or otherwise, the methods of that interaction and the legal consequences continue to come under more and more scrutiny. One avenue for interaction between websites is through Application Programming Interfaces (API’s).
New Federal Trade Secret Right Created
With President Obama’s signature on May 11, 2016 of the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (“DTSA”), a new intellectual property right under federal law came into existence in the United States. The statute, passed almost unanimously in both houses of Congress, creates one particularly powerful ex parte seizure remedial option in limited circumstances. The Act’s […]
Culhane Meadows Partner Linda Priebe Earns CIPP/E Certification
Culhane Meadows, PLLC is pleased to announce that Linda Priebe in our DC office has earned the ANSI-accredited Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E) credential from the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). Linda becomes our 4th certified privacy attorney. Privacy professionals are the arbiters of trust in today’s data-driven global economy.
Robert Kiggins Moderates International Tax Panel
On March 8, 2016 Robert Kiggins moderated a panel discussion in New York City sponsored by The International Business Structuring Association based in London, England. The panel discussion focused on “How the Global Tax Environment is Changing the Way Companies Do Business.” The program included: Recent developments in the OECD BEPS (base erosion and profit shifting) implementation, […]
U.S. Releases EU-US Privacy Shield Fact Sheet
Does your U.S. based company communicate with people living in the EU? Does it receive information or data from, or about, people in the EU? Does it have customers, contractors or suppliers in the EU? Does it have employees working in the EU? Is it one of the over 4,000 U.S. companies self-certified under […]
Good Guy Guaranty For Start-Up Tenant
Don’t Let the Good Guy Finish Last! You’re a good guy, right? Everyone says so. You work hard, play fair and try to do right by others. Now, you’ve quit your job to start your own business – which will inevitably sky-rocket you, your family and perhaps your college buddy or sibling who is taking […]
Leaving the (U.S.-EU Safe) Harbor, Taking Up an (EU-U.S.) Shield
While U.S. and EU authorities missed the January 16, 2016 deadline for replacement of the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework declared invalid by the EU high court late last year, new hope for a substitute arrangement has dawned
The New York Commercial Division Adds New Rules
The Commercial Division of New York’s Supreme Court turned 20 in 2015, an occasion marked by a conference and accompanying booklet on its accomplishments (link here: https://www.nycourts.gov/courts/comdiv/NY/PDFs/CDbrochure.pdf), and, in the last few weeks, by a 12-minute video birthday card of sorts (you can watch it at https://vimeo.com/151074229, using the password Justice). But lest you think […]
BEPS -Double Irish/ Dutch Sandwich Hybrid Entity Mismatches – Part II of II
THE CLASSIC DOUBLE IRISH WITH A DUTCH SANDWICH (“DIDS”) In Part I of this article, I discussed the mechanism by which some very prominent U.S. multinational companies have been able to reduce global income tax on mobile income, such as royalties on sales of software to, at times, almost nil by routing such income through […]
Beware Spear-Phishing on LinkedIn and other Social Media
In speaking on a panel regarding data security for the Institute of Internal Auditors last week, I became aware of a new type of security threat