Gun Trusts in Estate Planning: No Time To Be Quick on the Trigger

When considering an estate plan, clients who own firearms should remember that very often, their firearms require special consideration and planning, particularly given the intricacies of federal, state, and local gun laws and regulations. Gun trusts are a common mechanism for ensuring ease of ownership and inheritance of certain types of firearms and other weapons…

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How IRS Is Cracking Down on Employee Retention Tax Credit Fraud

The Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) has recently devoted great attention to detecting, investigating, and prosecuting fraud, particularly as it relates to the Employee Retention Tax Credit (“ERC”) post-COVID. On a webinar broadcast on July 25, 2023, hosted by the IRS’s Office of Fraud Enforcement and National Fraud Counsel, the presenters noted that ERC claims top…

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WHAT IF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & MACHINE LEARNING MEAN THAT SKYNET IS YOUR HOSPITAL’S NEXT ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD

Imagine a hospital emergency room ten years from now. Sam Brown, a car crash-victim, has come in with severe, life-threatening injuries. ER admissions staff enter Sam’s information into the hospital’s artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced electronic health record (EHR) system. From this point forward, every medical device that interacts with the patient (e.g., vital signs monitors, surgical…

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