Publications Archive

This article discusses personal jurisdiction in online infringement cases, including increased efforts by potential infringers to deactivate their websites in order to make it less apparent that the website is directing itself to customers located in other states and courts’ hesitance to recognize sales engineered by plaintiffs for jurisdictional purposes.

Beginning December 31, 2013, New York’s minimum wage increased from $7.25 to $8.00 per hour. The minimum wage will continue to rise incrementally on an annual basis until December 31, 2015.

New York employers were recently notified by the Unemployment Insurance Division of the New York State Department of Labor about changes in the unemployment insurance law. Although NYS 2607-2013 imposes numerous changes, the one that will have a significant impact on employment practices is the requirement that employers “timely” return and “adequately respond” to requests for information from the DOL. A failure to do so may result in the imposition of financial penalties.

This article highlights the basic nuts and bolts of cyber insurance, including the who, what, where, when and why of cyber insurance.

Between January 1 and February 1, 2014, all private employers must provide each of their New York employees a written notice containing detailed information regarding the terms and conditions of their employment.

This issue covers a new modification of the "use-or-lose" rule for health FSAs and other hot topics.

This article discusses the expansion of the FTC’s anti-“greenwashing” campaign to include companies making biodegradable plastic claims.

“Noonan's Notes on Tax Practice” appears regularly in the publication State Tax Notes.

This article by intellectual property attorney Anne F. Downey appears in the December 2013 edition of the Bulletin, the official publication of the Bar Association of Erie County.

On November 18, 2013, New York State joined forces with the U.S. Department of Labor Department in an information-sharing program that will enhance inter-agency enforcement of worker misclassification.

This article discusses the strategies high-net-worth Canadians with real estate interests in the United States can adopt to avoid U.S. estate tax exposure.

A look at religious employers and the women's contraceptive mandate and much more

The IRS announced cost-of-living adjustments to various dollar limitations that will apply to benefit plans for 2014.

The America Invents Act provides that an applicant may pay certain fees at a 75 percent discount if the applicant qualifies as a micro entity. Read about it in this alert.

In this article published in State Tax Notes, tax attorneys Timothy P. Noonan and Lance E. Rothenberg discuss New York State's new initiative to suspend the driver's license of any taxpayer who owes at least $10,000 in back taxes.

This article by intellectual property attorney Anne F. Downey appears in the November 2013 edition of the Bulletin, the official publication of the Bar Association of Erie County.