Toeing the line of data security regulations by using the bare minimum security available could be doubly risky for businesses. Not only does inadequate data security make breaches easier, but regulators are ramping up efforts to fine companies whose policies led to breaches

Subrogation.  Few outside of the legal or insurance profession could probably define the term. That said, few inside the legal profession can define the term in such a way as to make the average person understand what it is, and how it works.

Equity stripping, the process of encumbering an asset with liens as a means of protecting the asset from future creditors, is one of the oldest asset protection strategies.

Last week, the Obama administration unveiled measures to help stop the use of anonymous shell companies engaged in tax evasion, money laundering, and other nefarious schemes by requiring disclosure of actual company owners.

Back in February, I wrote about a pending case before the United States Supreme Court styled Heffernan v. City of Patterson, New Jersey, where at issue was whether “the First Amendment bars demotion of a public employee based on the employee’s support of a particular political candidate.”

The idea of paying taxes and filing tax returns can be unsettling, especially for the many Americans who don’t intimately understand all the rules of the IRS[1] and federal income tax. There are time limitations though known as statute of limitations.

Most people are at least generally familiar with the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. constitution and the right it protects—for a person to be free from illegal searches and seizures.

With little notice or attention, U.S. Tax Court Judge Diane L. Kroupa retired from the bench four years before her 15-year term ended. At the time, it was unclear what prompted her sudden retirement.

Less than six weeks since it was criticized in a published opinion of a federal court, in which the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit admonished the IRS for the professional conduct of its attorneys,[1] the IRS now faces sanctions more serious than a verbal reprimand.

State taxes, the less popular news target than oft-cited federal taxes, often shape business and political decision-making that stretches beyond a single state. Tax considerations affect which companies do business where and even where taxpayers choose to live.

The IRS Whistleblower Office pays a handsome reward to those who provide information to the IRS that leads to the collection of unpaid taxes. I call it a “handsome” reward because the IRS awards a whistleblower between 15% and 30% of the total proceeds it collects as a result of that information.

Senate Bill 2123, currently colloquially called “Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015,” finally brings some reasoned reforms to the often too-harsh federal sentencing system.

At least 90% of American adults own a cell phone[1], the vast majority of which are smartphones[2]. Arguably, these devices have had a more profound effect on the way we live and work than any other invention in history

I recently came across an article that illustrated how little most people understand about repossessions. This can be a confusing aspect of the law. To make matters worse, repossessions are often wrapped up with the emotions that come with the ownership, or at least possession, of property.

Granting a conservation land easement to a charitable organization or city can be a pretty good deal for taxpayers. Frequently in residential and mixed-use development, the developer will opt to conserve land as “open space” in order to enhance the esthetic appeal of the residential community.

As predicted, the leaked Panama Papers—11.5 million documents detailing the use of anonymous shell corporations to conceal wealth and avoid taxes by some of the richest and most prominent members of society—have now spurred an investigation by the U.S.’ Department of Justice into the international tax avoidance schemes exposed therein.