Rimon Law welcomes employment attorney Robert Cocchia as Partner in its San Diego office

Rimon Law welcomes Robert Cocchia as a Partner on its Employment, Litigation, and Technology teams in the firm’s San Diego Office. Mr. Cocchia joins Rimon from Dentons where he also was Partner. Mr. Cocchia concentrates his practice on employment litigation and employment counseling, consumer class actions, and complex business/commercial disputes. At Rimon, Mr. Cocchia joins a team with decades of complex…

Two Special Trusts to “Stretch” IRAs

After the SECURE Act, most IRA beneficiaries are required to withdraw the balance of the account within 10 years after the owner’s death. The details of those rules can be found in Brent’s prior post here. In that post, Brent also introduced the concept of using an Accumulation Trust (i.e. a trust as beneficiary of an IRA that…

IRS Provides Several Items of Relief Benefiting Qualified Opportunity Funds and their Investors

On June 4, 2020, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Notice 2020-39 that contains relief for several of the time-sensitive requirements for qualified opportunity funds (QOFs) and for taxpayers who invest capital gains in qualified opportunity zones (QOZs).  The QOZ program designates economically-distressed communities (more than 8,700 QOZs nationwide) and encourages private investment and economic growth…

Rimon Partner Mark Lee’s article “The past through tomorrow: How would proposed amendments to DMCA change the online economy?” published in the Daily Journal

A recent report by the Copyright Office includes a series of recommendations on how to reallocate rights and risks in ways some stakeholders like and others do not. Information wants to be free, but intellectual property wants to be protected. The tension between these technological and legal truisms is at the core of the compromises…

Audit committee self-evaluation process and format (and for boards and other committees)

A.  Introduction and Overview The following discussion specifically covers audit committee self-evaluations and provides processes that you can use – this discussion can also be used for board and other committee self-evaluations and processes, such as for governance and risk committees. As noted elsewhere in these materials, although many board and audit committee functions, responsibilities…

Rimon Partner Juan Zuniga participates in SDVLP COVID-19 legal advice clinic

Rimon Partner Juan Zuniga recently participated in the San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Progam (SDVLP), COVID-19 Small Business and Nonprofit Brief Legal Advice Clinic, which provides free legal help to eligible small businesses and nonprofits impacted by the pandemic. Participating attorneys provided pro bono legal advice on a variety of issues arising out of the COVID-19 crisis, including:…

Rimon Partner challenges inadequacy of mail-in voting procedures

States around the country are grappling with the issue of balancing the coronavirus and stay-at-home orders with the constitutional right to vote in the upcoming General Election. A growing number of states have “beefed up” their vote-by-mail procedures, while others, like Florida, are reluctant to improve the accessibility of these procedures. This lawsuit is non-partisan. It concerns…

Rimon Partner Mark Lee’s first impression ruling on legal fee recoverability covered by Bloomberg and Law.com The Recorder

Rimon Partner Mark Lee drafted the briefing and was the architect of the legal strategy that resulted in a ruling from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on the recoverability of legal fees in a declaratory relief action to establish copyright infringement liability and was covered in Bloomberg Law and Law.com The Recorder. In what it called an issue…