Court of Appeal Cases Create Confusion About The Enforceability of Mandatory Arbitration Clauses

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Navigating the enforceability of employer-employee arbitration provisions—seldom a straightforward task under California law—has been rendered more difficult following two recent California Court of Appeal decisions interpreting state precedent, the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”), and the United States Supreme Court’s opinions in Stolt-Nielsen S.A. v. AnimalFeeds International Corp. and AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion. In the first of these…

John Isaza on Information Management Best Practices

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In the summer edition of the EDDE Journal, a publication of the American Bar Association, Rimon’s John Isaza continues his series on Information Management best practices. In this second article, Ms. Helen Streck, the CEO of Kaizen InfoSource, LLC shares a detailed list of RIM standards and guidelines she has collected over the years. The entire article…

Trolls, Wizards, and the Pitfalls of Patenting

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Patents are back in the news. In the past few weeks alone, Microsoft bought AOL’s patent portfolio for $1 billion, then resold much of it to Facebook for $550 million. Twitter pledged to use its patents only defensively, and to give its employee-inventors a say in the company’s future patent litigation strategy. Controversial trials, appeals, rulings, and awards continue—prompting the Wall…

IRS issues new instructions on providing partners with Schedules K-1 in exclusively electronic form

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New instructions from the IRS—effective February 13, 2012—detail the procedure that partnerships must undertake when furnishing partners with Schedules K-1 in an electronic format. Consent required. Under the new procedure, persons required to furnish a paper statement on Schedule K-1 may provide the document in an electronic, rather than paper, format. Switching to an exclusively…