As a recreation provider, you have a strong liability release and ensure all of your customers sign it before participating. Since the courts have ruled that a liability release is a binding and enforceable contract, you’re covered, right? In most cases, yes … but what if your client doesn’t speak English and claims they didn’t…

On November 11, 2015, Rimon Counsel David A. Fruchtman will guest lecture to Georgetown University Law Center’s graduate tax class on “Advising Foreign Businesses About American State and Local  Taxation — And a Few Words About Tax Haven Legislation.”

This presentation recaps some of the more “modern” legal ethics opinions of 2015 – those dealing with contemporary issues such as e-discovery, social media, lawyer-rating sites, virtual practices, and the representation of marijuana dispensaries. The presentation covers ethics opinions on these and other subjects issued by the State Bars of New York, California, Illinois and…

This presentation covers the most recent developments in California and Federal employment laws that impact small businesses. Topics include the hiring process, including background checks; proper classification of employees, independent contractors, and exempt versus non-exempt employees; issues that arise upon termination of employees; and the potential penalties for failing to comply with these laws. This…

atent litigation is expensive. Most cases settle because it is less expensive to pay a royalty to the patent owner (often a “patent troll”) than it is to litigate. But for those who choose to fight and then win, chances have improved to recover fees and expenses from the patent owner. In this webinar, we…

Mr. Wang joins Rimon from Duane Morris LLP, where he also served as partner. Mr. Wang’s bankruptcy and creditors’ rights practice includes representing secured and unsecured creditors, commercial lessors, financial institutions, business debtors, trustees, and committees in nearly all facets of corporate bankruptcy reorganization cases. He handles complex litigation, workout, restructuring and insolvency matters for…

Presentation by Rimon Partner and COO Yaacov P. Silberman. This presentation will recap some of the more “modern” legal ethics opinions of 2015 – those dealing with contemporary issues such as e-discovery, social media, lawyer-rating sites, virtual practices, and the representation of marijuana dispensaries. The presentation will cover ethics opinions on these and other subjects issued by…

Presentation provided by Rimon’s Jill Halley Penwarden and Natasha Dorsey. This presentation will cover the most recent developments in California and Federal employment laws that impact small businesses. Topics include the hiring process, including background checks; proper classification of employees, independent contractors, and exempt versus non-exempt employees; issues that arise upon termination of employees; and the potential penalties…

On October 19, 2015 the following article written by Rimon’s Michael Moradzadeh and Buz Barclay was published in Law 360. You can also see the article on the Law 360 site here. Earlier this year an International Trade Commission Law Judge found that Dacheng Dentons, a 6,000 + lawyer enterprise structured as a Swiss verein, holds…

Rimon Partner, and former President of George Washington University, Stephen Trachtenberg was quoted in Inside Higher Education’s article Rush to Revoke (or Not) and in The Chronicle of Higher Education’s article The University Wants Back the Honorary Degree, Please. The articles explored the controversial question of whether the universities that granted Bill Cosby honorary degrees should now revoke them. “What…