Two Rimon Partners will be presenting at the upcoming Legaltech West Coast conference, to take place on July 13-14, 2015 in San Francisco, CA. LegalTech is a premier legal technology conference hosted by ALM Media. John Isaza, FAI, will participate in a panel titled “The New Big Bang: 21st Century Information Governance Challenges”. The panel…

Thousands of American subnational governmental units (states and localities) impose taxes. These taxes include “sales taxes,” which are imposed on sales to end users of goods and certain services, and “use taxes,” which are imposed on such purchases when sales tax applies but was not collected. Across the US, combined state and local tax rates…

Rimon Partner Stephen Trachtenberg was a guest presenter at the Legatum Institute, London, UK in June 2015 where he spoke on “How Technology is Disrupting Higher Education in the United States.” This 6-minute podcast is an interview made directly after his talk.

The ABA has appointed Rimon partner, Pamela Marie Egan, to a two-year term as the Co-Chair of the Russian Eurasian Law Committee of the American Bar Association, Section of International Law, effective, August 2015. Ms. Egan belongs to Rimon’s stellar Corporate, Financial Services, and Litigation teams, specializing in bankruptcy, restructuring, and dispute resolution, locally, regionally,…

Mr. Terry joins Rimon from Gunderson Dettmer, a Silicon Valley law firm specializing in representing emerging growth companies, where he co-launched the firm’s first international office in Beijing. Previously we was a partner at DLA Piper, one of the world’s largest law firms. Mr. Terry has extensive experience representing his clients on cross-border investments, market…

On June 16 San Francisco-based rideshare service Uber Technologies filed notice that it intends to appeal a decision issued by the California Labor Commissioner earlier this month, which determined that a former driver should have been classified as an employee, not an independent contractor. The driver, Barbara Berwick, sought unpaid wages, expenses, and penalties under…

One400 named Rimon’s website as one of the top four law firm websites. According to One400 Rimon’s site “is one of the first law firm websites we have come across that features a full-page background video which quickly sends a message that this law firm is innovative and different. Adding to the dynamism of the homepage, the…

Rimon Partner John Isaza, head of information governance and records management practices, believes that the unlawful access to taxpayers’ prior-year tax return through the app ‘Get Transcript’ is not necessarily a data breach.  ‘It’s more an issue of taking the hacking to the next level,’ he says.  They’ve been collecting all this data by hacking…

Rimon, P.C. is pleased to announce that Michael Vargas has been appointed Chair of the Social Entrepreneurship Committee of the ABA Business Law Section’s Corporate Social Responsibility Task Force.  This Committee will focus on the interests of social entrepreneurs, mission-driven companies, and the attorneys who support them in the American Bar Association to advance, support,…

Chicago (June 2, 2015) Expanding its team of tax attorneys, Rimon Law has added Susan F. Klein as a Partner in its Chicago office. Ms. Klein was previously a partner at both Polsinelli and Winston & Strawn. Ms. Klein represents clients in tax and private international transactions matters, including mergers, acquisitions and dispositions of businesses, entity formations,…