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,…

On May 28th, 2015, Rimon’s Ashley Dymond, spoke on an international panel of young lawyers about the various risks and liabilities associated with cloud security on a global stage. Ashley was part of a panel comprised of corporate lawyers, specializing in data privacy, from Austria, France, and Greece. The panel discussed best practices for multinational corporations, focusing on cloud computing…

On April 30, 2015, Rimon’s co-founder and COO Yaacov Silberman spoke at the FutureLaw conference at Stanford University, hosted by The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics (CodeX). Yaacov was part of a panel of law firm innovators discussing their experience in developing or adopting technologies that enhance their legal services for their clients. The panel also…

Rimon Partner Thomas White and Mark Rosenman of Newport Board Group discuss the risks and benefits of outsourcing employees in Today’s General Counsel. You can read the full article here.

Rimon’s Stephen Trachtenberg, the President Emeritus of George Washington University, tells eCampus News that many for profit schools are converting to nonprofits to evade the rigorous scrutiny of the for-profit sector because if they go nonprofit, they’ll be treated more benignly.  According to Trachtenberg, “It’s perfectly legal, but if I were a regulator for the government, I’d…