Rimon’s Thomas White presented alongside Illinois Senator Heather Steans and and Rep. David Harris at the Institute for Truth in Accounting. The press release describing the event can be found here: http://www.pr.com/press-release/403759

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…

Why obey federal trademark law (aka the Lanham Act) when you can just pass a new law that exempts you from it? Montana’s Senators sure are slick and I’m betting the Last Best Beef wishes it had a beef with any other State besides Montana! Instead of federally registering and enforcing its rights in Montana’s…

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…

Rimon, PC is pleased to announce the expansion of its Hedge Funds/Private Investment Funds Group by the addition of two new partners, Mark Diamond and Thomas White. The expanded Group provides a wide variety of services to its client base of fund managers, institutional and high net worth investors and financial services companies. Rimon’s Hedge…

Rimon PC partner John Isaza alerted businesses of the brewing dangers for a host of unsuspecting industries in the Dodd-Frank Law. Mr. Isaza was quoted in the Wall Street Journal’s CIO Journal noting that companies engaged in swaps might have to record every phone call, instant message and voicemail relevant to the deals. As Mr.…

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…

Rimon’s Thomas White discusses the differences between independent contractors and employees in this issue of Society for Human Resource Management.

ISDA has announced the launch of the 2012 US Municipal Reference Entity CDS Protocol.  The purpose of the Protocol is to make similar changes to US Municipal CDS transactions (“Muni CDS”) as were made to corporate and sovereign CDS by the 2009 ISDA Credit Derivatives Determinations Committees and Auction Settlement CDS Protocol. The Protocol is open…

Rimon Law Welcomes Information Management Legal Pioneer John Isaza as a Partner in its Orange County Office Isaza has been involved in global issues of data management and security for over a decade; Associate Omero Bañuelos will also join the firm in Los Angeles. Laguna Beach, CA/San Francisco, CA (March 27, 2012) John Isaza, a pioneering…