Shine a Light on Your Dark Data EIDC predicts 50x growth of data by 2020, 90% of which will be unstructured information. Enterprises needing to comply with emerging regulation, such as the Dodd Frank Act, are looking for methodologies and solutions to overcome the challenge of dark data – addressing the unmanaged electronic information repositories…

Commodity Futures Trading Commission Extends Compliance Date for Dodd-Frank Protocol to May 1, 2013 in Order to Give Market Participants Additional Time to Adhere. Buy side market participants received a holiday gift from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) – compliance deadlines for the business conduct and documentation rules (the “Business Conduct Rules“) related to the…

Accountable Care Organizations by their very nature are structured in a way that implicates the so-called “Fraud and Abuse Laws.”  ACO provider participants have a financial stake in the organization, refer patients to other providers within the ACO, and share information about patients and practices – all warning flags for running afoul of the fraud…

By eliminating wasteful real estate costs and investing in client-facing technologies, these lawyers and law firms are delivering excellent, efficient and innovative legal services to their clients. Technologies that have been locked down behind law firm firewalls are being moved into the cloud.

Somewhere in the suburbs of Seattle, never mind where exactly, there is a little apocryphal, bakery called FRIAR ANGELINO’S.  It makes the best bread imaginable – a circle of sourdough, with a flaky outer crust and a warm, spongy interior.  Above the entrance is an old weather-beaten sign depicting a rotund, smiling monk, with a…

Rimon P.C. New York partner Bernays “Buz” Barclay has been named a Best Lawyer in the practice of Energy Law by The Best Lawyers in America 19th edition, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession ranking. Buz heads Rimon’s Energy and Infrastructure Transactions Practice. He has co-founded and served as a…

Rimon continues to receive recognition from the top levels of the legal world, and we continue to grow in new and exciting directions. This autumn, we were honored by both the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers 2012 list as well as the American Bar Association’s official publication, the ABA Journal, as one of their top 10…

Rimon, P.C. and Bernstein commissioned a study on tax consequences of diversifying and divesting concentrated stock holdings in 2012 versus 2013 to get a sense for the impact of changing tax rates, including new healthcare taxes, on selling and diversifying private stock. The study explores the upfront tax difference in executing trades this year versus…

Let’s say that you are a physician in a primary care practice, and the local hospital has asked you to join an Accountable Care Organization (“ACO”) that the hospital is forming.  What should you do?  Is this a good idea or not?  What questions do you need to ask in order to make an informed…

Among the many issues for consideration when forming an Accountable Care Organization are those related to legal structure and governance.  Here are the top five things to consider in forming an ACO. 1.  LEGAL STRUCTURE What form of legal entity should the ACO take?  Should it be for-profit or not-for-profit?  Should it be formed as a…