API Use Legal Considerations

  As more and more websites interact with one another, with the express permission of one another or otherwise, the methods of that interaction and the legal consequences continue to come under more and more scrutiny. One avenue for interaction between websites is through Applica
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Ajay Mago speaks at Chief Information Security Officers Conference in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES—Ajay Mago, a partner in our Dallas and Chicago offices, was a featured presenter at Argyle Executive Forum’s 2016 Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Leadership Conference on May 11, 2016 at the Los Angeles Omni Hotel. The title of Mago’s panel presentation was Send
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Commercial Property Lease Renewals: Getting A Head Start

Landlords negotiate leases every day, but most tenants do not.  They’re usually too busy running their own businesses and probably less familiar with the leasing process as well. Thus, tenants tend to forget about their lease renewals and leave themselves insufficient time to evaluate
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Dissolving a Business Entity 

Here’s an unglamorous, often dealt with but seldom discussed, topic that affects every corporation, LLC or other registered business entity.  That is, voluntarily dissolving an entity no longer to be used. There may be valid reasons not to dissolve an entity, or to delay its dissoluti
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A Primer on Mediation and Arbitration

Most business people, and many lawyers who don’t try lawsuits for a living, don’t know much about mediation or arbitration, the two most common forms of alternative dispute resolution.  Nearly everyone’s heard of these procedures, but most people don’t learn much about them until they
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Robert Kiggins Moderates International Tax Panel

On March 8,  2016 Robert Kiggins moderated a panel discussion in New York City sponsored by The International Business Structuring Association based in London, England. The panel discussion focused on “How the Global Tax Environment is Changing the Way Companies Do Business.” The prog
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Defining Occurence In Insurance Policies

A basic risk management tool for just about any kind of organization is its liability insurance coverage.  Despite its ubiquity, however, some fairly basic provisions of a liability insurance policy, such as its definition of an occurrence, can still yield unpleasant surprises,
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Ransomware:   An Increased Cybersecurity Threat For Businesses

In its recently released Ransomware:   An Increased Cybersecurity Threat For Businesses, the Online Trust Alliance reported that cybercriminals are increasingly targeting businesses with ransomware realizing the value of the data they hold hostage.   Ransomware is malicious software t
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Good Guy Guaranty For Start-Up Tenant

Don’t Let the Good Guy Finish Last! You’re a good guy, right?  Everyone says so.  You work hard, play fair and try to do right by others.  Now, you’ve quit your job to start your own business  – which will inevitably sky-rocket you, your family and perhaps your
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The New York Commercial Division Adds New Rules

The Commercial Division of New York’s Supreme Court turned 20 in 2015, an occasion marked by a conference and accompanying booklet on its accomplishments (link here: https://www.nycourts.gov/courts/comdiv/NY/PDFs/CDbrochure.pdf), and, in the last few weeks, by a 12-minute video birthd
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BEPS -Double Irish/ Dutch Sandwich Hybrid Entity Mismatches – Part II of II

THE CLASSIC DOUBLE IRISH WITH A DUTCH SANDWICH (“DIDS”) In Part I of this article, I discussed the mechanism by which some very prominent U.S. multinational companies have been able to reduce global income tax on mobile income, such as royalties on sales of software to, at times, almo
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Kim Verska presents on Legal Issues of a Data Breach to Internal Audit Professionals

On January 8, 2016, Culhane Meadows partner and CIO Kim Verska participated on a panel called “Perspectives on Managing Securities Breaches” before 150 executives from the internal audit industry. 
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