According to a new report from legal consultants BTI Consulting Group, spending on outside counsel will continue to drop next year. In 2008 spending on oustide counsel averaged out at…
Dublin, Ireland’s Matheson Ormsby Prentice is laying off 25 lawyers from the firm’s corporate & commercial, banking & financial services, and tax departments. The firm is also cutting salaries by…
The “evil” Internal Revenue Service, which I always have to remind people doesn’t keep the money, has created two internships for law students who are studying tax law. The division…
Celebrity news, via the Tax Prof Blog: The Biggest Tax “Cheats” of 2008: Wesley Snipes Formerly famous actor. Required to pay $217,363 in prosecuting costs — despite being acquitted. Joe…
The Wisconsin Law Journal discusses how busy the last month of the year can be for lawyers: …because firms the size of Foley & Lardner (310 attorneys) and Quarles &…
After an hour’s deliberation, an Oakland, California jury acquitted former Bechtel global tax manager Mark Muntean on charges that he caused the company to file a false tax return. Federal…
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