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Compensation and Compliance Matters: Lenders Get a Break on Background Checks
This content has been archived. It may no longer be relevantThe rock and hard place between which lenders have found themselves in regard to the use of hiring screens and disparate impact (in hiring) just got a bit softer. The Sixth Circuit—the first federal circuit to consider the issue—dismissed the EEOC’s (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)…
Read|Delete 4.15.14
The following are ten outrageous facts about taxes in the United States that will blow your mind 1. The U.S. tax code is now 3.8 million words long. If you took all of William Shakespeare’s works and collected them together, the entire collection would only be about 900,000 words long. 2. The IRS spends $2.45…
Biz Tek Today from Michael Mercurio
News of Significance for Entrepreneurs Welcome to BizTekToday (BTT), a new online resource for entrepreneurs. BTT recognizes that you are a busy leader in business and that your time to identify and read relevant news for your business is challenging. BTT seeks to lessen this burden by regularly gathering the best of the best news articles…
IAML President and Family Law Attorney takes stand against Forced Marriage
In 2012, Offit Kurman family law attorney Cheryl Hepfer was sworn in as the President of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (IAML), which is comprised of 700 of the most highly-regarded family law attorneys throughout the world. Ms. Hepfer also maintains a blog on the IAML website. In one of her first posts, “IAML…
Friday Factoid 4.11.14
In February 2014, a federal court ruled in favor of The Simpsons voice artist Hank Azaria and against Leap Year actor Craig Bierko in a copyright suit regarding one of Azaria’s characters, sportscaster Jim Brockmire. The judge ruled that the Brockmire character is copyrighted material owned by Azaria and How to Pictures, Inc. In his complaint,…
Business Litigation Attorney at Baltimore Business Journal Discussion
As you may recall from our blog on February 28th, on March 13 Offit Kurman President and Managing Principal of Legal Affairs Tim Lynch and several other local speakers – Belinda Sloot, CTP, Senior VP, Bank of America; and Michael Gentry, Shareholder & Co-Chair, KatzAbosch – took part in the Baltimore Business Journal’s “Knowledge is…
Compensation and Compliance Matters: How LO-to-LO Referrals Become Problems
At a glance, it would seem that there should be no problem with one loan officer referring a loan to another loan officer in the same branch and/or for a branch manager to refer loans to his/her loan officers. In fact, such a situation could create significant regulatory problems for a lender. In the comments…
Labor & Employment ALERT – Equal Pay Day And Obama’s Executive Orders
April 8th was designated as Equal Pay Day and President Obama used the occasion to take two executive actions which are in line with the special focus the White House has placed on women’s issues and strengthening enforcement of equal pay laws for women. First, President Obama will sign an executive order banning federal…
Bethesda Magazine names Three Family Law Attorneys “Top Divorce Lawyers”
Offit Kurman is very pleased to announce that two of our family law attorneys, Ronald L. Ogens and Cheryl L. Hepfer, were recently named two of the “Top Divorce Lawyers” by Bethesda Magazine and a third family law attorney Sara Donohue was given and honorable mention. Click Here to read the full article. Ronald Ogens Mr….
CAI-NC Piedmont Council sponsoring Leadership Workshop on April 29, 2014
Click on this link to see the flyer: CAI-NC workshop flyer
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