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Tax Benefits Continue For Trial Lawyers, But Lines Are Drawn
IRS will take a significant glimpse at plaintiff attorney cost deferral for the initially time in two decades. Getty Images Last month, for the initially time in two many years, the IRS took a significant glimpse at plaintiff attorney fee deferrals. In its December, 2022, Generic Lawful Advice Memorandum (the “GLAM”), the IRS regarded and turned down a hypothetical deferral with a specially bad established of information (the “Aggressive Deferral”). While this kind of intense details are unusual, the GLAM also previews how the IRS would examine far more conservative payment deferrals. Quite a few settlement planners, people who suggest plaintiff attorneys, see this as an option to emphasize how…
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Law Land Lines: Property Law and the Transformation of Seattle’s Terrain
Scripture envisages a time when “Every valley shall be lifted up/ every mountain and hill made low / and the uneven ground shall become level .…” (Isa. 40:4 (RSV).) While the meaning of this prophecy is quite another story, the imagery fits one surveyor’s mission to transform Seattle at the turn of the twentieth century. R. H. Thomson, Seattle city engineer, ca. 1931. Museum of History & Industry Seattle was established on the hills and tidal mud flats along the eastern shore of Elliott Bay, a natural deep-water port in Puget Sound. Fed by a Mount Rainier glacier, the Duwamish River carried timber and coal to Elliott Bay for trade.…
