Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, academic research is more important than ever and the large-scale shift to distance learning at colleges and universities around the world means students need new forms of access to content. In response to these new...

We're thrilled to announce our 2020 Spring Sale! With most academic conferences canceled, classes moved online, and retail options limited, we wanted to offer an easy and affordable way to buy our books. With Penn Press's SPRING SALE, U.S. customers...

Last week, Internet Archive, a nonprofit group, announced that it would drop the access restrictions for its scanned books to make them widely available to readers during the coronavirus outbreak.

Some companies have engaged doctors and therapists to talk to employees over webinars and answer questions related to the virus.

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April 22, 2020, marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. The first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, was a remarkably non-partisan affair that brought an estimated 20 million people out into the streets, parks, and beaches across the United States. In New York alone, Earth Day celebrations, rallies, and teach-ins shut down 5th Avenue...

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Title: Freedom of speech [electronic resource] / Eric Barendt.
Author: Barendt, E. M.
Imprint: Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Shelfmark: Oxford Scholarship Online
Subjects: Freedom of speech.
Freedom of speech. fast (OCoLC)fst00934044

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Dewey Library - HG181.G357 2019

Colonial Williamsburg and First Baptist Church have joined together for the Let Freedom Ring Challenge. Americans from across the nation are invited to ring the First Baptist Church bell in the name of freedom and equality throughout the month of February and beyond.

NEW YORK – LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, a leading global provider of information and analytics, today announced two free resources from Law360® and Lexis Practice Advisor® to help legal professionals, lawmakers and business leaders become better informed and successfully navigate the legal issues and intricacies surrounding the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19).

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Published December 2011

Implementing Estate Freezes provides expert, yet highly practical guidance on implementing estate freezes. The author, David Louis, C.A., LL.B. of Minden Gross LLP., is one of Canada's most respected tax commentators. It's an essential addition to the library of all estate planners!

Topics covered:

• Transferring Assets
• Internal and Holding Company Freezes
• Corporate Estate Freezes – Technical Issues
• Alternative Methods and Variations
• Capitalization Considerations and Shareholders Provisions for Estate Freezes
• Estate Freeze Work Sheets
• Section 85 Basics
• Valuation Issues
• Use of a Trust to Hold Common Shares
• Checklist for Section 85 Rollovers
• Control of the Corporation
• Paid-up Capital
• Section 86 Freezes
• Section 51 Freezes
• Stock Dividend Freezes
• Personal, Trust, and Corporate Attribution Rules
• Distributions from a Family Trust
• GAAR
• 'Melts', 'Thaws', 'Gels', and 'Refreezes'
• Shareholders' Agreements
• Redemption Rights
• Retraction Rights
• Family Law Issues
• Accounting Considerations

Features include:

• An appendix containing an extensive case study, "Inter Vivos Trusts - Current Tax Issues", that highlights potential complications, not only with regard to income tax, but also with regard to family law, trust law, corporate law, and cross border taxation issues
• Diagrams, charts, checklists, and precedents that will be valued by both novice and seasoned practitioners alike

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One of the tax planning strategies often employed in estate planning involves the use of an estate freeze to transfer future growth in assets to the next generation. Estate freezes come in many forms, and each bears its own unique set of risks and complexities.

Join the tax lawyers of Minden Gross LLP for a practical two-part discussion of estate freezes. This webinar will highlight some of the topics found in CCH's "Implementing Estate Freezes", authored by David Louis of Minden Gross. More particularly, the first part of this webinar series will review the "why's" and "how-to's" of implementing estate freezes, and provide guidance on avoiding common traps associated with such types of succession plans. More specifically, topics covered in Part 1 will include:

• What is an estate freeze?
• When should a freeze be implemented?
• Basic configuration
• Share provisions
• Section 85 vs section 86 freezes
• Common pitfalls
• The use of trusts
• Tax traps associated with estate freezes

Part 2 of this series will air during the winter semester. Details can be found at [link coming later].

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Six links and just under one hour of chat, what are we playing at? Variety is the name of the game this week. We discuss Kieran’s new event, Getty Images big news, magazine web sites, Netflix, coding standards, text editors and round off with the Mark Cuban’s best ever investment.

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