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Cyber Security in a COVID-19 World

Cyber Security in a COVID-19 World

A recently published article by the Harvard Law School Forum provides valuable insight to the multiple challenges being faced due to the pandemic. Although businesses have readily discussed the actions to be taken in the event of a pandemic, the scope of challenges...

How Will COVID-19 Tracking Apps Affect Privacy?

How Will COVID-19 Tracking Apps Affect Privacy?

America is grappling with a compelling question during the coronavirus pandemic: should we allow Big Tech and the government to use our smartphones to track our movements, body temperature, and activities to slow the infection rate? As explained by the wonderful...

HASTE MAKES WASTE . . . CASH THE CHECK.

One never knows what corner the grim reaper lies behind. A final illness can often accelerate quickly and deprive a donor of adequate time to complete gifts for tax purposes that he intended to make. In a recent federal court case, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals...

ATTENTION SNOWBIRDS: DO YOU PASS THE DOMICILE TEST?

“A person doesn't know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it.”  This anonymous quote is timely.  It is rumored that the Rhode Island Division of Taxation (“the Division”) is reviewing its procedures for determining whether a Rhode Islander...