Taxpayer Bill of Rights
The IRS recently adopted a Taxpayer Bill of Rights. This has been a long time project of National Taxpayer Advocate, Nina E. Olson. Ten rights are included in this document. Here are a few of them:
• The Right to Be Informed
• The Right to Quality Service
The Right to Pay No More than the Correct Amount of Tax
The Right to Challenge the IRS’s Positi...
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Perseverance Pays Off for The Cooper Firm & Client
No case is too large or too protracted for The Cooper Firm in Marietta, Georgia. Attorney Lance Cooper recently settled a case against an insurance carrier that began with a catastrophic injury in 2004. The plaintiff fell from a rooftop sustaining horrific injuries while he was assisting another contractor on the job (NOT his employer and NOT at his emp...
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Industry News: Attorney Christopher Brill Wins $2.4 Million for Cyclist Who was “Doored and Run Over”
Congratulations Christopher J. Brill of Newton, Pennsylvania for your victory in the Ashley McKean case. Back in 2011, Ms. McKean a then Temple University student was riding her bicycle when she was involved in a horrific crash. The incident happened at the corner of Broad and Brandywine streets in Philadelphia when she was doored by a Honda Accord and...
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Jury Awards $3.5 Million for Injuries in Community Based Residential Facility
Congratulations to the team at Boller & Vaughan LLC and their clients on this outstanding jury verdict. A Dunn County, Wisconsin jury found that the plaintiff, a 34-year-old developmentally disabled adult confined to a wheelchair with the mental capacity of a 5-year-old contracted a pressure sore down to the bone as well as a bone infection as the re...
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The Benefits of Etiquette
Business today is all about relationships. Clients don’t want to work with a company, they want to do business with the people who are employed by the firm. A recent article published by the American Institute of CPAs discusses how practicing good business etiquette can make a difference in how clients view your relationship with them. A few pointers i...
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Supreme Court Continues to Bar the Court Doors via Court-Enforced Arbitration
The U.S. Supreme Court, especially the Roberts court, has passed down many decisions that have made it more difficult for consumers to have their day in court. Possibly the most onerous decisions have been those that have continued to uphold arbitration clauses in agreements.
A recent article in The Nation begins, “For more than forty years, the Supreme...
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Keith Williams on the Lecture Tour
Kudos to longtime Advocate Capital, Inc. colleague Keith Williams as he continues his travels on the lecture circuit sharing his experience and expertise in trucking cases. He recently completed speaking engagements with the North Dakota Association for Justice, the Mississippi Association for Justice, the Kentucky Association for Justice and the New York...
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Here We Grow Again!
2014 continues to be a record breaking growth year here at Advocate Capital, Inc. In order to keep that growth going we recently doubled our sales team from 4 members to 8 full-time business development professionals. We’d like to welcome our four new Business Development Managers: Michelle Biddle, Kelly Brown, Barry Epstein and Kelly Hughes.
In order...
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Free CLE Webinar: “Defeating Defendants' Efforts to Pick Off Class Representatives: Beating the Rule 68 Offer of Judgment After Genesis”
This month’s free webinar from Public Justice is tomorrow, July 9th, at 2:00pmET/11:00amPT.
With increasing frequency, corporate defendants in class actions are making offers of judgment to the named class representative, and then arguing that the case is moot (even when the plaintiff refuses the offer). While most courts rejected this tactic prior to the...
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Free CLE Webinar: “Defeating Defendants’ Efforts to Pick Off Class Representatives: Beating the Rule 68 Offer of Judgment After Genesis”
This month’s free webinar from Public Justice is tomorrow, July 9th, at 2:00pmET/11:00amPT.
With increasing frequency, corporate defendants in class actions are making offers of judgment to the named class representative, and then arguing that the case is moot (even when the plaintiff refuses the offer). While most courts rejected this tactic prior to the...
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About Free CLE Webinar: “Defeating Defendants’ Efforts to Pick Off Class Representatives: Beating the Rule 68 Offer of Judgment After Genesis”