Central Ohio will soon welcome further growth in the tech market. Intel recently announced plans to begin construction in late 2022 and chip production in 2025 at the world’s largest chip-making complex in New Albany that will provide many benefits, but some...
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New NLRB Memo States That Student Athletes May Be Considered Employees
Student-Athletes as Employees? NLRB General Counsel Issues Memo Ahead of NIL Hearing Ahead of the House Subcommittee on Consumer Protection & Commerce’s hearing regarding federal name, image and likeness (NIL) rights for college athletes, the National Labor...
U.S. Supreme Court Rules Against NCAA with Kavanaugh Taking it a Step Further
Samir Dahman discusses the Alston case with 97.1 The Fan: Listen Here. The NCAA lost 9-0 against college athletes at the U.S. Supreme Court Monday in a predictable outcome given the one-sided nature of the oral argument. In short, the High Court held that NCAA...
Impact of the Georgia Senate Runoff Elections
The eyes of the political world were squarely on Georgia on Tuesday, January 5th for the runoff elections for both of Georgia’s U.S. Senate seats. At stake was control of the Senate and, consequently, President-elect Joe Biden's ability to move his policy agenda...
Tax Policy Overview: Trump v. Biden
Tax policies are always a hot topic in presidential elections. Below, we provide side-by-side comparisons of where the presidential candidates stand on income (corporate and individual) and estate taxes. In short, President Trump’s plan seems to be to extend the 2017...
Top Four Asset Protection Strategies
A common question from clients is: how do I protect my assets, usually from a lawsuit? My answer: Get liability insurance Max out your retirement accounts Compartmentalize assets through LLCs Create an asset protection trust The key to asset protection is that you...
US Supreme Court to Decide Whether Employees Who Use Employer Data for Unauthorized Purposes Are Guilty of Electronic “Trespass”
Do you understand your company’s policy on employee access to and use of company email, internet, and data? It probably says something along the lines of “employees may use company resources for company purposes.” Your website’s Terms of Service or Terms of Use...
For Sale: A Guide to Student-Athletes’ Publicity Rights and Changes
By Samir Dahman & Alexis Preskar If there are two things Americans love, it’s capitalism and sports. However, the current college sports model eschews a competitive market in favor of a monopoly for universities and the NCAA. Recently, states and students have...
Asset Protection Trusts: Balancing Control and Security
We often think that the only way to truly protect our assets from creditors is to put the money in an offshore Swiss or Cayman bank account, complete with all of the uncertainty, hassle and lack of control which that entails. In other words, we assume that to...
To the Victor Go the Spoils (and the Calzones)
By Samir Dahman KJK and its client are savoring a recent victory in a bitter intellectual property dispute between a franchisor and its former franchisee who both specialize in calzones. The franchisor – D.P. Dough – asserted nine (9) claims, including: trademark,...