After I concluded my clerkship with Chief Justice Hasting of the Nebraska Supreme Court I moved to San Diego to begin working for a law firm. Within a month or two the executive director of Harmonium, Inc. (a non-profit company dedicated to helping at-risk children and adolescents) asked me to be on their board of […]
Unlike most of the common business entities that exist today, the LLC has a fairly brief history in the United States. Entities such as partnerships, sole proprietorships and corporations have existed since the founding of the country. The LLC, however, has only existed in a recognizable form for roughly thirty-five years. What, then, led to the creation of this new entity? The single most important reason for the creation of the LLC was what has come to be known as “the tax-shield conundrum.”
“It all comes down to what this one judge decides” Erin Brockovich (2000 dir. Stephen Soderbergh) is different from the typical legal movie. There is no climactic trial scene where the orchestral score swells to its peak as the lawyer or the witness gets their big moment to convince the jury. The protagonist is neither […]