According to a report published by BizBuySell.com, an online market place for small business sellers and brokers, the number of small businesses which sold in 2017 increased by 27% over 2016. Based on survey data, this growth in business transactions was driven by: (1) strengthening revenue and profits of small businesses; (2) an increasing number of owners looking to sell; and (3) an increase in the number of qualified buyers in the market. The survey data suggests that the number of businesses sold will continue to grow into 2018. Prepare to Take Advantage of These Trends If a business owner …
Coolidge Estate Planning and Tax Department Continues to Add Attorneys and Expand Services to Clients
Coolidge Wall Co., L.P.A. is pleased to announce that three attorneys – R. Michael Osborn, Javan A. Kline and Thomas W. Langevin – have joined the law firm’s growing Estate Planning and Tax Department. Mr. Osborn joins Coolidge after working at a Springfield, Ohio law firm for more than 17 years. His practice focuses on business and tax planning for the family and closely held business, estate and succession planning, and providing business and tax counsel to tax-exempt organizations, including private foundations. He serves as general outside counsel to businesses, including corporations, partnerships, LLCs, and non-profit organizations. In addition, he …
Coolidge Wall Adds Attorney and Paralegal to Growing Corporate and Business Department
Coolidge Wall Co., L.P.A. is pleased to announce that Tino Monaldo and Debra Aldred have joined the firm in its growing Corporate and Business Department. Monaldo brings more than 30 years experience in a wide variety of transactions for both publicly and privately held corporations, managing, negotiating and drafting transaction documents in a variety of industries including gas pipelines, ethanol, oil and gas, construction, engineering, car dealerships, hotels and casinos. For more than 24 years, Monaldo served as outside General Counsel for a Kansas City-based energy entrepreneur, which included the ownership and operation of a 3,000-mile interstate gas transmission pipeline …
Michelle Bach and Marc Fleischauer to Speak at 2018 Ohio Safety Congress
Michelle Bach and Marc Fleischauer will be presenting at the 2018 Ohio Safety Congress & Expo and Ohio Workers’ Compensation Medical & Health Symposium at the Greater Columbus Convention Center on March 8, 2018. Their presentation will educate employers on how to handle an employee’s absence from work under the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and Ohio workers’ compensation laws. They will also explain the protected class under each law, along with the benefits provided by each law, their similarities and differences.
Coolidge Wall to Speak at Third Annual Dayton Chamber HR Forum
Marc Fleischauer, chair of Coolidge Wall’s Labor and Employment Department, will be presenting at the third annual Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce Human Resources Forum on: Thursday, March 22, 2018 8:00 am – 12:30 pm Crown Plaza Hotel 33 E. Fifth Street Dayton, Ohio 45402 During this 90-minute discussion, Marc will discuss the following from a legal perspective: Recalibrating Your Harassment Radar at Work Culture Check to Avoid Your Day in the Sun Action Items for Internal Complaints Crisis Management for External Complaints Lawmakers Try to Shut the Barn Door What’s Not Getting Media Attention: Other Employment Law Updates Overall, …
Established Dayton Estate Planning Attorney Joins Growing Coolidge Wall Team
The law firm of Coolidge Wall Co., L.P.A. is pleased to announce that Jeffrey A. Winwood has joined the firm in its Tax and Estate Planning Department. Winwood has been practicing in the areas of estate and trust planning, probate law and business law for more than 30 years in the Dayton area. “We are excited to have Jeff join the firm, as he brings a tremendous amount of knowledge and experience to our group,” said Chad Hansen, Chair of Coolidge’s Tax and Estate Planning Department. “Jeff is considered to be one of the top estate planning attorneys in the …
Coolidge Wall Receives 2018 Best Law Firms First-Tier Ranking
Coolidge Wall Co., L.P.A. has received first-tier metropolitan ranking in eight practice areas by U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers in the 2018 “Best Law Firms” list. Achieving a tiered ranking signals a unique combination of quality law practice and breadth of legal expertise among ranked law firms. The eight areas for which the firm received first-tier ranking are Corporate Law; Real Estate Law; Banking and Finance Law; Commercial Litigation; Employment Law – Management; Labor Law – Management; Litigation – Labor & Employment; and Litigation – Real Estate. To be eligible for a ranking, a firm must have …
Real Estate and the Tax Bill
On December 22, 2017, President Donald Trump signed into legislation the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Of importance, the bill repealed and/or limited many deductions for individuals, such as implementing a $10,000 cap on deductions for state and local taxes, which includes property tax. This cap, however, does not apply to state and local taxes paid while carrying on a real estate trade or business. The change has led to a spell of homeowners hurrying to prepay their property taxes in order to take the deduction when filing their taxes in April of 2018. Outside of the many changes which …
Increased Tax Relief for Family Farmers in Chapter 12
While most of the US media is focused on various bills that have been hung up in congress over the last year, a bill providing additional tax relief to family farmers through Chapter 12 bankruptcy, has not received much attention. On October 26, 2017, President Trump signed the Family Farmer Bankruptcy Clarification Act of 2017 (H.R. 2266) into law. This new law expands the tax relief granted to family farmers in 2005, and legislatively overturns the narrow interpretation of the Supreme Court of that 2005 act. The legislation in 2005 was intended to give tax relief to family farmers in …
Wilberding Establishes Endowed Prize for Law Review at University of Dayton
Merle Wilberding, long-time Coolidge Wall attorney, has established an endowment to create the Susan Newhart Elliott Award for Excellence in Legal Scholarship fund to recruit legal scholars to write for the University of Dayton Law Review. Wilberding also established a trust last year to support the law review in perpetuity. “These gifts honor Susan’s longstanding service and contributions to legal scholarship, and the law review, for which I have a great deal of respect and admiration and is close to my heart,” said Wilberding who wrote the law review’s first article, “Banks and the Equal Pay Act, 1 U. Dayton …