18 May 2022 Senators Urge Full Funding for FinCEN By Jonathan Wilson With FinCEN nearly one year late in its implementation of the Corporate Transparency Act, a bipartisan group of Senators is urging...
18 May 2022 National Foster Parent Month: Thinking About Becoming a Foster Parent? By Debbie Ausburn With the emphasis this month on foster care, we will hear a lot of appeals for people to become foster parents. The pull to provide a...
17 May 2022 Free Medicare Coverage of Over-the-Counter COVID-19 Tests By Brandie Barrows Effective April 4, 2022, Medicare will cover the costs of Over-the-Counter (OTC) COVID-19 tests for individuals with Medicare Part B,...
17 May 2022 Conversations with TED: NFTs and Trademark Issues By Amanda Hyland, Michael Melfi This episode of Conversations with TED discusses the evolving world of NFTs, cryptocurrency and the roles of trademarks and IP. With no...
17 May 2022 Another State Privacy Law Passed in US By Mitzi Hill 2023 will be a year of change for many businesses in the US: it is the year that four new state privacy laws (including one signed into...
16 May 2022 Best Practices for Not Leaving Kids on Your Bus By Debbie Ausburn Hot weather is coming, and with it we will hear more stories about kids left behind on busses and vans. It’s always a frightening event,...
15 May 2022 Senators Rubio and Warren Urge Implementation of Corporate Transparency Act By Jonathan Wilson U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) sent a letter to last week to U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and...
14 May 2022 How Foster Parents Can Lower the Risk of Unfounded Allegations By Debbie Ausburn One unfortunate part of being a foster parent is protecting yourself against false or unfair allegations. When you sign up for foster...
11 May 2022 Good Child Protection Policies Don't Require Two Adults At All Times By Debbie Ausburn Many people think that all youth-serving organizations must follow a rule requiring two adults in any activity involving children. It is...
09 May 2022 Michigan Limits Its Child Abuse Registry By Debbie Ausburn The Michigan legislature enacted a common-sense bill that goes against recent trends by taking people off the state’s child abuse...
08 May 2022 New York LLC Transparency Act By Jonathan Wilson Legislators in New York are considering the New York LLC Transparency Act, a law that would require limited liability companies (LLCs) to...
07 May 2022 High School Hazing Didn’t Require Mandated Report By Debbie Ausburn An Arkansas prosecutor made a controversial decision not to charge school officials with failure to make a mandated report of a hazing...
06 May 2022 Growth Expected in Many Sectors of Commercial Real Estate By Christina Moore Despite rising interest rates and inflation, many chief economist expect commercial real estate to continue to perform well. The...
05 May 2022 Settlement of Minor's Claims Requiring Court Approval Raised from a $15,000 to $25,000 Threshold By Brynda Insley, Jennifer Clark Georgia House Bill 620 was overwhelmingly passed by both the House and the Senate and will become law once Governor Kemp signs the Bill...
05 May 2022 Connecticut Likely to Enact Nation's Fifth State Privacy Law By Mitzi Hill Connecticut's legislature in late April passed a new comprehensive privacy bill similar to the California Consumer Privacy Act and other...
04 May 2022 Five Ways to Help Foster Families By Debbie Ausburn This is National Foster Care Month, and Tuesday was National Foster Care Day. Not everyone has the resources to become a foster parent,...