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No small matter: resolving minority shareholder disputes
Are you a minority shareholder in a company? If so, there’s a chance you may eventually find yourself in a dispute with the majority shareholder(s) who has more control.
Oct 6, 2015
71 PEOPLE
5 cyber-security “must-dos”: protect yourself online
A few years ago a man we’ll call “Adam” was working on a complex technical solution for a Fortune 500 company. He hit a wall and needed peer support to resolve the issue. So he posted his question on a public tech forum and within 24 hours had the answer to his problem.
Sep 21, 2015
74 PEOPLE
Medical professionals
Doctors, here are 4 reasons you need a professional corporation
If you’re a doctor, there’s no better way to reduce your tax burden than to form a professional corporation. When doctors come to see me for tax advice, I almost always begin by walking them through these four benefits of incorporation. 
Sep 21, 2015
01 HL
A little disruption goes a long way
Like many in the rapidly evolving financial service industry, my firm has faced a key challenge in the past few years: keeping talent. Why
Sep 17, 2015
82 AERIAL
We may deal in numbers, but it’s a people business
What business mindset shapes your leadership values? For many years we’ve embraced the idea that knowledge, combined with technology, is the value capital that drives business growth. 
Sep 7, 2015
82 AERIAL
Tax advisory
Automobile Use by Employees
Businesses often require employees to use automobiles to perform their employment duties. Most often, a business will provide an automobile to the employee or will pay the employee for use of the employee’s own vehicle. These options present different income tax consequences for the employer and the employee.
Jul 27, 2015
Tax alert (Use going forward)
Tax advisory
Smooth Transition: Keeping Your Cottage in the Family
Family cottages can play an integral role in strengthening family bonds. Over time, traditions are established, festivities are enjoyed and emotional ties are formed, creating a desire to keep these properties in the family for generations. However, a variety of financial and legal concerns can make this more difficult than it sounds. 
Jul 15, 2015
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Tax advisory
Crowdfunding: The Tax Implications of a Popular Fundraising Vehicle
<p class="p1">Crowdfunding is defined by Wikipedia as “the practice of funding a project or venture by raising many small amounts of money from a large number of people, typically via the Internet.”<br /> <br />  
Jun 12, 2015
Tax alert (Use going forward)
Law Firm Ownership and Lawyer Independence
<p class="p1">The spectre of “non-lawyers” owning equity in law firms has led some practitioners to express grave concerns about the survival of our ethical standards, and about the wisdom of allowing “non-lawyers” to deliver legal services at all. Before we can dive too deeply into these questions, we need to step back and look at the bigger picture.
Apr 29, 2015
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Embracing the Product Imperative: Why and How Law Firms Should Consider the “Product” Approach
<p class="p1">How often do we hear commands like “innovate or die” outside of the legal industry?  <p class="p2">Product companies and even other professional services firms are asked – perhaps even required – to “innovate,” largely in deference to the healthy paranoia they recognize drives all great businesses to higher levels of success. The legal industry, however, is in the very early stages of experimenting with innovation. Professional services firms in general hate to invest ahead of revenue as compared with their product company brethren. And to the extent that real innovation necessitates what are viewed to be distracting allocations of capital, law firms have been loath to do much of it.
Apr 29, 2015
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What is the Real ROI of Law Firm Advertising?
There continues to be a lot of discussion about changes facing the legal industry, many of which are long overdue, but perhaps not welcome. Not only are clients putting pressure on lawyers to find suitable alternatives to the billable hour, but they are also seeking changes in how services are managed, delivered and benchmarked, including pushing for implementation of performance metrics.
Apr 29, 2015
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