If you lend money to a friend, expect to lose the friend and the money. And in North Carolina, if you help a friend buy a house, you could also be committing a class 3 misdemeanor.

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In a previous post, John Vandenhoff briefly talked about the new Healthcare legislation which was signed into law (H.R. 4872 the Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Reconciliation Act, P.L. 101-152)) (the “Healthcare Act”) and described a couple of the major individual mandates contained within that Act.

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As far as I can tell, it is human nature to gripe.

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“We are required to notify you of a security breach in which your name, address, social security number, date of birth and medical history may have been released.” (more…)

Thanks to John Vandenhoff  here is the first in a series of articles on the tax implications of the new health care law. There’s also more in a series of informational podcasts on the Web site of the Law Firm Alliance, of which we are a member.

John Vandenhoff

On Mar. 30, 2010, President Obama signed into law H.R. 4872, the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Reconciliation Act, P.L. 111-152 ), effectively completing a massive overhaul of the U.S. health (more…)

I recently advised an employee who wanted to start setting up a potentially competing new business before leaving his current job.  There were some provisions of his employment contract that applied to the situation.  I told him what the letter of the agreement said, and how I thought his employer would interpret it.  (more…)