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The current economic downturn an

In many states, an employee's accrued, but unused vacation time must be paid on termination of employment.  However, under longstanding Texas law, an employee is not enti...

Under the Texas Payday Statute, terminated employees are not...

As I have previously written, the estate tax is imposed upon taxable estates of more than $3,500,000.  Any amount over $3,500,000 is currently taxed at the rate of 45%.  ...

I'm out of town for the weekend, so blogging will be light.  But I wanted to ask a quick question for people to ponder.  I've written that the estate tax applies to the v...

Today I am going to use the Michael Jackson case (yet again) as an example to discuss the important issue of timing when determining the value of assets included in a Dec...

I have seen two posts recently on the topic of the value of one's work that I think are interesting in the context of the legal profession. Seth Godin argues here that th...

Last week, Senators John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman debuted the American Power Act, their Senate compromise energy bill which...

Over the past few decades, regulators have tried to base more of their decisions on objective economic grounds, like benefit-cost analysis. In the environmental field, D...

The UT Medical Branch at Galveston, which provides health care at most Texas prison units, has been in the news recently for making a little money on the side....