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Effect of Estate Tax Repeal in Italy
A recent Italian survey looked at the effect the repeal of the estate tax in Italy. The survey reveals that without an estate tax, real estate transfers between generations have increased by about 2%. A report on the survey concludes...more...
At the Movies: Keeping Up with the Kunstlers
Demonstrators picketed their Greenwich Village home. Bullets came in the mail. Their father opened packages in the basement lest they contained explosives. It was all part of growing up for the daughters of charismatic defense attorney William Kunstler, who became a magnet for protesters after he successfully represented El-Sayyid Nosair for the 1990 assassination of Israeli extremist politician Meir Kahane. Kunstler’s wife, Margaret Ratner Kunstler, had begged him to turn down the case, to no avail. “We thought he was going to be killed,” remembers daughter Emily. Nosair wasn’t Kunstler’s only unpopular client. He also took on near-universally reviled characters…
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Advice for Solos to Survive a Struggling Economy
Andrea Goldman, Leanna Hamill and Fred Bauerlein are alone, but they’re not unique. Like thousands of their colleagues across the country, they are solo practitioners struggling to make ends meet. Bauerlein’s criminal defense practice and Goldman’s construction law specialty took huge hits from the economy, and by the late summer of 2009 their efforts to rebuild hadn’t borne fruit. Hamill, who specializes in estate planning and elder law, hadn’t been able to comprehend her practice’s month-to-month battle for profitability. To help these solos understand where they’ve gone astray and get their practices on track, we asked practice management consultants Jerry…
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Meet The William Rehnquist You Didn’t Know
Almost every week, from the late 1980s until his death from thyroid cancer in 2005, U.S. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist was in touch with Herman J. Obermayer, a former editor and publisher of the Northern Virginia Sun daily newspaper. Late in their lives, after a chance encounter on a tennis court, the two became the best of friends. This unlikely association between the journalist and the justice gave Obermayer a unique window into a very private man. Bill Rehnquist’s public demeanor and appearance were best described as unexceptional. Good-looking but not movie-star handsome, he stood out in a crowd…
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Top SSRN Downloads
Here are the top downloads from December 30, 2009 to February 28, 2010 from the SSRN Journal of Wills, Trusts, & Estates Law for all papers announced in the last 60 days. Rank Downloads Paper Title 1 213 Law Review...more...
Another earthquake in Latin America: Destruction in Chile
A huge earthquake hits Chile but it has fared far better than poverty-stricken Haiti
JUST six weeks after an earthquake killed over 200,000 people in Haiti, another huge tremor has shaken Latin America. Early in the morning on Saturday February 27th, a massive 8.8-magnitude quake—the fifth-largest recorded since 1900—rocked the Pacific coast of central Chile. Lasting for nearly 90 seconds, it knocked out electricity, water, and telephone services in a wide stretch of the country, and damaged the Santiago airport terminal, some 325 kilometres from the epicentre. The resulting tsunami prompted evacuations as far away as Japan, although the waves inflicted little damage outside Chile and the warnings were later cancelled.
At least 76 aftershocks followed. Michelle Bachelet, the country’s president, said it would take three days to produce the first reliable evaluations of the quake’s impact, but she estimated that 1.5m homes were damaged and 2m people were affected by the disaster. Government officials have already confirmed over 700 deaths. ...
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