Blog Archive: 2015

New York Expands Shareholder Liability For Unpaid Wages

Last year, the Legislature amended the Wage Theft Prevention Act to add a provision to the New York Limited Liability Company Law, imposing personal liability on the members of a limited liability company having the ten largest ownership interests for the failure of the company to pay the wages of its employees. You can read more about that amendment here. The liability imposed by that…

Peter J. Weishaar

NY Wage Deduction Law Extended Another Three Years

NY Labor Law governs what deductions may be made from an employee's paycheck. The NY Department of Labor has strictly interpreted the NY Labor Law as prohibiting almost any deduction not…

New York Estate Tax: Should You Be Concerned About The Cliff?

New York is one of only fifteen states that impose a state estate tax. Prior to April 1, 2014 New York had among the lowest exemption levels and among the highest tax rates of any state in the…

Court of Appeals: Florida Choice-of-Law in Non-Solicitation Agreement is Unenforceable

Last week, we wrote an article about some recent developments regarding partial enforcement of restrictive covenants: New York Employers Could Soon Have More Difficulty Enforcing Restrictive…

Should You Update Your Estate Plan?

Your estate plan is not set in stone. An estate plan should evolve over time, based upon changes to your health, assets, family relationships, and new laws. All of these changes can…

New York Employers Could Soon Have More Difficulty Enforcing Restrictive Covenants

Earlier this Spring, the New York Court of Appeals heard oral argument in Brown & Brown, Inc. v. Johnson, a case that could make it harder for employers to obtain partial enforcement of restrictive…