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(Houston, TX) – 2018 was another banner year for Chamberlain Hrdlicka’s Appellate Law section, which convinced higher courts to reverse over fourteen millions dollars in judgments wrongfully taken against the Firm’s clients.

In an article published in Tax Notes titled "New LB&I Compliance Campaigns Address Virtual Currency and More", Kevin Sweeney, Senior Counsel, at Chamberlain Hrdlicka discusses the virtual currency campaign and how the new campaign furthers the IRS’s goals by reminding taxpayers of their reporting obligations for income from virtual currency and encouraging them to fix problems.

A Fifth Circuit panel partly vacated a lower court's quick win for the IRS that found a now-deceased Texas doctor liable for more than $4.3 million in penalties for the unpaid withholding taxes of his medical practice, saying there was still a genuine issue of material fact that warranted a trial.

Q&A session about the importance of Operating Agreements and horror stories from clients who did not have the right provisions in their Operating Agreements.

There is no federal law requiring purely private employers to offer paid leave of absence to their employees. However, states, counties, and cities are ever-increasingly enacting legislation that affects employers' obligations to provide their employees paid time off for sick or safe time. More progressive legislative bodies have enacted requirements for employers to award employees one hour of paid leave for every thirty or forty hours worked. Generally, paid leave laws allow eligible employees to accrue paid time off to care for themselves, their children, and certain family members due to sickness, sexual assault, or domestic violence. Opposite of this growing trend, many states have unfurled preemption legislation that bans local municipalities from requiring employers to provide certain employment benefits, including paid sick leave.

Kevin Sweeney, special counsel in Chamberlain Hrdlicka's Philadelphia office, is quoted in a article in the Wall Street Journal regarding Senior Counsel Robert Mueller's tax case against Paul Manafort.

ATLANTA, Feb. 22, 2018 – Chamberlain Hrdlicka is pleased to announce the inclusion of eight of its attorneys among Super Lawyers for 2018. Shareholders David D. Aughtry, Annette A. Idalski, Thomas E. Jones, Jr., Seth R. Price, Scott M. Ratchick and Hale E. Sheppard are recognized. In addition, shareholder Peter N. Hall and senior associate Erica L. Opitz were named as “Georgia Rising Stars” by the publication. The complete list of honorees is available at http://superlawyers.com/georgia.

Chamberlain Hrdlicka is pleased to announce that it has elevated two of its shareholders to equity status and added three shareholders. Moving to equity shareholder are Scott M. Ratchick, based in Atlanta, and Jaime Vasquez of the firm's San Antonio office. In addition, Atlanta-based Peter N. Hall and Houston attorneys F. Daniel Knight and Jeff C. Wigginton, Jr. were named as shareholders. These promotions were affirmed during the firm's annual retreat on January 27 in Houston.

(Houston, TX - Jan. 26, 2018) - 2017 was another banner year for Chamberlain Hrdlicka's Appellate Law section, including the recent successful appeal in a slander lawsuit, publicized by Law360.com. The Houston-based law firm is also gearing up for a busy 2018 with a number of important appellate matters already pending in the Texas Supreme Court, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and intermediate appellate courts.

Watch a recording of a webinar presented by Chamberlain Hrdlicka tax attorneys, Phil Karter, Scot Kirkpatrick, Katherine Jordan and Reid Barrineau on the important implications of the new partnership audit rules. effectuated by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015.

Chamberlain Hrdlicka congratulates the finalists of the OPEN Houston’s 2017 OHC Business Pitch Competition.

Eight attorneys with national law firm Chamberlain Hrdlicka have been selected to the 2017 Texas Super Lawyers list. Each year, no more than five percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to receive this honor.

San Antonio, Texas - (August 22, 2017) – National law firm Chamberlain Hrdlicka today announced the addition of five attorneys to its San Antonio office. Joshua Sutin and Katherine Noll are joining the firm as shareholders, and Jillian Gordon Foerster, Erin Hamilton Jansen and Lauren D. Parker as associates.

It is part of every executive's job to ensure that any program he or she implements complies with the law. Certainly, it is a general counsel's job to advise his employer that a certain course of conduct might violate the law. One would think, then, that executives and attorneys who do their jobs by ensuring that their employer does not violate the law are not "whistleblowers." But a California jury disagreed, awarding $8 million to a former general counsel who told his employer that he thought the company might have violated a federal statute. This raises an important question - when are your employees just doing their jobs, and when are they whistleblowing?