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by grellas 9y ago
Clerky continues to impress with its ability to offer cost-effective ways for founders to accomplish sophisticated corporate steps while preserving the high standards to ensure that it is all done right. As one who has worked with founders
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The Downside of Full Pay Transparency(wsj.com)
3 points by grellas 9y ago|0 comments
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by grellas 9y ago
Good to hear of this fine effort. For the most part, if law were a person, you would say it is incorrigible when it comes to being tamed for efficiencies. It remains a guild system, which severely limits who can perform legal services and h
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by grellas 9y ago
I wish the crowdfunding platforms well but, in the end, there is an inherent tension between the core idea of crowdfunding and the idea of investor protections under the securities laws. U.S. securities law give two broad choices to issuers
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Warren Buffett's Annual Letter to Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders [pdf](berkshirehathaway.com)
396 points by grellas 10y ago|310 comments
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by grellas 10y ago
I learned long ago (at the beginning of my legal career) that a determined litigant can essentially cook up expert testimony on demand as needed to further some tendentious goal or other. It is dressed up to be "scientific," &quot
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by grellas 10y ago
The ACA passed on a purely partisan vote and will be repealed on a purely partisan vote. The normal institutions of the Senate - primarily, the filibuster - were bypassed in the name of the effecting the greater good. But this also leaves t
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The PC Police Crack Down on Kids Books(wsj.com)
3 points by grellas 10y ago|0 comments
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by grellas 10y ago
A few thoughts on the Handbook: 1. Law can be a morass and who then can you rely on when trying to understand it via online resources? Well, for startup legal issues, the answer now is the Clerky Handbook: thoroughly and carefully vetted by
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by grellas 10y ago
Once again the Supreme Court has stepped in to curb the Federal Circuit Court and bring a level-headed interpretation to the relevant statute defining how damages are computed for infringing patent rights to a component that is part of a la
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Samsung v. Apple SCOTUS decision limits patent damages [pdf](supremecourt.gov)
3 points by grellas 10y ago|0 comments
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America's Biggest Filer of Patent Suits Claims It Invented Shipping Notification(wsj.com)
6 points by grellas 10y ago|1 comments
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by grellas 10y ago
A real testament to the power of imagery when skillfully and artfully handled. Dylan himself was something of a hustler in his own way (not being negative here: he was also quite an amazing person) but he worked hard at his craft, delving d
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by grellas 10y ago
Hard-copy books may in reality be just as ephemeral as the endless streams of bits and bytes that flow around us these days but, to me, there is always something that just projects a sense of a well-ordered mind and an all-is-well-with-the-
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by grellas 10y ago
Hard to say here. Federal courts have very broad discretion to impose sanctions for violations of their orders, including those authorized by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and also those based on their inherent powers. We are, afte
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by grellas 10y ago
Yes, the entire pattern of behavior is relevant, though I would note that judges are highly reluctant to ascribe bad motives to distinguished litigators (and the lawyer involved here fits in that category) and so I would be surprised if the
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by grellas 10y ago
Yes, that is correct and thanks for pointing out that I had not included the "/yr" after the $3K. I have now corrected it in the comment above. So, yes, you keep carrying any capital loss of this type forward until you get to
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by grellas 10y ago
It is huge that a lawyer would disclose in a public setting such important confidential numbers. I even have trouble seeing how something like that could be "accidental". It is basically a force of habit among experienced litiga
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by grellas 10y ago
No, you realize ordinary income tax on the spread, which is payable in full in the year realized (or in the year to which it is deferred under this measure) while the loss of the stock value is a capital loss, which can only be offset again
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The Season's Biggest Novel Has 1.3M Words and Outweighs a Bowling Ball(wsj.com)
1 points by grellas 10y ago|0 comments
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by grellas 10y ago
The original point of ISOs was to offer to employees the opportunity to take an economic risk with stock options (by exercising and paying for the stock at the bargain price) while avoiding the tax risk (by generally not recognizing ordinar
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Fully Autonomous Robots: The Warehouse Workers of the Near Future(wsj.com)
86 points by grellas 10y ago|60 comments
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by grellas 10y ago
I read this piece and was very saddened. Take it from someone who has been around a few more years than many others who contribute to this site. There is nothing good - long-term - about sitting around idle for extended periods. It kill
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In the Heart of Silicon Valley, They Don't Want New Jobs(wsj.com)
3 points by grellas 10y ago|0 comments
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by grellas 10y ago
Back in the bubble days, all but a relatively few would-be founders found themselves crawling out of a hole and into the dark, as it were, in trying to figure out how to get from ground zero to a point of success: it was all super-bewilderi
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Jack Bogle: The Undisputed Champion of the Long Run(wsj.com)
5 points by grellas 10y ago|1 comments
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Ireland to Appeal EU's Apple's Tax Ruling(wsj.com)
2 points by grellas 10y ago|0 comments
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by grellas 10y ago
It is a mistake to treat housing as an investment but that doesn't mean it can't be for the right circumstances, e.g., many who bought homes in Silicon Valley 20+ years ago have seen their home prices double or triple and they can
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San Francisco's New Housing: Nooks and Crankies(wsj.com)
1 points by grellas 10y ago|0 comments
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How to Write Like Antonin Scalia(wsj.com)
4 points by grellas 10y ago|0 comments

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