Bay Area Tax Attorney - The Law Offices of Steven M. Simrin

(Daily Bar news) — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:13:19 -0800

The Law Offices of Steven M. Simrin provides legal services in the areas of tax representation, probate (wills and trusts), and conservatorships. We are dedicated to providing our clients with high-quality legal services along with the personalized attention that should be expected of a small law firm. Conveniently located near Jack London Square in Oakland, we serve clients from Oakland, Berkeley and the entire San Francisco Bay Area.

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Steven M. Simrin has more than 12 years experience as both an attorney and a certified public accountant advising clients on tax, probate, trusts, and conservatorships. Our office provides the personalized and prompt service that we believe all clients should expect. Please call us today for a free telephone consultation on how we might be able to help you.

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Supreme Court scrutinizes state, local gun control

(Daily Bar news) — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:11:26 -0800

Gun control advocates are hoping they can win by losing when the Supreme Court rules on state and local regulation of firearms.

The justices will be deciding whether the right to possess guns guaranteed by the Second Amendment — like much of the rest of the Bill of Rights — applies to states as well as the federal government. It's widely believed they will say it does.

But even if the court strikes down handgun bans in Chicago and its suburb of Oak Park, Ill., that are at issue in the argument to be heard Tuesday, it could signal that less severe rules or limits on guns are permissible.

The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence is urging the court not to do anything that would prevent state and local governments "from enacting the reasonable laws they desire and need to protect their families and communities from gun violence."

By some estimates, about 90 million people in the U.S. own a total of some 200 million guns.

Roughly 30,000 people in the United States died each year from guns; more than half of them are suicides. An additional 70,000 are wounded.

The new lawsuits were begun almost immediately after the court's blockbuster ruling in 2008 that struck down the District of Columbia's handgun ban. In that case, the court ruled for the first time that individuals have a right keep guns for self-defense and other purposes. Because the nation's capital is a federal enclave, that ruling applied only to federal laws.

2010 Law Firm Website Design News

(Daily Bar news) — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:10:23 -0800

Law Promo is a specialized web design and internet marketing agency that has been providing the legal community with website services since 2004. In that time, we have helped over two hundred and sixty clients to establish themselves online and expand their businesses through internet marketing. Our website designers are award winners, our search engine optimization techniques are top of the line, and our customer service is second to none.

Credibility and professionalism is important to you and we will be sure your site reflects that by keeping it organized and up-to-date. We also offer a content management system so that you can keep information on your site current, no matter what time it is.

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Marrache law firm: once prestigious, now under scrutiny

(Daily Bar news) — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:09:14 -0800

The arrest of two of the three brothers who headed up the Marrache & Co law firm here has sent shudders through the financial services and legal sectors. The Financial Services Commission has withdrawn licences it had issued to Marrache, prompting the seizure of clients’ investment funds.

Whether lawyers at what was considered one of the best firms on the Rock had any inkling of what was afoot remains to be discovered. Last week, Benjamin and Solomon Marrache, the two brothers facing multi-million pound fraud charges, were refused bail and remanded in prison by the Magistrates Court.

Stipendiary Magistrate Charles Pitto said there was a high risk of the two men fleeing Gibraltar as the police probe into the affairs of Marrache & Co intensified. Attorney General Ricky Rhoda, QC, said the scale of the alleged fraud appeared to be larger than investigators first thought. If convicted, the brothers could spend up to 10 years in jail. Supposedly if more wrong doing is discovered, their future lives behind bars may be extended.

Big tobacco wields First Amendment argument

(Daily Bar news) — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:07:53 -0800

Tobacco companies are relying heavily on the First Amendment in challenging the government’s prosecution of cigarette makers under the federal racketeering statute.

Several big tobacco companies filed briefs at the Supreme Court on Feb. 19, seeking reversal of an appeals court ruling that upheld a finding of guilt under the RICO law (Racketeeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act). The finding was based on a “multi-faceted, sophisticated scheme to defraud” the public about the dangers of smoking.

The companies assert that the First Amendment protects statements made to congressional committees and in press releases that the government pointed to in its prosecution. The district court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that because the statements were examples of fraudulent commercial speech, they were not protected by the First Amendment.

Fieger Law – U.S. vs. Fieger & Johnson – Bring It On!

(Daily Bar news) — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:07:38 -0800

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In mid-August of 2007, the Detroit Free Press printed a huge headline, FIEGER VS. U.S. At the time, they got it wrong; the US Government had actually indicted Geoffrey Fieger, one of the nation’s most successful trial lawyers, and his partner, Ven Johnson, for violating campaign finance laws.

But on June 2, 2008, after a 20-day trial, with Fieger represented by famed defense attorney Gerry Spence, jurors unanimously rejected the government’s felony charges – and acquitted and vindicated Geoff Fieger and Ven Johnson, because prosecutors failed to prove that they illegally channeled money to the failed 2004 presidential campaign of Democrat John Edwards.

And, on that same day, the Detroit Free Press finally got it right and printed another huge headline, FIEGER IS CLEARED IN CAMPAIGN FUND CASE.

Today, The Insider Exclusive takes you behind the scenes of the indictment, the Bush Administration’s selective political prosecution of Geoffrey Fieger, the winning legal strategies employed by Gerry Spence and Steve Fishman to decisively defeat and crush the government at a Waterloo of their own making.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.That fact is as valid oday, as it was when it was written in 1870 by Sir John Acton, who reminded Pope Pius IX that he was a mere mortal man! Today, Geoff Fieger walks taller and more resolute than ever before, for having taken on “Absolute Power” and won – a victory of the power of truth and justice. Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “We acquire the strength we have overcome.” Geoff has overcome that strength, and today, he uses it for all those in need of justice.

Bryan A. Lowe & Associates - Las Vegas Bankruptcy

(Daily Bar news) — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:06:30 -0800

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(Daily Bar news) — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:05:55 -0800

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(Daily Bar news) — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:19:19 -0800

Court rejects NH's claim to $110M malpractice fund

(Daily Bar news) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:16:00 -0800

The New Hampshire Supreme Court on Thursday put a dent in the state budget by rejecting the state's claim to $110 million in surplus from a fund that underwrites medical malpractice insurance.

In a 3-2 decision, the court upheld policyholders' claim they had a constitutionally protected contractual right to the money. The court said the state could not change its law to apply retrospectively to contracts with policyholders.

"I'm disappointed. I thought it was going to be a close call to begin with," said Gov. John Lynch. "We'll manage through it."

Lynch said the decision means the state will have to find $45 million over the next 17 months. He was not specific on what he will do.

Republicans, who are in the minority in the Legislature, have repeatedly called the state's claim an attempt to "steal" money from doctors and health care providers.