Authored Articles

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the Act) was signed into law on December 22, 2017 and made sweeping changes to many laws affecting tax-exempt organizations.

Vorys Partners Carey Jordan and Jeremy Harrison co-authored an article for the April 2018 edition of Texas Lawyer titled “Intelligently Managing Company Patent Spend.”  

Chris Chung is the next participant in our Q&A series with prominent economic developers across the country.

This article is the first of a series intended to provide developers with an overview of the life cycle of New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) transactions.

Vorys third annual Economic Development Incentives Conference – hosted in February – welcomed more than 160 guests from several states across the country.

Taxpayers seeking to contest the values established by the auditor or county assessor have a short time-to contest their new valuation.

Property tax decisions of interest from around the country from January and February 2018.

Carey Jordan and Jeremy Harrison, partners in the Vorys Houston office, authored an article for IP Law360 titled “Tips For Reassessing Company Patent Strategies.” 

While the prohibition on unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce (UDAPs) by financial institutions is not new, we have observed a noticeable uptick over the past few years in the number of alleged UDAPs cited by federal banking regulators in the course of examinations.

With the current uptick in M&A activity, it is timely to revisit the concept of “confidential supervisory information” (CSI) and its impact on M&A as well as other matters.

Deposit Account Control Agreements (DACAs) are too often given little thought by a depository institution that signs them.

Lisa Pierce Reisz, a partner in the Vorys Columbus office and the current president of the Columbus Bar Association, drafted an article fpr the Columbus Bar Lawyers Quarterly Winter 2018 edition about community service.

If you have not looked at your estate plan recently, it’s time to do so.

While tax reform garnered much attention at the end of 2017, the IRS also released a proposal relating to donor-advised funds that will significantly impact donors and charities.

The State of Ohio requires counties to reappraise properties for tax purposes every six years and update those values in the middle of that cycle.

The below legislation is currently pending or will be introduced soon.

Vorys attorneys and co-leaders of the online seller enforcement group, Whitney Gibson and Daren Garcia, authored an article for TotalRetail titled “Four Steps to Stop Unauthorized Online Sales of Your Products.”

Jackie Ford, a partner in the Vorys Houston office and a member of the labor and employment group, authored an article for Employment Law360 titled “Conducting Harassment Investigations with Outside Counsel.”

On December 22, 2017, President Trump signed into law the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (referred to herein as TCJA or the Act).   Although the most discussed provisions of the Act concern income tax changes, the new tax law also contains provisions that directly or indirectly affect estate planning.