Last Updated: April 3, 2020 As the COVID-19 continues to spread, each day creates a new challenge. Courts are issuing standing orders regarding delays and closures to protect the public health and ensure the courts continue to operate as effectively as possible. Below is a summary of the most recent…
April 1, 2020 Update: As anxiously anticipated, Governor Murphy joined all other States in providing New Jersey taxpayers relief by extending the income tax deadline to July 15, 2020, the same date that federal tax filings are due under the IRS extension. In a Joint Statement released in the late…
Friday brought us significant federal legislation in response to the COVID-19 crisis in the form of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the “CARES Act”). In today’s update, we focus on the (likely significant) relief the Act may afford to our small business clients by opening up, and…
Melissa Lagoumis Melissa Lagoumis, a former Kang Haggerty Legal Assistant and currently a third year law student at Washington & Lee University School of Law, recently published an article in the American Bar Association’s Law Practice Today detailing her experiences as an extern in the Delaware Court of Chancery under…
In light of the increasing spread of COVID-19, lawmakers continue to push legislation to allow the conduct of remote business despite the pandemic and various shelter-in-place and similar restrictions. As we have experienced, the use of teleconferencing platforms such as Zoom has exploded over the last weeks, with everyone from…
On Monday March 23, 2020 Governor Murphy issued Executive Order 109 introducing additional preventive measures to limit the spread of COVID-19 and simultaneously seeks assistance from the private healthcare community to increase the stock of PPE. By Friday, March 27th at 5:00 p.m., all medical or dental “elective” surgeries and…
With the current outbreak of COVID-19, each day creates a new normal. Government officials are adjusting to the new pandemic and implementing different policies to help protect the community’ s public health. On Thursday, March 19, 2020 Governor Tom Wolf issued an order mandating that all non-life-sustaining businesses close their…
After a few false starts, the IRS announced over the weekend that the federal income tax filing due date is automatically extended to July 15, 2020. Mid-week, the IRS, acting in accordance with the President’s emergency declaration pursuant to the Stafford Act, originally extended only the time for certain tax…
In the March 19, 2020 edition of The Legal Intelligencer Edward T. Kang, managing member of Kang Haggerty wrote “Time to Reconsider Remote Depositions in the Age of COVID-19” Remote depositions allow the deposition to proceed even though the witness is not in the same room as some or all of…
As a commercial transactional lawyer, I often speak to my clients and colleagues about contract management. While I am usually heavily involved in many stages of the contract lifecycle – most notably, negotiations, drafting, closings and amendments – the real work (and most problems) arise during contract performance, which is…