From Ulmer’s Broker-Dealer Law Corner Blog By Michael A. Gross As loyal readers are undoubtedly already aware, I used to work for NASD, and Michael Gross more recently came to Ulmer from FINRA. That hardly means we win every FINRA Enforcement case we are engaged to defend. To suggest that because we…
In 2007, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) issued a report noting a decline in the number of American adults reading literature and reading for pleasure. This was a real wake-up call for the Cuyahoga County Public Library (CCPL). Publishers Weekly library columnist and Executive Director of the CCPL,…
From Ulmer’s Broker-Dealer Law Corner Blog By Alan M. Wolper A couple of years ago, I blogged about the concept of “reverse churning,” i.e., putting a customer who trades only infrequently into a fee-based account, thus costing the customer a lot more than it would have cost that customer to be in a commission-based…
On April 11, USCIS used a computer-generated random selection process to select enough H-1B petitions to meet the congressionally-mandated cap and the U.S. advanced degree exemption, known as the master’s cap, for fiscal year (FY) 2019. USCIS received 190,098 H-1B petitions during the filing period, which began April 2, including…
Sexual harassment, opioid use, and immigration issues continue to plague companies worldwide as social media and sheer statistics have catapulted them to the forefront of not only the headlines, but to the desks of HR professionals. Ulmer & Berne’s Employment & Labor Group is launching a Coffee Talk series to…
From Ulmer’s Real Estate Advisor Law Blog By Scott Kadish I attended the recent ICSC Regional Law Conference in Columbus, Ohio. It was a great conference where I reconnected with many great colleagues – including my son Kendall who is only in his second year practicing law, but recently took advantage of…