Governor Cuomo signed legislation on April 4, 2016, enacting a 12-week paid family leave law for employees in New York (the "Paid Family Leave Law"). The Paid Family Leave Law will phase in over four years beginning in 2018 and will require employers to allow eligible employees up to 12 weeks of paid time off Read More »
Micha Ordway is now a guest contributor on the Fleet Feet Monthly Blog.Click here to check out his current contribution. Read More »
Bousquet Holstein is excited to announce it's 8th Annual Photography Contest for Syracuse City and Onondaga County high school students in grades 9 through 12. The inspiration for this year's theme again comes from an exhibit at the Everson Museum of Art. This year's theme, Street Scenes, is based on the Everson Museum of Art's exhibition: Helen Levitt: In the Street. Read More »
On March 9, 2016, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) issued revised proposed regulations defining terms relating to the Brownfield Cleanup Program (BCP) tax credits for sites located in New York City. The revisions modify proposed regulations issued last June and discussed in our prior alert. The revised proposed regulations apparently reflect the DEC's Read More »
Bousquet Holstein PLLC is pleased to announce that Kavitha Janardhan has joined the firm as an attorney in the Litigation Practice Group. Prior to joining Bousquet Holstein, Kavitha served as an attorney at the Chicago and New York offices of Seyfarth Shaw LLP, where she practiced commercial litigation and worked with clients on labor and employment, trade Read More »
Cycling saved my life. Really. It did. Many of us can make connections between events that we attribute to saving our lives. So many stories of how "exercise saved me." All those stories are true in a way. This story is different. Really it is. Or, perhaps it is the same. You decide. I was Read More »
No divorce, child support, or custody matter, is simple. And with the New Year, there are a number of changes taking effect that could make things even more complicated. Over the fall, the Domestic Relations Law was amended considerably. These changes are taking effect on January 23, 2016. Among the changes: for the first time, there Read More »
Everybody knows that Greg LeMond was the first American to win a Tour de France. 1986. It was epic. Before LeMond, an American could not win a Tour. But he did. He showed them all. LeMond. The first American. Right? Sorry, but this is wrong! The first American to win a Tour de France was Read More »
Bousquet Holstein PLLC is pleased to announce that effective January 1, 2016, Eva K. Wojtalewski and Aaron D. Frishman have been elected members of the firm. Aaron D. Frishman joined Bousquet Holstein in 2015, and is an attorney in the Trusts and Estates Practice Group. Aaron's practice provides clients with comprehensive estate and tax planning solutions, representation in trust and Read More »