by Jarom Bergeson | Aug 10, 2017 | Law, Litigation
Remember Pokémon Go? About this time last year, the “augmented reality” game in which players use their smartphones to capture and train various species of Pokémon was a global phenomenon, with nearly seven million daily downloads. It was sort of the “thing to do” of...
by Jarom Bergeson | Jul 11, 2017 | Business planning, Corporations, Law, Litigation
On May 31st, 2017, at 12:06 a.m. Eastern Time, President Donald Trump unleashed the following tweet: “Despite the constant negative press covfefe.” No one has been able to definitively crack the code (if there is one) as to what “covfefe” actually means. The President...
by Jarom Bergeson | Jun 20, 2017 | Estate Planning, Real Estate, Tax Planning
I have a close relative who works in fund-raising for a fairly large university. While he loves receiving large charitable donations in the form of immediately available cash or other marketable assets (such as real estate and publicly-traded stock), he knows that...
by Jarom Bergeson | May 9, 2017 | Business planning, Real Estate, Small Business
Your federal government has modified rules making it easier to raise more money from so-called “unaccredited investors”. Under the updated rule, known as Rule 504, you can raise up to $5 million from unaccredited investors in a 12-month period. Prior to the 2017...
by Jarom Bergeson | Apr 18, 2017 | Business planning, Law, Litigation, Small Business
Unless you’ve been in a coma for the past week or so, you’ve probably seen the cell phone camera footage of airport police dragging a kicking and screaming Dr. David Dao off a United Airlines flight at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport last week. At this point, the story is...
