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Want to Buy a Corporate Jet? Don’t Get Grounded Before You leave the Runway

January 6, 2011

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Written By Lee C. Hodge
The Dream Picture this:  you are the CEO of a major technology company based in the Research Triangle Park with offices and manufacturing facilities…
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Estate Planning in the New Year

January 5, 2011

Special Bulletin Prior to year-end 2010, President Obama signed into law “The Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010” (“Act”). …
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Twelve Ward and Smith Attorneys Selected for Inclusion in Business North Carolina’s “Legal Elite”

January 5, 2011

Ward and Smith, P.A. is pleased to announce the inclusion of 12 of our attorneys in Business North Carolina‘s “Legal Elite.”  The publishers distributed…
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Estate Planning Techniques: The Qualified Personal Residence Trust

January 4, 2011

The qualified personal residence trust (“QPRT”) is a unique estate planning tool that provides an opportunity for parents to transfer future ownership of real…
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Craft Brewers Beware: How to Keep Your IPA From Going MIA

January 1, 2011

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Written By Norman J. Leonard
Special Bulletin It must seem to most beer enthusiasts that the owner or operator of a craft brewery is living the dream.  As a…
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Silver Lining to the Economic Dark Cloud – Estate Planning Opportunities in a Down Market

December 22, 2010

Changing tax laws, political uncertainty, and the whole family at Thanksgiving can take us on a roller coaster ride of ups and downs.  But…
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A Flower by Any Other Name…Pay Discrimination Claims After Lilly Ledbetter and Other Thorny Flowers That May Be on the Way

December 19, 2010

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Written By S. McKinley Gray, III and Will Oden
On January 29, 2009, President Barack Obama chose the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 (“Ledbetter”) as the first piece of legislation to…

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