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Navigating Custody Amid COVID-19

March 23, 2020
As a partner in the firm’s Divorce and Family Law and Probate and Trust Litigation Groups, Elizabeth Crowley represents clients in all aspects of divorce and family law and probate and trust litigation. She blends her deep knowledge of the law and adept advocacy and negotiation skills to advance and achieve her client’s goals. Elizabeth’s tailored approach to her clients is marked by an unwavering commitment to understanding her client’s goals, formulating and executing a strategy, and actively counseling and guiding her clients throughout the process so that they are part of the solution. She can be reached at ecrowley@burnslev.com or 617.345.3203.
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Key Considerations for Commercial Lenders

March 23, 2020
Chad Porter is a partner in the Burns & Levinson’s Finance, Middle-Market M&A and Private Equity, Securities Law, and Business & Transactions groups. He specializes in mergers and acquisitions, commercial financing arrangements, private equity investments and transactions, securities transactions and compliance, general business affairs, and business disputes. He can be reached at cporter@burnslev.com or 617.345.3686. Frank Segall leads Burns & Levinson as part of its Executive Committee and as Chair of the firm’s Business, Finance, Restructuring and Venture Capital & Private Equity groups. Known for his business savvy, thoughtfulness and legal expertise, Frank has helped build the firm’s practice and focus on the needs of growing companies. Highly networked and capitalizing on his business acumen along with lawyering skills, Frank has helped his clients create, develop, and build synergies, negotiated highly complex and sophisticated transactions, secured billions of dollars of financing, brokered strategic partnerships and expanded revenues for his clients. He can be reached at fsegall@burnslev.com or 617.345.3684.
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Employee Benefits During COVID-19

March 23, 2020
Evelyn Haralampu is a partner at Burns & Levinson. She specializes in assisting businesses, executives, and non-profit and governmental organizations in designing employee benefits programs and executive compensation to help clients meet their objectives, while saving and deferring costs through tax efficiencies. Evelyn has served on the ABA’s Subcommittee on Government Submissions, recommending regulatory policies to the IRS, and is a member of the Tax Council of the Massachusetts Bar Association, which influences the development of tax legislation in the Commonwealth. She can be reached at eharalampu@burnslev.com or 617.345.3351.
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Estate Planning in a COVID-19 World

March 23, 2020
As a partner in and co-chair of the firm’s Private Client group, Christine Fletcher helps families plan for life’s transitions whether it is moving assets to the next generation, minimizing estate taxes or ensuring assets pass to intended recipients. Estate planning solutions can be simple, but like life, they can also be complicated. Issues arise with second marriages, divorce, blended families and unfortunate family crises. Christine listens to clients’ goals and develops plans for them that meet those goals. She can be reached at cfletcher@burnslev.com or 617.345.3607.
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Serving as Trustee During Turbulent Times

March 23, 2020
David Raymon is an attorney in the Burns & Levinson’s Private Client and Trusts & Estates Groups. Dave is a JD/CPA, which has equipped him with a unique skill set that he uses to advise clients on tax and non-tax aspects of their estate planning, fiduciary duty actions, and other probate and trust-related controversies. Clients appreciate Dave’s perspective on legal issues, which often include a very personal component, and his guidance in evaluating options. He can be reached at draymon@burnslev.com or 617.345.3341.
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Settling and Administering Estates During COVID-19

March 23, 2020
Cliff Cohen is Chairman of Burns & Levinson’s Trusts & Estates Group. He has over twenty-five years experience in estate planning, trust law, and estate administration. He advises individuals, couples, and families in structuring their assets during their lives and for their beneficiaries. He also advises fiduciaries on the administration of estates and trusts as well as beneficiaries as to their rights. Cliff has experience planning and administering estates with complex assets, distribution schemes, and tax issues. He can be reached at ccohen@burnslev.com or 617.345.3286.
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Impacts on the Real Estate Sector

March 23, 2020
A business-first lawyer with a finance background, Richard Coen has spent his 20+ years in the legal profession helping decision makers maximize profit and minimize risk. Often, business and legal considerations converge; Richard gets to know a client’s business and overall industry so that his legal advice is tailored to his client’s situation. Richard’s practice focuses on commercial real estate law, finance and public-private partnerships. His clients include real estate owners, lenders and developers in the acquisition, sale and leasing of all types of commercial properties. He regularly advises lenders in secured and unsecured lending transactions. He can be reached at rcoen@burnslev.com or 401.831.3010.
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Considerations for Emerging Companies During the COVID-19 Crisis

March 23, 2020
Robert Chow is a partner in Burns and Levinson’s Venture Capital & Emerging Companies practice group. His practice focuses mainly on general corporate, securities, mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliance, as well as licensing and commercial matters. Robert advises companies at all stages of development, including formation and governance issues, equity and compensation matters, venture capital financing, technology licensing, and other regulatory compliance. He provides actionable legal advice to entrepreneurs, emerging growth companies, and venture investors. He can be reached at rchow@burnslev.com or 617.345.3599.
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Dealing With Support Obligations in the Event of Job Loss

March 23, 2020
Robin Lynch Nardone is chair of the firm’s Divorce & Family Law Group and co-chair of the Private Client Group. Robin has more than 20 years of experience helping clients through challenging family law matters, whether through negotiation and settlement, or contested litigation. She specializes in handling high net worth divorce, high conflict custody/parenting disputes, same-sex marriage and divorce issues, paternity actions, removal cases, child support and alimony actions, as well as adoption. She can be reached at rlnardone@burnslev.com or 617.345.3265.
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Understanding the New "Fast-Pass" Small Business Bankruptcy Process

March 23, 2020
Lance Martin, Creditors' Rights Attorney, Ward and Smith, P.A.

With COVID-19 and the attempts to contain it causing cataclysmic business interruption, many small businesses may find themselves on the brink of insolvency. 

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Let the Litigation Begin! California Residents Already Filing Enforcement Actions Under the CCPA

Cybersecurity and Data Privacy
Jessica L. Copeland and Hannah K. Redmond, Bond, Schoeneck & King
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A Practical Security Reminder for the COVID-19 Outbreak – Not Just for Remote Workers!

March 22, 2020
Cybersecurity and Technology Team, Sands Anderson PC

As many businesses and organizations adapt to the impact of COVID-19 on their operations, the systems and data security risks they face continue to increase and must be an area of focus in all planning for COVID-19. While moving to a remote-working arrangement (especially for the first time) is certainly fraught with risk, even those who continue with a “business as usual” approach are at an increased risk for systems and data security incidents. The uncertainty and the understandable concern created by COVID-19 combine to create much more fertile ground for malicious actors looking to gain access to systems and data. Here are some practical security points to keep in mind as you work to continue serving your customers, clients, members or patients during these unprecedented times.

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