It’s been a while since I blogged at The Savvy Press. This is largely because I’ve been put in charge of writing for a handful of blogs for Reuters-FindLaw these days.

Luckily, I thought I would do my readers some justice by linking back to some of my posts from my Reuters-FindLaw blogs. They happen to be on estate planning and real estate (yay!) so they fit nicely within the theme of The Savvy Press.

Here are some of my favorite ones from the past month:

Where can you buy fake Tiffany’s jewelry?

Not on eBay.  The online seller has been reprimanded by a Federal Court Judge on it’s practices of allowing sellers to post counterfeit designer items. And as we’ll soon see, you might not be able to find fake Louis Vuittons, Gucci knockoffs, or Prada replicas, either.  

Small business owners, listen up!  The NOL Carryback rules were extended in November of 2009 and you can now deduct your net operating losses from previous, more profitable years. 

Although this blog post was initially contemplated for my TaxSavvy blog, I decided to make this more of an analytical and journalistic piece.   For more information on net-operating losses, however, I will have a segment on my TaxSavvy blog shortly. 

A mentor of mine, fellow University of Ottawa Law School alumnus and Los Angeles private-equity tax superstar, Shahzad Malik, partner at Troy Gould law firm,  has laid out the NOL carryback rules extension very neatly in his blog. 

By Maryam Khan Ansari, esq.

The Obama Administration’s credit card reform is finally taking shape! Known conveniently by its acronym as CARD, phase two of the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act came into effect this morning, imposing and regulating business practices on the major credit card companies.

Said President Barack Obama: “[T]oday, we are shifting the balance of power back to the consumer and we are holding the credit card companies accountable.”

However, “government regulation” and “accountability” are two very ugly words for the major credit card companies.

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Remember, that even if your lawyer is young, your lawyer still passed the bar exam and you did not.  So trust their judgment and NEVER NEVER NEVER assume you know more about the law than your lawyer.