Amata Law Office Suites Blog

The IRS and SBA continue to release additional guidance on the PPP that is applicable to those applying for loans and those who already have them. Click through for key clarifications in this important but complicated program.

Whether you’re a partner or an associate in a law firm, the Internal Revenue Service has rules that apply specifically to you as well as several opportunities. Following is a list of tax provisions that affect attorneys in particular.

As of January 1, 2020, all leases, including short-term leases, must be recorded on your company’s balance sheet. What does the new Financial Accounting Standards Board standard mean for your business? Click through for an introduction to this complex new series of rules.

As of July 2018, the Circuit Court of Cook County requires that documents must be electronically filed. Here are some helpful tips we’ve compiled regarding this matter.

The Illinois courts have been moving towards e-filing – albeit slowly. The original date of January 1st, 2018 was pushed back after Cook County Circuit Court Clerk, Dorothy Brown, and Chief Judge, Tim Evans, filed a joint request to push back the start date a full year. They were granted six months and as of this Sunday, July 1st, the six month extension will have come to a close.

It appears that the Clerk of the Circuit Court was not as ready as they would’ve liked to be for the mandatory e-filing deadline that was to go into effect on January 1, 2018.

Procrastination. We are all guilty of it at some point in our lives, and attorneys are no exception. As you may or may not know the courts have been moving towards e-filing with January 1, 2018 being the date that this will be mandatory across Illinois. I recently had the chance to attend a seminar on how to avoid the pitfalls of e-filing. While I am not an expert on this yet, I have learned enough to share some quick tips & links for those out there that will be plunging into this sometimes-daunting task.

Making up roughly 25% of today’s population and having an estimated direct purchasing power of $200 billion, millennials have become a huge targeted market.

No doubt that if you are a business person in Chicago, you are very well aware of the $543 million property tax hike that passed last month. It was either cut the budget or raise the taxes to pay for the long overdue pensions of city public safety workers, and many felt like there wasn’t much of a choice.