Keeping up with SEO and Social Media: February Roundup
The year got off to a fast start, with Google making the decision earlier this month to move their desktop ads from the right side of the search results up to the top. Now up to four ads are being placed above the organic search results, a change that Search Engine Land is calling, “a net positive for paid desktop search and PPC marketers.”
Internet Privacy – We Have a (Tentative) Deal with Europe
On February 2, 2016, a day after the European Union (EU) deadline had passed, the US and the European Union announced a deal on the methods by which US businesses can gather personal customer information from across the Atlantic without violating EU regulations on internet privacy.
March Upcoming ACBA Programs and Events
March 2, 2016 from 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. – ACBA Business Section Stock Options, Profits Interests, and Contingent Bonuses:A Quick Tax Guide to Providing Equity-Flavored Compensation This seminar will provide a comparison of various compensation techniques intended to provide employees and other service providers with direct or indirect equity participation in the employer’s business. […]
Filing a Section 83(b) Election: Did Your Client Miss the 30-Day Deadline?
A recurring issue for many business lawyers involves an employee who receives stock subject to vesting conditions. The normal approach is to have the employee file a “Section 83(b) election” with the IRS within 30 days of receiving the stock. The Section 83(b) election is an election to recognize any income associated with the stock grant immediately upon receipt of the stock. If the employee does not file the Section 83(b) election within 30 days of the grant date, the employee is generally forced to recognize the stock value as income as he or she satisfies the vesting conditions – which will often happen at a time when the stock has appreciated and the amount of taxable income has correspondingly increased.
How can we evaluate gender bias in the workplace?
Recently, there’s been a lot of press about a new study showing that student evaluations of college instructors do not actually correlate with teaching effectiveness. In fact, the study shows that student evaluations are better at measuring the unconscious bias of the evaluators (here, students) than they are at assessing the performance of workers (here, teaching assistants).