How Long is an Office 365 Migration Project? This is an essential and consistent question since we started migrating Microsoft Exchange to Office 365 and SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint Online. Our original responses still stand in a blog, “How Long Does It Take to Migrate to Office 365?” Since that post, there have only been…
On September 13, 2021, the House Ways and Means Committee released 881 pages of legislative text laying out its budget reconciliation proposals. It also issued an 18-page section-by-section summary of the proposals. These proposals will be marked up in committee and are not set in stone, but if enacted in their present form they would…
Share On September 8, 2021, President Biden announced the expansion of the Small Business Administration’s (“SBA”) Economic Injury Disaster Loan (“EIDL”) under COVID-19. This announcement was followed by an Interim Final Rule (“IFR”) memorializing the changes to the program which has provided low-interest loans to businesses negatively impacted by COVID-19 since March 2020. This update…
Share The SBA has established a Supplemental Targeted Advance Program under the COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL), enabling certain businesses to receive an additional $5,000 grant which does not need to be repaid. These funds are in addition to the Targeted Advance program grant of $10,000 (discussed in further detail here), bringing the total…
Share The House Ways and Means Committee released legislative text of its budget reconciliation proposals on September 13, 2021. It also issued a press release and section-by-section summary of the proposals. These proposals will be marked up in committee on Tuesday, September 14, and Wednesday, September 15, and should not be taken as gospel at…
Share Effective September 7, 2021, El Salvador has become the first country to officially adopt Bitcoin as a legal currency. The “Bitcoin Law” was announced in June 2021 and was subsequently approved by the El Salvadoran Congress with 62 out of a possible 84 lawmakers voting in favor of this new law. El Salvador’s President…
There has been a lot of talk about what the tax increases in the “human infrastructure” bill will look like. There are President Biden’s campaign proposals, proposals from the progressive wing of the Democratic party, and the moderate’s proposals. Then, individual Senators and Congress people have weighed in on what they expect the final bill…
When I lead my first Professional Services (PS) organization, one of our challenges was resource management. The sales team was telling us we needed to hire 300 people to meet demand. Hey, I wanted to grow my empire, but hire 300 people in a month? Well, that’s a bit much. So, I created a spreadsheet…
Withum is proud to announce that Withum is a recipient of Cigna’s annual Well Being Award for demonstrating a strong commitment to improving the health and well-being of their team members through a workplace wellness program. Cigna recognized Withum for the many programs implemented in addition to the formalized workplace wellness program, including firmwide recharge/refresh…
Share As law firms continue to grapple with issues around the future of work, the back and forth regarding return to office and the quiet consideration of long-term hybrid or remote work models, “We must maintain our firm culture!” is the battle cry being sounded in partially occupied offices and on Zoom calls everywhere. From…