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Tanks For The Pitch

“Why don’t you call me sometime when you have no class?”- Back to School On Monday, I made my once a semester return to my alma mater, Bucknell University. I

How to Survive the First Round of Our Job Interviews

“I love the smell of napalm in the morning.….. Smelled like victory.” Lt. Col. Kilgore, from “Apocalypse Now” Good Wednesday morning. On Monday we publicly announced that we are seeking

A Notable Address For Small and Emerging Companies

“Buy when there’s blood in the streets, even if the blood is your own.” – Baron Rothschild In late February, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Advisory Committee on Small

We Are Hiring!

Spring is at our doorstep, and Brinen & Associates is preparing for the 2016 legal recruiting season. While the big New York firms are interviewing at elite law schools in

Three Tax Tips

“Is this my bill or my phone number?” – Peter Griffin It’s tax season and I’m in a tax tip sort of mood. All sorts of questions get thrown at

Turn The “Negative Chest” Into A Business Positive

“Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.” – Galileo Galilei Let me share with you one of the few, precious lessons I learned from my father.

Heed the Soothsayer’s Warning

“Beware the Ides of March.” – from Julius Caesar On my community calendar, the March 15th subscript reads: “Ides of March.” That’s not just a prophecy. The soothsayer warned Caesar

Five Rules to Taking Deductions that you Can Defend to the Internal Revenue Service

“We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands

Making Waves In Small Business: The Drowning Owner

“When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‘I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,’ you just scream.” –