The Corporate Transparency Act: An Overview and Practical Considerations for All Attorneys
Length: 1 Hour
Delve into the transformative landscape shaped by the Corporate Transparency Act, effective January 1, 2024. This legislation has far-reaching implications for legal practitioners and their clients. This one-hour CLE offers a comprehensive overview of the Act, unraveling the complexities of the FinCen reporting process, highlighting key reporting exemptions, and outlining crucial practice considerations for attorneys guiding their clients through this new regulatory terrain.
Elevate your expertise with insights into recent constitutional challenges to the Act and explore its profound impact on future reporting requirements.
Holly J. Burke is an associate at Murphy Schiller & Wilkes LLP (MSW), where she focuses her practice on transactional commercial real estate matters. She represents clients in the acquisition, disposition, and leasing of a variety of real estate assets, including industrial, office, retail, medical and multi-family properties. In addition, she represents lenders and borrowers in connection with the negotiation of commercial mortgage and construction loans, and transferors/transferees in connection with the sale and purchase of liquor licenses.
Holly received her law degree from Rutgers Law School – Newark, where she was the recipient of the Kenneth G. Wolfson Land Use Prize. She obtained her M.A. in Forensic Psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. In 2006, Holly was awarded a partial scholarship to the Kislak Real Estate Institute at Monmouth University, where she earned a Certificate in Real Estate. She received her undergraduate degree from Bloomfield College, where she graduated summa cum laude.
Sy Justin Sommer is the Director of Product Enablement at LEAP Legal Software. Sy is a 2010 graduate of Fordham Law School and is an attorney admitted to practice in the State of New York. Sy began his career in the Family Law Department of Manhattan law firm Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP. After three years with DHC, Sy took a role with JPMorgan Chase Bank in Brooklyn, NY where he served as an Associate Vice President Senior Counsel in the bank’s Mortgage Banking Litigation group. In 2018, Sy sought to apply his legal education and experience in the legal technology space and joined LEAP with excitement to further the company’s mission of helping attorneys to be more productive with cloud technology. Despite being a born and raised New Yorker, Sy currently resides in Jersey City, New Jersey.