Saul Ewing LLP

Saul Ewing LLP is a Mid-Atlantic law firm with 282 lawyers in eight offices in Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware, and the District of Columbia. Ingenuity, precision, and efficiency are the hallmarks of our more than eight decades of client service. Saul Ewing serves businesses throughout the United States and internationally, with a family of clients that includes major multinational corporations, preeminent regional businesses, exciting start-ups, and an array of privately held corporations. Saul Ewing's culture inspires our attorneys to become true counselors for our clients, anticipating their needs and helping them find creative solutions. Dedication to our clients and to the profession defines Saul Ewing. As active members of Interlex, an international association of law firms, Saul Ewing is also affiliated with law firms in over thirty-four foreign countries.

Congress Imposes More Taxes On Beneficiaries Of Estates! What Hath Congress Wrought?
Maurice D. Lee, Robert H. Louis, January 22, 2010
After much political maneuvering and finger-pointing, the U.S. Congress did what nearly every estate planning professional had predicted (up until the middle of December) could not happen: it failed to amend the federal estate tax law before the end of the year. This means that the law enacted...

EPA Promulgates Effluent Limitations Guidelines for the Construction and Development Point Source Category
Carl B. Everett, January 22, 2010
For years, EPA has periodically published effluent guidelines under the Clean Water Act setting forth limitations consistent with the statutory requirements of applying best practicable control technology, best available control technology, best control technology for conventional pollutants, new...

Delaware Court of Chancery Proposes Arbitration Rules for All "Business Disputes"
Whitney Deeney, January 20, 2010
Recently, the Delaware Court of Chancery (“Court of Chancery” or “Court”) proposed rules which, if adopted, will establish arbitration procedures allowing any member of the Court to act as an arbitrator in a business dispute. To companies in the midst of such disputes, this...