Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman LLP

The life sciences industry is a key part of the Buffalo Niagara Community. To help insure that start-up life sciences companies can become successful commercial ventures in Western New York, Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman LLP (LMWF), collaborated with Buffalo Niagara Enterprise (BNE) to create the LMWF-BNE Field Guide for Starting and Growing A Life Science Company in Western New York. For more information, please click here

Self-Insured Employers Turn to
Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman LLP for Help

Recently, employers who are or were participants in workers' compensation group self-insurers trusts have received notices from the New York State Workers' Compensation Board ("Board") informing them that the trusts of which they are or were members have accumulated severe deficits and that the Board will be looking to those employers to make up those deficits. In some instances, the Board has even sent 45-day assessment notices to employers, accompanied by a form agreement that the Board has demanded that the employers sign, an agreement under which the employers waive all their rights to contest these assessments in court. For more information, please click here

New York has changed the rules regarding the annual filing for Limited Liability Companies (LLC's) and Limited Liability Partnerships (LLP's). These changes are effective for the tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2008. For more information, to see our Tax Alert please click here

Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman LLP is once again named a "Top Corporate Law Firm in Buffalo" by Corporate Board Member Magazine.

Gerald S. Lippes (business/corporate) and William E. Mathias (banking) were recognized by their peers in Buffalo Business First's 2008 Who's Who in Law.

Scott E. Friedman joined the Board of Directors for the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy (governing body of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery).

Scott E. Friedman recently published an article in Business First, "A More Effective Use of Lawyers: An Introduction to P/E Max," which recommended an approach for clients to optimize working with their legal counsel.

Mary Engler Roche was elected to the Foundation Board of Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, Inc.

Scott Friedman spoke on March 27, 2008 at the New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences. The topic was Growing a Startup Life Sciences Company in Western New York