According to a survey by The Association for Corporate Growth and Thomson Reuters, dealmakers at the end of 2009 expected merger and acquisition activity to pick up in the first six months of 2010, with manufacturing, health care and financial services positioned to benefit the most in the near-term. However, global merger and acquisition activity in the first half was actually off to its worst start in six years. With economic uncertainty and a sovereign debt crisis in Europe, the second half of 2010 may be just as disappointing. Click Here to Continue

• Holman v. Commissioner (filed 4/7/10)
  
  
• Ringgold Telephone Company v. Commissioner (filed 5/10/10)
  
  
• Ludwick v. Commissioner (filed 5/10/10)
  
  
• Pierre v. Commissioner (filed 5/13/10)
  
  

• "8th Circuit Rules Transfer Restrictions Properly Disregarded in Family Partnership Case", by Scott E. Vincent, 66 J. Mo. B. 158, May-June, 2010
  
  
• "Valuing a Real Estate Undivided Interest", by Robert F. Reilly, 29-5 ABIJ 44, June 2010
  
  
• "A Statutory Escape Route: Shareholder Disputes", by Susan Marmaduke, 70 Or. St. B. Bull. 36, May, 2010