LateST from Strauss Troy.

COVID-19 UPDATE: This Friday the U.S. Supreme Court Will Hear Challenges to OSHA Vaccination Mandate for Large Employers Posted on January 4, 2022.

Attorney Austin Stevenson discusses Senate Bill 102, which will go into effect on March 23, bringing welcome clarity to homebrewers across the Buckeye State.

Strauss Troy is pleased to announce 11 of our attorneys have been recognized by Super Lawyers 2022, and seven of those have been recognized as Rising Stars. The annual Super Lawyers list recognizes outstanding attorneys across the country. Only 5% of attorneys are recognized as Super Lawyers and only 2.5% of attorneys are Rising Stars, an honor for attorneys 40 or younger or attorneys practicing for 10 years or less.

Strauss Troy congratulates attorneys Margie Cunningham, Dan Hunt and Steve Schmidt, who have been named Shareholders of the firm.

Bitcoin. Ether. Dogecoin. Blockchain. Digital wallet. You may have heard these terms before, but for many, the words are just lingo for a high-tech, mysterious world of cryptocurrency they know little about. Elon Musk tweets about it. Tech companies like Microsoft accept it as payment. As cryptocurrency inches its way into our awareness, it inches its way into commerce. But do we really understand anything about it?

As we learned in Part I, Cryptocurrency isn’t available at your neighborhood bank. If you want to get involved in cryptocurrency, though, there are a couple of options. First, you need to decide which cryptocurrency you want. Bitcoin is just one type, but it dominates more than half the market. Ether is another type that uses the Ethereum blockchain, which is most closely associated with NFTs.

Dear Client:The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 (IIJA) was signed into law on Nov. 15, 2021. The IIJA includes IRS information reporting requirements that will require cryptocurrency exchanges to perform intermediary Form 1099 reporting for cryptocurrency transactions. Generally, these rules will apply to digital asset transactions starting in 2023.

‍On November 5, 2021 OSHA published an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) requiring employers with 100 or more employees to either adopt mandatory vaccination policies, or implement masking and weekly testing for unvaccinated employees.

U.S. News – Best Lawyers® has recognized Strauss Troy among the Best Law Firms of 2022. Strauss Troy has earned 16 metropolitan rankings and was nationally ranked in Project Finance Law

We are sad to announce the passing of our partner and friend, Brian Eviston, who lost his battle with ALS this week. The entire Strauss Troy team sends its sympathies to his family.

A year ago the country was several months into a global COVID-19 pandemic, but the availability of a vaccine and the potential for vaccine mandates still seemed far away. Fast forward six months, and as of mid-April 2021 nearly every U.S. worker age 16 and older had the ability to receive at least one of three different SARS-CoV-2 vaccines approved under the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) provisions of the federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act (“FDCA”). Shortly after vaccines became widely available, as employers were understandably anxious to reopen and get back to a new normal, we were frequently asked, “Can I require my employees to get vaccinated?”

Keep your business as secure and protected as possible from cyber threats. Strauss Troy is partnering with 4BIS.com, Munninghoff, Lange & Co., and RiskSource Clark-Theders to host a Cybersecurity summit.