Matt Stiles

Labor, Employment & Benefits Lawyer @MaynardNexsen & Adjunct Prof. @UALawSchool. Views expressed are my own and not those of these fine employers.

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"Good legal structure is not always good tax structure. Knowing which one you need is half the work."

That's really good advice, and it flows both ways.

Sometimes lawyers make good legal decisions that are tax inefficient.

Sometimes accountants make sound tax decisions that create legal risk.

As always, hire good legal and accounting experts you can count upon.

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Alabama airman and father of 3, Major Alex Klinner, identified as one of the six Americans who was killed when a KC-135 crashed in Iraq.

Klinner was a father to a two-and-a-half-year-old and seven-month-old twins.

His wife, Libby, posted the following on Instagram:

“On March 12, our world shattered. Alex and his crew were on the plane that crashed in Iraq. I'm devastated to lose the best person I know, the person that made everything more fun, my best friend.

But even more so, my heart is broken for our three kids who will grow up not knowing him. They won't get to see firsthand the way he would jump up to help in any way he could.

They won't see how goofy and funny he was. They won't witness his selflessness, the way he thought about everyone else before himself. They won't get to feel the deep love he had for them. He was an incredible person and husband, but he was the best dad.

It still doesn't feel real. I keep thinking that I'll get a text from him saying 'Sorry honey! Didn't mean to scare you' and everything will be alright. Because Alex always made everything alright. We just moved to a new home and we had so many exciting plans in the next few years. Now we are left to navigate the void left in our hearts.

Thank you to everyone who has reached out. Your words mean more than you know.
These are some of the last photos we have together before he deployed. He was crushed that he had to leave us. I'Il forever remember this heartbreaking goodbye.”

I am linking the GoFundMe below that was launched by Klinner’s sister-in-law, Sarah Rose Harrill.

Heartbreaking.

Videos: libbyklinnerteaching / ig.

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@Irrationalbasi5 @FischerKing64 Wonderful memory. For me it was also an AP US History teacher. He played it so straight with us—“I am who I am. My job is to profess what I think I know, while acknowledging all the things I don’t, take me or leave me, but if you leave me, do it before the drop/add deadline.”

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I had a male teacher for grades 5 and 6 who was highly eccentric (and not gay - he was a family man without a whiff of scandal). He had old printing presses in the classroom and we learned about how books and newspapers were printed - by printing our own pages with movable type we set ourselves. He showed us violent war movies. He had WW2 and Vietnam veterans come in and give graphic talks. One guy talked about his baptism of fire in Japan - he said something like ‘I jumped into the foxhole and killed two Japs with my pistol - I’m glad I bought that pistol off a guy before the fight because I might not be here if I hadn’t.’ The teacher would tells us the casualty figures of WW1 and 2 and sometimes start crying. He also taught us chess, and he spotted kids who were good in math. He gave me math problems well in advance of 6th grade, and ensured I was pushed up a level in middle school. He was tolerant of wild boy behavior - including boys throwing things at each other across the classroom.

Only a few years later I heard he had to stop showing the war movies, the veterans weren’t allowed to give talks. He retired shortly thereafter - he was getting old anyway.

But this kind of man used to teach elementary school. I don’t know why he wanted to do it - but he was good at it. And I don’t think there are many like him in public schools now - and that isn’t good for boys.

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Court of Appeals Upholds $9.3 Million Award for Nurses Misclassified as Independent Contractors by Healthcare Staffing Agency https://t.co/Wknp4HIEaJ | by @maynardnexsen

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