Law360 Tag Archives — Kang Haggerty News

Law360 Expert Analysis Opinion: Walter Bourdaghs on Budget Act’s Deduction Limit Penalizes Losing Gamblers

August 6, 2025 | Walter O. Bourdaghs

On August 5, 2025, Law360 published an Expert Analysis-Opinion authored by Kang Haggerty associate Walter Bourdaghs on how the recent Budget Act’s Deduction Limit Penalizes Losing Gamblers (subscription required).

“Beginning Jan. 1, 2026, it will become extraordinarily difficult to be a professional gambler in the U.S.,” says Bourdaghs, who plays an occasional hand as an avid poker player in his free time. “Previously, gamblers were taxed only on their net profits. The bill amends the Internal Revenue Code so that gamblers will be allowed to deduct only 90% of their losses against their winnings. This will potentially lead to counterintuitive outcomes in which some gamblers owe taxes despite having had a net loss for the year.”

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Aaron Peskin Provides Law360 Expert Analysis on How DOGE’s Severance Plan May Affect Federal Employees

February 27, 2025 | Aaron L. Peskin

On February 26, 2025, Law360 published an Expert Analysis authored by Kang Haggerty senior counsel Aaron Peskin, on How DOGE’s Severance Plan May Affect Federal Employees.

To say that President Donald Trump’s administration is off to a fast start would be quite the understatement. The administration, working through Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, is clearly looking to change how the federal government works by offering a mass severance package to roughly 2 million employees, which is virtually the entire federal workforce.

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Edward Kang in Law360: Employers Weigh Emoji Bans to Curb Bias, Harassment Suits

January 5, 2023 | Kang Haggerty LLC

A recent Law360 article by reporter Anne Cullen, Employers Weigh Emoji Bans to Curb Bias, Harassment Suits, discusses the increase in emojis popping up in workplace discrimination and harassment cases. She interviews Kang Haggerty managing member Edward Kang for his perspective:

“My advice is to not use them in the workplace at all because there is no such thing as a safe emoji,” Kang says in the article.

Even ones that appear innocuous can be problematic, noting that the popular “thumbs up” emoji, for example, tends to have a positive connotation with older generations but can be seen as dismissive by a younger viewer.

Law360 Covers Opening of Kang Haggerty’s Whistleblower Division

July 8, 2022 | Kang Haggerty LLC

Law360’s Rachel Rippetoe reported on Kang Haggerty’s formation of The Whistleblower Advocates. The article highlights the firm’s whistleblower practice, led by Edward T. Kang, Kandis L. Kovalsky, and Ross M. Wolfe. Continue reading ›