11.27.18
Is Your Law Firm’s Website a Dinosaur or a Dynamo?
Is your law firm’s website adding value to your marketing and business development efforts?  This blog will focus on the metrics that firms can use to measure whether your website is providing you with the value and visibility your firm needs, or whether it may be time to reinvest in a new website.

10.10.18
Time to Invest? Making the Most of a Budget Surplus
With the economy thriving, many law firms find themselves with a budget surplus for the first time in several years. If you are one of these firms, consider investing some of those funds in achieving long-term growth.

09.10.18
Opting Out of the New Partnership Audit Regime
The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 changed how partnerships are audited. Proposed IRS rules for partnership audits under the law apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017, but some partnerships can choose to opt out. If your law firm is organized as a partnership, here’s what you need to know.

11.12.18
Law Firm Group Newsletter – Fall 2018
Our Law Firm Group's Fall 2018 Newsletter offers tips for recognizing and ending billing fraud at your firm, as well as advice on cyber security to minimize potential risks.

08.28.18
Law Firm Group Newsletter – Summer 2018
Show them the money: Compensating your managing partners Kal Shiner, CPA All law firms have them—the partners who spend the bulk of their practice managing the firm. But, if the firm focuses on compensating only rainmakers and large revenue generating partners, they may lose those best qualified for the job. Properly compensating partners who perform […]

06.08.18
Law Firm Group Newsletter – Spring 2018
Is your firm ready to profit from data analytics? Joel Herman, CPA Data analytics is the process of using qualitative and quantitative techniques to increase productivity and business gain. Attorneys are increasingly seeing the value of data analytics when preparing for and trying cases. However, the potential value of number-crunching goes much further. Law firms […]

08.05.15
ORBA and COSi Present: Tiger Teams – Empowering Your People to Accelerate Profitability
During this program, you'll roll up your sleeves, participate in interactive hands-on exercises and learn proven techniques that will be immediately useful. You will also receive expert one-on-one coaching so you can get started down the fastest path to building a more profitable and valuable high growth business.

07.22.15
ORBA and COSi Present: Tiger Teams – Empowering Your People to Accelerate Profitability
During this program, you'll roll up your sleeves, participate in interactive hands-on exercises and learn proven techniques that will be immediately useful. You will also receive expert one-on-one coaching so you can get started down the fastest path to building a more profitable and valuable high growth business.

09.26.13
Making the Affordable Care Act Affordable for Your Company
Robert Swenson and Anita Wescott will be presenting at a President's Resource Organization seminar on September 26, from 8:00-10:30 a.m. entitled, "Making the Affordable Care Act Affordable for Your Company," which will be held at the Mission Hills Country Club.

07.30.18
ORBA Named Among Top 200 Public Accounting Firms for 2018 by INSIDE Public Accounting
CHICAGO – Ostrow Reisin Berk & Abrams, Ltd. (ORBA), one of Chicago’s largest public accounting firms, has been named as one of the country’s Top 200 Firms for 2018 by INSIDE Public Accounting (IPA). ORBA is ranked #125 on the list in the annual report. IPA 100, 200 and 300 firms are ranked by U.S. net revenues […]

07.11.18
ORBA Elects New Directors
CHICAGO — Ostrow Reisin Berk & Abrams, Ltd. (ORBA), one of Chicago’s largest public accounting firms, is proud to announce that Adam Pechin, CPA, MST, and Thomas Vance, JD, LLM, have been promoted to Directors of the firm effective July 1, 2018. “We are excited to have Adam and Tom join our growing group of young, […]

05.30.18
ORBA Wins Association of Accounting Marketing Achievement Awards
CHICAGO — Ostrow Reisin Berk & Abrams, Ltd. (ORBA), one of Chicago’s largest accounting firms, is the recipient of the Association of Accounting Marketing (AAM) Marketing Achievement Award in three separate categories: Website, Digital Advertising, and Collateral and Content Marketing. The awards were announced at AAM’s annual conference in Portland, Oregon. ORBA was recognized for its […]

12.05.18
Treasury Department Proposes Regulations on Business Interest Expense Limitation
The IRS released temporary guidance about the new interest expense limitation in April. Now, proposed regulations have been published that significantly expand on the temporary guidance. Among other notable provisions, the proposed regulations provide a very broad definition of “interest”.

11.26.18
Year-End Tax Planning for Businesses in the New Tax Environment
The passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) in late 2017 brought significant changes to the tax landscape. As the first tax season under the law looms on the horizon, new year-end tax planning strategies are emerging. Meanwhile, some of the old tried-and-true strategies have changed and others remain viable.

10.29.18
IRS Proposes Regulations for Opportunity Zone Tax Incentives
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) includes a provision that Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin said should lead to $100 billion in capital investments in distressed areas. The provision allows taxpayers to defer tax on capital gains by investing in such Opportunity Zones. The IRS unveiled proposed regulations on October 19, 2018 that should help investors capture this tax incentive.

07.30.18
Various Media – ORBA Ranked Among IPA Top 200 Public Accounting Firms
ORBA was mentioned in the media for being named among the Top 200 Public Accounting Firms of 2018 by INSIDE Public Accounting (IPA). Reporting media include: Yahoo! Finance, MarketWatch, Chicago Business News, the Daily Herald, and Chicago CityRoom  

07.13.18
Various Media – ORBA Elects New Directors
ORBA  is proud to announce that Adam Pechin, CPA, MST, and Thomas Vance, JD, LLM, have been promoted to Directors of the firm effective July 1, 2018. Reporting media include Accounting Today, the Washington Business Journal, the Triangle Business Journal, Yahoo! Finance, the Daily Herald, and Chicago City Room. Click here to view the official press release.

05.31.18
Various Media – ORBA Wins Association of Accounting Marketing Awards
ORBA was recently mentioned in the media for winning the Association of Accounting Marketing (AAM) Marketing Achievement Awards in three separate categories: Website, Digital Advertising, and Collateral and Content Marketing. Reporting media include Yahoo!, the St. Louis Business Journal, the New York Business Journal, the Cincinnati Business Courier, the Dayton Business Journal, and Chicago Business News.

07.30.18
ORBA Named Among Top 200 Public Accounting Firms for 2018 by INSIDE Public Accounting
CHICAGO – Ostrow Reisin Berk & Abrams, Ltd. (ORBA), one of Chicago’s largest public accounting firms, has been named as one of the country’s Top 200 Firms for 2018 by INSIDE Public Accounting (IPA). ORBA is ranked #125 on the list in the annual report. IPA 100, 200 and 300 firms are ranked by U.S. net revenues […]

07.11.18
ORBA Elects New Directors
CHICAGO — Ostrow Reisin Berk & Abrams, Ltd. (ORBA), one of Chicago’s largest public accounting firms, is proud to announce that Adam Pechin, CPA, MST, and Thomas Vance, JD, LLM, have been promoted to Directors of the firm effective July 1, 2018. “We are excited to have Adam and Tom join our growing group of young, […]

05.30.18
ORBA Wins Association of Accounting Marketing Achievement Awards
CHICAGO — Ostrow Reisin Berk & Abrams, Ltd. (ORBA), one of Chicago’s largest accounting firms, is the recipient of the Association of Accounting Marketing (AAM) Marketing Achievement Award in three separate categories: Website, Digital Advertising, and Collateral and Content Marketing. The awards were announced at AAM’s annual conference in Portland, Oregon. ORBA was recognized for its […]