16 Sep, 2024 Navigating Lender Liability Complexities & Minimizing Risk By Zev Gewurz Jaclyn Grodin Charles Jacob III Douglas Rosner Adam Safer Eric Seltzer +3 more... Show less As lenders and borrowers try to get creative in working through ongoing distress in the real estate market, especially in certain asset...
20 Dec, 2024 'Tis the Season for GoulstonGiving By Marianne Monagle It’s beginning to look a lot like… the season of giving! In that spirit, GoulstonGiving, our year-round volunteer and donation...
13 Dec, 2024 Key Pillars of Boston’s Climate Strategy By Matthew Kiefer Peter Kaplan The Boston Municipal Research Bureau, which provides impartial research and policy analysis for the benefit of the City of Boston,...
12 Dec, 2024 Top 10 Legal Malpractice Defenses As Claims Tick Up By Richard Zielinski Jennifer Mikels Attorneys Richard Zielinski and Jennifer Mikels, writing for Law360, detail ten key defenses law firms can use to effectively combat...
11 Dec, 2024 Corporate Transparency Act— Nationwide Injunction Update and Key Considerations By Mark Christopher Vaishali Goyal Gary Ronan On December 3, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a nationwide injunction halting enforcement of the...
27 Nov, 2024 Local Law 97 Compliance With Affordable Units By George Evans Hara Perkins Andrew Shaw New York City enacted Local Law 97 in 2019 to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions generated by buildings throughout the City.1 The law...
23 Nov, 2024 Democratizing development without losing sight of the social impact of economic growth By David Linhart As addressed in our prior advisory, Boston is reforming the impact review process in Article 80 of its zoning code. This process is...
22 Nov, 2024 Governor Healy Enacts Permit Extension Act of 2024: Boosting Development and Protecting Approvals By Christian Regnier Kevin Gaughan Peter Kaplan On November 20, 2024, Governor Healy signed the Permit Extension Act of 2024 (the “PEA”) into law as part of the Mass Leads Act....
19 Nov, 2024 Goulston & Storrs Real Estate Attys Talk Distress Playbook By Zev Gewurz Frank Ditta As commercial real estate distress continues to play out, attorneys are seeing lenders adopt new strategies to save or reduce their...
18 Nov, 2024 Prenuptial Agreement Held to Be Valid Waiver Of Spouse’s Statutory Right of Election By Charles Jacob III Jennifer Mikels Molly Quinn Gary Ronan +1 more... Show less Generally, under New York EPTL 5-1.1-A, if a decedent is survived by a spouse, a right of election is given to the surviving spouse to...
14 Nov, 2024 ICSC + U.S. Law ‘24: The Next Gen Perspective By Andrew Bensson Patrick Gallagher John Rothman The 54th annual ICSC + U.S. Law Conference recently convened in Orlando, gathering attorneys and legal professionals from across the real...
13 Nov, 2024 The CTA Filing Deadline is Approaching. Is Your BOIR Filed Yet? By Vaishali Goyal Gary Ronan The clock is ticking—just 49 days remain until the one-year filing deadline for the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA)! Entities...
08 Nov, 2024 Navigating HUD Programs: A Practitioners' Guide to the Labyrinth By Hara Perkins Attorney Hara Perkins co-authored Chapter 1, titled “FHA Multifamily Programs: General Overview and Recent Developments,” in Navigating...
30 Oct, 2024 Commercial foreclosures rise as lenders approach 'inflection point' By Douglas Rosner Commercial foreclosure activity across the nation crept up last month despite more positive sentiments across the commercial real estate...
30 Oct, 2024 Mitigate Risks of Lender Liability Claims When Reworking Troubled CRE Loans By Charles Jacob III I recently had the opportunity to present during a Strafford CLE webinar on strategies for mitigating the risks of lender liability...
24 Oct, 2024 Further Updates to the Massachusetts Estate Tax By James Casiello Matthew Hillery John Ramsey Andrew Rothstein Kerry Spindler +2 more... Show less On October 4, 2023, the Massachusetts estate tax was updated for the first time in seventeen years (the “2023 Act”). Primarily, the 2023...
15 Oct, 2024 Political Speech in the Workplace: Legal Considerations for Employers By Carla Reeves As the 2024 U.S. presidential election approaches, many employers are bracing themselves for a wave of political discussions—and...