2/20/2025 5:00:14 PM Corporate Transparency Act Back in Effect and Extended Deadline By Mark Christopher David Coombs Vaishali Goyal Gary Ronan +1 more... Show less On February 18, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas lifted the nationwide injunction it had previously issued...
2/6/2025 2:15:26 PM Boston Accelerates Net Zero Carbon By Matthew Kiefer David Linhart Last week, the Boston Zoning Commission adopted Net Zero Carbon (NZC) zoning. As addressed in our 2021 and 2023 advisories, this...
1/31/2025 5:53:49 PM Trump’s Executive Orders Considered: Implications for Private Employers – Part Two By Josh Davis Carla Reeves Erek Sharp Sonia Steele Sarah Eberspacher +2 more... Show less President Trump issued an unprecedented number of executive orders in his first week in office. In our previous update on January 27, we...
1/27/2025 5:58:40 PM Trump’s Executive Orders Considered: Implications for Private Employers By Josh Davis Carla Reeves Erek Sharp Sonia Steele Sarah Eberspacher +2 more... Show less During his first week in office, President Trump issued an unprecedented number of executive orders, including orders to eliminate...
12/27/2024 6:40:27 PM Corporate Transparency Act Update: Injunction Reinstated By Mark Christopher David Coombs Vaishali Goyal Gary Ronan +1 more... Show less On December 26, 2024, the merits panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued an order effectively...
12/24/2024 6:00:56 PM CTA Update: Injunction Lifted and Filing Deadlines Extended By Mark Christopher David Coombs Vaishali Goyal Gary Ronan +1 more... Show less On December 23, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit lifted the injunction issued earlier this month that had...
12/11/2024 2:26:23 PM 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...
11/27/2024 6:17:13 PM 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...
11/22/2024 2:38:36 AM 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....
11/13/2024 2:37:13 PM 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...
10/24/2024 4:46:02 PM 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...
10/2/2024 7:43:43 PM Proposed Action Plan for Article 80 Modernization By Matthew Kiefer After an 18-month study process, the Boston Planning Department has released an Action Plan proposing strategies to modernize Boston’s...
8/21/2024 12:51:13 AM Webinar Overtaken by Events By Josh Davis Carla Reeves Sonia Steele On August 20, 2024, a federal court declared the FTC rule banning noncompetition agreements invalid and enjoined its enforcement. The...
7/23/2024 2:03:01 PM D.C. FY25 Budget Expands CRE Revitalization Initiatives By Lawrence Ferris Jeff Utz The end of June saw the D.C. Council pass the Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Support Act of 2024 and the Fiscal Year 2025 Local Budget Act of...
7/9/2024 1:03:11 PM Do You Have a College Student? Maintaining Decision-Making Rights During Unexpected Situations By John Ramsey Kerry Spindler Parents with young children often hear that “the days are long but the years are short.” However, this phrase may not truly resonate...
6/27/2024 2:40:31 PM Owners Beware: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Underscores Strict Adherence to Prompt Payment Act By Peter Bilowz Rhian Cull Molly Quinn On Monday, June 17, 2024, the Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”) issued its decision in Business Interiors Floor Covering Business Trust v....