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Employment Law

U.S. Department of Labor’s July 2025 Regulatory Rollback: Implications and Strategic Considerations for Employers

On July 22, 2025, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced a sweeping deregulatory initiative aimed at rewriting or repealing more than sixty workplace rules deemed “obsolete” or “overly burdensome” by the current administration. According to Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer, the rollback is part of a broader effort to “eliminate unnecessary regulations that stifle…

July 29, 2025

Construction

No Surprises, No Excuses: How Construction Firms Should Prepare for the Rise in Worksite Immigration Raids

With immigration enforcement actions ramping up across job sites nationwide, contractors and developers can no longer afford to ignore developing a response plan in advance. If ICE shows up at your jobsite or office, you need to understand the law and your obligations. You need to develop a coherent response plan and convey that plan…

June 10, 2025

Business and Financial Services

Building a Great Nonprofit Board: No Tourists, No Ghosts, No Dead Weight

There is a lot of mythology in the nonprofit world around what makes a great board of directors. Does it take prestige names or deep pockets? Some start by using friends or family. None of that matters if your board isn’t actively engaged, aligned on mission, vision, and values, and capable of respectfully challenging each…

June 9, 2025

Business and Financial Services

CTA Update (March 26, 2025): FinCEN Proposes to Relieve Reporting Companies from BOI Reporting Requirements Under the CTA

On March 26, 2025, the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) published in the Federal Register an interim final rule that proposes to substantially narrow the existing beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) to “require only entities previously defined as ‘foreign reporting companies’ to file a BOI report.…

April 3, 2025

Business and Financial Services

CTA Update (March 2, 2025): Treasury Department Posts on X that CTA Filing Requirements No Longer Apply to U.S. Businesses

Many of us were looking for some additional clarity regarding the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) in the wake of FinCEN’s February 28, 2025, Notice. We may have finally received that when the Treasury Department’s announced in posts on X on March 2, 2025, that it will not enforce any penalties or fines associated with the…

March 5, 2025

Business and Financial Services

Another Day, Another CTA Update: FinCEN Extends BOIR Deadline

Those following this blog will recall that FinCEN just announced ten days ago that Beneficial Ownership Information reporting (BOIR) requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) were once again back in effect with the decision of U.S. District Court for the Eastern District Court of Texas, in Smith, et al. v. U.S. Department of the Treasury,…

February 28, 2025

Business and Financial Services

CTA Update (2/19/25) – CTA Reporting Requirements are Back On Again!

They’re back! FinCEN Beneficial Ownership Information reporting (BOIR) requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) are once again back in effect. The catalyst in this very long-running back-and-forth was the February 18, 2025, decision of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District Court of Texas, in Smith, et al. v. U.S. Department of the…

February 19, 2025

Business and Financial Services

CTA Update – The Supreme Court Lifted the CTA Injunction, but for Now CTA Reporting is Still Not Required

In the longest running game of legal pong in years in the United States, the Supreme Court entered the fray in the battle over enforceability of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) requirements on disclosure of ownership with FinCEN. On January 23, 2025, the Supreme Court issued a stay of the trial court’s nationwide preliminary injunction…

January 30, 2025

Employment Law

Kentucky Federal Court Vacates Biden Administration’s Title IX Final Rule

The Biden administration spent nearly two years crafting new regulations that attempted to make clear Title IX’s ban against discrimination “on the basis of sex” also included discrimination-based sex stereotypes, pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Notwithstanding the U.S. Supreme Court’s conclusion in the Bostock case that the term “sex” included these other matters in…

January 15, 2025

Business and Financial Services

UPDATE – 12/31/24 Wait…Forget “Never Mind”…The Fifth Circuit Vacates its Stay of its CTA Preliminary Injunction, Puts CTA Reporting Requirements on Hold

On December 26, 2024, the on-again, off-again saga of the reporting requirements for most small business owners under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) took another twist when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit decided to completely reverse direction. The Fifth Circuit vacated its December 23, 2024, Order that blocked the trial court’s…

December 31, 2024