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Virginia Doesn't Tax Your Estate. The District and Maryland Might.

Ask whether Virginia has an estate tax and the answer is short. It does not. The Commonwealth repealed its estate tax effective July 1, 2007, and it has no inheritance tax either. For a family whose assets sit entirely inside Virginia, that is the end of the state-level analysis. It is also the reason this gets missed.

November 6, 2026

Entity Formation and Structuring

Protecting a Business in a Virginia Divorce: What Owners Get Wrong

Business owners in the midst of divorce tend to arrive with the same questions: Will I lose the company? Does my spouse get half? How do we value the business? These are the right questions, but the answers in Virginia are not as straightforward as most business owners would hope. For example, Virginia addresses value different than the market does and include specific considerations for “goodwill” and post-separation growth.

November 4, 2026

Government Contracts

Your Prime Contractor Cut Your Workshare – What Are Your Options?

Has your prime contractor reduced your workshare? Learn why clear subcontract terms matter, where teaming agreements can fall short, and what to consider when a workshare dispute arises.

October 30, 2026

Employment Law

When AI Becomes a Workplace Disability Accommodation

Can AI be a reasonable workplace accommodation under the ADA? Sometimes, yes. Learn how businesses and nonprofits can evaluate AI accommodation requests, address privacy and security risks, and assess undue hardship.

October 28, 2026

Nonprofit/ Exempt Organizations

Virginia’s Nonstock Corporation Act Is Changing: Why Your Organization and Board Need to Care

Changes to Virginia’s Nonstock Corporation Act take effect January 1, 2027. Learn what nonprofit boards need to know about committee authority, membership rights, financial transparency, and updating governing documents.

October 28, 2026

Nonprofit/ Exempt Organizations

What Is Worrying Our Nonprofit Clients – Part V: Political Risk and the Nonprofit Mission

Political pressures can create operational, employment, funding, and governance risks for nonprofits. This final installment explores practical steps organizations can take to manage workplace expression, social media, federal grants, advocacy, and board oversight while staying mission-focused.

October 19, 2026

Nonprofit/ Exempt Organizations

What Is Worrying Our Nonprofit Clients – Part IV: When Cybersecurity Risks Become Mission Risks

As part four of our series on what keeps our nonprofit clients up at night, we turn to security and operational risk. For nonprofits operating with limited resources, stretched staff, and lean administrative teams, a cyber incident can quickly become much more than an IT problem. A serious data or cyber breach can interrupt services, expose sensitive information, drain financial resources, damage donor confidence, and consume management attention at the worst possible time.

September 28, 2026

Nonprofit/ Exempt Organizations

When Can Nonprofit Employees Volunteer for Their Employer?

Nonprofit employees are often deeply committed to the mission of the organizations they serve. That commitment sometimes leads an employee to offer to help at a fundraising event, participate in a weekend program, or perform other services without pay. The offer may be entirely sincere. It also may create an unexpected wage-and-hour problem for your nonprofit organization.

September 28, 2026

Employment Law

When Is a Lunch Break Really Off the Clock? New DOL Guidance on Compensable Meal Periods

In our recent blog on compensable travel time, we examined when an employee’s commute stops being ordinary travel and becomes work time that must be paid by the employer. That question is part of a larger -- and frequently frustrating -- Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) problem: When is an employee actually working?

September 28, 2026

Nonprofit/ Exempt Organizations

The IRS May Redraw the Tax-Exemption Line for Private Schools

The federal government is now approaching tax-exempt status for private schools from a different direction. Rather than treating Section 501(c)(3) status as federal financial assistance, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service have proposed regulations that would condition the exemption itself on a broad prohibition against race-based policies and practices.

September 28, 2026