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  • August 06, 2025

    NASA Office Urges More Oversight For $27B In Gov't Property

    NASA's Office of Inspector General said Wednesday that the space agency needs to keep better track of the $26.6 billion worth of government property it has provided to contractors involved in the campaign to prepare astronauts for Mars.

  • August 05, 2025

    States Win Ruling To Shield FEMA Disaster Prevention Funds

    A Massachusetts federal judge on Tuesday temporarily barred the Trump administration from redirecting more than $4 billion in funds allocated by Congress for natural disaster mitigation efforts toward other Federal Emergency Management Agency programs.

  • August 05, 2025

    Brookfield Nabs $6B Minority Stake In Duke Energy Florida

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP-advised Duke Energy on Tuesday unveiled plans for infrastructure investor Brookfield, advised by Kirkland & Ellis LLP, to take an indirect minority equity stake in its electric company Duke Energy Florida in a $6 billion all-cash deal.

  • August 05, 2025

    Pa. Bill Seeks 5-Year Reassessment Cycle For Property Taxes

    Pennsylvania would establish a schedule that would require counties to reassess property for tax purposes every five years under a bill introduced in the state Senate.

  • August 04, 2025

    Fla. Tribe Joins Suit Over 'Alligator Alcatraz' In Everglades

    A Florida tribe has joined green groups in hitting Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and state officials with environmental claims that the immigration detention center known as "Alligator Alcatraz" constructed in the Everglades violates a slew of federal statutes.

  • August 01, 2025

    Alaskan Tribe's Breach Claim Axed In Gold Mine Permit Fight

    An Alaska judge threw out a breach of trust claim against the federal government and a mining company in a challenge to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers decision to issue a permit for an open gold mine near the Yukon border.

  • August 01, 2025

    Texas Bill Seeks Permanent Limit For Property Tax Increases

    Texas would establish a permanent cap on increases in the appraised value of real property other than residence homesteads for property tax purposes if voters approve a proposed constitutional amendment authorizing the cap, as part of legislation filed in the state House of Representatives.

  • August 01, 2025

    Pennsylvania Legislation To Watch For The Rest Of 2025

    Legislation working its way through the Pennsylvania Legislature this year includes bids to expand the state's consumer protection law to make it harder for companies to lock customers into automatically renewing subscriptions and for landlords to use software to collaborate with one another to inflate rents. Here are some bills to watch in the latter half of 2025.

  • July 31, 2025

    Tribe Can Join Fight Against 'Alligator Alcatraz,' Judge Says

    A Florida federal judge has allowed the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida to intervene in a lawsuit filed by green groups against the immigration detention center known as "Alligator Alcatraz" constructed in the Everglades after the tribe argued the facility poses a direct threat to its livelihood.

  • July 31, 2025

    Judge Questions Gov't Objection To Shielding FEMA Funds

    A Massachusetts federal judge Thursday questioned the Trump administration's assertion that it has not redirected funds allocated by Congress for natural disaster mitigation efforts toward other Federal Emergency Management Agency programs, even as the government was objecting to states' narrow request to protect the funds for now.

  • July 30, 2025

    Maturing Proptech Sector Navigates Uncertain Times

    The volatility in the global economy this year has generated uncertainty within just about every industry, with no exception for property technology. Nonetheless, this subsector of the tech industry finds itself on relatively solid footing and with an overall positive outlook, according to professionals closely tracking its development.

  • July 30, 2025

    Barnes & Thornburg Adds Morris Manning Real Estate Team

    In the latest example of the mass exodus from Morris Manning & Martin LLP, five real estate attorneys, including two partners from the struggling Atlanta firm, have made the move to Barnes & Thornburg LLP, according to a Wednesday announcement.

  • July 30, 2025

    Cherry Hill Mortgage Adds New GC from NorthMark

    Real estate investment trust Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment Corp. announced that it has appointed a new general counsel who joins the company following a five-year stint at investment firm NorthMark Strategies.

  • July 28, 2025

    Mass. Planning Group Looks To Bar AFSCME Union Petition

    A publicly funded regional planning entity in Massachusetts has asked a judge to deem it is not a public employer, seeking to head off further efforts by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees to organize the group's workers.

  • July 28, 2025

    DLA Piper Adds Real Estate Deals Pro From Katten In LA

    DLA Piper has added a former Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP partner to its Los Angeles office, strengthening its real estate practice with an attorney who guided a client in a $250 million joint venture with a South Korean investment management business, the firm said Monday.

  • July 28, 2025

    Texas Resolution Seeks Vote On Lower Property Value Limits

    Texas would ask voters if the state should amend its constitution to authorize lower limits on the maximum appraised value of residence homesteads and of real property other than homesteads for tax purposes under a joint resolution filed in the state House of Representatives during a special session.

  • July 28, 2025

    Buchalter Adds Pair Of Pacific Northwest Real Estate Attys

    Buchalter PC has expanded its real estate practice group with two new shareholders in the Pacific Northwest, the firm said Monday.

  • July 25, 2025

    Latham, Sidley Advise Deal In $5B Power Infrastructure Push

    Latham & Watkins LLP and Sidley Austin LLP advised ArcLight Capital Partners' acquisition of power developer and manager Advanced Power in an investment that could grow to more than $5 billion over the next five years based on AI and data center infrastructure demand.

  • July 25, 2025

    Former Texas US Atty Joins Fla.-Based Title Insurance Co.

    Florida-based title insurance company Fidelity National Financial said it has hired former U.S. Attorney Gregg N. Sofer as its executive vice president, deputy chief legal officer and chief compliance officer.

  • July 24, 2025

    Toxic Waste Site Owner Can't Sue After Guilty Plea, Court Told

    The estates of two former owners of a Georgia chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste at a disused plant asked a federal judge this week to throw out a suit from the current property owner, arguing its hands are far from clean in the site's contamination after its principal's 2022 guilty plea for illegal dumping.

  • July 24, 2025

    Navy Takes Ariz. Border Land For Immigration Enforcement

    The U.S. Department of the Interior said it turned over about 285 acres of land along the border with Mexico to the U.S. Navy for three years so the military can set up an enforcement area as part of the Trump administration's efforts to prevent illegal immigration.

  • July 24, 2025

    O'Melveny Environmental Partner Moves To Freshfields In NY

    Freshfields LLP announced Thursday that a former O'Melveny & Myers LLP environmental attorney with experience in both the private and public sectors has joined the firm's corporate practice in New York.

  • July 23, 2025

    Rising Star: Ropes & Gray's Anthony Mongone

    Anthony Mongone of Ropes & Gray LLP has earned the trust of some of the world's largest real estate investors to guide them through complex, large-scale deals, such as Blackstone's acquisition of 20% of Signature Bank's $16.8 billion mortgage loan portfolio after the bank's failure, earning him a spot among the real estate law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360.

  • July 23, 2025

    5th Circ. Finds Enclave Doctrine Blocks Asbestos Claims

    The Fifth Circuit has held that the federal enclave doctrine blocks the bulk of a military family's claims in a suit alleging their housing at Randolph Air Force Base had mold and asbestos, while affirming a $91,000 damages award against the housing managers.

  • July 22, 2025

    Ore. Extends Brownfield Development Tax Breaks

    Oregon extended its program of local property tax incentives for brownfield development by six years under a bill signed by the governor.

Expert Analysis

  • Antitrust Posturing Against Algorithmic AI Should End

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    President-elect Donald Trump needs to rein in the federal government's antitrust crusade against algorithmic AI, sending the message that antitrust enforcement must be grounded in evidence and real harm, says attorney David Balto, a former Federal Trade Commission assistant director of policy and evaluation.

  • Contract Disputes Recap: Perils Of Perfunctory Interpretation

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    Attorneys at Seyfarth examine three recent decisions in which the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals, the Civilian Board of Contract Appeals and the Federal Circuit ruthlessly dismantled arguments that rely on superficial understandings of different contract terms.

  • Conservation Easement Cases Weave Web Of Uncertainty

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    Much of the IRS and Justice Department’s recent success in prosecuting syndicated conservation easement cases can be attributed to the government’s focus on the so-called PropCo ratio, which could indicate treacherous waters ahead for participants and their advisers, even under the incoming Trump administration, say attorneys at Polsinelli.

  • Promoting Diversity In The Selection Of ADR Neutrals

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    Choosing neutrals from diverse backgrounds is an important step in promoting inclusion in the legal profession, and it can enhance the legitimacy and public perception of alternative dispute resolution proceedings, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.

  • Secret Service Failures Offer Lessons For Private Sector GCs

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    The Secret Service’s problematic response to two assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump this summer provides a crash course for general counsel on how not to handle crisis communications, says Keith Nahigian at Nahigian Strategies.

  • After Chevron: Conservation Rule Already Faces Challenges

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    The Bureau of Land Management's interpretation of land "use" in its Conservation and Landscape Health Rule is contrary to the agency's past practice and other Federal Land Policy and Management Act provisions, leaving the rule exposed in four legal challenges that may carry greater force in the wake of Loper Bright, say Stacey Bosshardt and Stephanie Regenold at Perkins Coie.

  • Firms Must Offer A Trifecta Of Services In Post-Chevron World

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    After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision overturning Chevron deference, law firms will need to integrate litigation, lobbying and communications functions to keep up with the ramifications of the ruling and provide adequate counsel quickly, says Neil Hare at Dentons.

  • Understanding 2 Types Of Construction Payment Clauses

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    Given the recent trend of states prohibiting pay-if-paid clauses in construction clauses in favor of fortifying contractor protections with pay-when-paid clauses, parties involved in construction projects should take care to understand the nuances between the two clauses, say Jeffery Mullen and Josephine Bahn at Cozen O'Connor.

  • Cannabis Biz Real Estate Loan Considerations For Lenders

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    Now that cannabis sales are legal in some states, real estate lenders are interested in financing the land used by cannabis companies, but because cannabis sales are still illegal under federal law, lenders must make adjustments for cannabis-adjacent transactions, say Mark Levenson and Jeffrey Wendler at Sills Cummis.

  • 2nd Circ. Ruling May Limit Discovery In Int'l Arbitration

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    The Second Circuit's recent Webuild v. WSP decision, affirming a discovery order's nullification in arbitration between Webuild and the government of Panama, demonstrates courts' unwillingness to find that arbitral tribunals in investor-state cases fall within the scope of the discovery statute, say attorneys at Cleary.

  • Texas Ethics Opinion Flags Hazards Of Unauthorized Practice

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    The Texas Professional Ethics Committee's recently issued proposed opinion finding that in-house counsel providing legal services to the company's clients constitutes the unauthorized practice of law is a valuable clarification given that a UPL violation — a misdemeanor in most states — carries high stakes, say Hilary Gerzhoy and Julienne Pasichow at HWG.

  • Industry Self-Regulation Will Shine Post-Chevron

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's Loper decision will shape the contours of industry self-regulation in the years to come, providing opportunities for this often-misunderstood practice, says Eric Reicin at BBB National Programs.

  • 3 Ways Agencies Will Keep Making Law After Chevron

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    The U.S. Supreme Court clearly thinks it has done something big in overturning the Chevron precedent that had given deference to agencies' statutory interpretations, but regulated parties have to consider how agencies retain significant power to shape the law and its meaning, say attorneys at K&L Gates.

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