On February 26, 2025, Administrative Rules for Notaries Public (the “Administrative Rules”) went into effect. These rules, which were adopted by the Vermont Secretary of State’s Office of Professional Regulation (“OPR”), allow…
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/ Administrative Law, Real Estate - Residential, Science, Computers, & Technology
It’s property tax appeal season in Vermont—property tax grievance hearings typically occur between Mid-May and early June. If your property has been re-assessed, you will receive a notice in the mail informing you of the new…
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/ Administrative Law, Taxation
Every year, the members of the Vermont Captive Insurance Association’s legislative committee and the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation (the “DFR”) work to improve Vermont’s captive insurance laws and regulations…
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/ Business Organizations, Insurance, Taxation
The secondary cascade, although a normal physiological response, can contribute to ongoing neuroinflammation, oxidative stress and axonal injury, continuing in some cases years after the initial insult. There is no clearly…
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As promised, in order to reduce the burdens on placed on legitimate businesses, while still working to detect, prevent, and prosecute financial crimes, the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, International Law & Trade
The fate of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) has been anything but certain since the beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting rule took effect in January 2024. While several legal challenges to the CTA make their way…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law
On Friday, November 15, 2024, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (“District Court”) issued a decision invalidating the April 2024 Department of Labor (“DOL”) rule which increased the minimum…
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/ Administrative Law, Commercial Law & Contracts, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
Over the past decade this blog has featured several articles addressing the growing recognition that neuroendocrine issues are an often-overlooked consequence of TBIs of all levels of severity, leaving patients with unnecessary…
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On November 13, 2024, in its decision Amazon.com Services LLC, the National Labor Relations Board (“Board”) banned mandatory “captive audience meetings,” a tool historically used by employers during union campaigns to express…
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/ Business Organizations, Labor & Employment Law
As discussed more fully in our previous article, the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) went into effect at the beginning of 2024 and requires certain entities to submit beneficial ownership reports…
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/ Business Organizations, Finance & Banking, Real Estate - Residential
The US Supreme Court recently issued a significant decision, impacting many closely-held businesses with buy-sell agreements funded by life insurance policies, Connelly v. United States, 144 S. Ct. 1406 (2024). In a 9-0…
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/ Business Organizations, Insurance, Taxation, Wills, Trusts, & Estate Planning
For more than a decade this blog has covered the growing recognition by policy makers and in the peer reviewed literature that traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) of all kinds should not be treated as a static event from which…
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/ Health, Insurance, Personal Injury
On Monday, June 17, the Vermont legislature passed H.289 to significantly reform the Renewable Energy Standard (“RES”) (30 V.S.A. §§ 8001-8016), overriding Governor Phil Scott’s veto of the bill by a vote of 21-8 in the Senate,…
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/ Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law, Taxation, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
On March 27, 2024 the Vermont Captive Insurance Association (VCIA) held its biannual “Roadshow” educational event designed for prospective captive insurance companies. The Roadshow, which has been hosted in over 20 cities, was…
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/ Civil Procedure, Insurance, Taxation
Those were the first words I heard when my client called me the other day. Moments later, I joined a call with my client and a very convincing “representative” of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) seeking money…
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/ Criminal Law, Intellectual Property
