On June 24, 2025, the Virginia Court of Appeals overturned the Circuit Court of Arlington County’s decision invalidating Arlington County’s Expanded Housing Option (EHO) ordinance, commonly known as the “Missing Middle”…
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/ Civil Procedure, Real Estate - Residential, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
Unlike the fragile attorney-client privilege that can be waived even upon disclosure to family members, the work product doctrine is much more robust. A recurring corporate scenario confirms this important distinction…
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/ Civil Procedure
Latticework Capital Management (LCM) has announced an investment in First Medical Associates (FMA)…
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/ Business Organizations, Finance & Banking
On June 18, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Nuclear Regulatory Commission, et al. v. Texas, et al., reinstated a license originally issued by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), permitting the storage of depleted nuclear…
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/ Administrative Law, Energy & Utilities
Capstreet and Aquiline Capital have agreed to sell Ontellus to Datavant, according to a news release. Ontellus, founded in 1975 as Keais Records Retrieval and rebranded in 2017, is a provider of health records retrieval and…
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/ Finance & Banking
On June 17, Virginia Democrats selected their statewide nominees for lieutenant governor and attorney general, completing the ticket that will appear alongside gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger in November. Early voting…
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/ Civil Rights, Criminal Law, Elections & Politics
Summit Partners has completed a growth investment in RIS Rx, according to a news release.
RIS Rx, founded in 2020 and based in Newport Beach, California, is a healthcare technology company that develops solutions designed…
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/ Finance & Banking
Last week’s Privilege Point described generally accepted principles under which the attorney-client privilege can protect intra-corporate communications without a lawyer’s involvement. To some lawyers’ surprise, the…
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/ Civil Procedure
On June 16, 2025, the Senate Finance Committee released the text of its version of the “One Big, Beautiful Bill Act,” which would phase out the investment tax credit (ITC) under Section 48E and production tax credit (PTC) under…
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/ Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law, Taxation
On May 29, 2025, President Trump sent a $9.4 billion rescissions request to Congress, which House Majority Leader introduced as H.R. 4. This package would cancel funding for the U.S. Agency for International Development, U.S…
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/ Constitutional Law, Elections & Politics, International Law & Trade
Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS) has made a strategic investment in Constitution Surgery Alliance (CSA), according to a news release…
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/ Business Organizations, Finance & Banking
The President’s Budget Request Impact on Programs for the Disabled and Older Americans Act Programs -
This is part three of a series on health care budget cuts…
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/ Administrative Law, Elections & Politics, Health
On June 4, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a public advisory urging consumers not to inhale nitrous oxide (N2O) from commercial dispensers, including canisters, tanks and portable chargers. The advisory comes…
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/ Consumer Protection, Health, Products Liability
Last month, the New York Supreme Court issued a well-reasoned order denying the Archdiocese’s insurers’ motion to dismiss its claim against them for breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing, holding that the…
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/ Civil Remedies, Commercial Law & Contracts, Insurance
In the digital age, businesses may assume that firewalls, login credentials and restricted access are enough to shield proprietary data. But a recent federal court decision shows that a “trade secret” under the Defend Trade…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Intellectual Property
