On September 27, 2024, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted “EDGAR Next,” a collection of rule and form amendments intended to streamline access to, and management of, accounts on the SEC’s filing…
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/ Administrative Law, Securities Law
On March 26, 2025, FinCEN announced that “All entities created in the United States – including those previously known as ‘domestic reporting companies’ – and their beneficial owners are now exempt from the requirement to report…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, International Law & Trade
The Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) has updated Florida Administrative Rule 59A-35.090 for background screening. This update is to align with 2024 legislation, which added additional disqualifying offenses to the…
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/ Administrative Law, Health, Labor & Employment Law
Now’s the time to review your GST tax exposure
Absent congressional action this year, the federal gift and estate exemption and the generation-skipping transfer (GST) tax exemption (currently $13.99 million) are scheduled to…
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/ Finance & Banking, Taxation, Wills, Trusts, & Estate Planning
On February 27, 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced it will “…not issue any fines or penalties or take any other enforcement actions against any companies based on any failure to file or update…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Finance & Banking
On February 17, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, in Smith et al. v. U.S. Department of the Treasury et al., stayed (lifted) the injunction blocking the enforcement of the Corporate Transparency…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Finance & Banking
On February 25, 2025, President Trump announced his intention to terminate the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program and introduce a new “Gold Card” visa requiring a $5 million investment. While the proposal has drawn significant…
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/ Constitutional Law, Finance & Banking, Immigration Law
Prior to taking office, President Trump promised his constituents that he would be tough on immigration. In keeping with this campaign promise, since taking office, President Trump has issued over 10 different executive orders…
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/ Constitutional Law, Immigration Law
Every year, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) issues an Annual Regulatory Report in an effort to provide FINRA Member Firms with insight into findings from FINRA’s regulatory operations programs. The Annual…
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/ Finance & Banking, Privacy, Securities Law
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) updated employers and immigration practitioners regarding important dates for the upcoming H-1B lottery registration. This year, the online registration period for the H-1B…
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/ Labor & Employment Law, Immigration Law
Recent case developments in Alpine Sec. Corp. v. FINRA before the D.C. Circuit cast further uncertainty on the future of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)’s enforcement arm…
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/ Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Securities Law
December was an eventful month for the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). The latest court ruling in the CTA conflict occurred on December 26, 2024, in Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc., et al. v. Garland, et al., when the Fifth Circuit…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Finance & Banking
Some exciting new changes are happening for the H-1B visa program starting January 17, 2025. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has published a final rule implementing significant changes to the H-1B…
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/ Immigration Law, Labor & Employment Law, Nonprofit Law
Managing your residuary estate -
Even with a comprehensive estate plan, it’s likely you’ll have some assets in a residuary estate. Like the sediment at the bottom of your glass after you finish a fine wine, an estate plan may…
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/ Finance & Banking, Taxation, Wills, Trusts, & Estate Planning
On December 26, 2024, the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reinstated the stay on the government’s ability to enforce the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), meaning that reporting companies are, for now, no longer…
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/ Business Organizations, Finance & Banking
