The Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act (MEPA) Office in the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EOEEA) has floated two straw proposals (available here) outlining conceptual frameworks to update the 2021…
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/ Administrative Law, Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law
On August 28, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted amendments to reporting requirements on Forms N-PORT and N-CEN that apply to certain registered investment companies, including registered open-end…
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/ Business Organizations, Finance & Banking, Securities Law
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit recently dismissed a long-running dispute against Russia concerning the library of the Lubavitcher Rebbe (the Library), a collection of books and papers once held by the then-Rebbe…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Constitutional Law, International Law & Trade
SEC's and CFTC's Enforcement Actions Against Multiple Firms -
In its continued pursuit of rooting out and penalizing broker-dealers and investment advisers for their failure to prevent unapproved communication methods, the…
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/ Civil Procedure, Commercial Law & Contracts, Finance & Banking, Securities Law
I was proud to advise the Allentown Art Museum, which announced today that it has reached an agreement with the heirs of Henry and Hertha Bromberg concerning Portrait of George, Duke of Saxony by Lucas Cranach the Elder and his…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, International Law & Trade, Wills, Trusts, & Estate Planning
The FTC’s near-total ban on non-competes was scheduled to take effect on September 4, 2024. With just weeks to go, a Texas court has set aside the rule and ordered that it will not take effect at all. (Earlier this summer, that…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
On Tuesday, August 6th, Governor Healey signed into law House Bill 4977, “An Act relative to the Affordable Homes Act.” The 181-page Bill provides for $5.1 billion in capital funding to support housing production and…
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/ Administrative Law, Real Estate - Residential, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
A significant milestone in the digitalisation of trade was reached on 26 July 2024 with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Joint Statement Initiative (JSI) on Electronic Commerce publishing the text of its agreement on…
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/ Finance & Banking, International Law & Trade, Science, Computers, & Technology
The rate of change in the employment and benefits area seems to be accelerating. This alert addresses some of the changes that have been of most concern to our clients.
Observations on Long-Time Part-Time Employee…
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I attended today’s press conference at District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Jr.’s office in Manhattan at which a drawing by Egon Schiele, Seated Nude Woman, Front View, was transferred to the heirs of Fritz Grünbaum. I represent the…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, International Law & Trade, Wills, Trusts, & Estate Planning
Just weeks after a federal court in Texas held that the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) exceeded its authority in issuing a rule banning nearly all non-compete agreement (and, therefore, the plaintiffs challenging that rule…
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/ Administrative Law, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Commercial Law & Contracts, Consumer Protection, Labor & Employment Law
On July 20, 2024, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”) decided Shoucair v. Board of Appeal of Boston, 494 Mass. 319 (2024), which clarified the standard for imposing a bond on a party who appeals the grant of zoning…
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/ Real Estate - Commercial, Real Estate - Residential, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission narrowly approved a rule banning most non-competition agreements. The rule, set to go into effect on September 4, 2024, prohibits employers from including non-compete provisions in…
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/ Administrative Law, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Commercial Law & Contracts, Intellectual Property, Labor & Employment Law
What this talk will cover -
What is going on!
What are trade assets?
Who needs finance?
Who can or wants to finance them?
Who else could finance them?
How to become involved in trade finance assets?
Legal issues…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Finance & Banking, International Law & Trade
On May 22, 2024, with bi-partisan support, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 4763, the Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act (“FIT21”), becoming the first major cryptocurrency legislation to…
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/ Finance & Banking, Science, Computers, & Technology, Securities Law
