On December 18, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to reclassify cannabis from a Schedule I to a Schedule III drug under the federal Controlled Substances Act, a policy change with…
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/ Agriculture, Finance & Banking, Health, Taxation
In December 2025, Virginia’s Joint Commission released a draft of legislative changes to guide the state’s transition to a regulated adult-use cannabis market…
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/ Agriculture, Business Organizations, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
On September 18, 2025, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals denied the Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) 2C and ANC 2C Commissioner Thomas Lee’s petitions challenging the District of Columbia Alcoholic Beverage and…
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/ Civil Procedure, Health
Just as in most other sectors of business, it is unquestionable that Artificial Intelligence is transforming the construction industry. AI is affecting how construction workflows are prepared, how real-time decisions are made,…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Construction Law, Science, Computers, & Technology
The D.C. Council passed an emergency resolution extending medical cannabis conditional licenses for an additional year. Here’s what cannabis businesses need to know to stay compliant and take advantage of the new timeline…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Health
Last month, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York issued an opinion reiterating the that “entire file” approach is the answer to the age-old question of “what constitutes a client file” under New…
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/ Law Practice Products & Services
On September 5, 2025, authors Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging that Apple used pirated books to train its Apple…
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/ Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
Construction bonds are vital tools in the construction industry. A construction bond is an instrument arising out of suretyship law. A project owner may require a contractor to obtain one or more types of construction bond to…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Construction Law, Government Contracting, Insurance
On October 22, 2014, a class action lawsuit was filed by over 60,000 detainees of GEO Group’s Processing Immigration Center against GEO Group Inc. for violating the Trafficking Victims Protection Act and unjustly enriching…
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/ Civil Procedure, Immigration Law, Labor & Employment Law
Some key changes impacting attorneys have been proposed to the Local Rules for the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. Two of the proposed changes concern attorney incapacity, caused by issues such as illness,…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Procedure
In a recently published opinion, the Appellate Division, Second Department, upheld a Suffolk County Supreme Court decision granting summary judgment in favor of an injured bridge worker who slipped backwards off a scaffold while…
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/ Construction Law, Labor & Employment Law, Personal Injury
Effective July 1, 2025, attorneys practicing law in Maryland may no longer state that their fees are “earned upon receipt” in their engagement agreements. Under the new, amended Rule 19-301.15, “[a]n attorney shall deposit into…
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/ Law Practice Products & Services
In a February 18, 2025 unpublished opinion overruling the Circuit Court of Loudon County, the Court of Appeals of Virginia confirmed that under Va. Code § 8.01-271.1, an attorney facing sanctions must be afforded notice and the…
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/ Business Torts, Civil Procedure, Civil Remedies
At its March 1, 2025, meeting, the VSB Council voted to approve changes to Rule of Professional Conduct 1.5. The proposed amendment to the Rule includes a new subjection (g), which codifies an understanding that has been around…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Law Practice Products & Services, Professional Malpractice
On January 23, 2025, the Fourt Circuit, in Alig v. Rocket Mortg., LLC, No. 22-2289, 2025 WL 271563 (4th. Cir. Jan. 23, 2025), reversed the District Court’s decision that a certified class action. In Alig, the plaintiffs filed a…
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/ Civil Procedure, Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking
