Preparing Legal Costs for Your Business
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 507: What Do I Need to Do Before the First Day of Law School? (1L Summer Series)
Getting Bang for Your Buck: Spend Your 2025 Privacy Budget Wisely
DE Under 3: Biden "Hits the Brakes" on Non-Defense Discretionary Budgets for Federal Agencies in FY 2025 Budget Proposal
DE Under 3: Big Budget Opponents Again Stop a Final Federal FY 2024 Budget, Congress Keeps Agency Spending to FY 2023 Levels
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 383: Talking about Money with Jesse Mecham, Founder of You Need A Budget
DE Under 3: OFCCP’s Congressional Budget Justification Is Chock-Full of Insights Into the Agency’s Plans & Past Performance
Early Returns with Jan Baran Podcast: There's a New Chair in Town – Dara Lindenbaum and the FEC Agenda Looking Towards 2024
The Strategic Side of Compliance Budgets
DE Under 3: Agency Budget Requests, Transgender Day of Visibility traction, and the fall of Trump OFCCP’s “Four Pillars”
Inside DC Podcast: FY2022 Budget Recap and the DC Council’s Fall Agenda
Inside DC: Highlights and Implications of the FY 2022 Budget
Inside DC: What To Expect From the DC Budget Process
Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 17-budgeting for compliance
Much of accounting work is cyclical. Not to oversimplify, but there are ‘busy periods’ (usually when regulatory deadlines loom) and ‘quiet periods’....more
Sarah Sawyer and Russell Berger of Offit Kurman discuss how business owners can manage legal costs and risk by distinguishing predictable, routine legal work (like handbook updates, contract reviews, and key agreements) from...more
eDiscovery is expensive—and unpredictable. And that variance wrecks budgets. The fix isn’t cheaper eDiscovery; it’s controlled eDiscovery cost forecasting through an operating model that forces cost-driving decisions upfront....more
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled a preliminary US$127 billion budget for fiscal year 2027 that includes a proposed property tax increase for both residential and commercial properties. The Mamdani administration...more
The UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have published consultation paper CP1/26, proposing a management expenses levy limit (MELL) of GBP113 million for the UK Financial...more
The 2026 Budget Bill aims to implement the Mediolanum ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU, 1 August 2025). The ruling looked at the IRAP regime applicable to banks, financial intermediaries and...more
A good news story in today’s Budget (albeit one that was widely expected, and consequently wasn’t wholly surprising). A new SDRT relief is to be introduced from 27 November 2025....more
Following months of speculation, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves has delivered her second Autumn Budget. Read a breakdown from our tax experts below. Against a backdrop of elusive economic growth, increasing...more
Tax-efficient UK Enterprise Management Incentive (EMI) options have for a long time been restricted to smaller “startup” companies. The UK Budget announced three key changes to the EMI regime, allowing larger companies to...more
The UK Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) has published its November 2025 Outlook newsletter, providing an update on compensation figures for the current financial year and an early view of the levy forecast for...more
“Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000% return on energy!” – Brian Tracy, author, and motivational speaker...more
At LISI, we’ve written a lot about budgeting for digital marketing, websites, social media support, and SEO because we know – from our decades of in-house legal marketing experience – how difficult it can be to get budget...more
To prevent the imminent shutdown of a charter school, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ordered Penn Hills School District to make an immediate payment of $793,965.29 to the Penn Hills Charter School of Entrepreneurship....more
Read our latest updates on the US Government shutdown. Previous insights - Government Shutdown Update: Friday, October 31, 2025 - The House and Senate are both out of session....more
It depends. I know. I know. You know this. The answer is actually 9-12 months. Seriously, that’s the answer! This isn’t like an online recipe where you need to scroll past the author’s favorite banana story before you...more
When preparing a community association budget at the start of each fiscal year, boards and their managers could use a good Crystal Ball; but too often they may feel like they are using a Magic 8 Ball instead: “cannot predict...more
When a law firm with a lean or growing legal marketing team sets out to build its annual budget, the process can feel daunting. Where do you even start? Which tactics deserve funding? What’s been a waste of money in the past?...more
The ADA will cut $20 million from its 2025 budget to balance finances and recover from years of deficit spending. These cuts, approved in July, will affect multiple programs, reduce staff, change outreach strategies and lower...more
Gov. JB Pritzker says President Donald Trump is ‘losing it’ after latest Chicago National Guard threat - “President Donald Trump again vowed to deploy the National Guard to Chicago ‘against’ the opposition of Gov. JB...more
Selecting the right project delivery method is crucial — not just from a design and budgeting standpoint, but also from a legal standpoint. Two of the most common delivery methods are Design-Build (DB) and Design-Bid-Build...more
The National Taxpayer Advocate has released her Fiscal Year 2026 Objectives Report to Congress, a statutorily-required annual report outlining the objectives of the Office of the Taxpayer Advocate for the upcoming fiscal...more
On June 30, the City Council formally adopted the $115.9 billion FY 2026 budget. The budget includes funding to pilot a new free child care program for children under 2 years old, along with a significant increase in City...more
In any process where labor is a significant cost driver, understanding productivity is essential. Labor productivity analysis isn’t just a management buzzword; it’s a practical tool that helps emergency mitigation experts...more
Rachel Reeves, the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, has revealed the Government’s Spending Review 2025 (SR25) setting out departmental budgets until 2029 and capital investment until 2030. The SR25 is in line with the...more
As discussed in last week’s Regs & Eggs blog post, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently released additional budget documents to support the department’s fiscal year (FY) 2026 discretionary request....more