The Treasury Department has issued a final rule permanently limiting the Corporate Transparency Act's enforcement to foreign entities only, exempting domestic U.S. companies from beneficial ownership reporting requirements. However, this significant narrowing faces potential legal challenges and could be reversed by future administrations, leaving the ultimate fate of the CTA uncertain.

During the 2022 Regular Session of the General Assembly of Georgia, the Legislature enacted legislation that impacts public works contracts. Ultimately, these revisions...

On May 14, 2015, the Florida Supreme Court held that a government-created insurance company, Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, was immune from statutory first-party bad faith claims.

One of the most common admonitions given to prospective and current captive owners is that a captive must be run like an insurance company.

Those of you with gray hair like me may recall the life insurance vanishing premium lawsuits from the mid-1990s.

Both ASCAP and BMI recently announced that they have reached new multi-year licensing deals with the streaming music service Pandora.

The value of a brand is becoming increasingly important in today's economy. With the massive growth of the internet, businesses can project their image worldwide with ease.

In a Tennessee Uniform Trade Secrets Act case, the Tennessee Business Court set some discovery guidelines for business competitors in litigation over alleged misappropriation of trade secrets.

Angie McEwen has seen Birmingham-based Butler Snow grow tremendously since she joined the law firm.

Simply put, judicial estoppel is an equitable doctrine that is intended to prevent a party from deliberately taking inconsistent positions under oath in separate proceedings ...

Some of the most frequent questions I've received since finishing my federal district court clerkship involve how certain judges feel about specific parties or issues.

The Texas legal landscape will change significantly on September 1, 2024, with the launch of the Business Court and the 15th Court of Appeals.

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 30(b)(6) is a critical part of litigation involving corporations and other business entities.

A unanimous panel of the Sixth Circuit recently rejected a manufacturer's attempt to compel arbitration under an expired contract in Linglong Americas, Inc. v. Horizon Tire, Inc.

IBM announced this week that it had uncovered a highly-sophisticated scheme to steal funds from medium to large U.S.-based companies.

The Mississippi section of this year's Chambers USA Regional Real Estate Guide was contributed by Butler Snow LLP

On September 20, 2018, in Durham v. Martin, et al., 2018 WL 4496404 (6th Cir. 2018), the Sixth Circuit reversed the Middle District of Tennessee's finding that Jeremy Durham lacked standing...

On March 23, the Consolidated Appropriations Act (the "Appropriations Act") was signed into law by President Trump. Included in the Appropriations Act were certain tax law provisions ...

On April 15, 2016, the IRS released Advice Memorandum 2016-001 reaching very different conclusions than those in the February CCA.

On Friday, September 21, 2018, the Treasury Department issued proposed regulations removing the portion of the final Section 385 regulations dealing with the documentation requirements that must be satisfied ...