Arlington County Manager Mark Schwartz announced on Jan. 23, 2024, that Arlington County will draft and potentially adopt office conversion regulations in the first half of 2024.

Virginia Common Interest Community Board (CICB) regulations require that community associations (including condominium associations, cooperative associations and property owners associations, but not voluntary civic associations) adopt internal complaint processes by Sept. 28, 2012.

The Fauquier County Board of Supervisors adopted guidelines to control new data center developments on Dec. 14, 2023. The policy is the product of collaboration between the county's planning staff...

On September 20, 2013, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania published a decision affirming that a landowner-lessor could not seek payment of withheld natural gas royalties while simultaneously declaring the lease to be void.

The study will also consider changes to planning and zoning guidance and appropriate construction standards.

Changes are coming to Fairfax and Loudoun counties' public hearing processes after state-level changes to notice requirements became effective on July 1, 2023.

For decades the indemnity deed of trust has been used to avoid or defer the payment of recordation taxes.

Previously, the PTC expired on Dec. 31, 2013, resulting in a significant slowdown in the development of new wind projects in 2014.

Notable litigation filed during January 2024 includes: (1) Bajuri v. Shiba Prop, LLC, et al. and (2) SEC v. Lee, et al.

Defendants seeking to avoid liability by relying on a lawyer's advice trigger a classic "implied waiver." Although asserting that defense does not itself disclose any privileged...

On Aug. 2, 2023, the U.S. Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) announced...

The anticorruption world is an ever-changing place these days, with an increasing number of countries enacting new or revised anticorruption regimes designed to strengthen prohibitions against bribery and other corrupt activities.

Following a period of consultation, a written ministerial statement was released yesterday, 6 December 2011, regarding the taxation of non-domiciled individuals and the proposed new statutory residence test, both of which were announced by the Treasury in Budget 2011.

On Jan. 10, 2013, the Federal Trade Commission announced revised thresholds for premerger filings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act (HSR Act).

European private equity firm Ambienta SGR beat its second fund target, raising €323.5 million ($404 million), ahead of schedule.

Last week's Privilege Point dealt with the degree of commonality of interest required to support a non-waiver doctrine known as the "joint defense" or "common interest" doctrine

On June 24, 2015, Delaware Governor Jack Markell signed into law Senate Bill No. 75, "An Act to Amend Title 8 of the Delaware Code Relating to the General Corporation Law."

The Securities and Exchange Commission recently indicated that further rule-making would not likely occur until October of 2015 with respect to Pay for performance rules, Compensation clawback requirements, Hedging rules and CEO pay ratio rules.

Under Federal Rule of Evidence 502, a party accidentally producing a privileged document can avoid a finding of waiver if it establishes that it took reasonable steps to avoid the accidental production (among other things).

The first to file bar is a limitation on the rights of members of the public to commence certain litigation under the FCA.