On March 23, 2021, Public Act 101-0656 (the Act) went into effect in Illinois, containing important limitations on the use of criminal convictions in employment actions, and imposing significant...

The final rule's purpose is to help EPA better characterize the sources and quantities of manufactured PFAS in the United States.

On Feb. 8, 2021, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it was conducting a five-year review of a 322-acre residential area of the USS Lead Superfund Site in East Chicago, Ind.

President Biden issued Executive Order No. 14057 (the "Executive Order") on Dec. 8, 2021 that incorporates the Federal Sustainability Plan to leverage the federal government's procurement powers ...

Taft Chicago attorneys Barton O'Brien, Daniel Saeedi, Jill Cole, and Elizabeth Babbitt contributed chapters to the Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education (IICLE) publication Chancery...

Digital transformations that do not add value to the business simply do not make sense.

Considering the potential number of companies impacted by each of the following, we in Taft's Privacy and Data Security Practice wanted to share this urgent post...

On Jan. 23, 2025, the Supreme Court granted the government's motion to stay a nationwide injunction of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) issued by a federal judge in the case...

Financial scammers are increasingly impersonating banks and financial institutions with alarming sophistication, armed with victims' actual account details to create convincing urgency around fraudulent wire transfers.

Taft served as legal counsel to Cincinnati-based private equity firm Ardlussa Capital in successfully closing its first flagship fund at $225 million, exceeding its initial target. The firm specializes in secondary and growth capital investments partnering with emerging managers across the lower middle market in North America and Western Europe.

Defense contractors using artificial intelligence in government contract performance face a critical question about intellectual property rights. While AI-assisted work doesn't automatically transfer proprietary systems to the government, vague transparency and explainability clauses in contracts can quietly expand disclosure obligations and erode decades-old trade secret protections.

On July 1, 2025, the California Attorney General, Rob Bonta, announced that the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) entered into a settlement with Healthline Media LLC (Healthline)...

An ongoing issue many of our clients are dealing with are claims under the California Information Privacy Act (CIPA).

On July 16, 2025, the Chicago City Council adopted O2025-0015577, amending the Chicago Zoning Ordinance to simplify the approval process for development bonuses in Transit-Served Locations (TSLs).

The QOZ tax credits were enacted in 2017 and sunset on December 31, 2026. This credit allows taxpayers to defer until December 31, 2026...

As discussed in a prior "Did You Know," pre-closing income tax liabilities have historically not been much concern for the buyer of LLC interests, since the income of LLCs (taxed as partnerships) is not a liability of the target company but its selling partners.

Section 83(b) allows taxpayers to elect to include in their current taxable income certain compensation that would not otherwise be taxable until a future year.

It is widely understood that you can defer taxation of the gain on a sale of investment real estate if the sale proceeds are reinvested into new investment...

They are including language in their contracts giving them not only the right to use your data to train their AI models, but the right to extract fees...

Software audits are never random. If you are being targeted, the ERP vendor believes there is a revenue opportunity with your use of the software. ERP vendors take advantage of ambiguous terms in the contract.