The end of June saw the D.C. Council pass the Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Support Act of 2024 and the Fiscal Year 2025 Local Budget Act of 2024.

In August 2023, New York City Mayor Eric Adams and the New York City Department of City Planning announced three major initiatives to spur the development of housing stock across the city.

The Supreme Court may be about to accept an appeal with enormous potential to decide the airspace rights of drones in the United States, and nobody in the drone community...

3D printing, a seemingly futuristic method of manufacturing objects, is steadily moving into the mainstream as three dimensional printers have relocated from labs to the shelves of retail stores.

Irecently had the opportunity to present during a Strafford CLE webinar on strategies for mitigating the risks of lender liability claims when reworking troubled commercial real estate loans.

On March 21, 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ("FinCEN") issued an interim final rule that significantly changes the reporting requirements...

Many currently unregulated commercial, industrial, and institutional properties in Eastern Massachusetts may soon require stormwater upgrades in order to meet...

In North End Chamber of Commerce ("NECC") v. City of Boston, the NECC and several restaurants in the North End neighborhood of Boston ("Plaintiffs") filed suit against the City of Boston ("City")...

The 54th annual ICSC + U.S. Law Conference recently convened in Orlando, gathering attorneys and legal professionals from across the real estate industry in an atmosphere of renewed optimism.

The clock is ticking—just 49 days remain until the one-year filing deadline for the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA)! Entities established before January 1, 2024...

In Sacchetti v. Sacchetti, Case No. 10-P-2200, 2012 Mass. App. Unpub. LEXIS 1000 (Sept. 24, 2012), a decision issued pursuant to Rule 1:28, the Appeals Court addressed cross-appeals from a judgment following the eleven-day trial of a dispute between father and son concerning the father’s assets.

The Private Target Mergers & Acquisitions Deal Points Study ("the Study") is published on a bi-annual basis by the Market Trends Subcommittee of the ABA Business Law Section's M&A Committee...

Starting January 1, 2026, the New York LLC Transparency Act (the "Act") will require limited liability companies (LLCs) formed or authorized to do business in the State of New York...

President Trump issued an unprecedented number of executive orders in his first week in office. In our previous update on January 27, we discussed the orders directing...

According to recent news coverage, about 30,000 housing units proposed for Boston are approved by the Boston Planning Department (BPD) yet unable to break ground due to market conditions.

As addressed in our prior advisory, Boston is reforming the impact review process in Article 80 of its zoning code.

As lenders and borrowers try to get creative in working through ongoing distress in the real estate market, especially in certain asset classes, it is crucial for lenders to understand the nuances of lender liability claims.

As the 2024 U.S. presidential election approaches, many employers are bracing themselves for an uptick in political discussions—and possible tension—in the workplace. The strategy for navigating this seemingly unavoidable...

It's beginning to look a lot like… the season of giving! In that spirit, GoulstonGiving, our year-round volunteer and donation initiative, has been in full swing.

According to one of my favorite novelists, Colson Whitehead, "No matter how long you have been here, you are a New Yorker the first time you say, 'That used to be Munsey's'...