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June 13, 2025
Ex-Ill. Speaker Madigan Gets 7½ Years For Bribery
An Illinois federal judge on Friday sentenced former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan to seven and a half years in prison and fined him $2.5 million for his conviction on bribery, conspiracy and wire fraud charges, saying his determination that Madigan perjured himself on the stand at trial impacted the stiff penalty.
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June 13, 2025
IRS, Law Firm Settle $790K Worker Credit Refund Suit
The Internal Revenue Service settled a lawsuit seeking more than $790,000 in pandemic-era worker tax credits by a law firm that had claimed the agency was delaying paying out, according to a dismissal order Friday by a Pennsylvania federal court.
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June 13, 2025
Taxation With Representation: Debevoise, Latham, Paul Weiss
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Brown & Brown Inc. buys Accession Risk Management Group Inc., Allison Transmission Holdings Inc. acquires Dana Inc.'s off-highway unit, Qualcomm Inc. buys Alphawave IP, and Warner Bros. Discovery announced it will split into two publicly traded companies.
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June 12, 2025
Dallas Developer Cleared Of Bribery Charges In Retrial
A Dallas jury cleared a real estate executive charged with attempting to bribe city council members in exchange for federal low income housing credits, finding the executive not guilty Thursday after the Fifth Circuit threw out his guilty verdict and ordered a retrial.
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June 12, 2025
Md. Court OKs Second Tax Notice, Drops Home Value
A second residential property assessment notice by the city of Baltimore boosting a valuation by more than $300,000 over its initial assessment is valid, but the assessment was too high, the Maryland Tax Court said in an order released Thursday.
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June 12, 2025
NH High Court Upholds Towns Keeping Excess Tax Revenue
The right of New Hampshire communities to retain excess statewide education property taxes for other purposes doesn't violate the state constitution's uniformity clause, the state Supreme Court ruled, partially reversing a trial court.
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June 12, 2025
Legal Noncitizens OK For Domicile Tax Break, SC Judge Says
A legally present couple from India showed intent to remain domiciled in their South Carolina home and therefore qualify for the property tax treatment granted for owner-occupied residences, an administrative judge ruled.
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June 12, 2025
China Agrees To Loosen Rare Earth Restrictions, US Says
Chinese trade negotiators have agreed to lift export controls on rare-earth elements in exchange for the U.S. walking back a campaign to revoke visas for Chinese students, according to statements by U.S. officials, which experts said leave key issues unresolved.
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June 12, 2025
Deloitte Consulting Hit With TM Suit Over AI Platform
A blockchain-focused web platform that offers artificial intelligence tools has launched a lawsuit in New York federal court accusing Deloitte Consulting of infringing its trademark rights with its generative AI services product.
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June 12, 2025
Avenatti Sheds 3 Years After 9th Circ. Orders Resentencing
A California federal judge on Thursday resentenced disbarred attorney Michael Avenatti to just over 11 years in federal prison for filching millions of dollars from his clients' settlement funds, reducing a 14-year sentence overturned by the Ninth Circuit and leaving Avenatti with about eight years left after time served.
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June 12, 2025
Wis. Children's Hospital Denied Exemption For Hospital Tower
The Children's Hospital of Wisconsin isn't eligible for a property tax exemption for a tower built in its medical complex, as it was unused during the tax year, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals ruled.
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June 12, 2025
Maine Gives 2 Years To Fight Tax Debt Biz Property Takings
Maine won't allow challenges to governmental takings of commercial real estate for nonpayment of property taxes after a statutory two-year period ends, under a bill signed by the governor.
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June 12, 2025
Justices Reverse IRS Loss In Tax Collection Suit
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the U.S. Tax Court did not have jurisdiction to review a New Jersey woman's collection dispute with the Internal Revenue Service after the agency stopped going after her unpaid taxes, reversing an earlier IRS loss.
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June 11, 2025
Ex-NASCAR Owner Pleads Guilty To Dodging Payroll Taxes
A former NASCAR team owner appeared in North Carolina federal court Wednesday to enter a guilty plea for his failure to pay payroll taxes, according to a U.S. Department of Justice statement.
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June 11, 2025
Mo. House Passes $1.5B Stadium Bill To Keep Chiefs, Royals
The Missouri House of Representatives voted Wednesday to approve tax and other incentives worth $1.5 billion to help build or upgrade stadiums for Kansas City's MLB and NFL franchises, on the last day of a special legislative session ordered by Gov. Mike Kehoe.
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June 11, 2025
Russia Must Face $5B Yukos Award Suit, DC Judge Rules
At D.C. federal judge on Wednesday denied Russia's bid to nix litigation filed by the financing arm of Yukos Oil Co. to enforce a nearly $5 billion arbitral award, saying the Kremlin's jurisdictional objections fell short.
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June 11, 2025
House Budget Would Strong-Arm Foreign Gov'ts, Experts Say
The U.S. House-passed budget would discard the tax-exempt status of foreign governments and entities connected to them, such as sovereign wealth funds, and impose escalating tax rates if those countries employ fiscal policies that lawmakers consider unfair, according to several experts.
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June 11, 2025
Trump Presses 2nd Circ. To Federalize Hush Money Appeal
Counsel for President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged the Second Circuit to take over the appeal of his New York state hush money conviction post-trial, saying a federal judge in Manhattan wrongly denied removal, and the landscape has now changed in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark presidential immunity decision.
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June 11, 2025
Trump Pick For IRS Chief Clears Key Senate Hurdle
President Donald Trump's nominee to serve as commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service survived a key procedural vote Wednesday in the Senate, setting the stage for the chamber to proceed with a final vote on his confirmation.
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June 10, 2025
Vertex Says Tax Software Rival Purposely Destroyed Evidence
Tax compliance software company Vertex Inc. told a Pennsylvania federal judge Monday that Avalara intentionally destroyed and failed to preserve "key sources of electronically stored information crucially relevant" to Vertex's lawsuit accusing its rival of poaching workers to steal trade secrets.
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June 10, 2025
Yukos Says $5B Russia Award Suit Must Proceed
Yukos Oil Co.'s financing arm has told a D.C. federal court that a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision rejecting the Ninth Circuit's outlier interpretation of a jurisdictional question moots Russia's request that the court pause enforcement of a $5 billion arbitral award against the country.
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June 10, 2025
Power Co. Asks Justices To Settle Split In Tribal Tax Dispute
Arizona courts were wrong to rule that an energy company located on tribal land is subject to property taxes, the company told the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, urging it to address an "intolerable" state-federal split.
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June 10, 2025
LA Real Estate Agent Admits Obstructing IRS
A Los Angeles commercial real estate broker pled guilty to obstructing the Internal Revenue Service's attempts to collect thousands of dollars in unpaid taxes by willfully hiding his income and assets from the agency, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday.
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June 10, 2025
Fed. Circ. Keeps Trump Tariffs In Place, Fast-Tracks Appeal
The Federal Circuit on Tuesday granted the federal government's bid to keep President Donald Trump's global tariffs in place while it appeals a U.S. Court of International Trade order striking them down on the grounds that they exceeded the president's authority.
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June 10, 2025
Plastic Waste Often Illegally Burned, Tax Chiefs Say
Plastic waste shipped abroad is often illegally incinerated rather than recycled, including that in Turkey and Indonesia, the Dutch and British tax authorities said Tuesday.
Expert Analysis
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Adapting To Private Practice: From DOJ Enviro To Mid-Law
Practitioners leaving a longtime government role for private practice — as when I departed the U.S. Department of Justice’s environmental enforcement division — should prioritize finding a firm that shares their principles, values their experience and will invest in their transition, says John Cruden at Beveridge & Diamond.
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NY Tax Talk: Sourcing, Retroactivity, Information Services
Attorneys at Eversheds Sutherland examine recent decisions by New York’s Tax Appeals Tribunal, Division of Taxation and Court of Appeals on location sourcing of broker-dealer receipts, a case of first impression on the retroactive application of Corporate Franchise Tax regulations and when fees for information services are excluded from taxation.
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Legal Ethics Considerations For Law Firm Pro Bono Deals
If a law firm enters into a pro bono deal with the Trump administration in exchange for avoiding or removing an executive order, it has an ethical obligation to create a written settlement agreement with specific terms, which would mitigate some potential conflict of interest problems, says Andrew Altschul at Buchanan Angeli.
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Playing Football Made Me A Better Lawyer
While my football career ended over 15 years ago, the lessons the sport taught me about grit, accountability and resilience have stayed with me and will continue to help me succeed as an attorney, says Bert McBride at Trenam.
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10 Arbitrations And A 5th Circ. Ruling Flag Arb. Clause Risks
The ongoing arbitral saga of Sullivan v. Feldman, which has engendered proceedings before 10 different arbitrators in Texas and Louisiana along with last month's Fifth Circuit opinion, showcases both the risks and limitations of arbitration clauses in retainer agreements for resolving attorney-client disputes, says Christopher Blazejewski at Sherin and Lodgen.
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Power To The Paralegals: The Value Of Unified State Licensing
Texas' proposal to become the latest state to license paraprofessional providers of limited legal services could help firms expand their reach and improve access to justice, but consumers, attorneys and allied legal professionals would benefit even more if similar programs across the country become more uniform, says Michael Houlberg at the University of Denver.
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10 Soft Skills Every GC Should Master
As businesses face shifting regulatory and technological uncertainty, general counsel will need to strengthen certain soft skills to succeed, from admitting when they make a mistake to maintaining a healthy dose of dispassion, says Douglas Brown at Manatt.
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An Unrestrained, Bright-Eyed View Of Legal AI's Future
Todd Itami at Covington offers a bright-eyed, laughing-all-the-way, skydive look at what the legal industry could look like after an artificial intelligence revolution, which he believes may happen much sooner and more dramatically than we expect.
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Tracking The Evolution In Litigation Finance
Despite continued innovation, litigation finance remains an immature market with borrowers recieving significantly different terms as lenders learn to value cases, which firms need a strong handle on to ensure lending terms do not overwhelm collateral value, says Robert Wilkins at Lightfoot Franklin.
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Volunteer Firefighting Makes Me A Better Lawyer
While practicing corporate law and firefighting may appear incongruous, the latter benefits my legal career by reminding me of the importance of humility, perspective and education, says Nicholas Passaro at Ford.
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Tax Takeaways From Georgia's 2025 Legislative Session
Attorneys at Eversheds Sutherland discuss tax-related measures passed by the Georgia Legislature during the session that adjourned on April 4, which included a decrease in income tax rates, an extension of the time in which to a protest tax assessment and cleanup provisions related to launching the state’s new tax court next year.
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E-Discovery Quarterly: The Perils Of Digital Data Protocols
Though stipulated protocols governing the treatment of electronically stored information in litigation are meant to streamline discovery, recent disputes demonstrate that certain missteps in the process can lead to significant inefficiencies, say attorneys at Sidley.
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Maximizing Exemptions Before TCJA Rides Into The Sunset
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Individuals with taxable estates can optimize the benefits of estate planning strategies like spousal lifetime access trusts by setting them up before increases in estate and gift tax exemptions under the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act sunset in January, say attorneys at Katten.
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Law School's Missed Lessons: Preparing For Corporate Work
Law school often doesn't cover the business strategy, financial fluency and negotiation skills needed for a successful corporate or transactional law practice, but there are practical ways to gain relevant experience and achieve the mindset shifts critical to a thriving career in this space, says Dakota Forsyth at Olshan Frome.
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A Cold War-Era History Lesson On Due Process
The landmark Harry Bridges case from the mid-20th century Red Scare offers important insights on why lawyers must be free of government reprisal, no matter who their client is, says Peter Afrasiabi at One LLP.