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  • June 09, 2026

    DHS Waives Park Laws For Big Bend Border Wall Build

    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has waived multiple environmental laws as it builds border barriers and roads through Big Bend National Park and Big Bend Ranch State Park, saying it must quickly deter illegal crossings in areas of high illegal entry on the Texas-Mexico border.

  • June 09, 2026

    DOI About-Face Stokes Yearslong Cherokee Land Rights Fight

    The United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians has for years been tied up in litigation with its sister tribe, the Cherokee Nation, over land rights, healthcare and more. Now, a recently withdrawn U.S. Department of the Interior memo over rights to 2.63 acres of land is again stoking tensions.

  • June 09, 2026

    The Law360 400: A Look At The Top 100 Firms

    The race to build the legal industry's largest law firm accelerated in 2025, with major firms leaning on mergers, lateral hiring and strategic expansion to climb the ranks of the Law360 400.

  • June 08, 2026

    NJ Court Upholds Value Of Properties Near Reservoir

    New Jersey property owned by the city of Newark was properly valued at its highest and best use as open space with public access for recreational use, a state appeals court said Monday.

  • June 08, 2026

    Ariz. Authorizes Special Tax Districts To Fund Infrastructure

    Arizona authorized the formation of special taxing districts to fund infrastructure projects with revenue from property taxes and other sources under a bill signed by the governor.

  • June 08, 2026

    Conn. Expands Solar Energy System Tax, Limits Exemption

    Connecticut expanded the scope of a tax on solar energy systems and limited a property tax exemption for solar energy facilities under a bill signed by the governor.

  • June 03, 2026

    Colo. Energy Co. Loses Fight Over ND Oil Lease Cancellation

    A North Dakota federal judge granted the government an early win in a Colorado energy company's bid for the court to vacate a series of Bureau of Indian Affairs decisions that found it didn't own interest in an oil lease, upholding the agency's decision that the company lacked standing.

  • June 03, 2026

    Iowa Creates Sales Tax Break For Nuclear Energy Facilities

    Iowa nuclear energy facilities that are beginning or restarting operation are eligible for a sales tax exemption on purchases of materials under a law signed by the governor.

  • June 03, 2026

    Okla. Gov. Vetoes Solar Power Property Tax Break Exclusion

    Oklahoma's governor pocket vetoed a bill that would have excluded solar power companies and battery energy storage systems from a property tax exemption for manufacturing facilities.

  • June 02, 2026

    Wash. Panel OKs Challenges To Seattle's Comprehensive Plan

    A Washington state appeals panel Monday revived a pair of challenges to an environmental impact statement published as part of Seattle's comprehensive plan for the city's next two decades of growth, ruling that the challenges aren't barred by recent state laws encouraging the construction of more housing.

  • June 02, 2026

    Minn. Childcare Center Property Tax Break OK'd By Court

    A Minnesota childcare center was entitled to a property tax break as an educational facility, the Minnesota Tax Court said, rejecting a county's argument that the school did not meet a deadline for a filing with the county before appealing to the court.

  • June 02, 2026

    Holland & Knight Taps Real Estate Partner To Lead Portland

    Holland & Knight LLP has elevated a real estate and business attorney who helped launch the firm's Seattle location to executive partner of its Portland, Oregon, office.

  • June 02, 2026

    Colorado Extends Conservation Easement Income Tax Credit

    Colorado is extending its conservation easement tax credit for five years under legislation signed by Gov. Jared Polis.

  • June 02, 2026

    Paul Hastings Lands Winston & Strawn Capital Markets Duo

    Paul Hastings LLP announced Tuesday that it has brought on a pair of capital markets and public advisory partners in Dallas and Orange County, California, who came aboard from Winston & Strawn LLP just as that firm combined with U.K.-based Taylor Wessing to form Winston Taylor.

  • May 29, 2026

    Colo. Appeals Court Bars One-Way Fees In Eviction Cures

    A Colorado Court of Appeals panel on Thursday reversed the dismissal of a proposed class action against a group of landlords, Tschetter Sulzer PC and the Colorado Apartment Association accusing the collective of illegally extracting attorney fees from tenants during eviction proceedings.

  • May 29, 2026

    Md. Expands Urban Agriculture Property Tax Credit Eligibility

    Maryland loosened eligibility requirements for a local option property tax credit for urban agricultural activities under a bill signed by the governor.

  • May 29, 2026

    Bradley Arant Adds Hatteras Sky GC To Atlanta Real Estate

    Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP has brought on the general counsel of commercial real estate firm Hatteras Sky in its Atlanta office, strengthening its real estate practice with an attorney who has in-house experience focused mostly on deals involving hospitality and multifamily development.

  • May 28, 2026

    Man Who Used 'God And Ga. Football' For Fraud Gets 4 Years

    A federal judge in Atlanta sentenced a man who defrauded would-be investors and college football fans out of more than $940,000 to four years in prison on Thursday, saying he "took advantage of God and Georgia football" to carry out the schemes. 

  • May 27, 2026

    Fla. Detention Site Pollutes, Environmental Group Tells Court

    An environmental nonprofit told a Florida federal judge Wednesday that the director of the state's disaster agency illegally authorized a fleet of diesel-burning equipment that pollutes protected land surrounding an Everglades immigrant detention center, leading to violations of the Clean Air Act.

  • May 27, 2026

    Arnall Golden Adds 3 Real Estate Attys In Atlanta, DC

    Arnall Golden Gregory LLP has hired three attorneys in two of its offices who focus on real estate matters, bringing to the firm perspectives from having represented owner-operator and retail clients, as well as developers and financing clients.

  • May 26, 2026

    Minn. Court OKs Homestead Break For Pair With Guide Camp

    A Minnesota couple with a seasonal resort and year-round home is entitled to full homestead credits for both, the state tax court said, calling the statutory distance limitation on application of that benefit ambiguous.

  • May 26, 2026

    No Farm Tax Break For Property, Minn. Tax Court Affirms

    The owner of a 35-acre property in Minnesota failed to show sufficient evidence that his use of the land met the threshold for an agricultural tax break, the state tax court affirmed.

  • May 26, 2026

    Arizona Clarifies 2024 Destroyed Property Tax-Valuation Law

    Arizona will retroactively clarify its treatment of the tax valuation of destroyed property under newly signed legislation amending language in a 2024 measure that left questions in its application.

  • May 26, 2026

    New Jersey-Founded Hartmann Doherty Opens In Miami

    The Hackensack, New Jersey-founded Hartmann Doherty Rosa Berman & Bulbulia LLP has launched a new office in Miami, where the firm said it is taking advantage of an active real estate and business market.

  • May 22, 2026

    Law360 Reveals Titans Of The Plaintiffs Bar

    This past year, 10 lawyers across the country at plaintiffs' firms big and small helped secure millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts for their clients, going up against powerful defendants like Google, Monsanto and the Trump administration, earning the attorneys recognition as Law360's Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar for 2026.

Expert Analysis

  • Law School's Missed Lessons: How To Start A Law Firm

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    Launching and sustaining a law firm requires skills most law schools don't teach, but every lawyer should understand a few core principles that can make the leap calculated rather than reckless, says Sam Katz at Athlaw.

  • OFAC Sanctions Will Intensify Amid Global Tensions In 2026

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    The Office of Foreign Assets Control will ramp up its targeting of companies in the private equity, venture capital, real estate and legal markets in 2026, in keeping with the aggressive foreign policy approach embraced by the Trump administration in 2025, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

  • Law School's Missed Lessons: Intentional Career-Building

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    A successful legal career is built through intention: understanding expectations, assessing strengths honestly and proactively seeking opportunities to grow and cultivating relationships that support your development, say Erika Drous and Hillary Mann at Morrison Foerster.

  • Law School's Missed Lessons: Practical Problem Solving

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    Issue-spotting skills are well honed in law school, but practicing attorneys must also identify clients’ problems and true goals, and then be able to provide solutions, says Mary Kate Hogan at Quarles & Brady.

  • AG Watch: Texas Junk Fee Deal Shows Enforcement Priorities

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    Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's recent $9.5 million settlement with online travel agency website Booking Holdings for so-called junk fee practices follows a larger trend of state attorneys general who have taken similar action and demonstrates the significant penalties that can follow such allegations, say attorneys at Kelley Drye.

  • Law School's Missed Lessons: Practicing Client-Led Litigation

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    New litigators can better help their corporate clients achieve their overall objectives when they move beyond simply fighting for legal victory to a client-led approach that resolves the legal dispute while balancing the company's competing out-of-court priorities, says Chelsea Ireland at Cohen Ziffer.

  • 10th Circ. Debtor Ruling May Expand Wire Fraud Law Scope

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    The Tenth Circuit’s recent U.S. v. Baker decision, holding that federal fraud law can reach deceptive schemes designed to prevent a creditor from collecting on a debt, may represent an expansive new theory of wire fraud — even as the ruling reaffirmed the requirements of the interstate commerce element, say attorneys at ArentFox Schiff.

  • Law School's Missed Lessons: Networking 101

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    Cultivating a network isn't part of the law school curriculum, but learning the soft skills needed to do so may be the key to establishing a solid professional reputation, nurturing client relationships and building business, says Sharon Crane at Practising Law Institute.

  • Law School's Missed Lessons: Educating Your Community

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    Nearly two decades prosecuting scammers and elder fraud taught me that proactively educating the public about the risks they face and the rights they possess is essential to building trust within our communities, empowering otherwise vulnerable citizens and preventing wrongdoers from gaining a foothold, says Roger Handberg at GrayRobinson.

  • In NY, Long COVID (Tolling) Still Applies

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    A series of pandemic-era executive orders in New York tolling state statutes of limitations for 228 days mean that many causes of action that appear time-barred on their face may continue to apply, including in federal practice, for the foreseeable future, say attorneys at Sher Tremonte.

  • Law School's Missed Lessons: Client Service

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    Law school teaches you how to interpret the law, but it doesn't teach you some of the key ways to keeping clients satisfied, lessons that I've learned in the most unexpected of places: a book on how to be a butler, says Gregory Ramos at Armstrong Teasdale.

  • Courts Are Still Grappling With McDonnell, 9 Years Later

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    The Seventh and D.C. Circuits’ recent decisions in U.S. v. Weiss and U.S. v. Paitsel, respectively, demonstrate that courts are still struggling to apply the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2016 ruling in McDonnell v. U.S., which narrowed the scope of “official acts” in federal bribery cases, say attorneys at Quinn Emanuel.

  • Trump Tax Law Has Mixed Impacts On Commercial Real Estate

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    The One Big Beautiful Bill Act brings sweeping changes to the real estate industry — and while the permanency of opportunity zones and bonus depreciation creates predictability for some taxpayers, sunsetting incentives for renewable energy projects will leave others with hard choices, says Jordan Metzger at Cole Schotz.

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