Tax

  • April 06, 2026

    Wash. Activist Seeks To Force Vote On 'Millionaire Tax'

    A conservative activist urged Washington's highest court to allow voters to weigh in on a newly enacted state income tax on earnings above $1 million, seeking to challenge the secretary of state's position that the new tax isn't eligible to be overturned through a citizen referendum.

  • April 06, 2026

    Chewy Investor Settles Suit Against BC Partners For $29.5M

    A Chewy Inc. investor has brokered a $29.5 million deal with BC Partners that, if finalized, would settle the investor's derivative suit that alleged BC Partners saddled Chewy investors with potential tax liabilities following a financially unfair downstream merger involving PetSmart Inc., the parties told the Delaware Chancery Court on Monday.

  • April 06, 2026

    BNY, Robinhood To Help Roll Out Trump Accounts

    The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. will be the federal government's financial agent in helping implement the new tax-advantaged brokerage accounts for children called Trump accounts, the U.S. Treasury Department said Monday.

  • April 06, 2026

    Germany, Italy Ask EU For Windfall Tax On Energy Companies

    Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria and Portugal have asked the European Union to create a windfall profits tax on energy companies so governments can finance relief for spiking oil prices fueled by the U.S. and Israel's war with Iran, the EU and three finance ministries told Law360 on Monday.

  • April 06, 2026

    Activewear Co. Fabletics Sued Again For Tariff Refunds

    Fabletics, the activewear company cofounded by actress Kate Hudson, was hit with a proposed class action in California federal court Friday alleging it is improperly pocketing tariff surcharges from customers and is refusing to commit to refunds, weeks after a similar suit was filed in Illinois state court.

  • April 06, 2026

    Top Court Paves Way To Wipe Out Pol's Bribery Conviction

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday vacated an appeals court's decision to uphold the conviction of a pardoned former Cincinnati council member for bribery and attempted extortion, effectively greenlighting federal prosecutors' motion to toss the case.

  • April 06, 2026

    Justices Pass On Oklahoma Tribal Tax Case

    The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to review an Oklahoma high court ruling that denied tax-exempt status to a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation.

  • April 03, 2026

    Case-By-Case Guide As Justices Eye Landmark Pharma Law

    Drugmakers and prominent allies are inundating the U.S. Supreme Court with calls to scrutinize Medicare's new power to slash payments by tens of billions of dollars, and the justices look poised to take up or turn down a fistful of legal challenges in one fell swoop.

  • April 03, 2026

    Tax Slashes, DA Oversight Bills Mark End Of Ga. Session

    A Republican-driven rollback to Georgia income taxes that could extend through the better part of the next decade capped off the state's 2026 legislative session Thursday, as lawmakers avoided the bitter fights over civil justice reform that dominated the convening of the General Assembly in 2025.

  • April 03, 2026

    9th Circ. Upholds Biden Ariz. National Monument Proclamation

    A Ninth Circuit panel has upheld a lower court's dismissal of a challenge to former President Joe Biden's proclamation that established an Indigenous site in the Grand Canyon region as a national monument, saying that any claims of economic harm stemming from future higher energy costs are too speculative.

  • April 03, 2026

    Law360 Announces The Members Of Its 2026 Editorial Boards

    Law360 is pleased to announce the formation of its 2026 Editorial Advisory Boards.

  • April 03, 2026

    Feds Fight Atty's Bond Request Amid $22M Tax Fraud Appeal

    A North Carolina federal court should reject a lawyer's bid to remain free on bail while she appeals her conviction for helping perpetrate a $22 million tax fraud scheme because she didn't show that her appeal is likely to change her conviction, federal prosecutors said.

  • April 03, 2026

    Sanctioned Ex-Broker Pushes To Keep IRS Records Suit Alive

    The IRS should not be allowed to withhold records of its investigation into an ex-broker sanctioned by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority for hiding $1.7 million in tax liens, he told a North Carolina federal court Friday, urging it to let his case against the tax agency proceed.

  • April 03, 2026

    Taxation With Representation: Cleary, Hogan Lovells, Wachtell

    In this week's Taxation With Representation, spice maker McCormick acquires Unilever's foods business, wholesale restaurant food distributor Sysco buys Jetro Restaurant Depot, and private equity giant KKR closes a fund focused on investments in North America.

  • April 03, 2026

    Clean Energy Tax Credits Could Gain Ground In Tax Planning

    Discounted pricing and risk-limiting contracts are driving large companies to buy clean energy tax credits to lower their IRS bills, a move experts said could become standard in corporate tax planning.

  • April 02, 2026

    California Agency Wants SunPower Tax Issue Out Of Ch. 11

    California's Department of Tax and Fee Administration has asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge to abstain from hearing a tax audit dispute in solar panel company SunPower's Chapter 11 case, saying the matter should be handled in a state administrative forum.

  • April 02, 2026

    Judge Keeps IRS, Booz Allen In Lawsuit Over Tax Data Leak

    A class action against the federal government and contractor Booz Allen Hamilton seeking to hold them accountable for the unauthorized disclosure of a trove of wealthy people's tax returns by a worker on the job with the IRS can move forward, a Maryland federal judge said.

  • April 02, 2026

    Religious Group's Tax Claims Ruled To Belong In NJ Court

    A religious group's claim that a New Jersey township is discriminating against it because the group no longer wants to make payments on a previous tax agreement belongs in a state court, a federal district court said in dismissing the case.

  • April 02, 2026

    Property Co. Not Liable To Investors In $40M Fraud Suit

    A group of investors were told by a Tennessee federal judge that they cannot claim that a property holding company is liable for debts to investors under state statute in a suit accusing a purported green energy outfit and its executives of using promises of extravagant returns to induce investments.

  • April 02, 2026

    US Tariffs Hiked Consumer Prices By 0.5% To 1%, Report Says

    The U.S. government's tariffs imposed last year likely raised consumer prices by 0.5% to 1%, the Yale Budget Lab said Thursday in a report that revised down its initial estimates.

  • April 02, 2026

    Goldstein Allowed To Move Out After Marriage Falls Apart

    A Maryland federal judge on Thursday allowed SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein to relocate for the duration of his home confinement, after Goldstein's attorneys said his marriage had fallen apart and it no longer "makes sense" for Goldstein and his wife to share a residence.

  • April 02, 2026

    4 Mass. Rulings You May Have Missed In March

    Justices in Suffolk County Superior Court's Business Litigation Session reminded litigants in two cases in March that time is still of the essence in bringing claims, while the Massachusetts state court reiterated in another matter that a promise is a promise.

  • April 02, 2026

    Clifford Chance Brings On NY Tax Partner From White & Case

    Clifford Chance LLP has hired a former White & Case LLP attorney as a partner in its tax, pensions and employment group in New York.

  • April 02, 2026

    5th Circ. Urged To Rethink Tax Break For Limited Partners

    The Internal Revenue Service asked the Fifth Circuit to reconsider its decision allowing business partners with limited liability under state law to be excluded from the federal self-employment tax, saying it threatens the funding of Social Security and Medicare.

  • April 02, 2026

    NC Top Court Scraps Judicial Fix For Public School System

    The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled in a divided decision Thursday that a trial court lacked the power to impose constitutional remedies for the state's failure to provide students with a quality education, invalidating nine years of developments in the decadeslong case known as Leandro.

Expert Analysis

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    Painting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Painting trains me to see both the fine detail and the whole composition at once, enabling me to identify friction points while keeping sight of a client's bigger vision, but the most significant lesson I've brought to my legal work has been the value of originality, says Jana Gouchev at Gouchev Law.

  • Compliance Pointers Amid Domestic Terrorism Clampdown

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    A recent presidential memorandum marks a shift in federal domestic-terrorism enforcement that should prompt nonprofits to enhance diligence related to grantees, vendors and events, and financial institutions to shore up their internal resources for increased suspicious-activity monitoring and reporting obligations, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • 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.

  • Protecting Sensitive Court Filings After Recent Cyber Breach

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    In the wake of a recent cyberattack on federal courts' Case Management/Electronic Case Files system, civil litigants should consider seeking enhanced protections for sensitive materials filed under seal to mitigate the risk of unauthorized exposure, say attorneys at Redgrave.

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    Judging Figure Skating Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Judging figure skating competitions helps me hone the focus, decisiveness and ability to process complex real-time information I need in court, but more importantly, it makes me reengage with a community and my identity outside of law, which, paradoxically, always brings me back to work feeling restored, says Megan Raymond at Groombridge Wu.

  • What Ethics Rules Say On Atty Discipline For Online Speech

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    Though law firms are free to discipline employees for their online commentary about Charlie Kirk or other social media activity, saying crude or insensitive things on the internet generally doesn’t subject attorneys to professional discipline under the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, says Stacie H. Rosenzweig at Halling & Cayo.

  • 2 Rulings Highlight IRS' Uncertain Civil Fraud Penalty Powers

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    Conflicting decisions from the U.S. Tax Court and the Northern District of Texas that hinge on whether the IRS can administratively assert civil fraud penalties since the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2024 decision in SEC v. Jarkesy provide both opportunities and potential pitfalls for taxpayers, says Michael Landman at Bird Marella.

  • Junior Attys Must Beware Of 5 Common Legal Brief Mistakes

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    Junior law firm associates must be careful to avoid five common pitfalls when drafting legal briefs — from including every possible argument to not developing a theme — to build the reputation of a sought-after litigator, says James Argionis at Cozen O'Connor.

  • Digital Asset Report Opens Doors For Banks, But Risks Linger

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    A recent report from a White House working group discussing digital asset market structure signals how banks may elect to expand into digital asset custody, trading and related services in the years ahead, but the road remains layered with challenges, say attorneys at Foley & Lardner.

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    Power To The Paralegals: How And Why Training Must Evolve

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    Empowering paralegals through new models of education that emphasize digital fluency, interdisciplinary collaboration and human-centered lawyering could help solve workforce challenges and the justice gap — if firms, educators and policymakers get on board, say Kristine Custodio Suero and Kelli Radnothy.

  • 5 Real Estate Takeaways From Trump's Sweeping Tax Law

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    Changes to the Internal Revenue Code included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will have a range of effects on real estate sponsors, investors and real estate investment trusts — from more compliance flexibility around taxable REIT subsidiary limits to new considerations raised by a key retaliatory tax provision that was left out, say attorneys at DLA Piper.

  • Evaluating The Current State Of Trump's Tariff Deals

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    As the Trump administration's ambitious tariff effort rolls into its ninth month, and many deals lack the details necessary to provide trade market certainty, attorneys at Adams & Reese examine where things stand.

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    Playing Softball Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    My time on the softball field has taught me lessons that also apply to success in legal work — on effective preparation, flexibility, communication and teamwork, says Sarah Abrams at Baleen Specialty.

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    Law School's Missed Lessons: Mastering Time Management

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    Law students typically have weeks or months to prepare for any given deadline, but the unpredictability of practicing in the real world means that lawyers must become time-management pros, ready to adapt to scheduling conflicts and unexpected assignments at any given moment, says David Thomas at Honigman.

  • How Hyperlinks Are Changing E-Discovery Responsibilities

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    A recent e-discovery dispute over hyperlinked data in Hubbard v. Crow shows how courts have increasingly broadened the definition of control to account for cloud-based evidence, and why organizations must rethink preservation practices to avoid spoliation risks, says Bree Murphy at Exterro.

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