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2024 Construction Outlook
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2024 Construction Outlook

Throughout the past few years, the construction industry has been plagued with myriad issues, including supply chain constraints, labor shortages and material procurement problems, among others.
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The employee retention tax credit aimed at helping businesses hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic will be extended and expanded under the new stimulus bill recently passed by Congress and awaiting President Trump’s signature.
Ilana Bley
Partner
Vice Chair, Tax Planning and Structuring Practice
If employers want to make vaccinations mandatory, can they force their employees' hands (or, more accurately, their arms)?
David Michael
Managing Partner
Chair, Human Resources and Employment Practice
Mark Brookstein
Partner
In this fourth installment of our Construction Interview Series on adapting to the COVID-19 pandemic, Rich Reizen and Pat Johnson, members of Gould & Ratner’s Construction Practice, talk with Eric Nixon, President of Maron Electric, about a variety of issues and opportunities facing the industry, including current attempts to meet economic and regulatory demands, as well as future opportunities and solutions.
Richard Reizen
Partner
Chair, Construction Practice
Unfortunately, we have seen an unprecedented spike in COVID-19 cases over the past few weeks. We have also been warned that this winter will be a dark and difficult time, and that the pandemic will likely get significantly worse before vaccines are widely available and we begin our return to normalcy.
Richard Reizen
Partner
Chair, Construction Practice
Four days after the election, an anxious America got the news: Donald Trump would be a one-term president. As administrations shift, so do priorities. How will a Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration combat COVID-19’s effect on the economy?
Insurers across the nation continue to file motions to dismiss COVID-19 cases brought by policyholders on three primary grounds.
Karin O'Connell
Of Counsel
The US Patent and Trademark Office issued Examination Guide 3-20 on Oct. 28 to clarify procedures that trademark examiners should follow in view of the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2020 ruling.
The first reported substantive ruling by a judge sitting in Illinois on the legal implications of whether COVID-19 and the resulting governmental shelter-in-place orders
Paul Carroll
Partner
Daniel Crowley
Partner
As we wrote about in a recent article, the trends in insurance coverage for COVID-19 related losses are: 1) so far insurers are winning, and 2) the cases are fact intensive and turn on policy and pleading language.
Karin O'Connell
Of Counsel
The stark effects of the coronavirus pandemic are conspicuously clear in downtown Chicago: Shuttered businesses that once catered to throngs of commuters and office workers loom over bare sidewalks
Karin O'Connell
Of Counsel