What Are the Most Common Legal Mistakes First-Time Chicago Multifamily Real Estate Buyers Make (and How to Avoid Them)?
First-time multifamily buyers in Chicago often focus on price, neighborhood and cap rate but miss legal and compliance issues that silently add cost, delay closing or create post-closing liability.
New USPS Postmark Procedures May Result in Late Filing Penalties
For decades, taxpayers and legal professionals have relied on the "mailbox rule": if a document is dropped in a USPS collection box by the deadline, it is considered timely filed. This is no longer a safe assumption.
Earlier this week, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law SB1480, which amended the Illinois Human Rights Act (the Act) in a way that will significantly affect how employers deal with employee conviction records.
The IRS announced late last week that the due date for filing 2020 federal individual income tax returns and making 2020 federal individual income tax payments is automatically postponed from April 15, 2021, to May 17, 2021.
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA, 2021) was signed by President Biden on March 11, 2021 to address the continuing economic impact on employers and employees the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has posed.
In this fifth installment of our Construction Interview Series, Rich Reizen, Chair of Gould & Ratner’s Construction Practice, talks with Tom Bassett-Dilley, Owner of TBDArchitects, about green building and energy efficient design methodologies, including the state of the architectural industry and design focused on sustainability and net zero energy consumption.