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.
Federal civil rights law protects gay and transgender employees from discrimination, the U.S. Supreme Court declared June 15, 2020, in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia.
UPDATE: In its latest update to its pandemic workplace guidance, the EEOC addresses questions employers will face as businesses reopen and employees return to work.
UPDATE: SBA Administrator Jovita Carranza and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin released a joint statement on June 9, 2020, confirming that partial forgiveness is still permissible
Gov. J.B. Pritzker issued Executive Order 2020-39 on May 29, 2020 which states that businesses must follow the guidance first published by the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO)