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A federal district court in Texas has held the Corporate Transparency Act’s beneficial ownership reporting law likely violates the U.S Constitution, justifying a stay and injunction preventing enforcement of the law pending the resolution of the case. As a result, business owners are not required to file “Beneficial Ownership Information…

The law firm of Williams Parker sponsored a breakfast meeting of the Lakewood Ranch Community Foundation at Forked in Waterside Place June 27 to allow foundation executives to talk with members of the Builders Give Back program.

On July 3, 2024, the court in Ryan, LLC v. FTC, a case in the Northern District of Texas, stayed the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) Non-Compete Clause Rule and granted the plaintiff’s emergency motion for a preliminary injunction. The court limited the scope of the stay and injunctive relief to…

Renewal options in a lease provide a tenant with crucial flexibility by ensuring the tenant can remain in a desirable location. But what happens when the lease stipulates the rent during the renewal term will be at “fair market value” or “at the then-prevailing rate for comparable commercial office properties”…

Florida landlords are often alarmed to learn their interest in their properties can be encumbered by liens arising from a tenant’s construction activities, even if the landlord was not involved in, or aware of, the work. Upon a sale of the property, the risk of tenant-initiated construction liens can become…