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  • July 15, 2025

    Trump Admin Seeks Win In Harvard $2B Funding Freeze Case

    The Trump administration urged a Massachusetts federal judge Monday to grant it summary judgment in Harvard University's lawsuit challenging the government's effort to freeze $2.2 billion in funding, arguing the dispute is a contract fight that belongs in the Federal Claims Court and the allegations fail on the merits.

  • July 15, 2025

    Trump Says US Has Struck Trade Deal With Indonesia

    President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the U.S. has reached a trade deal with Indonesia that includes a 19% tariff on all goods exported by the Southeast Asian country to the U.S., while American goods exported there will be free of tariffs.聽

  • July 15, 2025

    IRS Rates Dip Slightly In August After July Rebound

    Applicable federal rates for income tax purposes are set to decline in August, easing slightly after July's increases, the Internal Revenue Service said Tuesday.

  • July 15, 2025

    Tax Return Preparer Cops To Role In $25M Fraud Scheme

    A tax return preparer pled guilty in a California federal court for his role in a fraud scheme that involved submitting fake federal income tax returns to claim $25 million in refunds.

  • July 15, 2025

    Tax Court Warns Attys In Denying $20M Easement Deduction

    The U.S. Tax Court threatened Tuesday to force attorneys for a Georgia partnership to personally pay court costs after they had argued at trial for a $20 million tax deduction for a conservation easement donation, an amount the court said was over 100 times the land's value.

  • July 15, 2025

    Tax Court Denies Exclusion To Reduce Estate's Value

    The estate of one deceased spouse did not file its return in time for the estate of another deceased spouse to use an exclusion to reduce the value of the second estate, the U.S. Tax Court said in a decision Tuesday.

  • July 15, 2025

    Tax Court Denies Equitable Tolling To Firm In Collection Action

    A North Dakota law firm that convinced the U.S. Supreme Court three years ago that federal courts can extend equitable tolling for nonjurisdictional deadlines was not able to sway the U.S. Tax Court to extend the time for the firm聽to file a collection action case against the IRS, according to a bench opinion.聽

  • July 15, 2025

    IRS Updates Corp. Bond Monthly Yield Curve For July

    The Internal Revenue Service updated Tuesday the corporate bond monthly yield curve used in calculations for defined benefit plans for July, as well as corresponding segment rates and other related provisions.

  • July 15, 2025

    IRS To Provide Transition Relief For Tips And OT Tax Breaks

    The IRS will provide guidance for new deductions for tips, overtime pay and car loan interest that will include transition relief for taxpayers claiming those deductions and employers subject to associated reporting requirements, according to a fact sheet released by the agency.

  • July 15, 2025

    These Firms Worked On The Top First-Half Real Estate Deals

    A&O Shearman and Stibbe are among the more than 20 law firms that scored work on the 10 largest global real estate mergers and acquisitions of the first half, a period that saw three transactions above $4 billion.

  • July 15, 2025

    IRS Issues 2026 Static Mortality Tables For Defined Plans

    The Internal Revenue Service released on Tuesday the updated static mortality tables to be used to calculate the funding target and other items for defined benefit pension plans during the 2026 calendar year.

  • July 15, 2025

    Booz Allen Urges DC Circ. To Affirm IRS Leak Sentence

    Government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton urged the D.C. Circuit to uphold the five-year prison sentence of its former employee for leaking tax returns while on a job at the IRS, saying the crime has hurt the company's reputation and subjected it to "baseless lawsuits."

  • July 15, 2025

    11th Circ. Told Tax Court Erred Nixing Easement's Values

    A Georgia partnership told the Eleventh Circuit that the U.S. Tax Court broke legal precedent by relying on a flawed valuation method that did not consider commercial mining potential when it denied a deduction tied to the conservation easement donation of a property.

  • July 15, 2025

    LA Deputies Admit Using Positions To Aid Crypto 'Godfather'

    Two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies admitted using their official positions to harass enemies of a cryptocurrency founder who called himself "The Godfather" and failed to report $36 million in income from selling hacked Meta business accounts, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

  • July 14, 2025

    EU Law Doesn't Shield Eaton Records, US Tells 6th Circ.

    The European Union's privacy law does not protect Eaton Corp. from having to disclose employee evaluation records in a transfer pricing dispute with the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. government told the Sixth Circuit on Monday.

  • July 14, 2025

    Tax Court Tosses $62M In Bogus Land Deductions

    The U.S. Tax Court slashed about $62 million in tax deductions claimed by four partnerships for donations of conservation easements in Georgia on Monday, saying the partnerships did not provide the required appraisals and grossly overstated the value of their donations.

  • July 14, 2025

    GOP Lawmakers Back USTR Probe Into Foreign Drug Pricing

    Republican members of Congress expressed support Monday for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative's efforts against what the lawmakers referred to as anti-innovation policies abroad that, they said, require U.S. companies to take on the brunt of pharmaceutical research and development.

  • July 14, 2025

    Trump Threatens Tariffs On Russia Over Ukraine War

    President Donald Trump said Monday that Russia must end its war with Ukraine within the next 50 days or else the U.S. will levy "severe tariffs" on Russian goods entering the U.S.

  • July 14, 2025

    IRS Met Penalty Rules In Easement Cases, Tax Court Says

    The IRS met all requirements for supervisory approval of penalties it issued to two companies related to disallowed charitable contribution deductions for donated conservation easements, the U.S. Tax Court said Monday.

  • July 14, 2025

    Tax Court Finds Couple Not Divorced In Filing Status Dispute

    A Minnesota accountant and his wife who divorced through a religious ceremony were not divorced in the eyes of the law and thus can't claim the head-of-household tax filing status reserved for certain unmarried people, the U.S. Tax Court ruled.

  • July 14, 2025

    US Defends Seeking Man's Info From Apple In Swiss Tax Probe

    The U.S. government urged a California federal court to enforce an IRS summons on Apple Inc. to produce records linked to the account of a dual Swiss-Italian citizen, arguing the summons is valid under the U.S.-Switzerland tax treaty.

  • July 14, 2025

    Evidence Tainted In $20.7M Easement Loss, 11th Circ. Told

    The U.S. Tax Court improperly allowed hundreds of trial exhibits in striking a Georgia partnership's $20.7 million tax deduction for donating a conservation easement, the partnership told the Eleventh Circuit, saying the government failed to address its claims that the court broke evidence rules.

  • July 14, 2025

    Jury Says Commercial Real Estate Owner Hid $4.8M

    A jury in Washington federal court has found a commercial real estate company owner guilty on charges of concealing nearly $5 million in income from the Internal Revenue Service using a series of limited liability companies.

  • July 14, 2025

    30% US Tariffs Would Prohibit Trade, EU Commissioner Says

    President Donald Trump's weekend threat to impose a 30% tariff on goods imported from the European Union would "practically prohibit" trade, the EU's trade commissioner warned Monday.

  • July 14, 2025

    IRS Staff Cuts Imperil Gains In Wealthy Audits, TIGTA Says

    The Internal Revenue Service's small- and large-business divisions increased audits on high-income taxpayers in 2024, but that progress will likely be jeopardized by recent staffing cuts, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration said in a report released Monday.

Expert Analysis

  • Coaching Little League Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    While coaching poorly played Little League Baseball early in the morning doesn't sound like a good time, I love it 鈥 and the experience has taught me valuable lessons about imperfection, compassion and acceptance that have helped me grow as a person and as a lawyer, says Alex Barnett at DiCello Levitt.

  • 5 Litigation Funding Trends To Note In 2025

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    Lawyers and their clients must be prepared to navigate an evolving litigation funding market in 2025, made more complicated by a new administration and the increasing overall cost of litigation, says Jeffery Lula at GLS Capital.

  • Rethinking Litigation Risk And What It Really Means To Win

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    Attorneys have a tendency to overestimate litigation risk before summary judgment and underestimate risk after it, but an eight-stage litigation framework can clarify risk at different points and help litigators reassess what true success looks like in any particular case, says Joshua Libling at Arcadia Finance.

  • Small Biz Caught In Corporate Transparency Act Crossfire

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    Despite compliance being put on hold due to a nationwide preliminary injunction, small businesses have been caught in the middle of the legal battle over the Corporate Transparency Act 鈥 and confusion over the law's requirements could result in major penalties, say attorneys at Snell & Wilmer.

  • No, Litigation Funders Are Not 'Fleeing' The District Of Del.

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    A recent study claimed that litigation funders have 鈥渇led鈥 Delaware federal court due to a standing order requiring disclosure of third-party financing, but responsible funders have no problem litigating in this jurisdiction, and many other factors could explain the decline in filings, say Will Freeman and Sarah Tsou at Omni Bridgeway.

  • Hydrogen Regs Will Provide More Certainty 鈥 If They Survive

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    Newly finalized regulations implementing the Section 45V clean hydrogen tax credit allow producers more flexibility, and should therefore help put the industry on more solid footing 鈥 but the incoming Trump administration and Republican Congress will have multiple options for overturning or altering the regulations, say attorneys at Steptoe.

  • 5 E-Discovery Predictions For 2025 And Beyond

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    In the year to come, e-discovery will be shaped by new and emerging trends, from the adoption of artificial intelligence provisions in protective orders, to the proliferation of emojis as a source of evidence in contemporary litigation, say attorneys at Littler.

  • What's Ahead As Transparency Act Comes To A Crossroads

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    Synthesizing the contrasting federal district and appellate court rulings on the Corporate Transparency Act鈥檚 validity reveals several main areas of debate that will likely remain at issue as challenges to the law continue winding through the courts, say attorneys at Farella Braun.

  • Final Hydrogen Tax Credit Regs Add Flexibility For Producers

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    The recently released final regulations implementing the Inflation Reduction Act's clean hydrogen production tax credit offer taxpayers greater flexibility, reducing risk and creating more certainty for investments in the industry, thus diminishing 鈥 but not eliminating 鈥 the risk of legal challenges to the regulations, say attorneys at Steptoe.

  • 5 Evolving Concerns For Family Offices In 2025

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    Complex regulatory changes and emerging operational risks will force family offices to stay on their toes in 2025, with timely action particularly necessary to address several tax and reporting developments that may affect their investments and business operations, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • 7 Ways 2nd Trump Administration May Affect Partner Hiring

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    President-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House will likely have a number of downstream effects on partner hiring in the legal industry, from accelerated hiring timelines to increased vetting of prospective employees, say recruiters at Macrae.

  • E-Discovery Quarterly: Rulings On Custodian Selection

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    Several recent rulings make clear that the proportionality of additional proposed custodians will depend on whether the custodians have unique relevant documents, and producing parties should consider whether information already in the record will show that they have relevant documents that otherwise might not be produced, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • A Look At PCAOB's Record-Breaking Enforcement In 2024

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    The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board in 2024 brought more enforcement actions against auditors and imposed increasingly higher monetary penalties, showing that it was not afraid to exercise its power to fine and reprimand firms, a trend that will likely continue in 2025, say attorneys at Briglia Hundley.

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