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BOSTON, (APRIL 30, 2024) – Donald Lussier, a real estate attorney with three decades of experience representing clients in real estate, corporate and commercial lending transactions, has returned to Saul Ewing LLP following a stint at another firm. He is resident in the firm’s Boston office. Mr...
Section 179D of the Internal Revenue Code, first enacted in 2006, grants qualifying building owners or tenants of commercial buildings a federal tax deduction for the installation of energy-efficient features and systems in existing or new-build projects. The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (“IRA”)...
It is rare for the Supreme Court to decide cases involving the Constitution’s Takings Clause, and, indeed, not uncommon for the Court to go years without considering the Clause at all; so, when the Court issues two decisions involving the Takings Clause in less than a week, attention must be paid...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS"), Office for Civil Rights ("OCR") continues to be actively engaged in investigating and settling alleged HIPAA violations. In advance of Mother's Day, two decisions were announced for HIPAA-covered entities that allegedly did not provide...
SIOR investment leaders provided an insightful panel discussion about preferred equity and financing opportunities. The panel, which featured both preferred equity providers and users, guided you through the intricacies of identifying and creating these opportunities and how they can help you get...
With the recent emergence of Name Image Likeness ("NIL") compensation, alumni associations focused on raising funds to compensate student athletes have been on the rise. But alumni associations in some form or another have been around as long as some of the oldest colleges and universities in the...
On February 14, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued two reports to Congress as required by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009. The reports are helpful to health care providers (and all...
Jesse Krohn, Associate, Higher Education Industry Group, Saul Ewing LLP, will be speaking during the Delaware Valley Student Affairs Conference on March 1, 2024. Jesse's topic will be "Hot Topics in Student Affairs: Practical Tips for Identifying and Managing Risk." This presentation makes the case...
Within the last year ‘ChatGPT’ has become a household name. Some may even know that a company called OpenAI created the chatbot service based on artificial intelligence. What you may not know is that OpenAI applied to register the term “GPT” as a trademark, and that application was recently rejected...
On February 20, 2024, the United States Supreme Court denied a petition for a writ of certiorari in Coalition for TJ v. Fairfax County School Board. Coalition for TJ involves an admissions policy at a prestigious public magnet high school which has significantly impacted racial demography at the...
On February 16, 2024, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published a final version of the cybersecurity resource guide (the “Guide”) with respect to the HIPAA Security Rule. As noted in the Guide’s abstract, “This publication provides...
Saul Ewing LLP hosted their second installment of CYCLE by Saul - Covering Your Campus's Legal Education. Our panel of experts focused on the following topics: Speech on Campus: A Discussion of Speech and Protest Activity on Campus and Considerations from Student Affairs and Mental Health...
Brandon Sherman will speak on Third Party Servicers, as well as provide a Department of Education Cybersecurity Compliance Update, during CSPEN’s 6th Annual Higher Education Policy Meeting: Educating America’s Infrastructure Workforce. This event offers the latest Washington scoop on all things...
On February 6, 2024, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced a settlement with Montefiore Medical Center (“MMC”) for alleged HIPAA Security Rule violations and MMC agreed to pay $4.75 million and enter into a two-year corrective action plan (“CAP”) with OCR. MMC admitted no wrongdoing...