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For many business owners, estate planning hasn’t kept pace with the business itself. Midyear is a great opportunity to step back from day-to-day operations and assess whether your estate and succession plans reflect how your business operates today, and your hopes for the future. Estate planning often lags behind business growth. Ownership struct…

Health insurance premiums continue to rise, and most people assume the reason is simple: health care is expensive. While the cost of care is a major driver, other factors often operate in the background, affecting businesses, employees, and families: fraud, waste, and abuse within parts of the health care system. These schemes rarely look like obvi…

The “One Big Beautiful Bill” has generated attention (and confusion) among employers. Much of the conversation has focused on “no tax on overtime” or “no tax on tips.” But for employers, that shorthand is misleading. The law does not eliminate payroll taxes or change how overtime must be calculated or paid. Instead, it creates a tempora…

On July 17, 2026, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a final rule replacing “duration of status,” commonly shown as “D/S,” with fixed periods of admission for F academic students, J exchange visitors, and I representatives of foreign information media. The rule is scheduled to take effect on September 15, 2026. What Changed…

Forest products run on a different clock than most industries. A land-based decision made today will not affect a mill next quarter or even next year. But it can shape what can be harvested, where, and at what cost twenty years from now. Forests operate on the same horizon. Habitat lost, fragmented, restored, or protected today can determine which …

By LES GLICK, CO- CHAIR INTERNATIONAL TRADE PRACTICE GROUP, LGLICK@FENNEMORELAW.COM WASHINGTON, D.C. tel-; 240-447-7796 With the expiration of President Trump’s 10% tariff imposed under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 on July 24, 2026, U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Jamieson Greer, at the direction of President Trump, took final ac…