On April 23, 2025, the United States Department of Justice announced that it is rescinding the January 31, 2022 Notice of Report on Lawful Uses of Race or Sex in Federal Contracting Programs (the “2022 Report”). The April 23…
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/ Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Contracting
On April 2, we reported that Judge Matthew Kennelly of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois had issued a temporary restraining order blocking the Department of Labor from enforcing certain provisions of…
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/ Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
The year 2025 is shaping up to be quite the challenging year for the construction industry. From the President’s executive order nos. 14151 and 14174 (signed January 20 and 21, 2025, respectively) seeking to end DEI-related…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Construction Law, Government Contracting, International Law & Trade
Successful business owners know one tried-and-true method to grow and scale is through acquisition. In today’s competitive and complex marketplace, the competition is fierce for businesses with a proven track record and the…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Finance & Banking, Mergers & Acquisitions
On March 27, 2025, Judge Matthew Kennelly of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois issued a temporary restraining order blocking the Department of Labor from enforcing certain provisions of Executive…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
The Federal Government’s recent imposition of tariffs appears designed largely to bring manufacturing back inside the United States. News reports indicate the Government understands that tariffs may initially cause pain but…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Construction Law, Government Contracting
On March 14, 2025, The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit granted the government’s request to stay a nationwide preliminary injunction that blocked enforcement of elements of President Trump’s Executive Order 14173…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Government Contracting
On January 21, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14173 titled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” (the “Order”). As was noted in our February 10, 2025, article, the Order amounted to…
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/ Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Contracting
The city of Chicago’s recently established Tenant Opportunity to Purchase (“TOP”) program for rental buildings on the city’s northwest side is now being enforced as of March 1, 2025, by the Department of Housing. The program is…
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/ Civil Remedies, Real Estate - Residential, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
Artificial Intelligence will impact construction in ways that are both predictable and unexpected. Similar to technologies such as Building Information Modeling (BIM) and GPS, the use of AI hopes to make construction safer,…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Construction Law, Science, Computers, & Technology
Recent actions by the federal government have called into question the use of measures intended to foster diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”) on federal construction projects or projects receiving federal funding. On…
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/ Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Contracting
In our last legal alert, we discussed developers using private placements to raise private equity capital as a proactive response to the Commercial Real Estate (CRE) market…
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/ Business Organizations, Commercial Law & Contracts, Finance & Banking, Real Estate - Commercial, Securities Law
President Trump’s prospective assessment of 25% tariffs on certain materials coming from Canada and Mexico, and prospective 10% tariffs on certain material from China, may increase contractor costs in fulfillment of construction…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Construction Law, International Law & Trade
Selling a business often becomes a second full-time job. For first-time sellers, the process can be overwhelming. Often, sellers are perplexed by the volume of document requests and the endless follow up inquiries from buyer’s…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Mergers & Acquisitions
Prefabrication is nothing new to the construction industry. And, over the past several years, we have seen a rather significant increase in the utilization of prefabrication. With this increase, however, it has revealed some…
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/ Construction Law, Real Estate - Residential
