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LEED can Help Mitigate Legal Risks in ESG Disclosures

Green Building Law Update

This blog post highlights the legal risk associated with ESG disclosures and proffers that with green building practices companies can mitigate their legal risk while still being responsive to the trend of investor demands for more disclosure. Make no mistake, there is no U.S.

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#109:  Liability Insurers' Duty to Defend

NH Construction Law

As I have noted elsewhere ( Blog # 37 ), the cost of repairing defective work itself (as opposed to the cost of addressing any resulting damage to other property) is rarely covered by the defendant’s insurance policy. ”) Parsing of claims and theories, and furnishing a defense to only the covered ones, is not allowed.

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Financial regulator on trail of Carillion

Construction Law

Headlines about fines levied on the accountants that were supposed to be auditing the accounts of Carillion before its spectacular collapse in 2018 are far from the end of that affair. Billion legal claim against KPMG, which says it will defend this action. Carillion’s liquidators have also launched a £1.3

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Tax Reform Impact on Employers and Employees

Revit OpEd

Editor’s note : This blog was originally published as a Client Alert by Seyfarth Shaw LLP. The Tax Bill suspends the exclusion for qualified moving expense reimbursements for taxable years 2018 through 2025. The Tax Bill also suspends the deduction for qualified moving expenses for taxable years 2018 through 2025.

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Green Building Codes Not Eligible for Copyright Protection

Green Building Law Update

confronting profound and difficult issues about the nature of law in our society and the rights of citizens to have unfettered access to the legal edicts that govern their lives” to hold that no valid copyright interest can be asserted in any part of a code adopted by government. 17-11589, filed October 19, 2018.

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Green Building Data Risk as an Opportunity

Green Building Law Update

The European Union has gone in another direction with the 2016 General Data Protection Regulation , applicable as of May 2018, updating and modernizing the principles enshrined in the 1995 Data Protection Directive which guarantee individual privacy rights in one’s personal data including “the right to be forgotten.”

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Lessons From the Hudson River PCB Cleanup Project | ENR.

ENR Construction

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