Yesterday Press, Dozier & Hamelburg, LLC helped its community by volunteering at Bikes for the World, located in Rockville, Maryland. The team spent the afternoon dismantling bikes for spare parts and configuring and packaging bikes to be shipped to Rwanda.
Let’s assume that you have a business that needs to lease office premises and you have found a potential site. What’s next?
Normally, when debt is cancelled it becomes taxable income to the debtor. However, when debt is forgiven in a Will, the debt is not taxed as income in Maryland.
HIPAA is not a difficult law to understand but it is one of the most misunderstood laws, often resulting in unfortunate consequences. If you’ve ever wondered whether someone is misusing HIPAA and incorrectly preventing the disclosure of health information, you may be correct.
As the nation slowly emerges from the COVID pandemic that shut down so many offices, a question that both commercial landlords and tenants must consider is “How important to my business is a physical office”? Our commercial real estate attorneys encourage clients to think creatively about running their business in a physical, online, or mixed office environment.
As businesses reopen and employees return to the jobsite, a pressing question for employers is whether they can legally require employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19. A recent court case in Texas answers this question as “yes," which indicates a court in Maryland, DC, and Virginia likewise would allow COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
Congratulations to Dan Dozier for overseeing the publication of the Northeast-Midwest Institute research brief “A Precarious Balance: Addressing Climate Change and Its Impacts.”
COVID-19 has significantly impacted both landlords and tenants alike, and the full effects are still not yet known. Our blog contains important information about the effect of the pandemic on commercial leases, reviews remedies that both landlords and tenants might have, and suggests strategies in response to the pandemic.
We hope that you are well. We know this is a challenging time for all of you—personally as well as professionally. To help you navigate the unique issues raised by the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve identified three action items all small business owners should be taking. We hope you will find them useful in this complex and rapidly changing environment. Like many of you, our attorneys and staff are now working remotely. If you need any follow-up assistance on these or any other matters, we’re just a phone call or email away. Our contact information is at the end of this communication.
