Legal News

COVID-19 Resource - Since the signing of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) on March 27, many of us have paid an enormous amount of attention to the Small Business Association (SBA) Paycheck Protection Program (the...By: Lane Powell PC

COVID-19 Resource - With construction at a virtual standstill as a result of Gov. Jay Inslee’s stay-home orders, many projects are faced with the dilemma of how to comply with the requirements of the Construction Stormwater General Permit (CSGP)...By: Lane Powell PC

COVID-19 Resource - Banks, borrowers and their supporting professionals, like everyone else, are having to adapt to the rapidly-changing circumstances surrounding COVID-19....By: Lane Powell PC

Lane Powell Legal Update - The spread of the coronavirus, and reactions to it by both public and private actors, have potential implications for the performance and enforcement of contracts....By: Lane Powell PC

With news that a nursing facility in Kirkland, Washington has multiple confirmed cases of COVID-19, legal compliance is likely at the top of senior care and living providers’ minds. Having a plan to mitigate risk and ensuring compliance with rules...By: Lane Powell PC

Every generation tackles old problems anew.  Abject homelessness, “radicalized” socialists, tyrant capitalists, gilded-age life-styles and monopolistic practices may seem like current news, but they were omnipresent in the first Gilded Age in...By: Lane Powell PC

The Washington state legislature is currently in session, and legislators have introduced numerous bills relating to the cannabis industry. While it is too early to know which bills will advance and which will not, below is a summary of two...By: Lane Powell PC

You know that ERISA requires that the claimant receive “adequate notice in writing…setting forth the specific reasons for such denial, written in a manner to be understood by the participant.”...By: Lane Powell PC

Since January 1, 2019, Portland has imposed a 1% gross receipts surcharge tax on “large retailers.” In November 2018, we published an alert summarizing the new tax. The tax is generally imposed on a larger retailer’s Portland sales. ...By: Lane Powell PC

Washington’s Department of Labor and Industries recently announced long-anticipated changes to the rules that govern payment of overtime compensation to white-collar workers performing professional, managerial or administrative work. Announced on...By: Lane Powell PC