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What Are the Most Common Legal Mistakes First-Time Chicago Multifamily Real Estate Buyers Make (and How to Avoid Them)?
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What Are the Most Common Legal Mistakes First-Time Chicago Multifamily Real Estate Buyers Make (and How to Avoid Them)?

First-time multifamily buyers in Chicago often focus on price, neighborhood and cap rate but miss legal and compliance issues that silently add cost, delay closing or create post-closing liability.
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New USPS Postmark Procedures May Result in Late Filing Penalties
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New USPS Postmark Procedures May Result in Late Filing Penalties

For decades, taxpayers and legal professionals have relied on the "mailbox rule": if a document is dropped in a USPS collection box by the deadline, it is considered timely filed. This is no longer a safe assumption.
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2026 Construction Forecast: The Only Thing Certain is Uncertainty
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2026 Construction Forecast: The Only Thing Certain is Uncertainty

As 2026 dawns, it is natural to consider the outlook for construction in the coming year.
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When you push a pause button on a computer, it shuts down. When you push a pause button on a human, as is occurring now in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic gripping most of the world, we do not rest.
Fred Tannenbaum
Partner
Corporate
Gould & Ratner presents the second installment of our Construction Interview Series on adapting to the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
Application Now Available With New Interim Final Rules for Paycheck Protection Program
Last week, the Chicago City Council passed the COVID-19 Anti-Retaliation Ordinance, which aims to protect covered employees who remain at home if they have symptoms of COVID-19
While much of the construction industry has continued working throughout the pandemic, all stakeholders in a typical construction project have been impacted by the crisis.
Eric Sparks
Partner
Richard Reizen
Partner
Chair, Construction Practice
The IRS issued Notice 2020-29 on May 12, 2020, to assist with the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This week, the Department of Labor issued further clarification on the scope of FFCRA.
UPDATE – May 13, 2020: This morning, the Small Business Association (SBA) finally released the promised guidance regarding what a "good faith certification" looks like for the purpose of complying with the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)
Gould & Ratner presents the first installment of our Construction Interview Series on adapting to the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
Richard Reizen
Partner
Chair, Construction Practice
This article explains the basic requirements for a Habitat Conservation Plan, to be submitted in connection with a party’s application for an individual permit
Karin O'Connell
Of Counsel