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03 Apr Which Employers Are Subject to Recent Federal COVID-19 Laws

Posted at 09:19h in COVID-19 pandemic, employee policy, employment law, Laura Musick, The GreeneHurlocker Blog 0 Comments

Laura Musick of GreeneHurlocker explains which employers must comply under recent Federal laws enacted in response to COVID-19. Specifics of paid leave for eligible employees are found in the Families First Corona Virus Response Act, the Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act and the Emergency Family...

01 Apr What Employees Can Expect Under Recent Federal COVID-19 Laws

Posted at 18:58h in COVID-19 pandemic, employee policy, employment law, Laura Musick, The GreeneHurlocker Blog 0 Comments

Laura Musick of GreeneHurlocker explains what employees can expect under recent Federal laws enacted in response to COVID-19. Specifics of paid leave for eligible employees are found in the Families First Corona Virus Response Act, the Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act and the Emergency Family...

31 Mar Clean Economy Act Leads on Renewable Energy

Posted at 21:52h in clean energy, energy lawyer, Eric Hurlocker, solar energy lawyer, The GreeneHurlocker Blog 0 Comments

Among the accomplishments of our General Assembly, the Clean Economy Act and Clean Energy and Community Flood Preparedness Act have set a framework to increase momentum in renewable energy development. A lot of the details are in this article from our friends at the Virginia Mercury. A...

20 Mar COVID-19 Impacts and a Potential Avenue for Contract Relief

Posted at 15:42h in business law, contracts, COVID-19 pandemic, The GreeneHurlocker Blog, Virginia 0 Comments

As the impacts of the COVID-19 virus spread and more businesses begin slowing or ceasing operations, some by government order, others voluntarily, many businesses are left wondering whether their contracts contain any avenue to excuse their non-performance during the emergency. Most turn immediately to the...

12 Mar Duties of Loyalty for Corporate Board Members versus LLC Managers

Posted at 14:34h in business law, State Corporation Commission, The GreeneHurlocker Blog, Virginia 0 Comments

Limited Liability Companies (LLC’s) are functional and flexible forms of ownership for operating companies as well as investment vehicles. As common as LLC’s are today, we ought to remember that relative to other forms of legal entities, LLC’s are still very new. It was only...

02 Mar C-PACE Expansion On Governor Northam’s Desk

Posted at 17:49h in clean energy, energy lawyer, General Assembly, legislation, The GreeneHurlocker Blog 0 Comments

Lost in the excitement and debate about the Virginia Clean Energy Act (we talked about it here), a number of other clean energy and energy efficiency bills have been winding their way through the General Assembly. One bill in particular that has flown under the...

25 Feb Virginia Senate Kills Bills to Expand Electric Choice for Renewable Energy

Posted at 22:18h in Brian Greene, consumer protection, distributed power generation, energy lawyer, retail energy competition, The GreeneHurlocker Blog 0 Comments

The Virginia Senate Commerce & Labor Committee rejected two bills on February 24, 2019 that would have allowed customers of Dominion Virginia Energy and Appalachian Power Company greater access to purchase renewable energy from an entity other than their electric utility. Customers and competitive service...

21 Feb Progress on Virginia’s Clean Economy Act

Posted at 17:59h in energy lawyer, Eric Hurlocker, General Assembly, The GreeneHurlocker Blog, Virginia 0 Comments

The folks at Virginia Mercury carried a nice summary today about the pending Virginia Clean Economy Act [ht to RichmondBizSense for pointing this out for us], one of Governor Ralph Northam's signature efforts for this year's General Assembly. We're following its progress carefully. If you want...

19 Feb Richmond’s Commercial Real Estate Market Still Robust

Posted at 23:01h in Andy Brownstein, commercial real estate, entrepreneurship, Jared Burden, The GreeneHurlocker Blog, Virginia 0 Comments

GreeneHurlocker’s commercial real estate attorneys, Andy Brownstein and Jared Burden, along with more than 200 real estate industry colleagues, attended the Greater Richmond Association for Commercial Real Estate (GRACRE)’s 2020 Real Estate Market Review on February 18, 2020. What’s the verdict on the health of...

17 Feb GRACRE Market Review

Posted at 20:29h in commercial real estate, The GreeneHurlocker Blog, Virginia 0 Comments

The Greater Richmond Association for Commercial Real Estate will hold its February Market Review tomorrow, and my partner Jared Burden and I will be there at the Westin Hotel on West Broad in the Reynolds Crossing development tomorrow afternoon starting at 3:30 p.m.. These annual market...