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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Virginia Clean Economy Act (HB 1526) would replace Virginia’s voluntary renewable portfolio standard with a mandatory renewable content requirement for electricity sales that will scale up to require 100% of electricity sold in Virginia to come from renewable sources by 2050. A report by...
