Charitable Giving Under The OBBBA: Strategic Tax Planning for High-Net-Worth Individuals
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), enacted on July 4, 2025, introduces sweeping reforms to the tax treatment of charitable contributions. For high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs), these changes present both strategic opportunities and new limitations that warrant careful planning to preserve philanthropic impact and optimize tax outcomes.
'18 People Needlessly Died': New Lawsuit Targets Alert System Maker Genasys for Alleged Role in Eaton Fire Deaths
A family member of a California wildfire victim has sued Genasys Inc., a developer of communications software that provides emergency warnings and mass notifications, in California state court, contending the alleged failure of its alert systems contributed to the deaths of 18 of the 19 people killed by the Eaton fire in January.
Bracing for Legal Industry Detriment From New Federal Loan Cap
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act eliminates one type of loan (Grad PLUS loans) that law students use to finance the ever-skyrocketing price of law school. At the same time, the law caps unsubsidized federal loans to $50,000 per year and a $200,000 lifetime cap. With the average law school cost of attendance for many private institutions exceeding those thresholds (without even accounting for borrowing for undergraduate degrees), many students from middle class and even upper middle-class families will not be able to find a way to pay for law school.
How I Made Practice Group Chair: 'Focus on Helping Your Group and Firm to Thrive,' Says Robert Niles-Weed of Weil
"Just focus on doing the best work you can, being the best colleague you can, and helping your group and firm to thrive as best you can. (...) Leadership opportunities may come (or they may not), but I've always found it more satisfying to know that I'm doing the best that I can where it matters the most, rather than focusing on the title on my business card."

