Newport Law Group

01/20/2024

Are you ready for the Corporate Transparency Law? Do you have multiple LLCs? New LLCs created after 12/31/2023 have 90 days to register with FINCEN and any created before have until 01/30/2025 to register.

The Corporate Transparency Act, which goes into effect in January 2024, may require your small business to report information about ownership to the government.

06/14/2019

Good start to move towards getting rid of 45

Oregon Democratic Gov. Kate Brown signed a bill Wednesday that would grant the state's electoral college votes to the winner of the national popular vote, her office confirmed.

06/12/2019

Jury was hung 8-4

“Humanitarian aid is not a crime,” the United Nation’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said in a statement.

The trial of Scott Warren, a 36-year-old geology teacher, on charges of helping migrants who had illegally crossed the border ended with a hung jury on Tuesday.

03/30/2019

Moody's identified 17 retailers with the highest risk of defaulting or filing for bankruptcy.

02/14/2019

😡“It was a lot simpler when you guys wore dark suits, white shirts and navy ties… We didn’t let girls do it in the old days.” The 5th U.S. Circuit of Appeals found his remarks to be “demeaning, inappropriate and beneath the dignity of a federal judge.”

A federal judge banished a female prosecutor from his Houston courtroom last month, sparking a rare standoff between the new U.S. Attorney and a jurist with a history of sniping at lawyers, government officials and litigants, reports the Houston Chronicle.

01/21/2019

A cartoon by Pia Guerra.

01/21/2019

01/03/2019

Now

01/02/2019