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Originally published by the Hunt Valley Business Forum. June 30, 2024 By: Jenn Busse The Baltimore County Council has been busy this year passing legislation, some of which significantly impacts development and redevelopment opportunities. Here are the highlights. In January 2024, at the request of Councilman Kach, the councilman for the Hunt Valley area, the…
Rosenberg Martin Greenberg proudly announces that the firm and seven of its partners have been ranked in the 2024 edition of Chambers USA as among Maryland’s leading lawyers. Chambers USA is an authoritative reference to the reputations and qualifications of leading lawyers throughout the USA. Chambers has included the following practices in its Maryland rankings:…
June 12, 2024 Rosenberg Martin Greenberg, LLP is pleased to announce that Jamar Brown has been appointed to the Supreme Court of Maryland’s Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure. His five-year term will commence on July 1, 2024. The Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure (also known as the “Rules Committee”)…
June 6, 2024 Rosenberg Martin Greenberg is pleased to announce that our Founder and past managing partner, Barry Greenberg, has been awarded the Distinguished Maryland Real Property Practitioner Award for 2024. This award is given annually to a Maryland real estate attorney who best exemplifies the experience, client service, technical skill, integrity, collegiality, and courtesy…
Date: May 28, 2024 By: Brett Baldino In a significant legislative shift, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 doubled the exemption amounts for estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes (collectively known as “Death Taxes”). As of 2024, the federal exemptions stand at $13.61 million per individual and $27.22 million per married couple. This…
April 19, 2024 By: Harris Eisenstein When the government wants to take private property for a public project, it must compensate the owner at fair market value. The just compensation concept comes from the Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause, which provides: “nor shall private property be taken for public purpose, without just compensation.” These twelve words…
March 29, 2024 By: William L. Hallam Real property tax certificate sales provide a way for taxing authorities to collect delinquent taxes without having to foreclose on properties and take ownership. When the purchaser of the tax sale certificate obtains the certificate, it pays the taxing authority the amount of delinquent taxes owed. If the…
By: Adam Baker and Jennifer Busse March 4, 2024 On February 20, 2024, the Baltimore County Council voted to approve the Baltimore County 2030 Master Plan. While the Baltimore County Charter requires the Master Plan to be updated every ten years, Master Plan 2030 was delayed several years on account of the COVID pandemic and…
February 29, 2024 Updated: March 8, 2024 By: Gabby Shirley, Amelia Miller, and Bobby Lindsey, Jr. Reporting under the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) became effective as of January 1, 2024. The reach of the CTA is extremely broad and it is likely that most small businesses will be deemed “Reporting Companies” required to register with…
February 1, 2023 By: William L. Hallam In its January 18, 2024 opinion in In Re Hilgartner, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit exhibited deference to U.S. Supreme Court precedent by forcefully rejecting an argument that the Fourth Circuit itself had previously accepted. Lee Andrew Hilgartner assaulted Ysuko Yagi. After Yagi…
