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83 Whiteford Attorneys Listed in Best Lawyers in America 2026

83 lawyers from Whiteford have been selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2026. The lawyers selected are based in the firm’s Delaware, Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, New York, Virginia and Washington, DC offices. Client comments are posted on the Best Lawyers website, at bestlawfirms.com.

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Client Alert: How the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” Impacts Employers, Employees and Contractors

The recently enacted One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “Act”) introduces several significant amendments to the Internal Revenue Code (“IRC”) that directly affect U.S. employers and employees. Key provisions—particularly the elimination of federal income tax on certain tips and overtime pay—are summarized below. For a comprehensive analysis of the Act, please see Whiteford’s Client Alert.

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Three Whiteford Attorneys Recognized by Virginia Lawyers Weekly

Virginia Lawyers Weekly has recognized three Whiteford attorneys for its 2025 “Leaders in Law” and “Up and Coming Lawyers” awards. Partners Vernon E. Inge, Jr. and Stephen M. Faraci, Sr. have been named “Leaders in Law” and associate Claudia Lopez-Knapp has been named an “Up and Coming Lawyer.”

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Client Alert: No CFC! No Federal Funding! How Do We Raise Funds Now? – Avoiding Legal Pitfalls When Beginning New Fundraising Campaigns

Nonprofits are experiencing funding challenges and scrambling to fund their missions. While termination of nonprofits’ federal funding has garnered a lot of attention recently, yet another funding challenge arose this week. Charities participating in the Combined Federal Campaign (“CFC”) now face a new funding shutoff created by the Trump Administration’s pause of the annual charitable fundraising program.

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Client Alert: SBA Proposes New Rule To Increase Receipts-Based Size Standards

Do you have clients that are classified as small businesses? Small business classifications are determined by the SBA under what are called “North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes.” The first two numerical digits describe the overall industry, and the succeeding numbers in the code break down the business industry more specifically. The size standards represent “caps” on each industry, which cannot be exceeded if the business is to be categorized as “small.” The size standard is the average of the previous five full years that an entity has been in business.

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Client Alert: The Myth of "Unit-to-Unit" Issues in Condominiums

When a pipe bursts in a single-family home, the fallout is typically confined to the owner, the insurer, and perhaps the plumber. In a condominium, that identical pipe failure can set off a chain reaction of obligations that pull in the board of directors, managers, insurance carriers, neighboring owners, and sometimes counsel and the courts. Because condominiums are defined by shared walls, ownership and responsibilities, even a seemingly isolated casualty becomes everyone’s business. In this setting, there is no such thing as a purely “unit-to-unit” problem, as every incident is, by design, the business of the association.

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Employment Law Update: Fourth Circuit Decision Highlights the Impact of Supreme Court’s Change to Adverse Employment Action Standard

In 2024, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, which arose out of a sex discrimination claim filed by a female police officer. Officer Muldrow was transferred to a different position within the police department after she was replaced by a male employee in a specialized intelligence unit. The City argued the plaintiff could not sustain a claim because she had not suffered a loss in pay or other tangible harm that could be considered an adverse employment action. Although the City had prevailed at the trial and appellate court levels, the Supreme Court reversed those decisions. In the Court’s view, “[a]lthough an employee must show some harm from a forced transfer to prevail in a Title VII suit, she need not show that the injury satisfies a significance test.”  

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Employment Law Update: Danger, Employers, Danger! How Machine Intelligence Is Pushing White-Collar Employees Toward Overtime Eligibility

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly automating the very tasks that once anchored white-collar exemptions under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and comparable state laws. When algorithms screen résumés, rank job candidates, flag compliance risks, review documents, or analyze vast data sets, the human role can shift from “decision-maker” to “button-pusher.”

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Client Alert: Nonprofits and New Foreign Influence Registration and Reporting Schemes: A Growing Trend with Broad Applicability

Florida’s recent amendments to its Charitable Solicitation Act are getting a lot of attention – and for good reason – charitable fundraising just got even harder. But Florida’s efforts to combat foreign influence should attract the nonprofit sector’s attention for another reason. Florida’s unique approach may be a sign of what is to come as state efforts to regulate foreign influence of nonprofits ramp up, creating a national minefield.

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Recognition

"Knowledgeable, talented, practical and solution-oriented."

Chambers 2023

"Clear, business-oriented legal advice."

Best Lawyers 2023

"...Deep insight into intellectual property rights."

CHAMBERS 2023

"Extremely responsive and professional."

Chambers 2023

"Highly skilled."

IFLR 2023

"A very strong national bankruptcy practice."

Chambers 2023

"Highly recommended."

Benchmark Litigation 2024