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As we welcome 2025, all of us at Harris Beach and our colleagues at Murtha Cullina LLP express our heartfelt gratitude for the trust and collaboration of our clients and the dedication of our teams. We look forward to a prosperous and exciting new year as we combine our two firms to form Harris Beach Murtha.

All of us at Harris Beach PLLC and our colleagues at Murtha Cullina LLP wish our clients and community partners the best this holiday season and always. We look forward to partnering with you in 2025, when we are officially Harris Beach Murtha!

Harris Beach attorneys Robert Murray and Andrew Pawenski discuss the latest on the New York Public Subsidy Board's public hearing on calculating the value of future tax savings, such as tax abatements, tax credits, tax exemptions, payments in lieu of taxes or any savings realized from the involvement of a public entity. https://lnkd.in/gs8zUfKB

In a recent Southern California Record article, attorneys Abbie Eliasberg Fuchs and Daniel Strecker from Harris Beach’s nationally ranked Tier 1 Mass Torts and Industry-Wide Litigation Practice Group discussed defenses to lawsuits against manufacturers and suppliers of benzoyl peroxide acne products. Read more: https://lnkd.in/e6jRQr-J

In a recent Law360 review of the year’s most impactful immigration policies, Immigration Practice Group Leader L.J. D'Arrigo discussed the Department of Homeland Security’s mid-December Final Rule revamping the H-2A and H-2B visa programs for temporary and seasonal workers. L.J. said the rule provides a more balanced approach to representing the interests of both employers and H-2 workers. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eYUJFdhK

Members of Harris Beach’s Corporate Practice Group and colleagues from Murtha Cullina LLP’s Business Law practice gathered recently for an evening of camaraderie, food and holiday fun at the Rivers Casino and Resort in Schenectady, NY. The teams are already collaborating in preparation for January 2025 when the two firms will combine to become Harris Beach Murtha! 

How will a second Trump administration impact the future of estate tax exemption? Myles B. Fischer, co-leader of the firm’s Wills, Trusts and Estates Practice Group, weighed in on the topic in a recent Rochester Business Journal article (subscription may be required).  https://lnkd.in/gFgMkAjD

The court addresses a troubling but persistent suggestion from the lower courts that authority alone is sufficient to impose Labor Law § 200 liability. Harris Beach's Abbie Eliasberg Fuchs, Brian D. Ginsberg, Daniel Strecker and Jeffery Sheng explain. https://lnkd.in/gj_xiSfc

Another lawsuit -- alleging financial ruin for small cannabis farmers -- has been filed over New York's legal cannabis rollout. Harris Beach's Francis L. (FL) Gorman, III, Julia Evans, Esq. and Taville Francis take a close look at what it means. https://lnkd.in/gEuKwzf9