O’Reilly Rancilio is pleased to announce that Eugene R. Hamlin has joined the firm as a shareholder. Mr. Hamlin’s practice focuses on probate administration and litigation as well as estate planning. He also has experience in a variety of legal m…

Small business owners can breathe a sigh of relief this week as the U.S. Department of Treasury announced that it would be suspending enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) for U.S. based companies. The news followed after the Treasury D…

The obligation for the majority of small businesses to file their Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) reports has been reinstated. On February 18, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in Smith, et al. v. U.S. Department…

On December 26, 2024, three days after reinstituting the mandates of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed its decision. The court previously granted the government’s motion to stay the preliminary injunc…

On December 23, 2024, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted the government’s motion to stay the preliminary injunction previously issued in Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc., et al. v. Garland, et al.,[i] which reinstated the obligations of small busin…

On December 3, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas granted a nationwide preliminary injunction over the obligation of small businesses to file BOI Reports under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). The ruling comes after…

Five O’Reilly Rancilio attorneys have made the peer-selected Super Lawyers lists. Each year, no more than five percent of the lawyers in Michigan are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to receive this honor. Nearly 50,000 attorneys…

The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) “Final Rule”, which would have banned certain non-compete agreements beginning on September 4, 2024, has been indefinitely set aside. On August 20, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of…