This informative piece was authored by Oliver Branch, an immigration attorney who works from our Research Triangle Park office in North Carolina. He also blogs at NC Law Life. ____________________________ There are three areas of immigration law where local governments are likely to need help or run into trouble: (1) sponsoring nonimmigrant visas, (2) sponsoring [...]

Transfers of Development Rights (TDRs) have long been seen by Virginia localities as a tool for good planning and to achieve the local future land use plan. But for a long time, Virginia localities had no authority to permit TDRs. See Opinion to the Honorable Robert T. Andrews, 1985-86 Va. A.G. op. 112 (Loudoun County [...]

Back in October, I had an interesting experience by being interviewed as part of the “22 Tweets” project. Its creator, Lance Godard, describes the project in this way: “Real-time Twitter interviews with practicing lawyers who tweet.” The interview went out live, tweet by tweet, in a series of 22 tweets, over Twitter, the 140-character internet [...]