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The Practical Guidance July 2026 updates add new practice notes, templates, checklists, task maps, resource kits, surveys, Q&As, and legal development content across a broad set of practice areas. The release covers corporate and transactional work, litigation, privacy, employment, environmental matters, real estate, finance, healthcare, tax, trusts and estates, and other areas.
Several sections place particular attention on jurisdiction-based materials and resources connected to defined legal tasks. The July materials range from stock purchase agreements and fraud claim checklists to data privacy surveys, early case assessment resources, financing task maps, and estate administration materials.
Business Entities adds a Client Alert Digest on the emerging trend of reincorporation outside Delaware. New short-form stock purchase agreement templates provide pro-buyer and pro-seller versions for corporations in New Jersey, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Virginia.
Capital Markets & Corporate Governance adds resources across public company reporting, structured finance, derivatives, international matters, and broker-dealer work. New materials include a Form 20-F preparation and filing task map, guidance on U.S. risk retention rules for asset-backed securities, a CFTC regulatory record retention schedule, Equity Capital Markets in International Jurisdictions, and a FINRA Arbitration Resource Kit.
Commercial Transactions introduces litigation resources addressing fraud, negligent misrepresentation, and UCC Article 2. The release includes pleading checklists for Virginia and Massachusetts and a checklist addressing whether UCC Article 2 governs a dispute. Fraud response checklists cover Texas, Pennsylvania, New York, Florida, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Illinois, and California.
Construction adds New York mechanic’s lien foreclosure complaints for contractors and subcontractors, a Kentucky Mechanic’s Lien Task Map, a Residential Construction Resource Kit, and a Labor and Employment Issues in Construction Resource Kit. New data center construction and operation content covers California and Arizona. The update separately identifies forthcoming data center materials for Texas, Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Tennessee mechanic’s lien materials, residential construction clauses, and a Construction Law Case Tracker planned for Q3 2026.
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Data Security & Privacy adds state-law materials for Connecticut, New Jersey, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Vermont. Resources include data broker registration checklists, consumer data privacy and privacy notice materials, a Consumer Data Privacy State Law Survey, and a Student Data Privacy State Law Survey for service providers. Expert-authored resources address digital privacy class actions, litigation readiness, cyber incident response planning, biometric technologies used by local government, and privacy enforcement risk. International additions include checklists concerning EU GDPR controller binding corporate rules and EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework self-certification, plus Online Safety Regulation in International Jurisdictions.
Readers interested in related privacy developments can review state approaches to consumer data privacy.
Environmental additions include a Negotiating and Settling with the EPA Checklist, Safe Drinking Water Act Overview, Environmental Litigation Resource Kit, and materials addressing FIFRA, CWA, and RCRA enforcement and penalty calculations. The update marks several other Environmental items as forthcoming, including state air quality Q&As for eight states.
Family Law adds practice notes addressing custody, child support, and spousal support in Louisiana, New Jersey, Ohio, Tennessee, and Virginia. New checklists and templates include mandatory financial disclosure checklists for North Carolina and Ohio and an Illinois discovery deposition notice.
Labor & Employment features new guidance concerning DEI activities and the False Claims Act, guns-at-work laws, and privacy issues for remote workers. A Post-Workplace Investigation Key Steps Checklist addresses closing investigations, findings, corrective action, communications, discipline documentation, and preservation of the investigation record.
Other additions include a Utah drug and alcohol testing policy clause and marijuana issues practice notes for Michigan and Massachusetts. The update separately identifies forthcoming materials concerning DEI legal issues and practices, restrictive covenants for physicians and healthcare professionals, and workplace accommodation requests involving pregnancy, lactation, and breastfeeding.
Real Estate adds a commercial parking easement agreement, data center real estate regulation Q&As for Arizona and California, and a foreign investment in commercial real estate Q&A for Arizona. The update states that foreign investment Q&As are available in more than 20 states and notes that the State Law Comparison Tool can generate customized reports for Q&As across many Real Estate topics.
Appendix additions include short-form pro-landlord industrial and warehouse leases across eight states, long-form commercial purchase and sale agreements for Delaware, Kansas, and Wisconsin, purchase and sale task maps for Massachusetts, Georgia, and Illinois, plus New York office lease and commercial foreclosure resources.
New securities litigation and enforcement materials address federal claims, remedies, procedural considerations, loss causation under Exchange Act Section 10(b), pleading Exchange Act claims, and representation of individuals in investigations. White-collar resources address perjury, subornation of perjury, and false statements.
Legal development coverage includes the SEC’s rescission of its “No-Deny” settlement policy, CFTC settlement and cooperation policy developments, and two U.S. Supreme Court developments identified in Client Alert Digests. The SEC announcement concerning the rescission of its settlement policy provides a relevant primary-source reference for this portion of the release. (SEC)
Civil Litigation adds AI Ethics Concerns for Litigators and federal checklists addressing mobile device and BYOD collection, TAR validation and defensibility, and data mapping. The Early Case Assessment series covers 11 jurisdictions, with new checklists shown for discovery planning, removal and transfer, stakeholder mapping, settlement evaluation, and preliminary motion practice strategy.
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Federal Government additions address bail and pretrial release, zoning and residential density, economic development incentive agreements, senior housing zoning, preemption, Dormant Commerce Clause challenges, and local government contract drafting. New emergency declaration templates cover drought, flooding, and wildfires.
Finance adds 2025/26 Market Trends practice notes for bridge loans and reserve-based loans in the oil and gas industry. Other resources address unauthorized UCC filings, financial trading agreements, cross-border loan agreements, refinancing, cross-border financing, project finance risk mitigation, and sustainable finance and ESG.
Healthcare additions include practice notes on health equity, the National Practitioner Data Bank, and gender-affirming care, plus medical director and telehealth informed consent templates and a Health Equity Governance Checklist. Life Sciences adds GRAS Notices and FDA No Questions Letters and telehealth informed consent templates. The FDA’s GRAS notices and response letters provide a relevant primary-source reference for the Life Sciences topic. (U.S. Food and Drug Administration)
Private Equity and Investment Management adds practice notes on retail private credit funds, minority investments, fiduciary duties, equity incentive compensation plans, continuation fund transactions, and side letters in private funds. A Client Alert Digest addresses private credit valuation scrutiny and market stress.
Tax adds practice notes covering tipped employee compliance, I.R.C. Section 1231, tax controversy and judicial relief, and qualified tips under I.R.C. Section 224. New templates address tax indemnity and partnership audit and representative matters. The release includes an M&A Tax Planning and Compliance Resource Kit, a 90-Day Letter Response Strategy Checklist, and a Tax Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution State Law Survey.
Trusts & Estates adds a Pennsylvania directed trusts practice note, Texas estate litigation templates, and an Illinois Probate and Estate Administration Resource Kit. Appendix materials add an Illinois practice note on alternatives to formal probate administration, trust modification and termination templates for Ohio and Pennsylvania, estate administration letters for Ohio and Massachusetts, and a Texas estate planning checklist.
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What types of resources are included in the Practical Guidance July 2026 updates?
The update identifies practice notes, templates, checklists, task maps, resource kits, surveys, Q&As, Client Alert Digests, and other legal development materials across multiple practice areas.
Does the July release include state-specific content?
Yes. State-specific resources appear throughout the deck, including corporate templates, privacy materials, litigation checklists, family law resources, employment guidance, real estate materials, and trusts and estates content.
What litigation resources are included?
The release includes fraud claim checklists, securities litigation and enforcement materials, AI and technology content for civil litigators, and an Early Case Assessment series covering 11 jurisdictions.