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Accounting firms increasingly embrace AI tools
Accounting firms in Virginia have quadrupled AI adoption to 41% in 2025, with plans to increase investments as they balance efficiency and data security.
Virginia’s publicly traded companies defy economic slowdown
Virginia’s top publicly traded companies like Freddie Mac, Boeing, and RTX posted significant revenue gains in 2025 despite the state’s slow economic growth.
Investment advising in the AI era
When wealth advisers and clients meet these days, it’s likely an AI tool will join in some capacity. As seems true of every industry right now, artificial intelligence is transforming wealth management and, by virtue, the adviser-client relationship. It might be tempting to predict — as some analysts have — that AI could put advisers […]
Virginia advisers outline 2026 investing strategies
One of the great ironies of investing is that even as the stock market notches record highs as it has this year, investors know the good times inevitably cannot last. If 2025 overpromised on uncertainty stemming from a new presidential administration, it also underdelivered on volatility. Aside from a steep — albeit short-lived — stock […]
Law firms integrate AI into daily practices
Virginia attorneys say AI is changing law for the better, boosting efficiency and reshaping law schools, billing, ethics and client access.
Milestones: Virginia companies celebrating big anniversaries in 2025
Even amid the AI revolution currently underway, there are viable signs of stability. The global AI market could grow twenty-fivefold — from $189 billion in 2023 to $4.8 trillion — by 2033, according to a report this year from the United Nations. Containing the largest concentration of data centers in the world, Virginia, too, has […]
Reimagining regulations
Banks and credit unions in Virginia are celebrating some early victories as President Donald Trump’s new administration has begun rolling back regulations and reconsidering the future of finance. “Under the new administration, there is a relook at a number of these policies that were objected to by the industry,” explains Atlantic Union Bankshares CEO John […]
Law firms advise businesses on Trump 2.0 policies
Virginia law firms see surge in client questions as Trump’s 2025 executive orders spark regulatory, immigration, and DEI compliance concerns.
KPMG enters U.S. legal market with Arizona launch
KPMG Law U.S. debuts in Arizona, marking a bold step into the legal industry and sparking debate about the future of law firm ownership and competition.
Health care systems are in their building era
At some medical centers around Virginia, construction workers donning hard hats are nearly as prevalent this year as medical staff wearing scrubs. From smaller-scale renovations to new hospitals with billion-dollar price tags, health care systems are undertaking a wide range of projects to respond to growing (and aging) populations and expand services at hospital campuses, […]
