With students, faculty, and administrators poised to return to campus in person this fall, higher educational institutions must prepare for increased allegations of sexual harassment and consider...

Earlier this year, the legislatures of Tennessee and Kentucky banned certain medical treatments for minors with gender dysphoria, which has been characterized by the American Psychiatric Association...

President Joe Biden recently announced that United States forces will withdraw from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021, roughly twenty years after the war in Afghanistan began.

On October 31, 2023, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) released proposed amendments to the regulatory definition of an "investment advice fiduciary" set forth in 29 C.F.R § 2510.3-21...

On May 12, 2021, the Biden administration released the expansive Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity (the Order) with potentially far-reaching consequences for private industry.

On June 9, 2021, Senator Angus King (I-ME) and Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) introduced the Accelerating Charitable Efforts (ACE) Act (S. 1981).

Last week, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) entered into a settlement agreement with EmblemHealth Inc. (Emblem), a New York-based health insurer and third-party administrator (TPA) to health plans governed by ERISA.

On June 3, 2021, President Biden issued an executive order titled, Addressing the Threat from Securities Investments That Finance Certain Companies of the People's Republic of China (E.O. 14032)...

On July 24, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published final regulations (T.D. 9978) that treat the erroneous refund of employee retention credits...

Late last week, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas allowed the Department of Labor's (DOL) amendments to its Investment Duties regulation, permitting consideration...

This edition of Executives at Risk discusses empirical data about the impact that the pandemic has had on white collar prosecutions, grand jury activity, and trials.

In a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued a precedential decision last week holding that the make-whole monetary remedy of surcharge is not a form of equitable...

Last week, the U.S. Department of State and several other agencies involved in implementing and enforcing U.S. national security and trade policy published two business advisories...

All of this portends a busy second half of 2021 for regulatory developments in AML enforcement in the United States.

On June 25, 2021, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published a definition of "critical software," the first of several steps the Biden administration is taking to enhance...

U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)-related public enforcement activity through the second quarter of 2021 continued to be steady and relatively slow, likely due in part to the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently released proposed regulations regarding increased credit and deduction amounts available...

Three important Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) breach of fiduciary decisions came down this summer. In Sacerdote v. New York University (Sacerdote III)...

The United States is stepping up its enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 (FCPA), and violations of the act carry steep fines and other penalties.