The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, commonly known as FATCA, was signed into law on March 18, 2010.

On September 18, 2013, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") published a proposed rule that would implement Section 953(b) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act by amending Item 402 of Regulation S-K to require a public company to disclose the ratio of the median compensation of its employees to the compensation of its chief executive officer ("Pay Ratio Rule").

The SEC announced charges against 18 individuals and ten investment firms for violating federal securities laws that require prompt reporting about their holdings.

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division announced proposed regulations implementing Executive Order 13658.

A recent decision means temporary employees from a staffing company may not be added to a bargaining unit of a client company without the consent of all parties.

On September 7, 2015, President Obama signed an executive order requiring federal contractors and subcontractors to offer their employees paid sick leave.

In June 2014, the SEC fined a hedge fund for retaliating against an employee for reporting an alleged violation by his firm to the SEC.

The United States Supreme Court’s 1988 decision in <I>Communications Workers v. Beck </I>held that union represented employees who have not joined the union cannot be required to pay that portion of union dues attributable to expenditures that are not "germane" to the union’s representational functions

The Band challenged the order, alleging that the NLRB lacked jurisdiction to enforce the NLRA against the Band.

On August 3, 2020, President Trump issued Executive Order No. 13940 ("EO"), which builds on several prior EOs which have discussed preferences for American workers performing work on U.S. government

Post-grant review will be available only for patents with an effective filing date on or after March 16, 2013.

The Supreme Court recently had occasion to determine whether Trademark Trial and Appeal Board decisions can have preclusive effect in federal district court proceedings in B&B Hardware, Inc. v. Hargis Industries, Inc.

The Patent Office has decided to make several rule changes that will be unveiled in three phases, as announced by Commissioner Michele Lee said in a March 27, 2015 blog post:

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is considering promulgating rules relating to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's discretion to institute trials.

We consistently counsel parties to an M&A deal that results in a stepped-up tax basis in the assets of the target often has more value to a buyer than a transaction with no basis step up.

Careless employees remain the greatest threat to trade secret theft, according to the recently released "Second Annual Study on the Cybersecurity Risk to Knowledge Assets,"...

On June 29, 2020, the day before Reg BI became effective, the Department of Labor ("DOL") announced[1] its new approach to the standards for financial institutions and investment professionals

In 2006, LG Electronics, Inc. ("LG") took a license from Wi-LAN on certain patents, but subsequently refused to pay royalties because it claimed that it did not practice those patents.