In a chapter in the ABA Criminal Justice Section's book The State of Criminal Justice: 2019, special pro bono counsel Ron Tabak again looks at recent developments relating to capital punishment.

Illinois state contractors face an upcoming August 14, 2026 deadline for their quarterly pay-to-play registration updates. Companies with covered state contracts exceeding $50,000 must ensure their registrations accurately list affiliated entities and persons, as common compliance errors include capturing too many employees, omitting spouses, and listing unnecessary affiliate companies.

The latest episode of “Fierce Competition” takes listeners inside a decade-long EU dispute over mobile operating systems, app pre-installation and anti-fragmentation agreements.

On the latest episode of “The Lobby Bar,” hosts Charlie Ricciardelli and Tyler Rosen unpack the Supreme Court’s recent decision in National Republican Senatorial Committee v. FEC, which struck down federal limits on coordinated expenditures by political parties and their candidates, while leaving key campaign finance rules — including contribution limits, disclosure obligations and earmarking restrictions — in place.

On this episode of “An Ounce of Prevention,” host Andrew Good is joined by white collar defense and investigations partner Chad Silverman to discuss why prediction markets have become one of the hottest enforcement topics in the United States.

At the end of 2018, the Employment Rights (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 was laid before Parliament.

In 2017, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) introduced a policy providing for potential adverse vote recommendations for the members of a company's board responsible for approving/setting...

Many employers make annual employee equity grants in late February and March.

Partner Peter Morrison, counsel Virginia Milstead and associate Raza Rasheed review the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit's ruling in Malouf v. SEC.

As discussed in the November 2017 edition of Employment Flash, a California law that went into effect on January 1, 2018 ...

The Second Circuit affirmed dismissal of a securities fraud complaint, expanding loss causation pleading requirements when no immediate price decline follows corrective disclosure. Skadden attorneys Michael W. Restey Jr. and Nikita Ganesh discuss how the ruling represents a significant expansion of a lead plaintiff's burden in pleading loss causation and a court's role in evaluating such pleading

On this episode of “Decrypted,” hosts William Ridgway and David Simon are joined by Cybersecurity and Data Privacy colleague Lisa Zivkovic for a deep dive into California’s new mandatory risk assessment and cybersecurity audit requirements, including why the 2028 filing deadlines are more urgent than they appear and the two distinct compliance regimes companies must navigate.

Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS), an influential proxy advisory firm, has launched its annual policy survey to inform its benchmark voting policies for 2020 and beyond

As discussed in our November 29, 2018 mailing, the FEC rolled out changes to its Electronic Filing Password Assignment System, requiring PACs and other committees' passwords to have two-factor authentication.

The next quarterly update for state contractors that is required under the Illinois pay-to-play law is due August 14, 2019.

On February 3, 2026, an en banc Delaware Supreme Court issued an order reversing the Court of Chancery's holding that the exercise of an automatic forfeiture provision...

The SEC's Division of Corporation Finance has announced it will no longer respond to no-action requests regarding shareholder proposals under Rule 14a-8, marking a significant shift in how companies handle proxy statement exclusions. This policy change, effective immediately, eliminates the Staff's intermediary role between companies and shareholder proponents. Companies preparing for the 2026-2027 proxy season must now navigate proposal exclusions without SEC Staff guidance, fundamentally altering the shar

Effective January 1, 2019, the minimum wage increased in the following 19 states, and in a number of cities, as a result of state legislative action, voter ballot initiatives and/or scheduled

Since 2012, employers in the U.K. have been required to automatically enrol their employees into a so-called auto-enrolment pension. Many employers

In a recent mailing we noted that the following Democratic presidential candidates are covered under federal pay-to-play rules (i.e., SEC 206(4)-5, MSRB G-37, CFTC 23.451 and FINRA 2030) because they are currently elected state or local officials running for federal office: