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On April 26, the Department of Labor (DOL) released its spring 2010 regulatory agenda outlining its anticipated regulatory and enforcement focus for the upcoming year.

Throughout the year, we will host a series of presentations that will continue to bring together leaders and experts in a variety of fields related to privacy, data protection and cybersecurity who...

On August 30, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced the issuance of its longanticipated final rules for off-exchange foreign currency transactions (forex) with retail customers.

Participant lawsuits against 401(k) plan fiduciaries are increasingly prevalent, particularly with today’s economic climate.

The Supreme Court of New Jersey issued a decision, which provides guidance as to what employee conduct constitutes "protected activity" under the antiretaliation provisions of two key state laws—the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination and the Conscientious Employee Protection Act.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced that it will raise the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (HSR Act) jurisdictional and filing fee thresholds.

Settlement with mutual fund directors and service providers serves as a reminder of responsibilities for disclosures relating to the approval of investment advisory contracts and provides insight into SEC enforcement priorities.

New rules address compensation committee member and adviser independence and disclosure requirements for compensation consultant conflicts of interest.

With the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, as amended by the Health Care Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (the Healthcare Reform Law), Congress for the first time has mandated that a broad range of providers, suppliers, and physicians adopt a compliance and ethics program.

On October 29, Chief District Judge Leonard Davis of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas signed a general order adopting a modified version of the model order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit regarding limitations for patent claims and prior art (E.D. Tex. Model Order).

Investment advisers operating registered investment companies and private funds that conduct more than a de minimis amount of speculative trading in futures, commodity options, and other commodity interests will no longer be exempt from registering with the CFTC as CPOs.

In its December 20, 2010 decision in Akamai Technologies, Inc. v. Limelight Networks, Inc., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit appears to have taken the final step toward requiring patent holders to show an agency relationship between potential joint infringers.

June 9, five senators, representing the Committees on Finance, Aging, and Judiciary (Committees), signed joint letters to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) directing them to analyze and address concerns regarding troubling trends in the medical device and hospital industries related to PODs, medical device distributors or purchasing organizations with physician owners or investors.

On July 26, two decades after it first proposed adoption of a large trader reporting system, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to adopt Rule 13h-1 (the Rule) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act).

Most public issuers engaged in the commercial development of oil, natural gas, or minerals must disclose certain payments made to U.S. federal and foreign governments and should implement systems to track these payments.

In the latest sign that the Department of Labor (DOL) is taking a harder line against employers defending whistleblower claims under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), the DOL’s Administrative Review Board (ARB) recently ruled in Sylvester et al. v. Parexel International LLC, ARB No. 07-123 (May 25, 2011), that (1) SOX complaints filed with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) are not subject to the pleading standards under Twombly and Iqbal; (2) SOX-protected conduct is not limit

On April 21, 2011, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued an Order Affirming Initial Decision and Ordering Payment of Civil Penalty in connection with an Administrative Law Judge’s (ALJ) Initial Decision that a natural gas trader for Amaranth, Brian Hunter, engaged in market manipulation, in violation of Section 4A of the Natural Gas Act (NGA) and Part 1c.1 of FERC’s regulations.

As competition has become more global in nature, so too has the focus of U.S. antitrust enforcement. The Department of Justice's (DOJ's) number-one enforcement priority is to discover, punish, and deter international cartels that harm U.S. consumers.