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The DOJ’s New Corporate Enforcement Policy: What History Tells Us and What Boards Can’t Ignore
BDO On March 10, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released what it described as the first-ever department-wide Corporate Enforcement Policy…
Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments for February 2026
Morrison Foerster LLP Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important…
AI | Italian DPA orders temporary ban on “deep nude” AI app
Orsingher Ortu Avvocati Associati On 3 October 2025, the Italian Data Protection Authority (Italian DPA) announced a temporary limitation on the processing of Italian users’ personal…
Nobody planned for this. Now what for legal and compliance teams?
Lexology PRO Every now and again, legal teams encounter events that go beyond routine disputes or regulatory change: moments that expose whether they weather even the most turbulent of storms. This is what businesses have been questioning in the past few weeks.
US-French coordination in anti-corruption enforcement: Takeaways from the Balt global resolution
DLA Piper The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and France’s Parquet National Financier (PNF) recently announced coordinated settlements with Balt SAS…
Weighing the Cost: Retailers’ Technology and Data Use When Setting Prices Subject to Increased Scrutiny
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP What’s new: Algorithmic and “surveillance” pricing have increasingly become the target of litigation, legislation and regulatory…
China’s 2026 Two Sessions: A New Five-Year Cycle and Emerging Signals on Trade, Technology and Investment
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‘Game of Drones’ blocked by trademark law
Nomos Protecting works of fiction, their titles or their characters under Trademark Law is not always straightforward. The main argument against protection…
2026 CUSMA review: Enhancing trade negotiation transparency
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Trade negotiations are in the air, everywhere you look around. They are launched, paused, restarted and concluded. Agreements are reached, then…
Recent U.S. Enforcement Actions Against Mexican Cartels: Emerging Risks for the Agro-Industry
Holland & Knight LLP Recent actions by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, together with parallel developments in Mexico…
Trump Administration Focuses New Consumer Protection Efforts on ‘Made in America’ Advertising Claims and Alleged Deceptive Pricing Practices
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP Executive Summary What’s new: In March 2026, the Trump administration took steps related to consumer protection, including regarding “Made in…
Addendum vs. Amendment: What is the Difference in Contracts?
DiliTrust Contracts are rarely static documents. Even after they have been signed, business requirements, legal conditions or operational processes can change…
Washington State Passes Broad Prohibition on Non-compete Agreements
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The Copilot Illusion: Generic vs. AI Legal Tools
DiliTrust Legal teams are known for being skeptical about adopting AI-powered solutions. But the real question isn’t whether legal should adopt AI — it’s…
What’s new in HR law for 2026?
Torys LLP Evolving legislation, court decisions, and workplace practices are reshaping employer obligations and risks across Canada and the United States. With…
Chatbots, Counsel, and Caution: What Employers Should Learn from a New AI Lawsuit
FBT Gibbons LLP Nippon Life Insurance Company recently filed a lawsuit that raises a timely question that many employers and their counsel are already grappling…
Can A Discrimination Claim Be Based On A Performance Improvement Plan?
Worklaw® Network It used to be pretty well settled in Massachusetts (and many other places) that an employee could not win an employment discrimination case without…
What’s Next for Intellectual Property? Key Trends to Watch in 2025
De Penning & De Penning In 2025, Intellectual Property (IP) stands at a transformative crossroads. The convergence of artificial intelligence, sustainability imperatives…
"The Arbitrator Exceeded Her Authority": Specific Arbitration Agreement Terms Lead to Successful Appeal of Award
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP It is difficult to appeal an arbitrator’s award due to limited appeal grounds and deferential standards governing arbitral review. But one party in…
Hierarchy of Courts in India
Vaish Associates Advocates The Supreme Court has original, appellate and advisory jurisdiction. Its exclusive original jurisdiction includes any dispute between the Centre and…
Time Limit for Filing Written Statement under CPC- Supreme Court
SS Rana & Co Order VIII Rule 1 of CPC provides procedural provision in regard to the Written Statement, according to which such shall be filed by Defendant within…
Digital Compliance - The New Legal Framework for AI, Data, and Digital Resilience
Heuking Today, digitalization permeates virtually all business processes of medium-sized companies. Cloud services, digital collaboration platforms…
What Does Ranch Dressing Have to Do With Employment Law?
Worklaw® Network Wait, did you read that right? “What Does Ranch Dressing Have to Do with Employment Law”? Well, quite a lot actually, as long as we’re talking about…
Weighing the Cost: Retailers’ Technology and Data Use When Setting Prices Subject to Increased Scrutiny
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Beastiality and Beastiality Porn Laws
Criminal Defence Lawyers Australia Earlier this year, NSW Police arrested a man described as the “State’s worst alleged beastiality offender” over a series of alleged acts of sexual…
‘Game of Drones’ blocked by trademark law
Nomos Protecting works of fiction, their titles or their characters under Trademark Law is not always straightforward. The main argument against protection…
EEOC Provides Welcome Clarity on Telework Requests and Accommodations
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Late payment: UK to go ahead with "strongest laws in G7"
Travers Smith LLP The UK Government has confirmed plans to proceed with reforms that will give the UK one of the toughest late payment regimes in the world. This will…
Washington's New Personnel-File Law: What Employers Need to Know
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP Since Washington's new personnel‑file law—SHB 1308—went into effect on July 27, 2025, it has fundamentally changed the risk landscape for every…
ESMA consults on revised MAR Guidelines ahead of Listing Act disclosure reforms
Ganado Advocates The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has launched a consultation on amendments to its guidelines on the delayed disclosure of inside…
U.S. Department of Labor Issues Six Opinion Letters Addressing FLSA and FMLA
Greenberg Traurig Since the enactment of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) in the late 1930s, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has issued opinion letters as a…
Clarity Ahead? Ontario Court of Appeal to Consider Enforceability of Termination Clauses
McCarthy Tétrault LLP Ontario’s approach to interpreting termination clauses has departed materially from the careful balance of competing interests articulated over 30…
Chat, Is This Conversation Privileged?
Ropes & Gray LLP As artificial intelligence (“AI”) and generative AI (“GenAI”) tools become increasingly integrated into daily operations across industries, the legal…
AI | Italian DPA orders temporary ban on “deep nude” AI app
Orsingher Ortu Avvocati Associati On 3 October 2025, the Italian Data Protection Authority (Italian DPA) announced a temporary limitation on the processing of Italian users’ personal…
California Employment Law Notes (March 2026)
Proskauer Rose When applying to work at Empire Nissan, Evangelina Yanez Fuentes was given an employment application packet that included an arbitration agreement…
Where to Build Your Web3 Project in 2026. Our Practical Guide for DAOs and DeFi
Digital & Analogue Partners Jurisdiction selection for blockchain projects is no longer an exercise in regulatory arbitrage. It is an exercise in regulatory durability and…
Jury Awards $5.1 Million to American BMW Employee for National Origin Discrimination
Worklaw® Network In recent blogs, we discussed the EEOC’s focus on claims of national origin discrimination against Americans. Though the EEOC was not involved in…
Employer Alert! Virginia Moves to Further Restrict Non-Compete Agreements
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP On March 4, 2026, Virginia Senate Bill 170 (SB170) passed the House of Delegates after unanimous approval by the Senate. SB170 now awaits signature…
Privileged or Public? How Use of AI Can Undermine the Attorney-Client Privilege
Wilson Elser Use of public generative artificial intelligence (GAI) models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Google Gemini by lawyers and their clients has long carried…
New California Law Prohibits Fee Sharing with Alternative Business Structures
Wilson Elser California legislation effective as of January 1, 2026, prohibits California lawyers and law firms from directly or indirectly sharing legal fees…
EU Digital Omnibus on AI update: the Council and Parliament agreed positions
Addleshaw Goddard LLP In November 2025 the European Commission published its “Digital Omnibus Package”, meaning its proposals to reform data and cyber laws and the EU AI…
Mitigation of Damages in Construction Defect Claims: Applying Florida’s Avoidable Consequences Doctrine
Wilson Elser A roofer for a sixty-five-townhome community is notified that the Homeowners Association of the townhome community has filed a claim alleging…
First Circuit clarifies when a PIP is - and isn’t - an adverse action
Constangy Brooks Smith & Prophete LLP To have a valid claim for discrimination or retaliation, a plaintiff must generally show, among other things, that there was an “adverse employment…
FCA turns to AI to fight fraud: What the Palantir contract means for financial regulation
TLT LLP The FCA has engaged Palantir to analyse highly sensitive data - including case files, Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs), consumer complaints and…
Supreme Court Recalibrates Sovereign Immunity for State-Created Entities
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP On March 4, 2026, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion in Galette v. New Jersey Transit Corporation, holding that NJ Transit—a public…
Blockchain Bites: Unpacking contract law in DeFi; Trump takes on banks over the CLARITY Act; SEC delivers regulatory clarity on tokens; Deep freeze as FATF urges new stablecoin AML controls
Piper Alderman AAVE is a large player in the crypto DeFi space, enabling lending, borrowing and swapping of crypto tokens, usually on Ethereum. It has become well…
Absent a client waiver, attorney-client relationship survives conflict
McDermott Will & Schulte LLP Reversing a district court order requiring the disclosure of attorney-client communications and holding a law firm in civil contempt, the US Court of…
AI, Privilege, and the Heppner Ruling: What the Court Actually Held—And How to Structure AI Use Safely
Venable LLP Recent commentary has suggested that using generative AI tools in connection with legal matters automatically waives legal privileges. That…
New False Claims Act amendments may change the way research institutions respond to discovery of overpayments on their federal grants and contracts
Hogan Lovells On May 20, 2009, President Obama signed legislation containing a number of significant amendments to the federal civil False Claims Act (FCA) and its whistleblower or qui tam provisions, 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729, et seq.
Mexico Is First to Ratify the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement
Thompson Hine LLP On June 19, 2019, Mexico became the first of the three involved countries to ratify the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement (USMCA), which is intended…
Soliris® (eculizumab) Interchangeable Biosimilar Launches: Bkemv™ and Epysqli®
Venable LLP On April 7, 2025, Samsung Bioepis and Teva announced the launch of Epysqli® (eculizumab-aagh), a provisionally interchangeable biosimilar of Alexion…
New federal food safety act promises to pest[er] companies
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP Are you in a food services business?
“New Deal for Consumers” - draft package adopted by the European Commission
Hogan Lovells The European Commission has adopted a “New Deal for Consumers” package which aims to empower consumers, promote fairness and build trust across the…
Target Not Permitted to Deduct Finder’s Fee Incurred in Connection with Its Acquisition
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP Transaction expenses, including fees for legal counsel, accountants, financial advisors, brokers and other third parties, are an ineluctable aspect…
FinCEN fines trust company $1.5 million for BSA violations
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP On April 26, FinCEN announced its first enforcement action against a trust company, in which it assessed a $1.5 million civil money penalty against a…
AmerisourceBergen pays DoJ US$625m over repackaging claims
Pharma Law News US drug wholesaler AmerisourceBergen and four of its subsidiaries have struck a deal with the Department of Justice to settle claims they illegally pooled and repackaged cancer drugs.
Seventh Circuit rules laches no bar to breach of contract for failure to remove contaminants
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a landowner who sold property to The Nature Conservancy but failed to remove contaminants as required by the sales contract cannot bar a breach of contract claim by asserting laches as a defense.
Secured creditors and unfair preference claims - appeal allowed from Tap Inn decision
Hall & Wilcox On 1 December 2015, we wrote about the decision of His Honour Judge Chivell of the District Court of South Australia in Matthews v The Tap Inn Pty…
New Indication Alert: J&J’s Darzalex® (Daratumumab) Quadruplet Regimen for Multiple Myeloma Approved in the EU
Pearce IP On 23 October 2024, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) announced that the European Commission has approved an indication extension for Darzalex® (daratumumab)…
Legal developments in construction law: November 2023- First-tier Tribunal makes BSA s123 Remediation order
Mayer Brown In January the First-tier Tribunal made a Remediation contribution order under s124 of the Building Safety Act. It has also made a Remediation order…
PRA publishes updated version of its approach document to insurance supervision
A&L Goodbody On 19 June 2014, the PRA published an updated version of the document setting out its approach to insurance supervision. Key changes include (a)…
PH Money Matters: This Week in Washington - May 27, 2019
Paul Hastings LLP A meeting between Democratic leaders and the President on infrastructure was cut short on Wednesday, after the President took issue…
Supreme Court declines to review CEO's personal liability
Epstein Becker Green The United States Supreme Court declined to review the Second Circuit's decision in Irizarry v. Catsimatidis, in which the Court of Appeals affirmed…
Space Brief - Sustainability| The long-term sustainability of outer space
VdA For the space sector to continue for the years to come as the same bustling innovative sector enabling growth and transformational changes to life on…
European Commission consultations
De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek NV The Commission wants to tighten the rules for and the supervision of depositaries.
Seventh Circuit Decision Rejecting Class Action Waiver Sets Stage for Supreme Court Review
FordHarrison LLP On May 26, 2016, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that a class and/or collective action waiver contained…
WTR Global Leaders 2020: Vladimir Marenovic
World Trademark Review I come from a country in which the protection and enforcement of IP rights was not as developed as it was in most European countries…
Client legal privilege – still a hot area of dispute
Piper Alderman Although the Evidence Act 1995 (Cth) has been around for over 15 years now, and of course the common law in relation to legal professional privilege for years longer, challenges to claims for privilege only seem to be increasing.
Should a trustee appeal a decision of the Royal Court in administrative proceedings? In the matter of the R and RA Trusts (GSY C.A.) [470/2014]
Ogier The Court of Appeal in Guernsey has recently handed down an important judgment in non-contentious trust proceedings commenced by way of application…
The Direction of US Trade Policy and the Longer-term Business Implications
Squire Patton Boggs If your organization is looking to understand how changes in US trade policy could affect its business, watch this in-depth discussion between…
Federal Reserve Board approves final “predominately engaged in financial activities” rule
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System has approved a final rule setting forth requirements for determining when a company is…
Transatlantic Trade | US and Europe - Week of March 7, 2022
Squire Patton Boggs Transatlantic partners continue to ratchet pressure this week on the Kremlin responsive to the Russian Federation’s continued conflict with Ukraine…
How to Apply for an Adult Dependent Relative Visa From the UK
Richmond Chambers Immigration Barristers Occasionally, at Richmond Chambers we receive enquiries from clients facing a challenging dilemma. A relative has arrived for a visit and either…
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