On Sept. 11, an Atlanta-based venture capital fund that ran a minority grant program, and an advocacy group founded by longtime diversity, equity and inclusion opponent Edward Blum, surprised many DEI advocates by announcing…
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/ Civil Rights, Finance & Banking, Nonprofit Law
On March 27, 2024, the Italian legislature enacted reforms to attract new investors to the Italian capital markets and improve corporate governance following guidelines issued by former Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s government…
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/ Business Organizations, International Law & Trade, Securities Law
Bottom line: As of Tuesday night, the FTC’s non-compete rule has been set aside, cannot be enforced, and will not become effective on September 4, 2024.
As an update to our prior alert regarding the Federal Trade Commission’s…
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/ Administrative Law, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Business Organizations, Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
On June 18, the Biden administration announced a two-part administrative action that provides an opportunity for certain undocumented immigrants to transition to permanent residence or an employer-sponsored immigration status,…
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/ Administrative Law, Immigration Law, Labor & Employment Law
Pretrial detention imposes severe burdens on a defendant's ability to prepare for trial.
One such burden is that the prosecution may receive, without a warrant, recordings of the defendant's electronic communications,…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Criminal Law, Privacy
Recent headlines implying a general a stay of the Federal Trade Commission’s non-compete rule are misleading. Here’s what employers need to know.
On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission approved a rule banning most…
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/ Administrative Law, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Commercial Law & Contracts, Consumer Protection, Labor & Employment Law
On May 24, 2024, Minnesota’s governor signed the 18th comprehensive state privacy law since California enacted the first comprehensive data privacy legislation in 2018. The Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act (“MCDPA”) will take…
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/ Business Organizations, Consumer Protection, Privacy
Two recent federal court decisions shed new light on the ongoing wave of challenges to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision one year ago in Students for Fair Admissions v…
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/ Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law
What do you get when you combine a strict liability statute that could apply to every commercial property and a “forever chemical” that could exist almost everywhere? Designation of Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) and…
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/ Environmental Law, Real Estate - Commercial, Toxic Torts
The legal landscape surrounding the creation, use and governance of artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing and growing, imposing significant obligations on business and new rights for individuals. In recent months, the…
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/ Administrative Law, Consumer Protection, Intellectual Property, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
The Federal Trade Commission recently approved a final rule prohibiting companies nationwide from enforcing new and existing noncompete agreements on anyone other than senior executives.
Unless the effective date is stayed,…
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/ Administrative Law, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Health, Labor & Employment Law, Nonprofit Law
Securities regulators have long been concerned with the potential regulatory risks associated with geographically dispersed broker-dealer offices, citing the observation that the distance of these offices from compliance and…
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/ Administrative Law, Finance & Banking, Securities Law
So far 2024 has seen a flurry of new and proposed state comprehensive privacy legislation. Nebraska and Kentucky are the two latest states to jump on the bandwagon. Both follow the now familiar framework established by the…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Consumer Protection, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
On March 18, 2024, the Office for Civil Rights ("OCR") at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") published updated guidance on the use of online tracking technologies by HIPAA covered entities and business…
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/ Health, Science, Computers, & Technology
The Federal Trade Commission voted 3-2 today to approve a final rule banning non-compete agreements nationwide. The rule is slated to go into effect 120 days after its published in the Federal Register…
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/ Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law
